Fall Is here!!

Oh my fall has arrived, Sunday will be the first of October. Fall is always a fun time of year, I remember growing up all the excitement Halloween brought, picking out a costume, going trick or treating, and all the yummy candy.

Although here in Texas the store shelves are packed with fun crafty things and goodies, the temp's outside make it feel like summer this evening at 7 p.m. it was still 82 degrees outside, and let me say I AM LOVING IT!!

We have a cute little tree outside our apartment and little acorn's are all over the ground so I decided to pick up a few and add them to my fall center piece. A lot of you know I love candles, so I have broke out the fall scents "PUMPKIN NECTAR" , it smells so good I think I could fool someone into thinking I was baking spice cake and apple cider.

So I would love to hear how everyone is doing.... I realized my comment thing was not working..So I called Wade to the rescue and now it's up and running.. Just click on the bottom of the post where it says comments and post away, let me know how your ringing in Fall this year!!

Let the THUNDER roll!!

Wow did we have a thunder and lighting storm you would never believe last week. I am not kidding it was like something you would see out of a movie. The Rain was pouring so hard that the storm gutters were just gushing with water, the lightning was so bright that it lit up our whole entire apartment, and the thunder was so loud that you could actually hear people in our apartment building screaming. Wade loves this kind of thing, and had to check it out by going out onto our patio, I had to go tell him to come in before he got hit or something crazy, and I could not believe it, it was so hot outside even with this crazy storm going on. ( I call it our free welcoming , Light show!!)

Wade is just loving having his Grandparents close, They live on a really nice golf course, where his grandpa marshals at so they can get on the Greens for free, take out a cart, and go to the driving range and hit a bucket of balls as often as they want for "FREE" So he loves hitting the course with Grandp's for a little friendly competition. They always come back and both have to brag about how well they did, except this time I am wondering because grandpa came back and gave wade a nike golf ball with the word "Mojo" on it.

What's for dinner???

So With the kitchen unpacked and the fridge stocked, the question arises "what's for dinner??" I must say a good home cooked meal is truly nice. I love to cook, and exchange recipes with my friends and family.

After the road trip, getting things unpacked, and not feeling well... I have had enough dining out for a while.. I still to this day can't stand the thought of Chile peppers (New Mexican food!!). And don't get me wrong I love Mexican food, just not that variety.

So today we went to the design center so exciting seeing everything coming to life. They said that our home is out of the architectural stage so that they should start ( Breaking ground) in three weeks :)

Today the weather was just perfect 93 in September I am in heaven!! So today I felt quite a bit better so I got out a little and went to explore the area, there is anything and everything you can imagine right here in frisco all the major stores and restaurants you can think of and then some. And they did it Texas style BIG.

I decide to check out the local quilt stores in the area I have really enjoyed taking Quilting and design classes in the past but have been so busy these last few months traveling and with having to pack most of my sewing stuff up, I have not had a chance. I found quit a few neat shops online and have already got them map quested. I have already informed Wade that Texas has the biggest quilt show in the nation, right here in Huston so that for sure will be a nice little weekend get away..

Well I never did answer my question what's for dinner?? Fresh broiled and seasoned orange roughy fish, Rissoto, and a nice garden salad.. (p.s. it was yummy!!)

The Check List!!

My oh my the things to do when you move and no less out of state, building a house, Ect...
One good thing I must say is the check list is starting to show several things being marked off.
One big task was getting the car re-licensed (10 Big points go to Wade for doing that one!!) Lets just say after the bumper sticker wording on cars reading "CALIFORNIA INVASION" we wanted to get our plates changed pronto. This task is a little more time consuming than most coming from CA, We had to get an out of state inspection, then go to the auditors office to get appraisal/plates, then contact CA dmv to notify them ( according to the TX DMV people). We still have not yet done our licenses I have not felt up to the whole dmv line thing, One big yeh ha for Texas is you don't have to take the written test again.

One fun thing on my list is to go to the design center for our home for a few more things, I am so excited!!

The fridge is stocked. When you move across the country you have to start from scratch and restock, restock, and restock... Things you just take for granted you have, ( butter, Mayo, ect..)

I am REALLY LOVING the heat and humidity since I am always cooled.. P.S. If you go in a store, ect.. Down here man do they LOVE the AC, (jacket time.)

One thing for sure is these TEXAN"S love meat... Steak houses everywhere.. When we crossed the Texas state line there where signs advertising 72 oz.. Steak .. For real..

My Crib as Mtv calls it ( Apartment) is feeling more like home the boxes are gone.. That makes me so happy, but the thought of doing this again in 8 month's.. Yuck, although I just tell my self the house, the house, the house...

So I do have to laugh we called to set up cable but it will takes a week for them to come set it up so I just set in my rocker stare at it and tell wade, "Nice plasma, I Love the picture!!", although then he dug around in some boxes and found a series of Indiana Jones DVD's and has been watching them ever night... I need to go to Buster, I can't take anymore, between that and wade listening to talk radio ALL the way here in the car, and now on his lab top... The people who call in to those shows.. Lets just say ISSUES.. On a side note... This one is for Wade's Brother (DAVE) no were not going to do as you do and use bunny ears on a plasma... I seriously died laughing, I can't believe you actually do this... ( NOW THAT IS A REDNECK), you buy a plasma and use bunny ears...

all is worth it in the end because "WERE ALL" just loven TEXAS!!

