Garage Sale Fail

On Saturday, October 24th our neighborhood had a garage sale.  I was one of the coordinators that put the event together.  It was going to be a beautiful day so I expected to sell most of the items I had out.  I was set up by 7:45am.  That's when things went down hill.  The guy that is building home on the lots that Perry Homes (our builder) didn't finish decided to pour concrete on 3 lots - on our street!!!  If you don't know anything about construction (not that I know a lot despite working for a builder) that equates to about 9 concrete trucks.   With all of these trucks lined up and down the street, NO ONE was coming the garage sale.  I was ready to hit that stupid construction guy.  The neighborhood already strongly dislikes him and this didn't win him any points.  By 9am, I had one visitor and no prospects in sight so I packed all our crap back up and headed inside.  Fortunately, we didn't have much stuff.


I later walked around the neighborhood and found that people on the other streets were very happy and had been very successful.  I don't want to have another sale until all the other lots are finished so that jerk won't ruin it for us again.

Crazy for the Twilight Saga

I have officially joined the Twilight crazed population.  I've now read all 4 books and think I'm going to have withdrawals!  I can't believe I got so caught up in it but I loved the books.  I watched the Twilight movie and was a bit disappointed but not surprised because books are always better.  I'm looking forward to seeing New Moon next month regardless.


Now I'm going to read Midnight Sun...the partial book from Edward's point of few.

Night Blooming Cereus

When Sam and Roshni moved to Dallas, they gave us a night blooming cereus they had on their patio.  We ended up with three blooms on the plant about a week ago.  I made Zack go out and snap a picture.  He said it was really hard to get anything to turn out.  This is the best picture.

Mamo's birthday

On October 3rd, we headed to Sweet Home to celebrate Mamo's 80th birthday.  We took her out to dinner at Robert's in Flatonia.  The food was good!  After dinner we headed to Barbara and Ronnie's house for cake.

Matthew wanted to make sure it looked like he was taking a bite of food when I took the group picture.

Mamo with her usual happy smile!  Seriously, this is a smile from her.

Blowing out the candles.

This was also the weekend that Yoakum and Sweet Home got around 11 inches of rain.  Check out this pictures from my parents house.

Heather sported a garbage bag to take Stella out.  She also slipped on Dad's work boots.  Stella was not interested in going potty in the rain!

Blogging Break

Can you take a blogging break when you haven't been blogging for long?  I guess I have...

I always want to include photos but Zack hogs the desktop PC all the time so I never get access to our pictures. There have been a few things going on the last few weeks.

On September 30th, I went with my friends Scott and Lori to an event at Macy's Memorial City.  Celebrity chef Rick Bayless was there.  It was cool!  He made a dish which we were able to sample then signed autographs.