Proud minivan owners

We had a pretty eventful day today! We bought our first car together! I am just so excited about it and want to show it off and post pictures on Facebook but Francisco says that we shouldn't, so I am just bragging about it on the blog! 

We bought a 2008 toyota sienna xle. It is beautiful. I originally said that I would not buy a white van because they look like polar bears, but I caved and of course the one we got is white! But I really don't mind, it doesn't look too polar bearish... Haha 

Features include leather heated seats, DVD, dual a/c, automatic doors, 6 disc cd. I don't know what else... We had fun trying to figure out how everything works.

We are happy. I hope that this car will only bring smiles and won't have any underlying mechanical issues.  It is risky to buy used cars and you never really know, so I hope we made a good choice. 

I still can't believe it is mine!

Buying Bug

Do you ever get the urge to spend money? Like you really just need to go spend money. Sometimes it's clothes, sometimes electronics, sometimes baby stuff.

Well, as most of you know, we are poor students who have very little money to spend. Usually, Francisco and I take turns holding each other back and talking sense into each other when the other gets the urge. So if Francisco gets the desire to go buy something, I tell him, well it would be nice to have that, but we can't afford it right now, or maybe we can find something similar that is a little cheaper...

We are always, (well I am always) fighting myself to not over spend on things that we don't really need.

Right now both of us have the buying "bug" pretty bad. In one day we thought seriously about buying a car and even almost applied for a loan, browsed bigger houses to rent, went out to buy new scrubs, went out to dinner, bid on an ipad on ebay, and tried to sign up for a new/better phone plan for smart phones.

Lol. Thankfully (I guess) NONE of these things worked out and the only money we actually spent was about $10 for fast food. We are planning to move to a house at the end of our lease thought (in July!) and we do REALLY want to buy a minivan and we will hopefully be proud owners of one within the next 6 months. Maybe sooner. Just not today. Francisco does need new scrubs for school, he just didn't like the place that we went to, so he will have to go to a different place another day. We really were going to sign up for the new phone plan because it would be saving us money and we would both get Iphones, but they stopped selling that plan just 3 days before! lame!!! So anyway, we decided to wait until Francisco's contract is up in October and get a different plan which is a lot cheaper than what we pay now and we decided that we would get cheaper smart phones and buy an ipad with the saved money (still cheaper than buying 2 iphones). but again, that won't happen 'till next fall.

So, we come out empty handed. Again. Man, I really want to buy something... Anybody want to give me money? ;)

Balcony Garden

I have always wanted to have a garden and for one reason or another (usually had to do with always moving in the spring or summer) I have never had a proper one. This is as close as I've come to have a little garden and I really love it! Luke loves it too! He has been with me every step of the way and we both get so excited when we see a little seed sprout up and grow! It has really grown into a much bigger project than I originally thought. It started out just carrots and cilantro. Then, I added green onions (just cut off of green onions stubs bought from the store, so no seeds. I saw on pinterest that if you leave them in water, they will just grow! so I thought I'd try it with dirt and water. We've got one to grow so far!) Then, we plant sitted a neighbor's sprouts and in return he gave me a few tomato seeds, so we have 3 tomato  plants growing in the yogurt cups. Then a friend gave us some leftover basil seeds. Those are in the strawberry container and have not sprouted yet! Since planting the garden, Luke has discovered that there are seeds everywhere and wants to plant them all! So we planted some green bell pepper seeds from a pepper I used for dinner the other night. (Luke was so excited, so we planted them even though I doubt that they will grow...) and the big green container is Luke's "trees" that he planted all by himself. Simply some branches stuck in dirt. Eventually I will transfer the tomato plants into the big green containers.

I really hope that I will at least break even with the money spent on dirt and seeds and containers. It kind of adds up! Not that it is expensive, but when you have very little "play" money, everything seems expensive!

 There is a bird feeder directly below my garden and so birds tend to grab some seeds and eat them on my guard rail dropping little seeds into my dirt. So I have to go out and "weed" my garden of bird seed plants. I wonder what they would grow into?

 I took the pictures of the garden while Sammy was doing some "potty training". I just let him drink water outside with no diaper on and brought his potty outside in hopes to get him to go on the potty, but also to just let him feel what it feels like to go pee without a diaper on. He was quite surprised when all of the sudden he was all wet!

Never a dull moment... :)

Whether is brushing your teeth, doing laundry there is seriously never a dull moment with Luke.

Making silly faces on self timer!

Luke took this picture. 

Have not Idea what he's doing with all that clean laundry.

Hahaha, Kitchen towel, baby Sam's bib and shirt

Self-timer got this picture of  baby Sam Darquea! Luke has become a great photographer, he even know how to set the camera to self timer by himself.

Not Anymore!!! hahaha

Oh my precious Luke. As we were getting ready to go somewhere I told him that he needed his shoes on. Next time I saw him, I saw this.



I told them that they were in the wrong feet and this followed.


                             
 With a big smile he said: "Not anymore..." He is so right! I truly love how happy they make me. Luke and Sam might make a mess everywhere, but for sure they are creating sweet memories that I'll treasure forever.

 Oh, also the other day I told Luke that if he keeps doing something that I don't remember,  that I'll have to spank him. He said in a loud voice with a frowned nose: "Jesus doesn't like THAT!" lol and once again he is so right!

 -Francisco

One more video

One more video, just to remind me the sweetness of my wife and my little Luke.

TEXAS Long Horns

This week is Spring break for Francisco, so we have been trying to fill our days with interesting things while we have the time. We have gone to play tennis twice this week! I really really impressed by how much we improved the 2nd time around. You really have to brush up on your skills often in order to keep them! We also went to the Dallas Museum of art (it is now free!) and walked across  the street to the new Klyde Warren park. It is in the middle of the city and people treat it like a little oasis. I personally didn't really like the park all that much. It felt industrious and there was construction near by and with the traffic so close, it was just really loud. It did have a nice splash pad but neither Luke or Sam were dressed up for the occasion. But it was a nice park considering it's location. It has been a great break so far!

Today we went and saw the real Dallas cowboys bringing 'round the longhorns; all in statue of course. 

I talked to my mom right before we left and told her we were going to see some bulls. She was a little confused and was imagining some fancy bowls that might be on display somewhere... lol So here you go Ma! Here are some pictures of the "bowls" we went to see!

 

Luke refused to let us take pictures of him, but I snatched this one right at the perfect moment!

It was honestly pretty impressive to be so close to such giant animals, even if they were made of bronze. They were beautifully sculpted and we enjoyed the free sight-seeing in our own city.

Luke's boat

I know these videos are long and can get a bit boring if Luke is not your child, but hey this is our blog! lol
Luke has a huge imagination, and he knows exactly what to do to make a HUGE mess. I love this kid.

Volcano Experience

Just plain silly

You can see Luke's boat on the background ;)