Days 563 & 564

Woke up to this furry friend this morning.

And I saw these crazy things at the grocery store! Would you eat one?

days 544- 546

Since being home I have been mostly catching up on laundry, yes I did some while I was at my parents house, but I'm pretty sure Josh did none! 

But I also am headed back to the gym, and this is my view while I wait for my friend to pick me up in the morning.

And we are back to Mexican food :D yum, we went to the Empanada place, so delicious.

5 weeks in Michigan

Josh has been traveling a lot, and has more trips coming up, so o decided to head home.

I came home to enough packages I thought it might be Christmas!!!!

One of those packages was this beautiful fabric, designed by Minick and Simpson who Lives in Michigan!!! And this fabric line is based on Michigan.

I babysat my sisters kids and we went out to pizza and it was amazing... and we had a great time, see the shirt the older one is wearing, I handed that down to her, and my uncle handed it down to me... 

I got to see one of my best friends announce her second pregnancy!

I got to meet one of the members of the online quilt group I'm in :)

My parents took me out to an early birthday dinner since we won't be together for my real birthday and they gave me this book I have been wanting :)

And I got these two books, my first books of grad school.

I was able to see the beach and have a great day with my sister and 6 of my nieces.

I may have also gotten a slight sun burn because I missed a spot with the sunscreen... oops.

I ran a 10 mile race while I was home, I was so happy to run it, I have heard about it most of my life. It was a tough race,  but good. It was fun to run past places I knew. And the medal HUGE

And later that day my cousin got married and it rained the whole afternoon and it was cold.

Saw some good friends

And my parents went on vacation and left me in charge of the house.

And being a good daughter I mowed the lawn and picked the berries...

I also dyed my hair for the first time ever!!!

And I spent a lot of time working on my fresh quilt, but I didn't finish it sadly, mostly quilted though... I tried to get it done so I could give it to my parents for their anniversary... maybe next year.

I met a friend and we picked apples and ate donuts!!! I love cider donuts!! 

And tried to catch this snake for my parents to no avail, I think it's hibernating in the garage for the winter!!! Eek!!! I even set rat traps! They said they didn't catch anything when they got home :(

Which was a learning experience, I had never set a mouse or a rat trap before, so thankfully my brother had been over earlier and set up one of the rat traps, so I could use it as an example.

Met up with more friends and hung out

And finally, 

Headed home

Days 523 - 526

We have been getting back into the groove, and doing chores, but Mr has a new bad habit...

Sleeping anywhere I am

And I've been craving candy, and we have a random bag of Mexican candy so I thought I would try something

This is a candy bar with marshmallow with jam on top and dipped in chocolate

Day 517

Today we checked out a new grocery store. (The excitement we have here)

Serve yourself meat

Day 516

Went out with my friends to try out a new restaurant 

I got horchata to drink, it tastes like Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

We ate off traditional plates, these were not lead free

This is cactus on a bread

And this is corn fungus.

Weirdly the corn fungus was not as bad as the cactus...

Day 515

Josh taught me how to use the grill today

Day 510

We found this cat in our back yard, it must have came in on the wall, and it ran around and tried to get out, it turned out it was scared, but really nice. We thought it could be able to get out on its own, but after a little while it didn't, so we opened the side door and it ran out, and hasn't been seen since.

I also saw these at the grocery store, are they good?

Days 506 - 509

Not much has been going on here

Mr has been napping

I cut all of my background color.

And Josh and I tried out a brewery, it had some decent food and a great atmosphere

Day 458

Today we celebrated one of my friends birthdays, I made cream cheese Danishes

They were amazing, much better than they looked.

A tradition in Mexico is to shove the birthday persons face in their cake :)

We had a good time.

Days 453 - 457

After a slow weekend and a couple of days of chores, I decided to make pizza stuffed shells, I was pretty excited because I actually found shells at the grocery store!!!!

It was pretty good, Josh really liked it.

Day 452

I have been wanting to try making Perogies for a while now.

So today I made mashed potatoes and dough and started stuffing the pastries.

Then I had to boil them

Then we had to fry them.

They were pretty good, but they took a long time, and it was hard to get the dough thin enough.

Days 450 & 451

After another day of chores, and then Josh and I looked at a couple new houses.

Some neighborhoods have nice parks and gardens

On my way home I saw this,

Things here in Mexico get transported a lot differently

We also made a quick easy BBQ breaded chicken. Yum!

Days 437

Today I moved a couch because I'm hosting a pizza and movie night tonight.

I made these crasin roll ups, they were ok, And also some garlic knots.

Then while getting dishes ready, I broke this wine glass, or 2nd wine glass to bite the dust since we have been here.

All ready! We had a great time chatting and barely watched the movie, but it was a good time :)