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It’s almost Christmas (OMG!) and I’ve been stalling updating this thing. So, with that said, here’s a Catch-Up Post with lots of pictures that should have actually been titled “The Longest Post In the History of the World” :).

Our Thanksgiving felt a little…rushed this year, probably because I undershot the time we’d need to prepare the food. John and Monique stopped by to drop off their homemade apple pie (aww!) and requested plates since they’d both be working this year =\. Then I rushed to pick up the kids, who were celebrating Thanksgiving at noon at Mario’s. (We’d be celebrating for dinner). But regardless, it was great and I was sincerely grateful for every little thing in my life, but mainly my family and wonderful kids ♥!

Keeping the kids occupied while we cooked:

The feast!

Can’t forget the ham!

Everything was super delicious. Briana and the kids came over and ate and chilled out a bit. Then, when 8:30pm rolled around we got the kids in bed and asked Mom to babysit while Jorge and I went Black Friday Shopping. It was his first time doing it, ever. I was a bit skeptical about taking him along, but he said there was no way he was letting me out into the madness on my own, so he said he had no choice, heh.

Started at Walmart, where the cars were parked in the dirt nearing the street. Lines were ridiculously long, and we weren’t sure they’d have what we’d need, so we left to Target. The line was BEHIND THE STORE!! This is a huge Target, mind you. I wish I’d taken pictures. They were incredibly organized, though. By the time we got to the area to buy what we specifically went there for…they were OUT. I couldn’t believe it. So Jorge says, “Well. We’re already here. Let’s look around and see what else we find.” So, moping slightly, I follow him and see a man hauling THE ITEM. I had a feeling I should stick around. So I did. I pretended to read my ad as I inched closer. (Jorge told me later he thought I was going to mug the guy LOL). I could hear him on the phone talking to probably his wife, and he sounded unsure about taking the item. We make eye contact and he hangs up. He looks at me and says, in Spanish, “Hey. Do you want it?” I nod an enthusiastic YES and we put it into our cart. I couldn’t contain a *squee* and Jorge asked, “Ok, what happened?” and jokingly adds, “Did you show boob or something?! How did you do that??” I was thrilled. We picked up several more things (including a spiffy blender, woo!) and stood in an hour-long line that squiggled through the isles.

Next stop was Walmart (where what we went for didn’t even make it to the store!) and then Kmart. We found what we originally went to Walmart for and stood in line for another hour. We headed home about midnight, but were pretty happy. Jorge said it wasn’t as bad as he thought it would be and couldn’t believe how much we saved!

I went to bed, set my alarm for 4 hours later and planned to make it to HEB plus by 6am (BY MYSELF!), where I REALLY REALLY needed to purchase one of the kids’ gifts. Set the alarm, ate 2 bites of pecan pie for breakfast and ran out the door. The line went around the store behind the pharmacy. I made friends with 3 ladies, and they shared their ad with me in case I needed to run over to Walmart to price-match, heh. I found a map of the store that I’m assuming one of the employees misplaced and it told us exactly where everything was. Doors opened, I went straight to the place I needed to and got what I went for and then some. I was giddy with excitement! I couldn’t believe my good luck :). AND I got great deals on stuff I didn’t even expect to and got a $20 coupon to use the next day ^_^!

My kiddos left that evening for Mario’s, since it was his weekend. I bathed the girls and Emily had chills and then got a fever. I gave her Motrin and made sure she was nice and bundled up since it was drizzing outside. I told Mario to keep an eye on her; I just had a feeling she was on the road to a bad cold.

Alaethia dressed herself, as you can see, heh.

I was so bored when the kids left. First Jorgie and Justin and then mine left. The house is so quiet and I kind of come to a standstill like, “Now what?” I was glad for John’s company, who stopped by to eat and pick up a plate for Monique. He listened to my Black Friday Shopping stories and we caught up about other stuff. He left and Jorge got home and we ate and watched TV :).

