All Finished

I have finally finished the bridal shower invites. I am very pleased with how they turned out. Now I just need to get the rest of the addresses, then I can send them off on their merry way!

Back Home Again

After 284 pictures, we have arrived back home from San Antonio. The flights were good coming and going. We only had turbulence going into San Antonio, only because the pilot was trying to divert around a thunderstorm.

The fourth of July was spent at SeaWorld where we were drenched not once but twice by the wonderful downpour. We never made it to see the penguins and find the free beer.

In front of the Budweiser cart.

This picture was after our first drenching.

In between SeaWorld and the Riverwalk, we played games in the arcade park next to our hotel. Josh and Tony won 3,000 tickets. Where he exchanged them in for these lovely braclets and other random items.

In the evening, we had dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe along the Riverwalk. Then we walked the Riverwalk and took the boatride along the walk.

Waiting for dinner along the Riverwalk.

Hubby posing in front of a stage and the bells that represent the 5 missions of San Antonio.


On Saturday, we attended James and Jennette's wedding. It was beautiful. They were married at St. Gregory's Catholic Church in San Antonio and the reception was held at the Embassy Suites.

A very cool part of the wedding was that a mariachi band came in and played for an hour. Laura has now decided that she wants one for her wedding.


On Sunday morning, we checked out of our rooms and headed back downtown. We took in the Alamo and shopped in the little shops around the Alamo.

Then we headed off to find the Cheesecake Factory. I had a divine piece of Dutch Apple Caramel Streusel cheesecake. It was probably enough calories for two days! Then we dropped the rental car back off and boarded our plane. We were back home by midnight.

The funny thing is that hubby turns to me on the airplane to Detroit and says, "We have to fly again somewhere." This is the same person who grips the seat in terror as we take off and land because he is scared to death to fly. Huh?

All Packed

I have everything printed out. So after a few more errands and a few more items into the suitcase, we are officially packed. It seemed so much easier to pack this time around. Hubby said it was because we are going into 90+ degree weather and we don't need much clothing. :-)

Jenni, the cat, has also decided that she needs to be packed:

I hope everyone has a safe and happy fourth of July!

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

~Louis D. Brandeis

A shopping we will go...

Yesterday, July 1, was my 28th birthday. That now means that I am only 2 years away from 30. Yippee! We went out to eat at Papa Vino's on Sunday night because that was the only time all of us could get together. The food was very yummy and I still have leftovers in the fridge because the portions were so HUGE!

So yesterday I went for the lovely bike ride and then came home and cleaned a little and started making a list of things I need to get before we get on the plane tomorrow afternoon for San Antonio. It was a very relaxing day!

I then went over to my parent's house in the evening and found out that my mom got the flu on Monday and was still feeling horrible. So Tony, Rosanne, Laura, Josh, and I went out to go shopping and dress the guys for the wedding. Too bad hubby was working...I wouldn't let him take the day off because he is already taking Thursday and Monday off.

Our first stop was JC Penney for Tony because they have a big and tall section. Rosie and I did a great job of loading him up with clothes. When we were all checked out we went off to find Laura who was looking at evening purses and shoes. Josh also had to try out a purse:

We then went off to Kohl's to find Josh some clothes and Tony some shoes. Well Tony found more clothes, but no shoes because Kohl's does not carry a size 14 shoe. Josh also found some clothes. Then we went off to Shoe Carnival, where all of us except Rosie walked away with a pair of shoes. The guys even walked away with two pairs!

Hacienda was calling our name! The food was yummy, the waitress was horrible. We waited 10 minutes to be given any type of service including our chips! We asked for extra napkins twice, and then when she finally brought them to us, we got two. Gee there are five of us and two napkins. Arg! Then when it was time to get our check the waitress was nowhere around us because she was mopping the floor! So we had to get the waitress from the other table to get us our check. Needless to say the tip was not that great.

Rosie and Laura are in their everyday forms!

Josh, Rosie and Laura

Tony looking so thrilled that we are spending his money! :)

Finally me...who really enjoyed the marjarita!

If Texas is going to be like anything like last night, it is going to be a hoot!

Bike Ride Anyone?

Laura and I went bike riding last Tuesday around the lake at Notre Dame and then proceeded around campus. It was very pretty. Today we took another bike ride although this time we went around Saint Mary's campus. I knew that there was a nature trail located somewhere on the outskirts of the campus. So we were in search of that. We found the entrance and then proceeded our way on the nature trail...

We found the trail to be quiet and relaxing.

Here Laura is posing by the lovely St. Joseph River!

This was the sign that told us that we were on the nature trail.

We looked in the box for the trail maps and all we found were bugs!

Then our trail became narrow, so we decided what the

heck let's just ride and see where it takes us!

It took us to an open field with this weird mushroom rock collection.

It also had a place with a fenced in area with a fire hydrant on the inside. We have no idea why they would gate a fire hydrant!

So we took off on the narrow nature trail again to figure out where in the heck it actually went. As we made our twists and turns, I made a lovely high pitched scream because there was some unknown bug on me. Laura ran into a few trees. I got a stick caught on my leg that then proceeded to stop my pedal. We had to walk our bikes down the trail otherwise you would hear about us getting pulled out of the river later this evening. Then we came to this:

This is when we decided that maybe this wasn't a bicycle trail because of the steps going up!

This part of the trail actually got us back on the main trail part and we rode out of the woods and around campus. We decided that we would not bike again on the lovely Saint Mary's nature trail!