Cypress Creek by our cabin

The cabin and deck from the creek bottom.  I could live there.

Zoe enjoying the cool water

Austin and Matt in the creek

My nephew, Liam, and Chris

Matt and Caleb, oldest nephew

Josh and Evan, baby nephew (Chris, Cathy and Grandma Caldwell in the background)

The wedding scene

After pronoucement of Rene and Chris

Jess and Nate

Kirk and Jo

Hunter and Reverend Skinner aka Jerry

Mom and Dad (silly)

Roy (cara) Renata

Wedding Cake!

Chris going for the double portion...it was his party afterall.

MMMM.  or ARRR.  Awesome pic of Leah.

Brian and Nancy

The Aunts, Sue and Cathy (Karen and Patrick in the background)

Brian and Alice (Grandma Caldwell)

Nana Parry, Uncle Walt and Joyce

Cara and Evan

Nancy and Brian dancing.  I think Liam might be sqeezed in the middle there.

Rene and I are line dancing in this pic...hey, it's the hill country right!?

Hope you enjoyed.

Is anyone else anticipating Sommer's funny-ass Cinco de Mayo pictures? 
They are always entertaining!   

 Last year's duck-taped-corona-40-Battle of Puebla reenactment:

Bring 'em hooker!

Sitting around doing nothing is a lot more difficult than it sounds.  This is my fifth day of keeping my life low key so that I can recover.  It feels like it has been two weeks already.  I can say that I am doing a lot of reading and napping and watching of movies.  This week's movies are Pride and Prejudice (new version) and Dan In Real Life.  I've seen them twice already.  When a movie is really great I love to watch it in the evening and then wake up for a reprise.  Good soundtracks will make me fall in love with a movie. 

My current music to buy list:

Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Quartet, Duper Sessions
Glen Hansard, The Swell Season
Van Morrison, Keep It Simple
The Black Keys, Attack and Release

I'm beginning to feel better today...the cloud is lifting and I'm beginning to breathe again. Thank God.

This weekend is supposed to be beautiful and I want to get my hands dirty in the garden.  I think I'm going to buy mulch and plants...maybe new grass.

Our lawn is kind of a joke at our house.  It's a scary patch work of weeds really.  Matt mowed the lawn last night and I fed what remained.  I felt inspired to start a burn pile and ignite it.  It felt good to burn off all the clippings and pulled weeds that I have been slowly accumulating over the past few weeks.  Also, I picked up and burned most of the wood that used to be in a neat pile against the side of the house. (The dogs decided long ago that they liked the wood better strewn ALL over their dogyard instead.)  It was a BIG fire...I was concerned that the neighbors may turn me into the fire department.  Luckily not, and I was able to enjoy a breezy night in a freshly mowed lawn next to a fire. 

I think I may burn our shed down this weekend too.  It's a wreck...it leaks, it attracts big bugs, it smells, it's dark, wet and scary.  I want to demo it and burn the remains.  I guess I'm in a refining mood. 

Have you ever had to clean red hot Jello off of every shelf, bowl, condiment, vegetable, egg, butter, pitcher, drawer, wall, floor, nook and cranny in your refrigerator at 4:45 a.m. in the morning? 

I have.

It takes way too long and I wouldn't recommend it.

: :  EDIT : :

I had about 10 minutes to spare before I headed to the gym yesterday morning, so I decided to make some jello for my lunch.  As I am transporting the container to the fridge I fumble and lose control of the bowl sending the gelatin airborne.  It almost instantly congealed EVERYWHERE.  Needless to say, I never made it to the gym and was actually late for work because of it. 

 - This morning - 
When I put on my shoes I discovered that they too were covered in little specks of red jello. Neat.