Are We There Yet?

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

The border

The highlight of the drive.

The most delicious TACOS!!!

WHACK A MOLE and SALSA YUMMOO

The first sign of hope...Veracruz sign!

Santa Comes Early

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Santa knows that we are going to Mexico on Saturday. So he brought the kids some presents early! Of course there was no protest :)

Christmas is Coming...

Saturday, December 5, 2009

...the goose is getting fat! (Know this song?!)

Emma with the Santa potato head piece in her mouth :)

Haha we were dressing him up.

Papi putting up the Christmas tree.

Emma decorated all by herself!

Love brother!

She took the stocking thing literally haha.

At USAA's Christmas party this morning.

Family Shot.

First Present of the Season

When we got back from NY, broad-leaf weeds like dandelion and clover had TAKEN OVER our backyard. The front wasn't so bad (good thing, because the HOA would have been all over us).

It was so bad that I had to go out the day after we got back and spray the back lawn. I don't like to use chemicals, but it was an urgent problem! Anger is usually what motivates me to mow, weed whack, and in this case, spray. It's quite a nice way to blow off steam. I just kept thinking, "die weeds, die!!" while thinking about how angry I was that we had a beautiful green lawn just months ago and how I'd rather be in bed catching up on sleep from our trip. This is me getting ready to spray :)

Bull Pucky

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

On the days that I have time, I enjoy tuning into the Dr. Oz show. Ninety percent of the time he has some very noteworthy things to say. He is one of those doctors that seem genuinely interested in we the people and not they the money-makers. Most of the time the kids go to sleep in the 2pm hour and then I have the 3-o'clock hour to fill with my choice of chores or fun things. I don't always flick off the TV at this time, and at 3pm this show comes on - The Doctors.

This show is about 90% bull crap. It makes my skin crawl, in fact. I don't know why I don't completely boycott it. I suppose it's because I want to find out what stupid thing they're about to talk about today and secretly criticize it. Today they had a lovely segment about a poor girl, not yet 2, who had reoccurring ear infections, or one every month from 12 to 18 months. And this is my main concern with the entire program, actually, and why Dr. Oz is a better Doctor. Instead of recommending practical options for the girl like nutritional therapy, decreasing the humidity and water in environment, etc. they advocated a very invasive and expensive procedure, namely ventilation tubes to be placed in the child's ears. Often they will have segments advocating cosmetic plastic surgery; which of course the artificially tan (ear, nose, and throat turned plastic surgeon) Doctor Ordon will conduct. This program is an insult to the REAL Doctors that actually care for and take care of everyday people (even though they are hard to come by these days). Gals - don't let the easy-on-the-eyes Dr. Travis Stork fool you. Tune into Oz. Your health will thank you.