2012 Lone Star Round Up

Chris lived in San Antonio before he move to Utah to find a wife. So he knows this area pretty well. There are a few things he did in the area that he's always talked about doing again. One of those things is going to the Lone Star Round Up. It's a HUGE car show just outside of Austin.

We got all dolled up Saturday morning and jumped in the car. This place was huge! Cars everywhere! Tattooed people everywhere. Vendors galore with tons of over priced knock off vintage apparel. Fun to browse but not to buy! The weather was windy but the cool breeze made it rather tolerable. We took little buddy's wagon. He liked being pulled around but a few times he pulled the wagon himself!

Here are some pics and a video from our journey....

on a stroll in the vendor area.

He took a liking to daddy's soda water bottle

making friends with the Greazerz manikin

When he gets older we will be getting him his own cover-alls from this place!

Does monkey need a drink?

Taking a break with monkey

He even got a koozie for his bottle.

I know there are mostly pics of my kid! I can't help it! Look how cute he is!

6+ months in TX

I got to thinking about it today. It's been just over 6 months since we moved here! Crazy! I'm still adjusting. Some days I think, "I'm okay, this move wasn't that bad." Then there are other day I realize just how much of my life is new. I've been married under three years, we have a 15 month old son, I live in a new state, and I have a brand new job I'm still trying to get used to.

In someways I embrace the fact that I am a Gemini. (sign of the twin) I sometimes think I feel two different ways about things. So yes, in ways I am still struggling with the move ,but in many ways the move has gone very well!

I'm not on top of things like I used to be. Easter is here and I barely did anything for it. I did buy my son a new outfit to wear to church and that is about it! We just put a roast in the crock pot. We invited Matt and Nicole over because the are right smack in the middle of a move. Happy Easter to us!

We attempted church, again. Our son just takes it out of us. It's a total wrestle through the Sacrament. We then decided to listen to the rest of the meeting in the hall. He started to throw a tired fit out there. Then we called it! We're OUT OF HERE! We tried right?

Here's to taking life ONE DAY AT A TIME!    LIFE IS A JOURNEY!

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Confessions of working mom.......

My In-laws are coming to stay with us next Saturday. With my husbands schedule and my new job combined with a toddler, this house has gone to pot. I wanted to get as much done this weekend as possible since I'm useless after work most days. We purchased a new bed for our room. When it arrives we'll be moving our current bed in to the guest room/home office. Cutting that close eh? With their anticipated arrival I really needed to get a hold of the basic chores. Emphasize BASIC!

I got out the vacuum and started on the living room. Shaking rugs out side and sweeping the tile. I swept the tile, ran the vacuum on the lowest setting and started mopping with a mop. I still had to go over the whole thing on my hands and knees. In the end I swept one more time. I can't explain how much tile we have in this house. Maybe I'll just show you.

 It

I post this in hopes to steer my mother away from using this much tile for her renovation. It looks great clean, but as I mentioned before, sweeping and vacuuming and mopping with mop and mopping on hands and knees and.......sweeping one more time! Are you sure mom?

My handy husband's handy work

We had a pink tub in the living room for little buddy's toy bin. I was getting sick of the eye sore and was looking around for a basket with a lid for this purpose. I was having trouble finding what I was looking for within a reasonable price.

Enter Handy Husband....

Chris decided he would just save me the trouble and make one. These photos document the process.

 Not bad for scrap wood eh? At first Chris asked me if we wanted to paint it or if I had any other ideas. Then out of nowhere he had a "light bulb" idea.

He came home with a stack of papers he had printed off at work. (with the kind permission of the business center) He had found images of old car ads and vintage looking signs and decals. We spent some time carefully cutting them out.

Then came the arrangement of said decals....

Once the box was fully covered, he proceeded to shellac the entire box. He added decals to the bottom side of the lid as well. He also thought we should put feet on the toy boy. I wanted to paint the feet but we had a hard time deciding what to match the feet to. When we decided to pad the lid we weren't sure what to cover the padding with.

Then we went to the fabric store we found some blue vinyl on the discount table. Boom! Like that, we had decided what to cover the lid and matched the feet to that color.

It's coming together nicely. The longest part was the drying of coats of varnish. We (I) had to have patience. Alas, he was able to attach the lid to the chest.

Then to move it on into the house and fill it up!

I don't know about you but I think it looks much better than that pink tub!