It’s been a hot one!  Whew…I was really enjoying our “cold front” of the mid 90’s lately.

Every now and then (if I have my camera on me) I’ll drive around on my lunch break and look at houses.  I love all the old historic neighborhoods and the lines and details of the homes.  Just getting ideas for someday right??? Ha ha!

I really just love architecture.  Homes today seem to lack all the little details that homes had years ago.  It’s fun to just go driving around and scout out pretty places 🙂

The arch over a door….

Arched doors and windows

That window….LOVE.

Perfect little cottage

Love our town.

I heart houses.

Also, one of my favorite websites is Hooked on Houses….go check it out if you love houses and architecture 🙂

Oh my gosh I wouldn’t go back to highschool and re-live those days for anything!  We didn’t have cell phones back then, I can’t imagine what school is like now days with all the social media around.  We had beepers.  If that doesn’t age me well….it does.  Above is a picture of Bonnie and I on our first day of senior year.  We were ballin’ in our Geo Prizm.  We had to share a car, but Bonnie always drove and I was co-pilot.  We had some great times in that car.  I think we spent $5 a week to fill the tank up and we would fight over that too….ha ha….if only we knew how CHEAP that was back then!

Here we are on our first day of either 1st or 2nd grade???

Ft. Riley, KS and butterfly backpacks 🙂

I also found this gem.  My highschool i.d.  Geesh that seems like a lifetime ago.  Back in the days when I used to tan and eat whatever I wanted.  Christina Aguilera’s Genie in a Bottle was topping the charts.  Time sure does fly!  No matter what grade, semester, or year you are starting try to find the joy in each day!  School is not easy….but the friendships made are forever.

Also, the traffic is going to get CRA-ZAY no…..grrrrrrr……

I’ll try not to get a speeding ticket in a school zone this year Mom! Love ya!

We’ve had a fab weekend!  Our weekend started off with a bang as we attended the circus for the first time 🙂  It was amazing!  Connor was mesmerized by the entire show.  He’s been asking if we can go back again….yeah let me start saving now kiddo!  We had one $14 bag of cotton candy and that’s it.  Next time remind me to hoard snacks in my purse.  Mmmmmkay?  Regardless, it was totally worth the smile on Connor’s face and it was fun family time together.

We’ve started walking during the evenings.  It’s been cool here lately, only in the mid 90’s for highs in TX is freakish.  Cold front!!!!!  It’s usually blistering hot.  Of course now that I’ve said that it’s going to be 115 next week probably.  I just have to get this lard off my body.  I’m so discouraged right now, and I go in and out of eating well and exercising then lose my mojo.  I need someone to stand behind me with a stick and just poke me constantly.  Now that I’ve had a job change and a little more time on my hands I’d like to focus on getting fit again.  Any who…..

Okay prepare yourself for picture overload……here was the circus:

The ringmaster

Get it girrrrl

In a circus coma

I have a slight crush on the lion/tiger tamer 😉

The girls in bubbles

Motorcycle on a tight rope…..no thank you

Motorcyclists with a death wish apparently…

I have no idea how they did this one.

Girls hanging from their hair

I need whatever shampoo/conditioner their using

No thank you again…jumping through hoops of fire makes me pee my pants

My favorite

The elephants 🙂 Finally the dragon made its grand entrance 

THE END.

Have a great Monday everyone!

This summer has flown by.  We are in the midst of a thunderstorm right now and I’m so glad, we need the rain badly.  It seems like school starts earlier and earlier each year.  Not that I had off this summer or anything….but I’m just saying that when I was in school it was September before we headed back???  We have tickets to the circus on Friday and OMG Connor is going nuts just thinking about it!  Every morning he wakes up and asks if the circus is here yet.  Also, dang circus tickets are expensive!  Seriously, for three of us to go it costs more than a weeks worth of groceries….and that’s not even front section seats or anything.  Gulp.

Anyway……..

Another thing about this summer has been the ice cream truck.  EVERY.TIME.I.HEAR.THAT.MUSIC. I want to turn around and speed 80 miles an hour in the opposite direction just to avoid a fit.  I’m such a horrible mother you know because apparently Connor is the only kid who doesn’t get ice cream every time the ice cream truck rolls up.  BUT- I have caved a few times and let him pick out something 🙂  Last time he picked out a Shrek popsicle.  Can you just see the adoring look on his face???  If ice cream doesn’t buy you love I don’t know what will.

“Look Mom I ate his eyeballs out of his head!!!! Ha ha ha ha!!!!!”

Boy Mom…fo’shizzle.

I love you kiddo.  We are looking forward to taking you to the circus.  Your face better like up like a million bucks literally…..

No…just kidding.

No really.

I’ll update on our circus experience soon 🙂

I know I use way too many smiley faces, dot, dot, dots, and explanation points…..BUT I CAN’T STOP! Blah.