Cabinets

We continue to slowly make progress on our bathroom. Last night, the carpenter delivered the cabinets.

We got cabinets baby!!

Denise's Birthday

It was great to see a good friend today and celebrate her birthday. When you think of us, think of Denise, she's a good friend Raquel made while working at Exxon. Denise organizes the game group that we participate in periodically, and she's been diagnosed with breast cancer. She's currently receiving chemotherapy. Please pray for Denise.

A Husky in the Bluebonnets

Last weekend we took some time to get out of the house and go out to Brenham. We went to the rose emporium, had a nice lunch at the local sandwich shop (Must Be Heaven), stopped for ice cream at the Blue Bell Creamery (the ice cream is really fresh there), and admired the wild flowers along the highways.

Here are a few shots of our fun day.

This is Raquel's new favorite rose (Cherokee Rose). The bramble here at the entrance to the rose emporium measured at least 20 feet wide by 40 feet long, and you can see behind her it was about 12 feet high and covered with flowers about 3 inches across.

Shower Progress

We've made a little more progress in the bathroom. The shower is further along now, Neil has put up the tar paper, most of the hardi-backer on the wall, and hired a guy who did the shower floor.

We got a shower floor baby!

Spring

We've been piling up some pics for a while, meaning to get them onto the blog but just haven't gotten the chance lately.

With all of the work going on inside the house, we haven't done anything with the garden yet this year, but some of the flowers are coming out really well anyway.

Here's a shot of the azaleas up front from a couple of weeks ago.

A few of Raquel's orchids are blooming for us this year.

The bougainvillea plants in the back are flowering also, and I tried to include a picture, but every time I load it blogger is twisting the picture sideways.

More Bathroom Progress

We've got floors baby!!!

We still need to do the steps and the toilet area, but this is huge progress for us.

Chasing the Rainbow

We both had Friday off from work, so for Valentine's we decided to go down to Galveston to have lunch and relax on the beach. It was a nice day to walk barefoot in the sand (not in the water though, its still cold) and sit and listen to the waves. Very peaceful. The day turned out to be enriching in other ways also . . .

It was such a beautiful day complete with rainbows, and for the first ever, we got to the end of the rainbow and found the pot of gold.
Here's a shot of Raquel along the seawall.