Meal Planning Monday

Back by popular Cara's demand...

Monday - Pioneer Woman's Chicken Spaghetti 
Tuesday- (Trevor's long night of classes) leftovers on the run
Wednesday - Hamburgers with homemade fries and fried okra
Thursday - Crescent Chicken
Friday - Italian Pie

Puppy fix

In case you need a Ruby fix for the day:

We took her on a walk to the park down the street today to play with Johnna and Rio and learn how to walk on a leash.  She did pretty good for her first time.  I made Trevor walk her because she kept biting my ankles :)  Poor thing was worn out by the time we started playing in the park.  She curled right up on her Daddy and took a nap in the sun.

Wordless Wednesday

Cara's Birthday Weekend

February 14th is not just Valentines Day or the day Ruby came home, but it is also Cara's birthday!  Cara, Jason, and Ainslee came to Corpus for the weekend to stay with us and celebrate her birthday.  I spent all day Friday baking a cake for Cara, trying to get it finished by the time they got in town.  I really wanted to surprise her with a rainbow cake that we had both seen on a blog.  I made sure to ice it really well so that she couldn't tell it was rainbow... but she took one look at it and said, "Yea a rainbow cake!" Must be that weird sister telepathy that we seem to have!

They got in town just in time for dinner and the opening ceremonies of the olympics.  Saturday we all slept in and took our time getting up and ready for the day.  We finally ate lunch and the decided to cut the cake since it was so big and we needed to get a head start on it!

    

Then we all got bundled up and headed out to walk the sea wall to let Ainslee see the "beach".  She wanted to share her goldfish with the seagulls.

After the long walk we met up with Austin and Kylie and ate dinner at La Playa and then came back to our house for a game of Settlers once the little one went to sleep. :)  The next morning was Cara's birthday and she (and the baby in her tummy) wanted a birthday brunch at Cracker Barrel.  While we were there Trevor worked some magic on the phone and we learned that we had a little baby coming home that day!  We spent the rest of the day getting ready for the puppy:

  

And playing at the park down the street:

They wanted to stick around to see the puppy, but it got late and she still wasn't here yet, so they didn't get to see her :(  Guess they will just have to come back again soon to see the pup!  Hopefully Cara had a good birthday anyway!  We loved having them here and can't wait for the next time... now Ainslee will have a playmate!

My Little Valentine

My sweet husband gave me the best valentine's gift ever yesterday!  Meet Ruby:

She is a 7 week old Vizsla that was born on Christmas Eve!  It kinda feels like we have a newborn right now... she woke us up every two hours last night and needs to be held constantly.  She loves her Daddy:

 

And her Mommy:

And they love her:

She will always be our first baby:

Photo Challenge: "We Heart Kisses"

In honor of Valentines Day the theme this week at i heart faces is "we heart kisses".  I hope Derek doesn't mind, but there is just something about the love between a man and... his fish.  I had use this picture taken out at the farm in Hempstead over new years.

To see more kissing pictures click on the link below to head over to i heart faces!

Yard Makeover

Trevor's parents came to visit us in Corpus this weekend.  We spent most of our time with them either in the yard, at Home Depot, or eating!  Trevor's dad is a landscape architect and last time they were in town he mapped out our backyard and made a blueprint.  This weekend he brought back some plans that he made from the blueprint of how we can give the backyard a makeover.  We loved them, but for now we are still in the "dreaming" stage :) But we wanted to work with what we have now and they helped us get the yard ready for the spring by pruning everything... a lot!


I was scared of chopping everything back so much so they kept trying to do it when I turned by back :)  It pretty much looks like piles of sticks now, but they kept reassuring me that it will grow back in a couple of months and be beautiful again!  We  pruned the rose bush back and then they fanned it out and tied it up to the fence so it will start growing along the fence.  I think it is going to look really pretty.  Here is a before and after of the rose bush:

Before

After

The rest of the plants I was too scared to take the 'after' pictures of!  But just try to imagine sticks growing out of the ground and thats what the rest of the beds look like :) We did get to plant new Geraniums in the planter boxes in the front.  The Begonias that were in there were struggling, and there weren't enough planted for the space so we took them out and put them in pots to try to get them healthy again.  I DID take some pictures of us planting the flowers.

Potting up the old Begonias

The new Geraniums 

Getting the soil ready

TA DA!

I love them! We had so much playing in the yard all day Saturday.  We finished off the day by grilling some steak, eating a yummy dinner, and watching the movie UP.  We slept in the next morning and they got on the road to make it back to Houston in time to watch the Super Bowl.  We had a great weekend and were blessed with great weather and even better in-laws :)  Thanks for everything, love y'all!