Surprise Visit!

Last Saturday my sister Sandra (we are not really related) decided on a whim to join her husband here (he was in SA on business) in San Antonio. I was over the moon. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan and so we don't get to see each other all that often. We've spent the past five days swimming and enjoying Fiesta, and being a foursome. Unfortunately, an unwelcome visiter joined me yesterday: the stomach virus. I have not felt so awful in quite a while. My temperature reached a whopping 101.5 this morning, but has continued to fall. I was even able to eat dinner, thank you Lord. It was kinda a bummer ending to our time together, but none the less it was wonderful to spend four whole days together. I have lots of pictures to share from our second Fiesta in SA, but they will have to wait. Hope you enjoyed the last day of April!

My Husband, the Photographer

Since buying our canon 60d last spring Joe has become quite the photographer. Not only does he take beautiful pictures with the canon, but also with his IPhone.

He snapped some fun pics. of Rémy and I over the weekend with our canon...

...and with his IPhone.

We had such a nice weekend in the Texas hill country with family. It was really just what I needed to remind me of what's important in life, and what's just not worth worrying about. I've been fighting the end of the year blues, and after this weekend I feel energized and ready to take on the last five weeks of school. 

What I've Been Baking Lately

This week Joe and I have been munching on Joe's Aunt Judy's Bread Pudding. It. Is. To. Die. For! This has to be one of my favorite recipes I've received from someone. It has a rum sauce instead of brandy and to make it extra bad awesome I used half & half instead of milk. I don't really feel like posting the recipe (yep that whole food blog thing didn't really pan out), but if you would like it just shoot me an email. 

A couple of weeks ago I made this little scrumptious "Lemon Pudding Cakes." They were very simple and a nice way to welcome in spring to our taste buds. If you would like the recipe click: here.

While I was teaching choir after school baking wasn't really at the top of my priority list, but now that we are done rehearsing I'm anxious to try some new recipes. Tomorrow I will be making a Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake for our weekend in Austin with family, yahoo!

Hope you are surviving the week! Only two more days.

New Weekend Rituals

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend! Ours had some highs and some lows. Friday we had plans to go to the new food truck park in our neighborhood, but after spending 10 + hours with children all I wanted was a nice quiet meal that was served to me. Joe poured me a glass of wine and let me get out of my funk a bit before we decided on The Monterey for dinner. It's also a neighborhood restaurant and has surprisingly become one of my favorites. Saturday began like our most recent Saturdays at home have: Joe and I waking up at relatively the same time, drinking coffee, eating a bowl of cereal, and snuggling while watching The Cooking Chanel. It doesn't get much better. Lately our Saturday afternoons at home have included lunch and grocery shopping at Central Market. I will sure miss that place in D.C. After  our trip to the grocery store is when we hit a real low. We attempted to put our new wooden bed frame together, and it just didn't go very well. Sometimes we work really well together, and other times we just don't- Saturday was one of those other times. After all was said and done the bed still wasn't attached to the headboard correctly, but we gave up. Well- around 1:30 in the morning I hear this creaking sound. I get out of bed, put the dog in his pen,turn the lights on, and CRASH- the mattress goes through the middle of the bed. I wish I could have snapped a picture of Joe's face at that moment. He was totally bewildered and nearly terrified. I just couldn't help but burst out laughing. After the fiasco that afternoon, it was just so typical and well, funny. So- Joe and I spent the rest of the night on the foldout couch, which is slightly larger than a twin. Needless to say neither of us woke up in time for church. Sunday was a much better day- we had lunch at Brio at La Cantera, did some birthday shopping for family members, and browsed in Barnes and Noble for over an hour. We made some make shift supports for the bed out of cinder blocks and wood and even got the headboard attached correctly.  We ended the afternoon reading the Sunday Times together, which we recently subscribed to. All in all, it was a good weekend and we learned to never buy a bed from West Elm again. 

Our Mid Century Life, Update & Our Easter in Pictures

Update:

Here is our new credenza in the comfort of our apartment. Amazingly all of our electronics fit, and we were also able to hide the strip plug and all wires. Wahoo!

Our Easter in Pictures:

           

Hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend! Can you believe it's already Thursday? Bring on the weekend!

Favorite Things As of Late

Here are some things I'm loving right now!

{ 1. Hello Flawless! by Benefit > 2. Enzo Angiolini Dixy Pump > 3. Poppy King for J. Crew > 4. Hello Flawless! Oxygen Wow by Benefit > 5. Twinings of London > 6. Pilcro Straight Ankle Chinos > 7. Dries Van Note Sunglasses }

Our Mid-Century Life

 

As I have mentioned in previous posts, Joe and I have slowly but surely been furnishing our home. One of the last "college items" was our TV stand. It as been driving me crazy! It is wobbly and marred from use and several moves.  We decided a while back to purchase a 1960s era credenza and convert it into a media stand- well, San Antonio isn't really over flowing with these types of antique shops. Not surprising. I did some research and found several in the Houston are. Again- not surprising. Yesterday we found ourselves at Reeve's Antiques. Oh my, Joe and I were in Mad Men heaven. They had beautiful pieces and our #1 choice was actually in our price range. I can't wait to get this beauty down to our apartment in San Antonio and see how wonderful it looks in between our gorgeous mid-century speakers. 

More pictures to come.

Pierced for Our Inequities

This evening will be the final performance of the Easter program I have been directing. The end of something like this is always bittersweet. I'm desperately looking forward to sleeping stress free, without the "to-do list" running through my mind constantly; however, I know I will miss the kids and their joy and laughter. It's amazing what children can teach you, and how humbling it is to have a 5th grader ask if "if you are alright" with the deepest concern and sincerity. I hope and pray each of these students seeks and finds the Lord as their hope and salvation, for above all else, that is why I do what I do. I like to think I'm making a difference, but in reality it is the Holy Spirit and the Lord working in spite of me.


This song has been ringing in my ears lately, and Isaiah 53:5 is key verse for our program.