Some Time to Myself

This past week my husband was out of town from Wednesday until 5:00 a.m. on Sunday morning (he was in Phoenix for a high school robotics competition with the team that he mentored).  I enjoyed the time to myself and got to do a lot for myself that I have been wanting to do.  I got the usual chores done (cleaning, grocery shopping, etc), but was able to have a lot of relaxing "me time".  I rented a couple of chick flicks, took a bubble bath, did my nails, finished my book, took a nap, ate a frozen dinner (I can't remember the last time I've had one of those)...  You know, things of that nature.

And yet... the best part of the weekend:  When my husband got home! :)

Ashley's Birthday

This weekend my sister, her boyfriend, my husband, and I went to visit my parents to celebrate my sister's birthday!  We left Friday and returned today.  Friday when we arrived there was green chile stew and sopapillas for us to enjoy.  Here is a picture of my dad rolling the dough.

Saturday morning Carlos and I went for a jog.  We all then had a wonderful breakfast together.  Afterwards, we all began to prepare for the day (making food etc).  That evening we had quite the smorgasbord.  My parents' friends and their 4 sons came over.  Our main course was burgers.  We had a very tasty strawberry punch and strawberry cake.  My sister was in a strawberry mood.  After all the food, we played pictionary!

She opened her gifts before the company arrived.  She was very excited to get a GPS unit.

We were all very tired and full at the end of the day (and not too pleased about the time change, but who is?).  You can see video footage of this weekend here.  I will also post more pictures on facebook. We had to hurry back on Sunday so that I could make it to my choir concert and so that my sister could get home to study.  It was a very wonderful weekend.