I did shopping and started on wrapping the next day and then on Sunday Jorge and I had brunch at Espi’s.

We ordered the girls’ beds that day. Wouldn’t arrive for about 2 weeks. I was glad we went when we did; we got 2 different “Black Friday” discounts, $100 off for being customers so long, and 4 years no-interest (fk yes!) and we fell in love with the bed :).

Jorgie and Justin had been dumped (literally) at our house while we were out shopping, so thank God Mom was here. Jorge didn’t have his phone but had a feeling he should call them, and that just so happened to be when they were waiting outside our front door. Jesus. The woman can’t even wait to find out of they’ve made it safely inside.

We worked on the kids’ science projects the rest of the day (which included a walk to the empty lot down the streets where, for some reason, they have several different piles of roofing materials and we luckily found what Justin needed for his project). Closer to the evening Jorge started feeling really ill. He’d been complaining of a pain in his stomach but he doubled over and it scared the crap out of me. He rested after we made a run to Target to print the kids’ project photos and the kids and I continued on their project.

I talked to the kids and asked Mario how Emily was doing and if she needed to go to the doctor. Actually, I asked if she needed the doctor since the day before, but he said she was fine, feverish, but fine.

So when he brought her to me the next morning and it felt like her skin was on fire, I took her to the doctor immediately. Thank goodness I was using a vacation day. Jorge calls while we’re waiting and tells me he’s on his way to the doctor, too. His boss was taken-aback by his state and told him to come to the doctor ASAP. So there we were. 2 hours later, they were seen. He definitely had an infection and Emily was prescribed cough meds and Motrin. I asked, “Doesn’t she need some antibiotics?” Doc brushed it off and said, “Nah.” I had a bad feeling, but fine, I gave him the benefit of the doubt since he IS the doctor.

We got some food. Emily must have had a hard night, or the fever was making her lethargic, but she took a few spoonfuls of soup (that I fed her) and she fell asleep on my lap. It made me feel so sad. I can’t stand when my kids are sick and unlike themselves. I was angry at Mario for not taking her to the doctor sooner.

Emily and Jorge slept, and I went to pick Alaethia up from school. I spent that night placing cool, wet towels on Emily’s forehead and bathing her at midnight because her fever wouldn’t subside. I was so scared that I brought her to bed with me and she slept on my chest, like she did when she was a baby ♥. I got no rest, but was happy that she woke up without a fever.

Went to work, called the nurse and ordered an antibiotic for Emily, which Jorge picked up and gave her during lunch. He was feeling a tad better, too, thank God. Called Mom every hour or so to check how Emily was doing. There was a span of time where she didn’t have a fever at all.

I picked up cough drops for Emily and a new thermometer, since the newest one broke during the boys science projects and my old one’s battery was dying. I came straight to Emily’s room and checked her temp. She still looked so lethargic and unlike herself. Her temperature said 102.9, which I attributed to it being time for her fever reducers again. I stuck her in a cool bath immediately and gave her Tylenol AND Motrin and it broke my heart to see that she couldn’t even cry, she was so tired. Mom said she ate soup during her meals and drank plenty of water, but I was still afraid she’d become dehydrated. Jorge got home and saw that I was almost in tears, I felt helpless. Her fever was still at 102.6, even after a cool bath for half an hour. I put her in her bed and smoothed her hair from her face. Tears formed in the corner of her eyes and I swallowed back a lump in my throat and said, “Aw mama, don’t cry. You’ll get better.” My heart cracked into a million pieces when she slowly shook her head, letting me know that she didn’t think she’d ever get better. I dressed her up and we took her to her night doctor. It took about 30 minutes to be seen and when they checked her her temperature was still 101.3. The doctor said to keep doing the same thing, giving her Motrin and Tylenol together, keeping her hydrated, and cool baths, etc. She said the antibiotic would kick in by the next day. I decided to stay with her the next day, and to everyone’s relief she was better by the evening :). She even stuck around while I made dinner and asked to wash dishes, which she hadn’t done in days!

