10 Fiesta pictures

Since Fiesta just tied up in April I thought I would share 10 photos from Fiesta 2010 (which I just recently found as I was printing photos from Fiesta 2012.) I think all these picture are from the  King William event. Fiesta is the name for one large event. Essentially two weeks of parties. There are many events/parties going on each day and you can pick and choose which ones you want to go to or even go too many in one day! (: You can read more about Fiesta by clicking on the word"fiesta" in the first sentence at the top of this blog entry. Viva Fiesta!
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 You need to have dramatic hats at Fiesta

 This guy pulled my sister off the street to do her hair.  She has beautiful Rapunzel hair.

 People also like to dress up their dogs. There is a parade before King William of pretty pooches.

 This is me with a cut out of the Dos Equis guy. I love this guy and all the ads with him in them. Yes, I have Dos Equis in my hand.

 Funnel cake is a must have at any Fiesta event

 Fancy dressed up ladies. Not sure where they are going or coming from. Then again it's Fiesta, so they may just dress up just because.

This man has awesome flowers on his hat. Both men and women get into the fancy hats

 These guys have skeletons on their hats. These hats are super awesome and probably quite heavy. The guys are rockin' this look.

King William is a street/housing area that the fiesta is held on. It's just as fun to see the houses. I thought this one was pretty.

A Week in the Life: Sunday

Here is the final day of Week in the Life:

 After coffee I decided to put togethter the glider. It was rather dramatic and Sam had to help at different points. I am super excited about it and the wood matches perfectly in the nursery.

Sam made compost cookies! These are the best cookies in the world! They are full of crazy ingredients which makes them oh, so good. The recipe is from the Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook. If you are ever in NYC go there!

 This was my lunch; fish and salad

 I scrapped a page about the royal wedding

This is a house on our street that is decorated for Fiesta. I was taking the picture as I was driving. Hence the fog effect.

A week in the Life: Fiesta Sat.

Continuing a Week in the Life...
So from 10:30 ish to 3:00ish Johanna and I went to the King Williams Fiesta event. It was awesome. We ate, laughed and bought things. Fiesta is essentially a two week party that started out as an event to honor folks at San Jacinto and evolved into awesome. It was super fun and I love the spirit, crazy fun and costumes that go along with it every year. Here are pics of Fiesta Fun:

 As we were riding the bus downtown, we saw this sweet dog ready for Fiesta. There is a dog parade early in the morning, so at this event there is always a lot of cute dogs walking amongst the people.

 All dressed up and ready to go. I am sure there was some event she was part of or just finished up with an event. She could be dressed up because she is a kid and wanted to be. Hugs!

 Each event has their own medal and people collect them throughout the years. I have the UTSA ones from 2001 forward. People like to display them on sashes, much like this lady here. Woah! She has a lot of medals. 

 These great danes were awesome! So is this ladies shirt and flower headdress. I remember getting the headdresses at events when I was little. Okay, when I was big, too. All events in SA seem to have the headdresses because they are awesome!

Yea, for raspas! Johanna and I knew it was our destiny to have one and we found them right before we headed home.

People, how can you not love this dog?! Princessa? and awesome! 

After the fiesta event Sam and I had movie night. This is a pic of the theatre at night. We saw Cabin in the Woods and yes it was good. Two words Joss Weddon!

A Week in the Life: TGIF

Long story short, my router died and we had no internet over the weekend. OMG! I had to read books! (sarcasm.) Friday I somehow flaked completely on pictures. Did not take breakfast of lunch pictures and saw students all day. After work the fam went to get paletas at Paraiso. It was awesome good! So here is my Friday for A Week in the Life...a little late.

 Mom and my sister enjoy paletas

 loading up for Fiesta

 The store front

 The sign

The cart

A Week In the Life: Thurs.

So as I move forward with Week in the Life, I notice that I do have fewer pictures and my daily sheets are not as detailed as the beginning of the week. Some things are repetitive, but i still think you can capture the same thing just with a different picture or another angle to keep it fresh. Some pictures I have of Thursday and they will go in my Week in the Life album, but not on the internet. Mostly because I  know they would not like their picture on the internet. So I am respecting that wish. (ie my grandma, the Oxbow board and students in our lobby.) My Thursday:

12PM: lunch was the terakayi bowl at the JPL. I just discovered this and it's so good. The woman at the counter that makes it is so full of joy and I enjoy seeing her and talking with her.

6:PM the Land's End catalog is here and they have dresses now! The black notebook is my tiny watercolor/art journal. This is my first foray into art journaling. I will show more pictures once I finish my first page.

This agenda will represent the neighborhood association meeting I went to. It is a voluntary neighborhood association. I am the VP and the webperson.You can kinda see what we talked about. I did it at an angle to hide our names and phone numbers.

These puzzles will represent my grandma. She is the type of woman who will not leave the house without hair done and makeup on. Knowing this she would probably does not want her picture on the internet. However, I do have one of her and me to put in the WITL album. I took it with my phone (:

After the meeting I came home finished reading my catalog, hung out with the dogs and then went to bed. I never ate the dinner Sam brought home for me because my stomach hurt all day. I just went to bed early.

