Monday, May 31, 2010
Yard Sale Update
With the addition of this weekend's earning we are now more than 1/5 of the way!
Friday, May 28, 2010
Yard Sale
Thursday, May 27, 2010
casa HOTEL
They were booked... Boo. But not to worry, I jumped on the computer and the same Architect had a hand in a new Hotel in San Antonio {HAVANA}. Awesome! We love San Antonio, and the hotel seemed to have the same feel as the one in Austin, and it was so new that it wasn't booked yet. We fell in love and started planning our new weekend. Would we stay one night or two? Come in Friday or Saturday? Should I take Monday off? The grand total of the whole weekend started piling up.... maybe not too unreasonably for an anniversary weekend, but it was a lot, and a lot is out of our norm.
After much much much thought we decided that the hotels would be there next year. For those of you who don't know, Taylor and I set a goal at the start of the year- we are trying to build a well in Africa! We are really excited about it and are trying really hard to complete this in one year. So the idea of being able to put this money into our water jar instead into our weekend made more cents. (pun intended ;) ) So that's what we did. But that didn't change much, we decided that we would still have our hotel stay and fancy dinner, but for much less. So with Taylor in San Antonio visiting family I got to work. And so we would like to share with you our hotel stay at {casa HOTEL}. :)
Dinner for two, with the house wine, "Casa". ;)
Monday, May 24, 2010
Menu Monday
These next two weeks we don't really have a plan. :/ We have so many things coming up this weekend that Taylor is on her way to San Antonio right now to start setting things up. But it's okay because I won't have time to miss her because I will be working late again... So I'll probably buy a bag of cheese and make a pizza to take care of the meals that I will be able to enjoy at home.
It's not very exciting but it works. And what we lack in "eating" excitement this week we will make up for in "doing" excitement, we promise! So come back soon to find out how we cut back a little and gained a whole lot! :D
Thursday, May 20, 2010
charity:water + TOMS shoes
Friday, May 14, 2010
Do you want to be a part of something huge??
I received this reminder email from CHF this morning:
Tent City Worldwide is tonight... Are you ready? Together, friends of Children's Hunger Fund all across the country will be pitching tents, sleeping in tents, and texting TENT to 85944 at 8 pm tonight! If your plans don't involve camping out in your living room, backyard or school gym, we still invite you to join with us by texting TENT to 85944 and give $10 toward ongoing relief in Haiti.
Text TENT to 85944!
Tent City Worldwide calls us all to remember that right now, Haiti is being flooded with rains. Children there are living in conditions most of us wouldn't be able to handle for even one night. Please help. For more information, go to www.ChildrensHungerFund.org/TentCity, and text TENT to 85944 today.
We cannot help but wonder what could happen if every person getting this e-mail, participated in this call. How many suffering children and families could be helped? 1.2 million people were left homeless by January's quake.
How many of these people lost family or friends in the devastation? How many of these people were left crippled? How many of these people were left without hope? Please help support the efforts of local churches in Haiti as they deliver much needed resources to their communities, by texting TENT to 85944 now.
We love camping, and this would be a ton of fun, but we will be on the road again to SA. So will you join us by texting tonight? I can only imagine the turnout for this will be simply amazing!
Monday, May 10, 2010
Menu Monday
For the next two weeks we will be doing something that we have talked about for a while but have never gotten around to doing... rice and beans for two weeks! We have a few things in the fridge left over that I am trying to finish off while Taylor is in San Antonio til Wednesday, but once that is gone we will be eating rice and beans and maybe some tortillas ;). Not only does this help us realize why we are doing what we do (like when we originally ate from the Food Pak) but now since we have dates for our trip, we really have to focus on saving up some more eating out money! We will keep you posted with how it goes...
On a side note, Taylor's brother, Brady, just found out about our food adventure... funny because he was here eating with us for about a week! I guess eating off $10 a week isn't as different as you would think. It started off being stressful during our grocery trips, putting things back, being over-charged, but once you get the hang of it is pretty easy.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
The Giveaway Winners Are...
Congrats, Rachel!!!
And Teddi drawing for the necklace, while beautifully modeling it...
Friday, May 7, 2010
Happy Birthday Taylor!
Now, seven birthdays later she's 22 and my beautiful wife! She has been my best friend ever since and I thank God that I have someone to share my life with that is so kind and loving!
Happy Birthday, Taylor!
The tradition continues!
Monday, May 3, 2010
"Simply Rose" Giveaway
This weekend we got to go for a drive to Castroville, Texas for the Grand Opening of Simply Rose: Gifts and Holistic Healing. The shop is in a really great part of town, right off the main road, surrounded by antique shops and other gift boutiques. Now we don’t normally do shop reviews on this blog but since we have received so much support from our families in the past, we are more than happy to share their adventures as well! ;)