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Friday, July 14, 2006

IN MEXICO!

just a quick note from a mexico Internet cafe....everything is going wonderfully, so continue to keep me in your prayers!jason and i are having a great time and so have packed everything in amazingly. you name it... the basilica, the opera, anthropology museum, ballet, bus trip, caving, Frieda kahlos house, viewing political protests, pilgrim marches and honestly that is just a start. hopefully i will send details at some point.

but for now, love and prayers to all!

Saturday, July 01, 2006


Before the hooks game, my Mother and I by the Roger Clemens memorial dolphin (she and my dad went to the game when he was here). You can see a little of the field over our right shoulder as well as the Harbor Bridge.
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Is June over...?

The torrential weather seems to be a sign that I can no longer neglect blogging… so let me see in the last month, yikes has it really been that long? What has been going on… hmmm…

My mom has gone and returned from Minnesota, and I was lady of the house for a few weeks. I think by the time my mom came home my dad was a little relived by the prospect of my Nazi demands being mitigated:)… rinse your glass, you're late for lunch, set the table… lucky, I escaped the inevitable backhand that would have come in a another week.

Honestly, I am only kidding we had a wonderful time together! Everything form going to baseball games, testing out new dishes and preparing for Tasha's arrival back last week (she beat my mom by 4 days). But it is nice to have the household complete even with additions.

Since Tasha has returned, we had a little sister time – shopping, getting her ears pierced, going "out" :)… and with her addiction to the world cup [which luckily proceeds the college world series that sucked me in. Good job OSU, the only team I would have thought of cheering for after Rice was eliminated.] We are just taking some good family time.
Last Wednesday was baseball night, grabbed some dinner and a 'rita at Brewster Street, the new place across the streee (it was good) and then on to cheer the hooks to yet another victory. There is a picture of Tasha and I there at the end.

And shucks before I forget, everything looks on schedule to start grad school at A&M Corpus Christi in August. I still need the counseling departments acceptance into their program, but not foreseeing any problems, say a prayer for me though.

And for this week… Friday I am off for MEXICO CITY! Yee haw! Jason will be my travel buddy. We will be back in Dallas the 17th. I am hoping to collect my things from storage, kidnap Tasha after her play-therapy workshop and u-hull back to corpus some time after the 20th.

We am off to Hu Dat for some tasty Vietnamese!

love and prayers to all!

where're the Hooks?


Tash and I on one of our walks around the park. the only way to ease an aching bum when the hooks are having a blow-out (of course they were the ones winning!) Posted by Picasa

Let them eat cake!

Now for the other happenings the last month…. CAKE DECORATING! Prepare for picture overload:)! Last Tuesday "graduated" from Cake Decorating Course 1 at hobby lobby. It was a four week course (I thought it was one when I was signing up…humph!). Long story short… I loved the baking and the decorating, but I really see a lot of similarities between cake decorating and painting – PREP and CLEANUP! Ugh! If someone would just make all that darn butter cream icing, fill the little bags, and then clean the goop off everything I would be a happy embellisher! For now though I am ready for opportunities to test out my happy little 8" cake pan. (i think the only cake pic you are missing from my recent repertoire is a lemon-poppy seed).

Father's Day


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Post-grad cake:)


Butter-pecan for my mom's breast cancer support group. Posted by Picasa

Mom's welcome home cake (also my graduation cake:)


Posted by Picasadairy-free carrot cake (i had to grate 3 lbs of cake for this one...)

"Tasha's Cake."


Posted by Picasadairy-free yellow cake.

Beginner excitement at it's finest!


for my Ladies' Group.
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