Unique Antique

On our way home today from Maryville Sofia and I made a pit stop at the Pink Elephant Antique store along Interstate 55. You've probably seen it on your way to St. Louis before. Its hard to miss with the huge pink elephant and big surfer dude. Inside the store was the guy in the wheelchair (middle pic- he's not real). It was a fun pit stop as the main objective was to make sure Sofia didn't break anything. Mission Accomplished. Sandra returns tomorrow, Yay!!!

Mr. Technology

I have pulled a sandra as I have been sending pics from my phone to my e-mail and then posting them on the blog. Its pretty easy to do. As requested here is a pic of the wall after it was primed and painted white. Sandra is going to be so surprised when she sees it. Thanks again Tom. And the other pic is Louie at work with me. Since sandra is gone it becomes bring your dog to work day at HOI. Louie is not the best worker though, he falls asleep a lot and drools. I guess he fits right in here.

One disappointing note, Jose was only able to get tickets to Tuesday's Cards/Dodgers game so I am unable to go cause Sandra flies back in that night. I'd rather be at home watching the Cubs in HD anyway :)

The Bachelor part 2

Most of you know that Sandra is in Costa Rica until Tuesday. So It is time for me to be a "bachelor" for a week. Of course, Sandra always gives me a project to do while she is gone. Its not like I have to work from midnight-10am fri-sun or anything plus wendesday evening. So the project to take down the wood paneling in the living room went well with help from Tom (and Sofia). The photo above is the wall after taking the wood paneling off. We took it down monday and sanded it and spackeld nail holes all while watching the Cubs in HD. Which I set up monday morning after taking sandra to the airport. Feel free to come over for Cubs games and Bears games in High Def.
Tuesday Sofia and I painted the wall with Primer.
Wednesday sofia went to Grandma and grandpa's while I worked.
Thursday I painted the wall White (sandra's request) before picking up sofia at Grandma's. Had lunch at home and drove to Maryville to drop Sofia off at Abuela's for the weekend. Drove home, slept 3 hours before going to work at midnight.
Monday I am going to the Cardinals/Dodgers game with the Abuelos . Jose got tickets through his company. So I will head down to Maryville sunday after work and have a Vince-cation there. They have a swimming pool in their subdivision. Sofia and I will head home Tuesday and pick up Sandra at the airport that night.
I can't wait for Sandra to come home. Mainly to see the Living room and see how sweet the HD looks. That is all

Happy Anniversary!

We celebrated 5 years of marital bliss on Friday, July 17th. On Saturday we had a little get together with family and some friends. The cookout was awesome: burgers, brats, potato salad, spinach salad, and Vince and I also made fruit kabobs (watermelon, cantaloupe, grapes, strawberries, and blueberries- YUMMY!). We also ordered a mini cake from the Cake Shoppe and we sang happy anniversary to you (well Grandpa Paul got the award for best attempt at singing it). We were also blessed with some unexpected gifts a couple of gift cards for some date nights (we don't get out much so this was AWESOME!), a beautiful perennial to plant in the front garden, and we also have a new edition to our living room (SuperBowl PARTY at OUR HOUSE!!!) thanks to Jose and Nere.

I got Vince a 10 picture frame that has the pictures from when we went to Wrigley, which is now displayed in our hallway right next to the bathroom and I received a BEAUTIFUL bouquet of flowers, which was so big I had to split into two different bouquets (so technically I got two :) )

We have received wonderful news that several of our friends and family are expecting babies!! Congrats to all... Kate I, Katie J, Holly, and Jackie.

Alright yall, I'm leaving for Costa Rica tomorrow so Party at Vince's! Since he says I always leave and he does house projects... hum... Here's to hoping that he tares down the wood paneling in the living room and paints the wall white. Cheers!

Oh the places you will go- Maryville

Well, yesterday we went to Shop and Save and wow, I realize now that it's so much easier to take just Sofia to the store. I made the first mistake of saying yes to the giant cart and then I made the second mistake for allowing my grandpa to drive it. Thank God he didn't take out any displays!! I can't believe we were in there for only 25 minutes and I managed to grab everything we needed.


Aren't we cute? We took this picture at dinner on the 4th. Not bad since it was taken on my phone.


This is Sofia and Abuelo Felipe being funny. My grandma couldn't stop laughing seeing my grandpa this way and my grandpa was laughing too. What a great picture (Sofia is wearing Mr. Potato head glasses)


Sofia and I managed to go to the pool twice today. The first time just the two of us and then later on in the afternoon Abuela Acracia joined us.

Maryville continuing on

Happy Fourth of July (yesterday)

We had a lovely time inside the house since it was raining. Abuelo Felipe made us some cafe con leche and even Sofia had some (although I gave her decaf).

We also finally took a walk, the three girls. Abuelo Felipe had to watch his soap opera and didn't want to come. We all took our own umbrellas. That must have been funny to see from a window.

Later on in the evening we watched fireworks from the back porch. That was really fun and I didn't have to drive everyone to a park that was probably all wet from the rain. Remember, I brought the beetle here so it's already pretty funny trying to get everyone in the car. Vince says we should have our own tv show.

Maryville Adventure

So here I am grandsitting my 82 year old grandparents. Today was day one. We didn't do a whole lot. They have a routine that they follow pretty well. They prepare their breakfast and then go for a walk around the neighborhood. Then, they watch TV or grandma cleans until lunch. Then they go back to TV watching or grandma cleaning... you get the pattern. Anyway, I changed the routine today. They did prepare themselves breakfast and took their walk, but then Sofia wanted to go to the "pool". We filled the yakuzi and Abuela Acracia had a great time supervising that everything was safe for her. Abuela Acracia is super great-grandma and is paranoid about everything Sofia could do to herself. She means well, but this drives Sofia crazy.


Then, for lunch I took them to a Chinese Buffet. My grandfather is a big fan of these and takes full advantage of all you can eat. He usually makes a pretty good combination of things for his last plate, and I like to take a picture. Here is today's special: fried calamari, fried shrimp, pork eggroll, chocolate ice cream and vainilla ice cream. Yum!


Having a great time, we miss Vince a lot... but appearantly he's working on a surprise. Although, Sofia already spoiled it. He's painting the back porch. Thanks Papi!!!