I'm dying to wear flip flops

Michael and I can't wait for summer to get here. Not because we get 4 glorious months off like we did in college (Long gone are those days...Boohoo!) but because we're ready for some warm weather. I guess you can probably tell that from our small blog makeover.

So, break out the flip flops here's a list of our summer trips we're hoping to go on.

1. Schlitterbahn!! Need I say more? We both LOVE this place. We went a couple summers ago with another couple for the weekend and stayed in San Antonio. This time we're going to plan on going during the week because we're not really into standing in a line for 2 hours to ride one ride while we look at the tattooed portrait of a man's relative's face. What was even more ridiculous about the tattoo was that below the portrait was the person's birth date with a " - " after it like a headstone for a still-living person. Strange, I tell you.

2. Johnson City and Austin, TX and the surrounding wineries. My uncle lives in Austin and has offered to let us stay anytime we're in town. We might stay with him for a day or two and hit up some live music and hole-in-the-wall restaurants. We'd also like to stay at a B&B in Johnson City and visit the wineries nearby also. We love Texas Hills Vineyards.

3. Go to the Mississippi beach. We know some people from Mississippi (I just love typing that out...so fun) that have graciously offered to let us stay in the guest house on their property. Even though we're not really beach people it'll still be nice to get away and see another state's beauty.

For little Miss. Priss

I get on these sewing kicks every once in a while so when I came across this pattern from Oliver + S on another blog I got the itch.  I picked out 3 fabrics and coordinating ribbons to make 3 little skirts for our cute 3 1/2 year old niece.  After a minor glitch with the sewing machine halfway through the first skirt I finally finished the purple skirt (I added the little embellishment with the extra fabric and ribbon).

Here are the fabrics and ribbons for the other two 2 skirts which I hope to work on this weekend:

I hope she enjoys them as much as I enjoy making them.  She's such a cute little squirt.

Now, if I could only learn to sew from an official pattern then there would be no end to my obsessive madness.

Where'd my pillow go?

I just couldn't resist.  I think someone thinks my pillow belongs to her.

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas...

The first Saturday in December my mom and I went to see White Christmas at TUTS in Houston.  This musical (well, really the movie) holds a very dear place in mine and my mom's heart.  Every year since I can remember we always sit down in the den one day close to Christmas and wrap all the presents (not mine of course) and watch White Christmas.  We know EVERY song  and line by heart and could practically star in the movie ourselves if either of us could sing.  So, when tickets became available to purchase last July I jumped on it.  Afterwards we met up with Michael and went to Niko Niko's for some fantastic Greek food.

Sorry about the bras in the above picture.  We went to Rice Village after eating dinner and we were having such a good time that we decided to take this picture with Santa.  We didn't realize until after we took the picture that we were standing in front of a Victoria's Secret window but if we'd taken pictures by another bench then it would have been with the homeless man taking a nap.  Needless to say we were okay with the bras.

Static Head!

Sammy!

This is very random but Samantha Brown was at a mall in Dallas in September doing publicity stuff for Ecco shoes. We HAD to go see her so we waited in the long line to get her autograph and a picture with her. We're so goofy but it was so cool!

San Antonio Vacation

I'm working my way backwards in time since I've been a slacker at blogging.

The middle of December Michael and I took a few days off from work and made a trip to San Antonio.  It seems that this might be our yearly tradition since December 2007 we went for a few days to Fredericksburg and in December 2005, I think it was, we went to Las Vegas.

Along the way we stopped in Shiner, TX to visit the Shiner Brewery.  They had a nice facility, but the tasting was nothing like what St. Arnold does.  Oh, how we miss St. Arnold.

This sign in the Shinery Brewery parking lot cracked me up.

Okay, on to San Antonio.  We stayed at a beautiful historic hotel just 2 blocks off the Riverwalk.  It was nice to be so close that we could walk down there anytime we wanted to without the hassle of parking.  When we checked in the man at the desk told us we were upgraded to a 4th floor room with a view of the park across the street.  We were pretty excited at the sound of such a nice view but when we got up to our room we realized that it really wasn't as nice as it sounded because we suspect the park was the homeless park.  Oh, well.  Whenever we were in the room we were either sleeping at night or taking naps during the day.  I sure do miss those naps.

At La Fogata (Yumm! Best Mexican food ever)

Alamo plaza