Thursday was Cash Mob day…where we spend money at a locally-owned member’s business. I wasn’t looking forward to spending, as I was budgeting, but it was fun trying stuff on:

Went for my kiddos that evening and spent it helping Eenan with his science project. Luckily, we had all the photos and everything, just had to put everything together (and we still didn’t end up finishing till 11pm!).

December 1st was Quentin’s birthday party. The 2 eldest boys wanted to stay home, of course, so they stayed with Mom. Justin, Jaylen, Emily and Alaethia went with me. They had such a blast and didn’t want to leave. Sally really out-did herself with the theme (circus) and decorations and games!

We were supposed to go back to the party for Carlos’ surprise party Sally was throwing, but plans changed. Jorge went to Furniture Row to pick up the girls’ bed. Long story short: he lost the phone somewhere at the store, we went to the store to search for it, walked around the Expressway and came up with nothing. We tracked it (iPhone) and it showed that it was near the Expressway, so we hoped that someone found it and left it in the store.

We cleaned the house like crazy the next day; even the boys’ room was scrubbed top to bottom. We took a break to go to Furniture Row, where we called and THANK GOD, Jorge’s phone was safely waiting. The guy at the warehouse was nice enough to find it thrown in the parking lot and kept it at the store.

My love assembled the girls’ bed that night. All he asked for was an abundance of Peach Tea and football, heh.

All the kids loved it. Justin and Jaylen even asked for a similar bed, a fire truck LOL! Err, not gonna happen :P.

Since the girls’ mattresses hadn’t come in yet, we pushed in their old toddler bed mattresses, which they were quite happy about :).

The rest of the week was the usual; helping Alaethia with projects at the beginning of the week and events at work the ending of the week.

Wednesday was the Good Day Luncheon:

Thursday my babies left to Mario’s and it was the All About Women event in the evening. It was a fun morning, even getting a visit from Santa and taking a group photo at work. I went to lunch with EZ, Laura, Michelle, and Bob Z. and then the worst thing in the world happened: I dropped my Galaxy SIII and the screen shattered into a million pieces! I was in shock!

I didn’t have time to be sad about it since Michelle and I were running errands for Gerry, like buying wine at H-E-B and buying balloons at JJ’s Party House. Then we helped decorate and so on and then it was time for the event. It was super packed and the Traveling Photo Booth made it even more fun. We took a billion pics! Even Sally and my Love got to make it at the end :).

Jorge and I were hungry, so since we were kidless we had dinner at Chili’s. It was nice to relax, just the two of us. Until JR. showed up and joined us a while LOL, but it was a quick catch-up visit and then he had a game to watch in the bar section. My love took this photo of me, almost make-up-less and tired, and posted this:

Yo quiero esta preciosa novia mía más que la vida 🙂 es mi mejor amiga y todo lo que alguien pudiera pedir en este mundo :*)

I love this precious girlfriend of mine more than life, she’s my best friend and everything anyone could ask for in this world.

He still surprises me after all this time :). I never knew my old friend Jorge to be so good with words (in English and Spanish!), or to be so sweet, heh. He’s the best!

We got home, relaxed and crashed out. I was excused from the all-day event that was happening on Saturday, since my love and I were heading to Brownsville for the day. Our Anniversary is November 18th, but we hadn’t had a chance to celebrate it till that day. And it was the best ever! We woke up, got ready and drove straight to Beef O’Brady’s for brunch, heh. The food is always great and what’s best about it is: it’s free!

We stopped by Walmart to pick up some chairs and miscellaneous things for the 10-Man Jam concert :). We weren’t going to get to see all 10 artists, because we had plans to watch the Pacquiao vs. Marquez fight at Beef’s that night, but I was really looking forward to seeing Eden’s Edge :)!

Yeah, my hair was curly. I was too lazy to straighten it that morning, heh:

Local artist Madelyn Victoria opened the show:

Eden’s Edge!!

