A Great End to a Wacky Weekend!

On Sunday Jason and Allison meet us at Taco Cabano for breakfast and then we headed out to Alamo Golf Club. The guys played 18 holes of golf and the gals rode the carts. It wasn't the best course in San Antonio by far, but it was fun for me - first time to see David actually play golf - and I WAS impressed!

Allison and I rode the carts while the guys golfed. We got some great shots of them.

I've waited YEARS to see this! David and Jason on the Golf Course together!

Now the earlier part of the weekend was something else. It started on Friday night when David and I went to Rio Mamba for dinner. I had been there once, the food was good and the atmosphere was nice. We got there fairly early - 6:15ish, Friday night. Got right in and seated. Things were looking good. The waiter took our order and brought us our drinks... then we lost the waiter. 30 minutes passed and no quesadilla's. 1/2 chicken, 1/2 beef. Easy order - nothing fancy. We finally got the attention of the "manager" and asked about our food. He went back to the kitchen and said there was some mix up - it would be right out - but to save room for dessert - it would be on him. Okay - that's nice.... 15 minutes later we got our food. But only 1/2 of it. They really messed up and the other 1/2 would arrive shortly! Amazing... the food was good and we will try it again - but probably not on a Friday night...



Then there was Saturday... started out good with our regular breakfast at Taco Cabana. Then we went to the Sprint store to try and take care of a billing problem that had been going on for weeks! After lots of frustration and some high blood pressure on David's part, it finally got resolved with the help of a great store manager! Hopefully that little ordeal is behind us!



Next was lunch at Lucky Burger... one of my favorite hangouts with the M&M's - (my best girlfriends). We used to eat there alot - but this was the first time for David to go there. They have the BEST ONION RINGS on the planet! Honestly! Yummy - if you like OR's go there for sure! Back to my story... we ordered a Bacon Cheeseburger - and guess what - they charged me for adding cheese - NOT! Back to the register for a credit on that... we asked for extra pickles and extra tomato - you know burger joints just don't put any vegetables on the burgers unless you beg them to. Anyway, 25cents for each of those - and 99cents for the bacon. They called our name and David went for the food. Back at the table we found out they FORGET the bacon! And they only gave us one little bity tomato! Back to the counter for our 99cent bacon and an extra tomato. Somehow this weekend was not a good eating out weekend for us!



Things did get better when we decided to get a pizza from Papa Murphy's to take home for dinner. Now that's a pizza! If you haven't tried that - you should. Great quality, wonderful crust and lots of toppings! And very reasonably priced!



I guess I should be a food critic after what we experienced this weekend - thank goodness for the golf - nothing bad happened there! Have a great week and don't let our negative experiences keep you away from your favorite hangouts!

The Rest of the Story...

Being with my kids on Mother's Day is the best. Jason agreed to grill the burgers and hot dogs for everyone. Stephanie, Allison & I were the lucky ones - being the mother's - and got to sit back and relax while the guys took over. Jason had cleaned the house (Allison says "thank you") and gotten the food together for all of us. I have the best kids on the planet! What a lucky mother I am... see the great looking kids???

Of course, it would help if Jason could find it in his heart to smile for me. He claims he is smiling... yeah, right...

Notice that Stephanie and I look pretty good - smiling and all - ready for the photo of Mom and her kids.. but no.. Jason can't get his act together! Where is that smile??? Okay, we give up... it's just too much work trying to get this picture taken!

Mother's Day - Part 2

Mother loves roses. And Bob always gets mom roses! I think it's because Daddy always gave mom roses... Some things you never forget and this is one of them. Good job, big brother!

That's me and my Mom!

Mother's Day

My Mother and I decided to celebrate Mother's Day a bit early! Last Saturday we went out to get our hair cut and ended up shopping - my favorite pasttime just behind scrapbooking! We found new purses and shoes. Mother loves shoes. And purses... it took us a little over an hour to decide just exactly what we wanted, but mom ended up with a new purse and two pairs of shoes! Then Friday after I got off work I decided it was time for some summer clothes for mom. I really can't get her out to shop for clothes. She simply refuses... I really miss that. We used to go out all the time and try on clothes. All types and styles. I would bring her things to try on and she would insist I try on some WILD thing. But now, I find the clothes and take them to her. At home she loves to do the style show thing. She tries on all the clothes and then models them for Casey. He always tells her how beautiful she is - "what a doll" he says. She likes that. I miss the relationship my mom and I had in the past, but am thankful for the one we have now. She is always happy and easy to please... I love you Mom!

Ditto

I admit it. I'm a dog lover. Our dog, Ditto, is an exceptional pet. He has been perfect from the day we bought him off the back of a pickup truck! He is so much fun - and he rules the house! Everyday we both head off to work and poor Ditto is stuck home all alone. I wonder what goes through his little noggin when we say our goodbye's head out the door and head for our cars. Just the other day as we went out the front door, we heard our "non-barking" dog proceed to bark! What's that all about? Well, we had left the blinds down in the dining room window where he sits and watches the outside world! So, back inside we went to open the blinds and make the little pup happy!

Every notice how some pets begin to look like their masters? Well, here's one to add to the list!

I'm back....

Okay - I lied. I'm not a blogger - or at least not the blogger I wanted to be! My daughter is so good at this, it just makes me tired to think about updating and adding photos and making my blog something that might interest anyone! But, I was so inspired at a recent event I attended at our new home church - Community Bible Church - that I told Stephanie she had to get me up and running - and soon. We attended a ladies event called Mug & Muffin - and the speaker was a Christian Blogger - Big Mama. Check out Stephanie's blog to see her comments on the event. I couldn't say it better - so no need to repeat it! Ha!

As I sit here wondering what in the world I have to offer I think of how Stephanie just tells about the everyday events in her life. It's amazing to me that she captures everything on her blog like I do with my photo albums. Speaking of photo ablums, one of my favorite events just took place - National Scrapbook Day. The crowd was smaller than usual but that didn't prevent us from getting lots of pages done and just having a great time together. You will see that we had quite a group as we posed in Fiesta style.