Drapes..

I fell in love with our house when we first walked in... there are so many things about it that I absolutely love! However, there were/are some things I strongly dislike, but they are all things, in time, that can be changed. We painted rooms with ugly wall paper, put in wood floors where there was carpet (except the kids rooms and upstairs), and some other small adjustments. One of the things I really hated was the curtains they left.. but until we found the color, style, and affordability curtains of our dreams.. they stayed.

Well, we found these eclipse thermaweave curtains at Wal*Mart that have a beautiful color and sheen... unlike other thermal curtains, they do not look like cheap polyester pantsuits... they keeps rooms cooler in the summer.. warmer in the winter... so.. we bought them and gave them a shot in our living room.

We love them and will be watching for shorter versions in colors we are interested in for other windows... they are like drapes, not curtains.. pictures show the gradual transformation..

I know.. I know.. the original white ones are totally wrong for our living room.. they look awful... glad they are gone... they look nice in my daughter's bedroom with her white furniture...

This summer that wall will be a beautiful hue of RED to match my favorite red paisley chair...

Happy Birthday from Tod to me!

These are delicious! He ordered them from www. fretzels.com... such a sweet man!

Happy Easter and Happy Tuesday's Home!

We did not do much this Easter and I am a little sad. We didn't do anything really special as a family... but we did spend the entire day together watching basketball..... we are going to eat dinner tonight...

Tuesday's Easter bag... the bunny is SO soft!
Her U of A hat... because she is transferring home this fall! She also got cute little pins for her hair!Hard Rock Cafe t-shirt... reeses cup bunnies!
Superbad movie... she says it is too embarrassing to watch with me :-)Sweats.. Tuesday LOVES sweats!Utah got an awesome video game... so skittles from Tuesday... some chocolates...

Fun Pictures!

clean baby! cookies!

Emmet and Cathy...

Why am I holding my head like that... not sure.. goofy

Day 4 - San Antonio (Outlet, Market Square)

The shopping trip at the outlet mall started with Utah and I have coffee at starbucks (decaf, sugar free, mocha). WOW!
New shoes... size 8.5... yikes!

After shopping all day, we went to the Market Square downtown. We rode a trolley and it was a very interesting ride!!!

Utah, the pack mule, carried all our stuff (Emmet's stuff) all over San Antonio.. he was quite the awesome teenager!

Emmet and mom in sunglasses - his first pair!
a bird pooped on me - yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuckEmmet is waking up Utah!

Day 3 - San Antonio (Six Flags, River Walk)

Six Flags was a bust! The long wait in traffic... in line to pay $15 to park.. in line to pay to get into the park... in line to go through the metal detector.. the hour wait for one ride.. the fact that alcohol flowed freely... it just wasn't our scene.. we made the best of it and got out of there!
We had a great time on the Riverwalk though. We took a water taxi to the mall and dinner. We walked the Riverwalk back to the hotel. Except for hauling the stroller up and down the stairs (Utah's job), it was an awesome walk. We didn't have stairs until we got close to the hotel.
My flash went CRAZY and everyone looks washed out.... Utah scored some new clothes..

Day 2 - San Antonio (Zoo)

We spent day two at the San Antonio Zoo. It was so much fun! The animals were very interesting. They had a little children's zoo that Emmet loved. If it was warmer we could have let Emmet swim at the beach in the zoo. We missed the giraffes.. they were hiding in their super tall huts!

There were BIRDS EVERYWHERE! I really don't like birds.. Utah and Elizabeth got a kick out of my constant fear of the birds! Look at all the NESTS!

Emmet laughed and laughed.. he is quite the little guy!