Bucky Covington:

Greg Bates:

Jana Kramer:

By then it was too dark to get a good photo of the last group we saw, The Farm:

I was a little sad that we didn’t get to see Lauren Alaina, Katie Arminger and several others, but we had a fight to watch! And what a fight it was! We had dinner (mostly appetizers LOL) and had an awesome dessert while we watched the most epic knockout ever!

We got to our hotel pretty happy :).

The next day, we woke up, got ready and checked out and were on a mission to find the closest Denny’s. Only, my Google maps was on crack or something ’cause it made us get lost 3 times in 3 different cities >_

We had a pretty darn good beginning of December :).

Last week felt like one of the longest, most stressful ones in a long time. One of my major events was coming up at the end of the week–which is where most of my stress was coming from–and it was Halloween on Wednesday.

Mario and I have been taking turns with the kids on Halloween since 2010, and this year was my turn. I was thrilled :). Mario hadn’t gotten the boys costumes yet and it was a week before Halloween; we were cutting it close. Jaylen wanted to be a Minecraft Creeper and Eenan wanted to be a zombie (of course!), so I figured we’d go the crafty way and do the costumes ourselves. I was probably in over my head, but I wanted the kiddos to be happy.

I’m so glad I’d worked on several things for work at home on Sunday (the 28th) or else I would have been swamped on Monday. Well, I kinda was anyway, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. I sent everything out that needed to be sent out and followed up on several things. I can’t remember why I didn’t go to Walmart that night to get the stuff we’d need for Jaylen’s Creeper costume–I know I worked a bit late, but I can’t remember what else I had to do O_o–but I waited till the next day. I went right after work and bought the spray and acrylic paints. Got home: made dinner, got the girls in the bath and got them ready for bed. Early. Jorge got home and was visibly annoyed. The kids didn’t have costumes (hence my previous rant) and he couldn’t make SOMEBODY understand that he hands over plenty of cash for them to have 5 costumes each if they wanted. It was high drama. He needed to cool down (’cause things were becoming heated between us) so he went to wash his car. I got ready to start on Jaylen’s costume, and realized that the box we had was a bit too big and heavy. I asked Mom to stay with the girls while I went to Walmart for a new one. I found the box, went to pay. The cashier at the register is sweet enough to say, with pity, “Awe. You look SO TIRED.” She had NO IDEA.

Jorge got back when I was (having trouble) measuring and he helped me. We took turns painting. 2 1/2 hours later, we were done:

He loved it, thank goodness :). I’m just sad I couldn’t get it to him on time for school =\. But they have to dress as story book characters anyway and I’m pretty sure some kid woulda knocked it over and it would have been ruined :(.

Wednesday, Halloween, I got Aly ready for school and dropped her off. No costumes were allowed, but Halloween shirts were:

I totally don’t tell her to pose; that’s all her! My little diva! (Pay no attention to the mess on the bistro table…those were crafting supplies leftover from the previous night’s project!)

We had a meeting in the morning so they fed us tacos from El Pato, heh. We got to watch a clip while we ate of a local band that went on the Mexican version of “America’s Got Talent”. Pretty interesting!

I rushed through work. I’m pretty sure I met up with my love to eat lunch somewhere (this is when it comes in handy to check in on Facebook, but lately either my phone doesn’t cooperate or I just forget, heh).

I got out of work an hour early and rushed to pick up the boys. The whole drive takes 1 hour to and from, and we had to stop at a store and pick up baskets/bags for the boys, plus some “blonde” hair spray paint for Alaethia’s Rapunzel costume AND THEN I’d have to get them ALL ready and make it to the first party we were going to, which ended at 7pm.

So I picked them up and we went straight to the Halloween store on Shary. Super long line. Scratch that. We go a few stores down to Sally Beauty Supply. There’s only a slightly golden spray, but it’s $3 and the last one. It would be my last resort if Target didn’t have them. We walk to Target, with the boys acting like boys and making me laugh the whole way. I love those lil’ dudes!

