Happy Easter!!!!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter day! It's definitely a day to celebrate! We had a wonderful day starting with church and ending with pies....we'll fill you in on the in between in the next couple of days! Goodnight!

(Happy early bday Meg!!!)

Soon....very soon....

We will have grass in the backyard....to some, this may not seem like a big deal - BUT ever since we moved in to our house - 9 months ago, we've had some form of dirt/weeds in the backyard....and in the next week or so we'll be planting turffalo. This is a cool type of grass that is actually a cross between buffalo grass and turf grass - hence the name! It requires less water and is really hardy, which will be perfect for us.

Needless to say - we can't wait!!! That will be our next major home project, in addition to getting our window replaced. We also are eye-ing this kitchen island - it will double our counter space.
Well, HAPPY MONDAY!

Fun, busy weekend!!!

Who would believe that this sweet, little Atticus would try to break out of our house!!!

On Friday night, while we were partying at Arts Goggle, we got a call that one of our windows was broken out! Our neighbors, Christen and Tyler found Atticus and Nutmeg and a broken window and gave us a call. We raced home - only to find that Atticus must have broken part of the window out with his paw.

Thankfully, everyone was okay - and our window is going to be fixed in a historic manner...which will be gorgeous!

As for the rest of the weekend, we re-grouted our bathtub and bought two pretty clay pots to plant some gorgeous cannas (sp?) flowers.

At church on Sunday, we worked in the nursery - there were 5 cute little boys - they kept us on our toes! Then on Sunday night, we went to my parents for dinner. We had delicious barbequed chicken, sausage, pasta salad and corn. YUM, YUM!

On another note - time is running out to advertise in the 2009 Fairmount Historic Home Tour brochure - http://www.historicfairmount.com/home/hometour.html

Have a great night!

Art Goggle and Joe's Run

We have a busy weekend head of us and we want to invite everyone along. First we have Art Goggle. Its a fun Open House type event for the Near Southside, that's our barrio. Restaurants and businesses all along Magnolia along with others will host artists and have music, drinks and appetizers. Its like a house party, a big fun house party. Look at Mat below, that is how much fun you are going to have.


Check out here for all the details. We'll be marshaling the troops at our place around 6:30 pm and heading out soon after. It does kick off at 5, but you don't want to be the first one to the party!

We are also running Joe's run on Saturday. So come and cheer us on or come pick me up from wherever I drop. Check out the details for Joe's Run and the Samaritan House right about here

Two posts in one day!?!?!

I can't remember if Sean and I posted about our "road trip" to Austin after Christmas. Yes, I realize that was already 3 months ago, but time flies!

We took a weekend trip to Austin, thanks to Megan and Kevin. They won the trip on a Austin Tourism website, and we had so much fun! Thank you Meg and Kev (and Dami)!!!!

More recently, Atticus has started "Good Citizen Training." He has his 3rd of 8 classes tomorrow night. It is going really well and he is just so smart. He did sneak out of his collar last week to try to get the trainer's attention, but I think it's because he's used to being an only dog - he sure does love his grand-dog Nutmeg though. A couple of weeks ago Atticus had his first sleepover at our house. My friend and co-worker, Sarah went out of town and we watched her chocolate Cocker Spaniel, Duke.
Here we are relaxing on the couch.

And now - our home projects! We have been pretty busy....painting the bathroom, the office, killing weeds in the backyard and recycling brick to prepare to build our driveway. Look at this cute painter - Sean was working hard - and it looks great! We did an accent wall in red and the other three walls are chocolate brown.



Last week, Kristen came into town, so we had a fun night to catch up at one of Sean and my fave restaurant's, Nonna Tata's!


We also got to see Anna and Michael and their dog Aubrey on Saturday. We enjoyed getting to catch up with them! We hadn't seen each other since Laura's wedding this past June! We got to show them our progress on our house and then went to a local restaurant.


We finished off the weekend with a fabulous dinner at my parents' house with Mom, Dad, Grandma Pauline, Grandpa Ramon, Anna, Megan, Kevin, Damian and Sean! What a fun Sunday night. I guess we haven't uploaded the pics yet - we'll add them soon. :)

Well, I think I'm off to bed - I need to get better!

Guess who?

Wow - I guess it takes me being sick for us to catch up on our blog posting. I had to go home from work after lunch today sick and I've been sleeping/resting ever since. So - everyone....take a guess what famous singer my Mom and I took our picture with on Valentine's Day! It's blurry, but I guess that makes the guessing more interesting. A couple of clues are that he played at the Democratic National Convention, he lives in Austin and he played in Fort Worth, TX on Valentine's Day! Dad, Mom, Sean and I got to enjoy the awesome concert and had a great time!!!

WOW!!! Look at "Our Old House"

So, our neighborhood website has this cool feature that Sue McLean put together....it shows pics of every house in the neighborhood sometime in the late 90's, 2005 and 2008. Here's a link to ours:
http://historicfairmount.com/gallery/College_Avenue_Fifteen_and_Sixteen_Hundred_Blocks/1601_College_2003.aspx
If you click to the next two photos, you will see our house as well!

I'm going to post some more pictures of our house soon - I've been really busy painting (the office is next)! Also, once we have the last freeze, we're going to plant turfallo grass in the backyard!

We had a wonderful weekend too....Friday was relaxing, Saturday night we went to a wonderful Latin fusion restaurant with my parents, Philip and Tim, the McD's, the Moaks and Jeff. It was a lot of fun. :)
On Sunday, we went to church and celebrated Grandma Pauline's birthday with a wonderful afternoon party! It's always so great to get together with everyone.

Well, I better get to bed - morning workouts come earlier than I would like! I'll post pics soon!!!