Were Here!!

We made it to Texas!! I was extremely excited when we finally arrived. We had some fun little bit stops along the way, but the driving days were LONG the shortest day was 10 hours.

I have had a really bad flare in my crohns, which really started to get bad on the road trip. On the last morning of waking up in Santa Fe to head to Texas I was truly glad that this was the last leg of the drive.

So needless to say I have had a real welcoming to Texas, I have already had to visit the ER, and a ride in a ambulance to be transported to another hospital where they could treat a crohns patient, as the first hospital I was admitted to was a surgical hospital. (Not my Idea of a welcoming tour!!)

It is hot and today it was TRULY humid we had 90 degree weather the sun shining and the rain was pouring!! Wade loves lighting so he got a little light show this evening.

I am already on the count down for my home to be done. Our apartment is really nice don't get me wrong, but it will be nice being all settled in. Right now we have a 1 bedroom and then we rented a garage to use for storage, and it is FULL, as I only unpacked stuff that we would need to get by for 8 months instead of going threw the full ordeal of packing and unpacking everything!! But I am very happy to say that my Sewing stuff fit and made it inside.

The good, the bad, and the ugly!!

Ok My road trip has truly been an adventure!! First I think that I have seen some scary people along this road trip, When we have had to stop in towns for gas and for my potty stops I mean some of these towns look deserted.

Albuquerque is a different, really laid back town everything closes at 4 on Sundays and at 8 and the week nights. So we rolled into town at 7:45 and asked the front desk where to grab a quick bite to eat, needless to say everything was closed or had just closed except 1 restaurant, which was so Spicy hot I thought it was going to burn my insides alive. I ordered a shredded chicken enchiladas and they brought me a fried green chili with green sauce all over the top, that one -did not fly so I had to wait for them to bring me the right thing and I contemplated later if it was spicier than the green chili.

The old town had a old church and when we walked out from eating at 8:30 the whole town was quite and deserted, like the old west.

So today we got off early and headed to Santa Fe, I love it here there are boutiques all over and a cute little down town. Lots of neat southwest stuff and jewelry, but really laid back and relaxing. I had to laugh when I tried on a ring and the lady looked at me and said do you feel the energy the beads bring, the only energy I felt was to take it off, and get out of there.

Where staying at a resort/spa, and I have to say that when I get my new house and KING sized bed, I am getting a feather bed just like this , It's heaven in New Mexico for sure.


Arch near Moab Utah

Wade by Arches National Park

Downtown Santa Fe

Kathy in Downtown Santa Fe

The two Peas, aventures on the road!

Today we hit some more sites!! I think that I am in culture "SHOCK" things seem so quit, there is no traffic, not a lot of people, and FREE parking . I thought being down town and a holiday weekend around temple square it would be a little crowded. I think I am used to San Fran.. After 5 years in California, bumper to bumper traffic, driving around for hours to find a parking spot ( That is in a garage your paying to park in per half hour). I guess this cross country road trip is just slowly easing in all the Culture shock I will have in Texas. Humidity,big pickup trucks, Big houses, cheap groceries, country music, and everyone waving as you drive past on the road. All the previous stated things fly in my book it's the Big hair , tight wranglers, and line dancing your never going to catch me doing!! So the day's our Honda CRV is parked and were taking in sites I'm pumped, it's the day's, we do 10 hours of driving I have to try to get siked for. Let's just say when we get to Texas I am going to roll down the window stick my head out and SCREAM " YE Ha, were here in HE Ha!!) - you have my word on it.

Tonight we went to dinner at the Roof of the Joseph Smith building, It was just beautiful the view was to die for we sat right by the window directly across from the temple spires. They had a pianist playing wonderful music and with the breath taking view it was so peaceful.

Taking in the sites!!

Today we were off to see a lot the sites!! We were real tourists for sure, armed with a camera, travel brochures and maps, minus the 80's fanny pack that I must say people really do still sport today.

We were first off to Temple square, then to the new conference center, and then the other many building's around temple square. Today love must have really been in the air because I saw ton's and ton's of brides around the temple and in our hotel armed with the long white garmet bag in one arm and the couture pink stripped Victoria secret bag in the other. ( I just had to laugh).

We had to hit Cafe Rio after we had several friends tell us that we could miss grabbing a bite to eat here while we were in Utah. Wade was in heaven as he had to have the pork burrito.

Wade chilling with a view of the valley.
Inside the conference center.

Kathy relaxing by the fountain in front of the temple.

Wade by a mural on top of the conference center.

At temple square

Life is a Highway!!

Oh my were Out of the bay area!! This is the last stop we took, after we turned in our apartment keys and hit the road for Texas!! p.s. ( I got my entire deposit back, for my apartment, as you can tell I was very happy about that)

I thought that this picture would be sentimental on day as Cisco is what brought us to the bay area and is where we lived for 5 years, but our journey of life is now taking us to Texas!!

There is a reason for my blog entry title today, Our ROAD TRIP to Salt lake , "YES" the song is true and it came on the radio as we were driving "Life is a highway, I'm going to ride it all night long!!" We got into Salt Lake City at 11:30 p.m. after driving all day, Never, and I mean never will I drive that way in a car again. All I saw was deserts, prisons, and salt flats. This is not the type of drive that you take with someone who has Crohn's!! FYI there are no Bathrooms!!

So I am over joyed to be here and I am ready to hit the sites!!