We get to the Halloween section and I ask an employee; they didn’t receive ANY hair spray paint this year. Bummer. Jaylen found a basket, and Eenan ran as fast as he could to the game section -__-. Grrr. So there we go, looking for him. I came across a cart of abandoned clearance items and notice a whole box-full of solar path lights. 24 of them. At $.90 each! I call Jorge and finally get through Sprint’s crappy signal and he tells me, “GET THEM ALL!” So I did :). I’m SO GLAD we waited all this time to buy them! That’s a steal if you ask me!

Jaylen and I threaten to leave Eenan behind and we go pay. The boy STILL stayed behind. I remember a time when I could say, “I’m leaving without you if you don’t hurry…1…2…” And now he knows I either won’t leave or he could just sit all day in the game section LOL.

When Eenan finally got back, we went to Sally’s to get the gold paint. It was already going to be 6pm! There was no way we were making it to the party. Oh well. They were fine just trick-or-treating.

I got the girls in their costumes and spray-painted their hair. Emily had a hair piece and put it on, too LOL. Jaylen’s was easy; he put on is box and was ready to go! Eenan, on the other hand, took a while. I cut up his old shirt, put his hair up in a high ponytail so I could start painting his face white/gray (to which he gasped, horrified, “I look like a Geisha!!” LOL). And then came the tattoo applications and the rest of the make-up. Jorge got home as I was getting them ready, around 7:30pm. They were ready to find some candy!

Mom abandoned ship and decided to go with us. She’d bought all this candy and wasn’t even going to give it out! We went to Michelle and Rosie’s neighborhood, where they let us park, thank God. It was madness. It looked like herds of zombies were out and about. Most of the houses were out of candy, but the kids got some pretty good loot. Towards the end of our expedition Emily says, “Mama. I can’t walk anymore.” Aww LOL!. It was time to call it quits. We got in the car and went to visit Gramma for a while, then we picked up some Church’s Chicken, fed the kids at home, forced them all to take showers and they were out for the count. All of them LOL.

I woke up at 5am Thursday morning to take the boys to school, then drove home right after to pick up Alaethia and drop her off at school. Work was hectic, but everything seemed to be running smoothly…until one of my fitness instructors dropped out. And then my chef dropped out. Grrr. It was drama, but thankfully we found replacements quickly.

Ate lunch with my love at Siempre Natural. Got out of work, drove to pick up the boys, and took them to Game Stop, then got home and started on some enchiladas. Got the girls in the bath, got everyone in bed and THEN I sat down to watch the CMA’s. Jorge was having his Guy’s Night on the back porch watching Thursday Night Football, so I snuggled up to watch some singin’. Yeah right. I was out like a light by 9:30pm! Jorge woke me up around midnight and I got in the shower. Good thing, too, ’cause next morning was another 5am wake-up call!

I gathered all my stuff that I may need since I was having a late work night (my phone charger, flats, etc.) and took the boys to school. Jorge was taking Aly this time *whew*. I got to work and did all the last-minute things that have become a ritual the day before an event. I made it a point to call all my exhibitors and got confirmation that indeed, everyone was showing up. Thank goodness. I gathered everything we’d need for the event and packed my car, then headed to meet my love for lunch. We chose HEB Plus Cafe, Spoonz, since we were both craving it (too bad I ordered the wrong panini sandwich!).

My boss texted that we could change into jeans, so my love and I went home and I changed, I dropped him off at his jobsite and then I went to the convention center. An hour in, I had a feeling I should call one of my instructors…and she flaked out on me after she confirmed! So we put our heads together and hired one of our go-to guys for an hour of guitar instrumental. *whew*

I left for my boys at 5, picked them up and they stayed with me at work, keeping busy with their (and my) phones :).