A Week in the Life: Wed.

So Wed. I did not get as many pictures.... but still a good representation of the day. As time goes on I get more and more tried with freshmen registration and its hard to remember to get pictures when you have to see a room full of students. My Wed:

8:20AM So this week I had decided to bring coffee from home. However, every other week of my life I go to the campus Starbucks. Wed. I was running late and broke down and got Starbucks from campus.

12:00PM During lunch I went to a Lunch & Learn sponsored by Frost Bank on campus. It was packed! They even provided us with McAllister's for lunch. The Lunch & Learn was on Wills & Testaments. I had no idea it was such a hot topic.

 7:00PM was Book Club. We were discussing Whip Smart. Some we talk books and sometimes we just talk. Tonight it was a combo of both. We always bring foods and have a little dinner as we talk. I love this Book/Social Club. Great group of gals.

 9:30PM This is Kat's new dog Panda. Last time I saw him he was a tiny fluffy ball. He is big now! Kat is actually the dog whisper in disguise!

9:45 This is sweet Toby. Who is growing like a weed. This is the best picture I could get because he kept hiding from me. My future child will probably do the same thing, because you know I will be shutter happy!

A Week in the Life: My Tuesday

I am continuing with Ali's A Week in the Life today.

Some thoughts:

• My overheard moments and my favorite moments tend to be the same.
• I like noting the song/artist on the radio on my daily sheets. I have not gotten the morning song thus far, but mostly because I don't function well in the morning and some days I barely remember driving to work. Don't worry I live close to campus. I am not on any major highways or anything. I enjoy the night life, baby! (yes, I went there!) I have always been more of a night person.

My Tuesday:

Notice no morning pictures. Woke up late and barely got to work on time. Tear.

1:00PM lunch from Broadway Daily Bread. Yea, healthier than yesterday's Chick-Fil-A.

5:30 just got home and parked the car in the driveway. (This one's for you, Sara!)

5:30 started taking pictures of my house. My plants survived the drought from last summer pretty well. New paint on the outside. No longer pink.

5:45ish I bought this carrot cake cupcake with cream cheese frosting at the bakery when I picked up lunch. It called to me! MMMM.noommm.MMMM. Drool.

6:00ish: I love sweets, but somehow this cupcake was too much! Dare, I say such words! Not even the tall glass of milk could help me get through it. My eyes are always bigger than my stomach. Sam ate the last little bit for me. My stomach began to hurt soon after. ):

 6:15PM a rare photo of Wallace. My dogs hate the camera. The planets most have aligned to get this shot. FYI: I took about 20 shots before I got this one.

 6:30PM Sam practices the cello.

 6:35: I take a picture of my favorite lamp.

 6:45ish realized that the furry ones must have slept on the couch why we were at work because it was covered in fur. They are currently shedding their coats. Yea! I vacuumed the couch before I sat down. Notice fur on the brush. Eeeee.

7:00PM I just got the Draw Something app today. OMG! It's so fun. I love pictionary, so I should have known that this game would suck me in. I spent a full 45 mins. playing with Sam who was in the other room of the house (hilarious) and random strangers.

The rest of the evening was spend reading magazines that came in the mail that I never ordered and watching You Tube make up guru videos. Current fave is Make Up Mommy. The tips are cool, but I also just like to hear about her life and what is happening in it. Cutest little girls.


Until tomorrow....

Ali Edwards' A Week in the Life

I have been wanting to try Ali Edwards's A Week in the Life project for sometime now. This time I decided to give it a try. I found that the daily sheets were helpful for keeping track of things through out the day and noting things I may have missed. I decided to do this during freshman registration week at the university. This will be interesting to see if I can make it though the whole week. This is a very busy time for our office.The second daily sheet really helped to sum up your day and really focus and view your day at a higher/deeper level.

 Here is my Monday:

7:00AM this was my breakfast +coffee. Yes, my kitchen table and scrap table are one in the same.

8:00AM at work. The top picture is the view outside the front door of our office.  The second is the bulletin board behind my office chair.

12:30PM driving back from lunch. The top is the price of my gas. The bottom photo I made larger, so you could see these three guys helping this person push his large truck toward the gas pump. Guys out of nowhere dropped what they were doing to help this guy that had run out of gas. This was my favorite moment of the day and a reminder that kindness always matters.

5:30 fed the dogs. A rare picture of Jack looking directly at the camera. He is the one that is in the picture with my layout in an earlier post from last week.

6:00PM had a snack. Drank some of Sam 's freshly juiced orange juice he made last night.

7:00PM took a picture of my husband in his man cave at the computer. Muhha!

8:00PM settled into a movie called A Better Life. It was up for an Oscar, but I never got to see it. It was a good and touching movie.

Well until tomorrow....hope everyone's  projects are going well.