Mom and Dad visit Texas!

  Two weekends ago we had an unexpected surprise with Mom coming out with Dad to Texas. I call my in-laws Mom and Dad so just to not be mistaken for my parents.  Mom was supposed to stay home but she was able to help Dad bring their first load from Hesperia to Texas.  If all goes as planned Mom and Dad should be officially living in Texas by the end of this month.
  We try to have a family dinner together on Sat or Sunday. We ended up taking Mom and Dad out to a Mexican Restaurant here in Madisonville on Saturday. It is the closet city being about 20 miles from Bedias, it has only a few places to eat. I have wanted to eat there since we moved here and we finally got to! We get to eat out about 2x a year so it was a really nice treat. I told Zach, "eating out never sounded so fun".  The food was killer and I had a strawberry margarita that was to die for!

We set up a Tiki circle at dark. It is fun to play with my aperture settings at night. I needed my tripod to get a good focused shot. This is the best one I got without using a flash. The Tiki's keep it well lite outside and it voids all the bugs!

Zach chilling on the new hammock at Tiff's!

Truly and Keynan playing so cute together

Dad and Mom relaxing!

The blueberry cobbler I made for desert!

Hanging with Daddy on the hammock and counting the stars!!

Silas and Honey!

Thayne and cousin Alden eating their yummy cobbler.

Ayden says thumbs up to Mom's grub.

Uncle Mike and Keynan. K refused to look up.

I'm loving balls of light in pictures lately :)

Love this pic of my blue eyed handsome hunks!

I had to take about 20 shots to get one of Truly looking at the camera.. Stinker!

If only I had my tripod.. blurry for now but there is always next time.

Decided that Zach makes a good pillow, I concur!

 We also got together on Sunday because Mom and Dad planned on leaving the next day.  I should of taken pics of the food it was so good. We had Paulette and Michael's famous Kabobs and I prepared Tali-pa with fresh basil from my garden. Tiff made the rice to go with the Tali-pa and some mac and cheese for the kids. She gave me a tip that you can put Tuna in mac and cheese. I will have to try that one night when I'm wanting an easy meal for the kids. All in all it was delicious!

Lunar Eclispe/Winter Solstice and Ringing in the New Year 2011!

We put the kids to bed at 8:00 p.m. sharp and woke them up at midnight. We were able to see the start of the Lunar Eclipse all the way until it ended about 2:30 a.m. We met up over at Tiff's house and all my nieces and nephews got to watch it too it was spectacular and all the kids really enjoyed it. What was cool too is knowing that this hadn't occurred on the start of Winter Solstice for 378 years. The next Eclipse will be next year but only those in Asia will see it. The one that we will seen again in the United States is July 2015. I hope to have a telescope by then.


We had a great Christmas and New Years. We spent both days at my sis and brother in law's. We trade off so each of us gets a break from hosting the parties. My Mother in law and Father in law came out for a few weeks too. It was nice to enjoy them during the Holidays. We also got to shoot some guns when they were out which I had a lot of fun with and technically it was my very first time since I was small shooting a gun. I always watch the guys but this time got to jump in. Of course the twins used the rifles for the first time and hit the bull's eye right on.. I can tell you I missed each target and need to practice my aim,lol I would have to give credit to some of the video games for the boys aim. I'm amazed with their dexterity and you only could imagine if I let them play those darn games all the time what their aim would be,lol. That wouldn't be healthy but gives me a good chuckle to think about.

We also rang in the new year with instruments. Zach's family has some great musical skill.  Zach's Dad played the sax and his sister played the clarinet while Zach and I  played the guitar(well I tried but am way out of practice). We all sang to Christmas hymns and John Denver tunes. We also sang some other Political songs and a few songs that Zach  has written and it was a lot of fun. All of us are out of practice(except Zach and Tiff) and we plan on polishing up the music skills and recording a family album. We hope to have it in the making soon. It seems time is really going by fast because I'm writing this in March. I needed to catch up the blog without skipping some of the fun we have had the last few months!

I'm either really happy or really Chinese!