We closed shop around 7:45pm and the director of catering came to talk to the boys. He told them about this app where they can monitor where the International Space Station is and plants and stars. He told them the ISS was passing over us at 7:59pm and what way to face to see it, so we hauled out of there and parked. And sure enough, we saw it! A little silver dot passing by in a perfect arch. The boys were pretty intrigued :).

We got home and ate and then we relaxed in PJs and watched our shows. I got ready for the next day and hoped for the best.

Got up, another 5am morning, and headed out. Met the boss at work at 6:30am to pick up some stuff we forgot, then headed to the convention center. People were already waiting to unload. It felt like a blur. By the time we knew it, it was time to open the doors. To make a super long story short, we had a much better turnout last year in terms of people, much better turnout this year in terms of exhibitors. I was really disappointed. Something went wrong with the ads, or something. Didn’t help that 3 other similar events were happening around the Valley. Ugh :(.

It was over, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be honest. I was so stressed! I felt a little bummed, but my boss told me not to worry, and so did everyone else. I did my job.

I packed up my stuff with my co-worker’s help, and then I headed to HEB. Briana and I planned on celebrating Halloween with the kids that Saturday, since we didn’t get to on Wednesday. We were trying to mimic our celebrations from the year before, only this year Dina wouldn’t be here and we wouldn’t be carving pumpkins =\.

I got stuff for mummy weenies, cupcakes, and some cream cheese and bacon stuffed crescents for the adults. I was tired just thinking about it, but I wanted to do this for the kiddos.

I got home, unloaded, changed and lay on the bed with Emily. She ran off and I ended up falling asleep for a whole hour, until our lawn guy was weed-whacking near my bedroom window. He finally showed up! He left us a letter in our mailbox, thank God, with his info. We’d lost it and our neighborhood lawn kid hadn’t showed up in 3 weeks and the grass was INSANE.

I started on the mummy weenies, then the cupcakes. My love showed up, then Bri and the kids. We chit-chatted and my love got the projector running. I finally finished with the food at 10pm! I started at 5:30 LOL.

I could eat those every day! May (or may not, heh) post a recipe this weekend! It’s hard for me to since almost everything I make is just by “eye” measurements, so that’s where it gets hard to put it on paper. Er, or website.

This was after the movie started getting scary LOL. Eenan came and sat next to me, Jorgie had an arm around each of the girls (but they refused to stop watching!). Later, Nick, Jorgie and Justin went and huddled around Jorge:

I stole this one from Jorge’s Facebook :P. You can see Eenan realizing that someone was behind us…and he was instantly creeped out LOL. He said, “He scared me!” And I said, “WHO??” And he points and Jorge and says, “HIM…” but it sounded more like “heem” LOL!!

Not pictured is Jaylen, who passed out in his room and no amount of noise or rib-poking would wake him up. Until an hour later when he sprung back to life and wanted to play video games -__-.

It was a great night! As stressed as I was, and as much work as it took, I feel blessed to be surrounded by my family and our good times ♥!

It’s taken me a whole week to write up this post, so I’ll stop here and continue with this week’s post next week, buahaha!

I’m feeling a little under the weather (and by that I mean “Girl Sick”) so it’s a mac-n-cheese in a cup and comfy yoga sweats kinda evening. Jorgie and Justin are fed, bathed and in bed, my kiddos are still at their dad’s and my love is getting ready so we can get comfy on the couch and watch The Walking Dead. I’m excited!

So Friday was all about work. Work at work, preparing for this event. Meetings here and there. Tamales in said meeting. Got out of work, got a hair cut (finally) and picked up my Babe. Went to Old Navy, had an unsuccessful shopping trip and then we got some parts my van needed, he fixed it real quick, we picked up some “snacks” at Jack-in-the-Box, we did some more work in the cold, picked up Starbucks and then we got some Wendy’s on the way home. I “behaved” and got some chili, heh. Michelle had wanted to go out, but man, I was just so exhausted and I couldn’t bare to spend more money so we got home and crashed out.

