Me Gusta Cinco de Mayo

We started off at our favorite Mexican restaurant with friends, but it was way too noisy, way too many drunk people, and too few servers to handle the huge crowd (old age is apparently turning me into a prude). So we visited a little while then set off to have an enjoyable dinner - just the two of us.

We passed by a few other crowded Mexican restaurants before finding the perfect place to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.

We had a quiet corner booth where we could talk, laugh, and enjoy the drink specials.

Lucas made a weird face for the picture... so I am cutting him out and encouraging him to look normal in future pics.

And for some big news in our world......

Not only were we celebrating Cinco de Mayo, we were celebrating my acceptance into the MBA program at a local university!!!!


I have already started to get my pre-reqs in order (As I am a Liberal Arts girl entering the Business world - and they apparently think I have a lot to catch up on). I am hoping to get these taken care of during the summer and start my actual courses in August. So keep your fingers crossed that in 2 years I'll have my Masters in Business Administration!

What I Just Bought....

Do you know what that means? I am repainting our kitchen cabinets. We have almost all of the painting done. Next I am going to apply a little 'technique' and see how it comes out. Then I (or really Lucas) will add these beauties and we'll have brand new (like new - but really old) kitchen cabinets!!

I can't wait to see the finished results myself and share them with you. I've also got a master bedroom re-design to finish up and show you. We've been quite busy lately.

Musical Mondays: BBQ Tunes

Hosted by Jori and Diane

This weekend was our city's big bbq festival. My company has a booth every year and it is so much fun for us all to be able to hang out and relax together.

I designed a logo for our team this year. Isn't he cute?


Anyway, our team did pretty well. We placed 6th in Ribs (for which we received a trophy) and 10th Overall. With a field of close to 80 teams, I think we did amazing. Our team always does well.

There is always some good music during the weekend, with a semi-successful artist to cap off the festival. However, this year we got the CHARLIE DANIELS BAND! What an awesome opportunity it was to end our weekend jamming to CDB!

I leave you with one of my favorite CDB classics -

A Few More Rednecks
by Charlie Daniels Band



The girls hosting Musical Mondays are having a giveaway this month. Each post you submit for Musical Mondays during the month of May enters you into a contest for one of two gift cards to Amazon and iTunes. Go check them out for all the full details. If you participate, be sure to tell them I sent you. :)

Putt-Putting for 4 (+1)

Last weekend we ate some Mexican food with our favorite couple then headed out to play some putt-putt. Spring is here and the weather is nice (or at least it was then... it is rainy now) so it is finally time to have some fun outdoors nights!

Scorekeeper for the night... I should've worked a little magic and made myself the winner. The six shots on one hole really screwed me for the rest of the game.

Hole in One Celebration

The professional lining up his shot

The Group - Aida and I were twins (on accident)

And the best picture of the night....

Aida, give us your best 'pregnant girl playing putt putt' pose

The Swine Flu....

can kiss my booty!

AND STOP calling it the Swine Flu.... It is the H1N1 Virus. It is not contracted by eating pork. In fact, I plan on eating lots of pork this weekend at our local bbq festival (as long as they don't cancel it with all this hysteria running around)! I love pigs. Don't blame your problems on them.

I am not okay with all the crazy people running around trying to scare the rest of us normal people into hiding behind a mask. It is the FLU people. Get over it!

Look! I nursed a pig and don't have swine flu!

Schools are closed, hospitals are overflowing, activities are cancelled, people are urged to stay at home.... total hysteria!!!

Just practice some basic hygiene, people, and go back to your normal lives!

And News People - quite it with your scare tactics. 1 person (a Mexican baby, right?) in the United States has died with the H1N1 virus... more people have probably died from the regular flu in the past week. So QUIT IT! If you really want to panic about a deadly epidemic why don't you focus on drunk driving or smoking or overeating? Those things kill a lot more people here than H1N1. ARRRGGGHHHH..............

Go Fetch!

We had a great weekend (despite the 6 hours of yard work Saturday morning) and I wanted to tell you all about it on Monday - but that pesky thing called work got in the way. I've been really busy and haven't blogged since Friday (Note: I'm going to ignore the 1100+ unread blog posts in my reader).

And I don't have much time now - I'm off to play tennis for the third night in a row and Wednesdays are Mexican nights with friends! But I wanted to share some cute pictures of our little Rafa from this weekend.

We went to watch our friend - The Rookie (he has been wanting a tag since forever ago and I keep telling him he'll get one but never pull though... today is your lucky day, BC) - play tennis. We took Rafa along to watch...

He was being a good boy and cheering The Rookie on!After we watched a while, we took Rafa over to the ballfields to play fetch.
Rafa loves getting off his leash and running all over the place. Crazy dog!!
Problem is - he doesn't always bring the ball back....

He had a lot of fun but was definitely ready for some rest and relaxation afterward...

What a life!

How I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

That is pretty much what the government is asking us to do. I am drowning in a sea of paper work right now to appease them. Couples with a spouse who receives residency within the first two years of marriage have to re-file paperwork two years later to show evidence that the couple is still together in order to maintain residency permanently.

This is their attempt at weeding out all of the illegal people who try to fraud the government by marrying only for a green card and make this process harder for the rest of us, law-biding citizens (and residents). I HATE those people! Seriously. HATE. If you are one of these people - I hate you. If you know one of these people - I hate them. Please tell them I said so.

Anyway, I'm busy organizing all the paperwork we need and gathering any 'evidence' I can. I happen to have a wonderful piece of evidence here at my fingertips.

So, say hello to the Dept. of Homeland Security on the comments b/c

I am submitting my blog as evidence.

The process only gets more fun. We'll be applying for citizenship in one year. Joy!