spring break

@sheraton resort in kona

1. we are back from our 10 day hawaii vacation.

2. it was nothing less than fantastic, of course- its hawaii!

3. will try and post more if i can get off my lazy butt.

4.  kaylee's been a trooper and went back to school on monday. jet lag and 5 hours lost didn't seem to faze her.

5. still house hunting and will be leaving soon to do the actual house hunt.

6. 2 more have sold that we really wanted to see. i think that makes like 5 sold that were our favorites.

7. its ham's spring break this week. he was thinking about going to south padre but decided it was too expensive especially when you have very little to no money.

8. he is thinking about going up to austin since its sxsw week and it will be cheaper even though they don't have a place to stay.

9. i like that he thinks things through and won't go and spend money he doesn't have. 

10. and because i'm his mom, have to remind him this is what summer jobs are for. (to have some extra money)

leaving the big kid behind and a vivid dreams

not much longer and this will be me again! (hawaii 2011)

1.  for the last 2 years, the kids have been on the same spring break. this year, ham is a week later so that means he will not be going with us!  it makes me sad.

2. he asked his professors if he could take exams early but they said they can't do that unless its for a death or something really big like that. a+m gets a finger salut on that one- hahaha!

3. so we told him we would take him somewhere over the summer since this is the second family vacation he's had to miss.  we're going to wing it and wait for cheap flights to someplace and go there.

4. i had the most amazing dream last night, in color even!  i magically appeared to a place called langford market (its a name of clothing store here) and it was cape cod type houses all along the water.  the houses were beautiful colors of yellow, reds, blues.

5. there were clean streets and gigantic pools with people swimming. i was eating outside of course and said to the guy sitting in front of me: "you have a lot of food there." because he did have a lot of food.

6. the girl sitting close to him said, his wife is around here.  which was weird because i was just making a statement, starting a conversation not hitting on the guy. (i find this happens in real life too)

7. so another house that was a contender sold. as of right now, there are 2 left that we're interested in. one of them isn't in an ideal neighborhood- being its not as fancy as the others but its on the right side of town. (the school district we want and on the right side of the railroad tracks and its a brand new house.)

8. also told mike that while our budget is x amount, i really want to go about 50 grand under that. (some of the new houses we liked were 50 grand under)

9. my motto: i want to own our house, not our house own us.  

10. plus, i'm keeping mike to his word that if we move back to indiana, we will be able to do more and travel more.  AND, i'm leaving a kid back in texas who needs a visit from his mom every once in awhile- hee hee!  

Few things we did on Spring Break

1. got her haircut last night. 10" to donate to locks of love. she says she will do it again.

2. celebrated mike's and nanny's birthdays. (ham renamed nanny to ba-nanny because she was eating a banana at the time)

3. ham made a funny after birthday dinner. it said award winning patio on laundry's building and so he said award winning patty-o since that is nanny's name.

4. ate lots of good food- sharky's, lupe tortilla, bj's brewhouse, some home cooking, landry's, dicks last resort, cracker barrel.

5. went to san antonio to view the caves, river walk, stay at an over priced, dirty hotel and sea world.

6. tie dyed shirts.

7. got sun burned.

8. slept in.

9. went to buc-ee's twice. (had to get gas to and from san antonio)

10. bought mike a big texas belt buckle that he's been wanting for his birthday.

hawaii sounds about good right now

via pinterest somewhere. 

(its been my screen saver for some time now)

1. especially on a super cold and rainy day! (we have icicles hanging on palm trees again)

2. and i'm geeking out because next spring break thats where we're going!

3. its a timeshare pitch but it don't matter. its hawaii!

4. and we have some fun things planned for spring break.

5. sea world in san antonio and maybe some caving while there. (depending on this crazy weather!)

6. i'm tired and a nap sounds good about now. i didn't sleep very well and had a bad dream about my mom.

7. i also had someone stop me in the "women's" section yesterday to ask if i was from the philippines.

8. hardly ever does someone ask if i'm korean. most of the time they just ask where i'm from.

9.  it made me wonder where exactly is my original family from. i must be a mix of them all or something.

10. some day i will find out.