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Thursday, June 23, 2011

My Summer Project

 I saw one of these and just had to try to make one.  I ran right out and bought some thongs (YES, where I come from, we call them thongs!)  and a few embellishments and got right to work.
 Logan's teacher had one of these on her back fence by her pool.  
Which really is where it should be.
But I loved it so much I had to put it on our front door.
It says Beach Bum Hideaway
I can't wait til Craig gets home to see it.
He is gonna LOVE it!  
(did you catch the heavy sarcasm in that?)
But...no matter... I love it.

When it falls apart, Chloe will have 6 new pair of thongs to wear!  
Now that's recycling!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Our down time

So we finally got a little down time, here's what we've been doing.

Made a cake for our friends movie party.

Eating LOTS of shaved ice.
 

Celebrated Craig's birthday with a date night with our friends Paula and Hector at Benihana.

(and yes, I did eat all of his birthday ice cream)

 Saving birds that fly into our house.  This little guy came flying in after we got home from Benihana's. You know it's hot out when the birds don't even want to stay outside!
Curled Chloe's hair.
Lisa, Ally, I finally got those curlformers.  They worked great until the humidity got to her. 
But she loved it so I have no doubt we'll be using them again soon.

And going to Splashtown A LOT!


Peace out!

San Antonio

Craig left for San Antonio for a work conference on Wednesday.  Thursday he called me and said I'd better bring the kids since they had their own little water park there at the hotel.  So Friday morning we packed up the mini van and high tailed it to the JW Marriott for a mini vacation courtesy of Integrity Title.

The place was incredible.  Could easily give The Disney Grand Hotel a run for their money.
The kids loved that we had our own little balcony.


But that was nothing compared to their pool.

They had four water slides that could rival our local Splashtown.  With life guards catching you at the end and litterally walking your tube over to the stairs for an easy exit.  Each time asking how your trip was and if there was anything they could do to make your stay nicer.
 And, honestly, other than handing me a Smirnoff Ice to enjoy on my way down the slide...
I couldn't think of a thing!


The kids loved the stairwell.  
Being use to Holdiay Inn Express' they'd never seen one this fancy.

After swimming most of the day (all while Daddy was hard at work in his fancy meetings and his fancy dinners) we walked around the property and took some pictures!


(I found this cool 'movie grain' mode on my camera and tried it out)
Then we were invited to join the S'mores campfire on the East lawn and, like, we would really pass that up.
So we headed over and were  handed a stick already loaded with marshmallows.  All the kids had to do was roast them, then they took them back and the staff stacked the s'mores and handed them back with a napkin and a glass a water. 
Yep, it was pretty cool!

After we got back to the room, Chloe just had to use their robe.
We can't wait till Craig's next conference!

America's next top model






Beauty beyond words