Gross Neglect...

My poor little blog has been neglected for almost a year! I had not realized in all of the chaos that is my life I had completely neglected my blog.

Things have changed dramatically! This time last year we were preparing to travel to our favorite city San Antonio, Tx. for a little vacation. Today I'm sitting in my new apartment IN San Antonio. That's right. We FINALLY made the move back to the big city! No more dinky little town for me! We are back to big city living where you can get almost anything delivered to your door ( including sandwiches that aren't made at a pizza place)!


I'm doing some continuing education and working on my Travel Agency. I'm still homeschooling Niki and even though we live in the same city and have been here since the first of August we STILL haven't seen Holly.  Not a surprise really.

I'm rethinking life in general these days. I'll be 40 soon and I am hoping that I can contribute more to this life by blogging a bit more on the things we love. I'm going to share my travel blog here and I'm going to be posting more recipes and home school related things here as well.

I'm really excited to be back to the blog life. I miss writing and encouraging my daughter to write. I have always used this blog as a place to be open and honest with myself and you and well if we can't be honest with ourselves about how we feel what are we doing in life?

So I apologize for the Gross Neglect and I am committing to work toward getting things updated and going full swing again!

Many Blessings,
G

Fall Break and back to Homeschool!

We took a bit on an extended fall break because we were moving and then we went on vacation! Both my students (one's my daughter, the other is my cousin) went on said vacation and LOVED it! They got history lessons and science lessons and even a couple of true to life math lessons.

Neither of the girls had ever been to San Antonio, or Corpus Christi, Tx so we loaded up the suv and drove down. Of course this was not just a spur of the moment thing and me being the planner that I am took several months to plan this 5 day vacation!

We went down and spent time with extended family so that Nikirhe got to meet her Tia Rachel and Tio Noe.(Little Spanish lesson: Tia = Aunt, Tio = Uncle)

They had an instant bond and it is great that they are going to have a lovely relationship. 

We had an amazing time on our visit! We got to visit the Alamo, and since it was raining we decided to forgo the River Walk and just take the girls to Build A Bear! :) 

After Build A Bear we took the girls to see our old neighborhood and took them for come Churro's at El Pollo Loco ( The Crazy Chicken). Great chicken btw! 

After Churros we took the girls for some art supplies at Asel Art Supply and had to take a picture with the window art! 

Then we headed over to my favorite place to get cheap Margaritas and good food for Family and Friends dinner! 

We had a blast and can't wait to do it again! 

Saturday was road trip to the beach day! Just a short 2.5 hour drive south on I-37 from San Antonio you come to Corpus Christi and if you keep driving just a bit further you come to Padre Island! Otherwise known as "The Island" 

The first thing we came to was a great photo op! 

 The kids loved roaming around on the Sand Castle. It was a lot of fun!

Of course I had to get a seflie with the Mermaid! :)

So The beach was awesome! It was very windy and the  girls made some lifelong memories! I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story! :) 

A New Year in the Bible

Our pastor has taken the time to make up an entire year worth of sermons and each week has 5 day's of bible study attached  to each weeks sermon. I am very excited to begin this journey! I will be posting each weeks bible reading title and scriptures for each day every Sunday evening.

9/6-9/12-- Let There Be....
Day 1: Genesis 1:1-25
Day 2: Genesis 1:26-31
Day 3: Genesis 2:1-3
Day 4: Genesis 2:4-17
Day 5: Genesis 2:18-25

Join us if you can next Sunday at Calvary Baptist Church, Tulsa, OK. or look for the sermon online at www.calvartulsa.org

Our city lost a part of our history and part of motion picture history as well. The Admiral Twin Drive-in burned to the ground. This theater was featured in the movie The Outsiders.