New marshmallow flavors!

Peppermint and gingerbread. The gingerbread is pretty intense.

New houses

This year's gingerbread houses.

Didn't look like that to us

Shippers venture out on busiest day of year - YNN - Your News Now
We went to the 78704 Post Office on South Congress this morning at 11 and had only a 3-person wait.

2011 Christmas Musical

Aaron, The Allergic Shepherd

What we learned in Spanish Class today

Jingle Bells in Espanol

And now we can't seem to stop singing the chorus:
"O, cascabeles, cascabeles, tra la la la la,
que alegria todo el dia, tra la la la la!



Oh what fun!

saved

The sweet Jewish girl down the street saved me - she's selling chocolate-filled advent calendars to raise money for her high school German Club

The Govt trying to shut down family farms AGAIN!

Farmers fear proposed new child labor rules

The clone trooper invasion

At the 2011 Chuy's Christmas Parade

The Secrets to a Perfectly Moist Meatloaf

I'm making meatloaf for the kids for the first time tonight. As usual, I'm winging it for the recipe but I thought that I'd confirm what I felt should be the appropriate cooking time and temp. I was right.

The Secrets to a Perfectly Moist Meatloaf

My recipe is based on the meatloaf that my mom used to make when I was a kid and the meatloaf that they serve at Shady Grove restaurant here in Austin. I'm using 1 lb ground beef and 1 lb ground pork, 1/2 lb cooked penne pasta, 1/2 lb cooked peas, diced carrots, and corn, 1/4 cup medium salsa, a LOT of freshly ground sea salt mix (it tastes JUST like Lawry's Salt which was my old standby for meat seasoning), some fresh ground pepper, and 2 TBS of minced garlic. No bread crumbs (that's what the pasta's for) and no egg. When it's time to serve it I'll pour some queso on top of each slice.

I think they'll like it!

Twilight

Sitting in the theater waiting for Breaking Dawn to start at midnight.

KLOVE's encouraging word of the day

Today's Encouraging Word - Don't just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Romans 12:9 NLT

Disappointing Pho!

Took Giselle to the local Vietnamese restaurant and now eating some very mediocre pho! They use fake crab instead of "real" fish balls even. But the pork spring roll was good.

Gabrielle Swank - The Journey Continues

If you have a daughter who you are considering having vaccinated with Gardasil, please watch these two videos first and then rethink your decision.

first http://youtu.be/RamAjYlR70s
and then the one below


Thank you, and pray for strength for those suffering from the adverse reactions.

Homeschool Field Trip

Texas State Cemetery! It's really pretty cool!

Upwards Soccer Closing Ceremony

All done for another year. Thanks Coach Marty for another awesome year!!!!

The finished product!

I think the neighbors will be quite pleased with this!

Work in Progress

Painting 101 - Today's lesson is Murals

Trick or Treat!

2011

Finally!

The crepe myrtles are finally blooming and they smell fabulous!

I hate Sprint Picture Mail!

OK, so Sprint Picture Mail totally blows chunks!  I just cleared all the pictures off of my SD card in my phone since I prefer to back them all up on the computer rather than leaving them on my phone.  Well, when I put the SD card back into my phone it synced up with Sprint and deleted most of those pictures out of my Sprint Picture Mail and now those pictures are deleted off of my blog!
I sure liked it a whole lot more when in the olden days of Blogger that all your pictures were saved to Blogger no matter where they posted from and then they were saved in a public or private (your choice) photo album in Picassa.  That way if you change phone services all your pictures aren't GONE!!!!
I'm a bit peeved at the moment about this, to say the least!!

BTW, all of my blog pictures that were posted NOT using Sprint Picture Mail are, in fact, still saved in my private Picassa photo albums.  But any and all pictures posted via Sprint Picture Mail are NOT saved on Picassa!