Day 4 and 5


Sigh... I love when my mom and grandfather comes to visit. We joke inappropriately, we laugh when somebody farts, we love to shop, we love to do nothing with each other and have a FANTASTIC time. I love my family.

On the day they were leaving Austin decided to have one hell of a weather day... Tornado Warnings, Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, and a shit load of rain. Sorry guys... Austin weather was kind of shitty.

Since we had so much fun at the CVS with the magnifying glass, we drug Jim and Pop Pop to there to get more pictures. The people at CVS must have wondered what the fuck we were doing since we were giggling like school girls in the medication isle.

Pop Pop, Jim and Mom at Texas Land and Cattle. We had a pretty good dinner full of steak, shrimp and ribs.

Pop Pop, Me, and Mom

Pop Pop and Mom

Mom hanging out with Taylor

The Grand Poopa

So when Mom comes to visit, she usually makes me clean. During this trip we cleaned up our food pantry as well as my over flowing closet. I looked up to see Mum wearing her doo-rag flashing some type of old person symbol :o) Just Kidding Mom!

Mom and I planted new plants. We'll see how long it takes me to kill them.

Pop Pop enjoying some lunch! A couple family photos

We should have done these the night before when Jim was with us
Our wet drive to the airport



Pop Pop, Me and Mom!

Good Bye Pop Pop and Mom!!! Can't wait until you come back to visit us!

Day 3

Today was a good day! We started off with garage sales... which we found a few good sales, but nothing that we really wanted. Then we headed off to the Farmers Market at the Tony Burger Center (no freakin idea who Tony is). This farmers market had a few more vendors than the farmers market downtown. This weekend was also the weekend for the art fair next to the farmers market. So much to see and do before 10am!!

We hit up a few more shops in the downtown area then went over to see the Chinese Boat Races. I thought this would be a little more neat to watch... a little more flair... a little more than a 2 minute boat race. Oh well.. you live and you learn. We did get to watch some kung-fu show, which was really neat to watch. Mom and I then started to do our own tricks before mom threw out her back and I pulled my hammie. :o)

Our afternoon/evening was pretty low key.... made some boogers (as in hamburger) for dinner, watched a little of the NFL draft, and then mom and I did a little shopping at the Domain.

Pop Pop enjoying the sun on the porch

Farmers Market... we picked up some brussel spouts.... I can't wait to cook them up
Random dude with his butterfly bike... I'll be buying one for Jim for Christmas :o)
Mummy posing at the Farmers Market


Mom near Town Lake (it just doesn't feel like Lady Bird Lake... not yet at least)

While we were waiting for the Chinese dragon boat race to start, I got a little bored. I thought it would be slightly funny to push mom into the lake. I kid, I kid.... no mom's were hurt in the making of this photo

The boat race



Martial Arts Exhibition

Kiddo's

This alligator head flew off of the clearance shelf to attack me

The Jersey salute

Mum and Jim

Day 2 of the visit

Our day started with a wonderful massage at Myo. Both mom and I had good masseuse's, which is some times hard to find at the same massage place. We then headed home to meet up with Jim and Pop Pop to eat a little lunch. After lunch, we did a little shopping. We checked out a granite shop just to see the slabs for the kitchen. Then we headed to our favorite thrift shops near our house.

Mummy and I walked the dogs at a park near the house. I found a tree that I could put my camera on for the self portrait. There was some noise at the street and that is the only reason both dogs look like they are paying attention.

Thrift shop

Ummm... yeah. I'm SOOOO not a cowgirl

At the granite place.... we are total dorks and pretending to hold up the granite.

Picking out a piece of granite for our kitchen counter tops is going to be hard... there is so much to chose from, and then Jim and I have to agree on the color/texture/movement of the pieces.

Dinner at Hyde Park Grill.

Good ambiance, decent food and douchy waiter

After dinner we walked next door to get a gelato. They had so many good flavors,, very yummy. Pop Pop walked up to the counter and pointed to 4 different flavors and said "I'll take two scoops of this one, this one, this one, and this one". Jim, Mom and I all stopped and stared...Ummmm Pop Pop that means you want 8 scoops of gelato. He giggled then just pointed to vanilla and said one scoop please. :o)


Mom ordered the almond flavored gelato, which was the table favorite. I ordered the tiramisou, Jim got the nutella with peanut butter, and pop pop ordered the vanilla. The vanilla had a strong flavor of cinnamon and I don't think I would order that unless I mixed it with another flavor.

They are hhheeeeeerrrrrrreeeeeee!!!

Mom and PopPop are here!!! They'll be here until Monday, which will be here before we know it. Their trips always go by way to fast. They landed this afternoon, and our first stop was some lunch. We stopped by Hog Island Deli to get some sandwiches... they were tasty!

At home... eating Sissy's dip. Sissy's dip is so damn simple yet so damn good. Basically it is a couple of different type of cheese, shredded and mixed with mayo, chopped onion and some spices.

Momma giving Poopa some loving... and trying to stay away from his kisses

Playing fetch with Chewie

This photos are disturbing,,, but oh so funny. There are these little magnifying glasses to help customers at CVS read the small print on packages. Did we use that to read? Oh no... we tried to see who would have the weirdest face

I think we tied for the weirdest face

Mummy and me... ignore our pantry in the background

Jim and Pop Pop