Happy 4th of July! Driving for five hours in the car isn’t our typical July 4th way to celebrate this day, but it is this year. I am so sorry I haven’t blogged much lately. Maybe you thought that I was off on some exotic island or too upset about the TomKat impending divorce; neither of […]
Travel
A Chihuly Kind of Wedding
I love weddings. I love family weddings even more. I recently attended my niece’s wedding at the Dallas Arboretum. I was looking forward to seeing my family and taking in the beauty that the grounds of the Arboretum has to offer. I hadn’t been back since I had my bridal portrait done over eighteen […]
Bucees A Pit Stop Like No Other
We finally stopped at the new Buc-ee’s. If you aren’t from Texas, then I can best describe it as the world’s biggest convenience store and gas station. It has amassed a huge following by offering clean restrooms,snacks of all sorts and the cheapest gas per gallon; day in and day out. They also are brilliant […]
Hoover’s Cooking
I bet you think this is a food blog since I have been posting about food places so much. Well, we eat out a lot in the summer. We have a ton of out of town visitors since we live in such a tourist destination plus it is really hard to turn on the oven […]
A Peachy Sunday
Every year our family goes peach picking. There is just nothing like eating a peach right off the tree. The best tasting ones are the juiciest. The juice rolls down your arm in a wonderfully sticky mess! Ah, summertime. In years past, we had gone to the same peach farm for our peach picking adventures. […]
Il Sogno The Food is a Work of Art
We have some friends in town that are attending the Americans for the Arts annual conference. My husband first met them when he was chief economist for the City of San Antonio. They are all partners in the consulting firm that authored the Cultural Collaborative Plan for the city in 2005. Playing host to friends […]