Enjoying My Spring Break

Hide and Go Seek is always fun. (Although, it doesn't seem fair since I am like a ninja.)


Oh, the views!


Here kitty kitty kitty...


Mmm...the essence of summer

Well, if I had faster internet I'd upload more photos, but I don't have the time right now. It was a big day today with the zoo and children's museum and someone needs to get to bed.

Extended Weekend

I love extended weekends and this one is turning out pretty great so far.

On Thursday (what you don't count Thursday as the start of the weekend?) I got home and had the best chicken fajitas ever. Really. Interested in trying them? You can't, they are all gone. Between Jessica and Olivia and me, we ate every last scrap of evidence that they existed. Want the recipe? There isn't one. We just threw some spices and a fresh peppers and chicken and beans together and somehow creating this amazing flurry of flavor. It is a little sad really, that this perfect storm of scrump-diddly-umptiousness will probably never occur again in the fajita world in our lifetime, but I'm glad I was a part of it.

Friday is was back to work, but the office was relatively quiet and I got a chance to catch up on stacks of work and folders I just didn't have time for in the last few weeks. Then a cousin came over after work with the intention of fixing a leaking window he had installed. As it turned out, it wasn't the window but yet another strange water problem with our home. At that point he could have just went home. It was no longer his problem so he could have packed up his stuff and drove off, but he didn't. He stayed. He pried and climbed and lifted and crawled and even got snapped with a long sense forgotten mouse trap as he worked to figure out the real source of the problem. Something about the care and love he showed just amazed me and, after he left, brought tears of gratitude to eyes as I thanked God for the heart of this man.

Saturday it was off to the Parade of Homes. I've always resisted going over the past several years, but this year I was actually pretty excited. Maybe it is because we are making plans for building out next house and even though that seems so far off, it is still nice to get ideas and actually walk through a completed home. We ended the evening with an amazing meal from San Marcos in Caledonia. It is an incredible Mexican Bar and Grill that you just have to try if you're in the area and like a more authentic taste.

As the last few minutes of Sunday slip away, I am thinking back on all the work we got done and the evening cookout with some of my family. What a great day. I played in the dirt, I got a little sun burned, I ate way too much and built a nice fire to sit around long after the sun went away.

The weekend isn't even close to being over yet either. Monday is Memorial Day and we get to share yet another day out in the sun as a family followed by a cookout with friends. Maybe I'll let you know how things are going on the rest of my extended weekend in a couple of days if I think about.

Man, you gotta love 10 day weekends.

A Quick Thought

It is amazing how far we have come as a people. We have learned so much and created so many things to make our lives easier and get things done faster, but for what? As we find ways to finish our work more efficiently we seem to find ways to just fill up the extra time with more work.

Maybe we can't think of anything better to do.

Maybe we aren't as creative as we think we are.