The next morning I showered, had Jorge’s leftover Starbucks (he didn’t like his Venti Caramel Macchiato) and I took Mom to run an errand. We went to the Halloween stores, where we met up with Michelle and Rosie, to try and find costumes for Jorge and I for Jim’s party that night. The first store was messy and I didn’t find anything. We went to the second and stood in line for an hour and a half where you could only browse the costumes by the picture on the wall, just so Jorge’s costume wouldn’t be the right size and I didn’t remember the right “number” for mine. I was so frustrated and I was meeting Mario and my babies at the Pumpkin Patch to take their pics so we left. It was great seeing my babies and we got some good shots 🙂

Don’t mind the hair, heh. I totally didn’t plan on being in any pics, but I think it came out ok :).

The kiddos left with Mario and Mom and I headed to another store. This one was SUPER EXPENSIVE. So I gave up. I went to Payless to find some cheap boots so I could use the pirate wench costume I already had and just buy Jorge a pirate one to match, but I didn’t like any of the boots. I headed to Walmart to get the girls their boots and a Hello Kitty Halloween shirt since Aly can’t wear her costume at school. We got a few other Halloween-y things and came home.

I ate a very late lunch and texted back and forth with Michelle. I had no idea what to do about our costumes. When my love got home and hour and a half later, we decided we’d buy Halloween shirts and stop stressing.

Jorge’s boys got here (I wasn’t expecting them so I hadn’t planned on making dinner) so we ordered pizza for them and Mom and took off to Walmart to get our shirts and some cookies. We changed in the car and made our way to the party.

Michelle, Marie, EZ, Eduardo and his wife were there from work. And Harvey. Without Evelyn. She’s back in the hospital. I hope she gets better very soon, and I hope she’s not there long-term like last year :(. I feel so bad for Harvey.

Michelle looked cute in her costume. And Marie, too. She was Zorro! She’s super funny. We played a guessing game, where they pin the name of a celebrity to your back and you ask people clues where there answer will be yes or no. I guessed my first one, Madonna, in 2 tries, heh. The second one was Regis :P. Jorge’s was Frankenstein. Michelle’s was Lance Armstrong and she took FOREVER to guess LOL.

It was super fun. Jim took us on a tour of his garden and pond. Jorge was impressed. I’m so glad he can be sociable and get along with my co-workers :). He’s the best, I could just squeeze him ♥!

Again we made plans to go out…and at the last minute we said, Nah. The boys were at home and it was still early, so we came home. My love and I chilled out on the porch. I was freezing, though. I had my booties, sweat pants, my warm sweater and a blanket and I was still cold! I said, “Some Abuelita chocolate would be great!” We were running low on milk, and the boys wouldn’t have any for their cereal in the morning, so we went to the corner store to get some. My love made me my hot chocolate when we got back.

See what I mean? THE BEST!

I drank my chocolate and since I was sleepy I gathered my things and came inside. I washed my face snuggled up with my Wish Bear…

…and woke up at noon today! Haven’t slept that long in FOREVER!

We got up and showered and picked up menudo at the Taco Ole nearest to us. The boys were quite happy, as were the adults, heh. We spent the rest of the day at home; Jorge playing Xbox with the boys and me–well, I spent the afternoon working on the program for my event this weekend and getting the email ready that I’ll be sending out tomorrow. I would have sent it today but smarty pants that I am, forgot to forward myself my exhibitor list. Grr.

My love and I snuggled a bit, then got up and went to HEB to grocery shop. It’s so much better when he accompanies me :).

We gave the boys dinner, I talked to my kiddos. They carved pumpkins at their dad’s, the girls a monkey and the boys a zombie coming out of a graveyard. Really cute. The boys told me about the movies they’re watching and the costumes they want to make. I’m taking them trick-or-treating this year :D! We need to work on both their costumes; it should be interesting, heh.

Eenan told me I was going to like The Walking Dead, so I’m going to get off this computer since my love started it already. Goodnight!