Day 11

So I did a few more loads of laundry, one of which was sanitizing the pad for the steam mop, Josh had steam cleaned some things before I got down here.

So I was excited to use the steam mop for the first time.

Meet our steam mop.

Notice all the dirt on the pad? This place is dusty! I had mopped the bathroom, closet, bedroom and living room, and it got quite dirty! Then later I knelt on the living room floor and my pants were all dusty again! How will I keep up with this dust!?!?!

But the steam mop is really nice Nice and quick, I had heard about them because my sister inlaw had one, and really liked it. The downfall is no cleaning solution can be used... So you will need to bleach mop occasionally... 

I also washed the sheets, so I made up our bed with all the decorative pillows and etc. I am in LOVE with our new bedspread set!

And our lamps :)

I tried out mexican gummy bears, I think they are actually panda bears...

They were good!

I skim the pool everyday, and I saved this guy while cleaning the pool, he spent the rest of the day hanging out on the patio.

Then, we ate left over ham and cheese sliders, and made mashed potatoes that are supposed to be like apple bees mashed potatoes.

They took some work, and were ok, but Josh and I agree, they were not worth the effort.

And the Spanish lesson for the day, crema acida is spanish for sour cream :)

Day 186

We spent some time tiding up the yard, went grocery shopping, hit up the gym and hung out at home the rest of the day.

We made a delicious recipe of honey lemon glazed chicken over rice. 

We chose to use our deep fryer, and our chicken didn't turn out as dark as the picture, and I'm. It sure the sauce thickened quite as much, BUT the buttermilk, which I made myself because we could t get it here, made a huge difference I. The taste of the breeding on the chicken, and it was delicious!!!! This will definitely go into the will make again file! Yum!

After dinner we watched a bit of TV and then I was headed to bed I was tired, josh stayed up a bit. I laid down a little while later I heard a clicking noise and I asked Josh if he had heard it, or knew what it was, he did not. I laid back down, and then the whole house shook!!! The bed rattled and the chandalier over the bed shook, probably not that long, but it felt like 15-20 seconds, and I ran downstairs and I told Josh it was an earth quake, he claims no, that it was probably just a big truck rumbling by, I said no way! A big truck would never shake the house that much! It was an earthquake! After a while we went to bed disagreeing, then as we laid down, two aftershocks! He was more willing to agree that It might have been an earth quake by then, and we went to sleep.

Turns out it was an earth quake!

Last Tuesday this happened

Although we did not get much hail at our house, I thought this was crazy! The hail here is more than I've ever seen before

then last Thursday there was another crazy storm while we were in Spanish class that took out the power and flooded the streets, and tore down some trees, and now an earthquake! Things are getting crazy!

Day 185

I have made it 6 months in Mexico now, and I am getting used to it.

Not six months straight of course, but 6 months in the country. 

When we got mr we got him a water dish that was like the water jugs at offices,  it then it got moldy and gross, so we got rid of it, now we are trying to find one again here in Mexico. So we drove all the way to the pet store in Monterrey, come to find out, they don't carry them there either. But I found a big bag of the new food we are giving mr. Another thing I can not find is cat treats! I thought I had seen them before, but now I can not find them ANYWHERE! So another item imported.

Then in e evening we went to one of my friend's birthday parties, she is a German girl married to a Mexican. It was the first time I've been in a social setting where not everyone spoke English, so I was able to practice my spanish, and Nikki's mother inlaw helped me when I couldn't translate something, it was really good for me! There was of course food, and drinks,

But it wouldn't be a Mexican Birthday party without a piñata!

Day 184

I met a few new friends today, one girl her husband works for Whirlpool, but sadly they are headed back to Michigan this summer. So she is only here for 2 more months!

After hanging out with my friends, I worked on my quilt.

4.5 of my 5 rows done!

I planned to have the blocks assembled before the end of May! So if I finish this top in the next week I'll be way ahead of schedule! And I'll be able to resume my regularly scheduled life! Well until August, when I will be able to start quilting!

Mr. Meow enjoyed the out doors 

And we made stuffed shells, except I couldn't find shells so I stuffed a different kind of pasta and Josh made the sauce according to the recipe, there were waaaaaaayyyyy too many red pepper flakes in the sauce, and it overtook the flavor of anything else,

Not cool.

Day 183

So after not getting to bed until 2am I slept like a baby until Josh went to work at 7.

Mr. Meow also had a rough night.

I finished all the blocks!

And tried the layout

I like it.

Then Josh came home

This is what happens when you only sleep for 3 hours, he took a quick nap before we headed to spanish class, after spanish he dropped me off at home and headed back to work. When he got home at close to 11 he claimed his power nap had invigorated him and he was not tired, but after and 10 minutes of sitting on the couch he was sawing logs lol

Day 182

Our biggest lime fell off the lime tree today. I cut it open and it smelled like lime! But, there was really not much other than peel.

I spent some good quality time with Mr. Meow today.

And he spent most of his day being adorable as usual.

Josh came home from work, we ate a quick dinner then he headed out to pick up some guys from work that were in visiting and took them out to dinner since they had just arrived, then when he got home at 11pm he tried to stay awake because he had to go back to work at 1:30, I decided to stay up to make sure he work up and went to work. I watched pretty much the entire season 3 of Downton Abbey today, I will watch the season 4 I got for Christmas this week too :) I hope I get season 5 for my birthday, hint hint :)

Day 181

I worked on laundry and I cleaned the master bath,

But then I remembered I also needed to pay bills.

When I tried to access my flash drive, it was corrupted. I tried for hours to figure it out, and last week someone stole our credit card information and used it from when we were home at Easter, so I was having a bit of a nervous breakdown.

But thankfully, I had made a copy of everying and left it with my parents, so I only lost a few months worth of data! Phew! 

Here is the guest bed in the office, Mr is testing it out, yes there are actually 2 mattresses, but what were we going to do with the other one until things are set in stone??? And it gives Mr. a good work out every time he wants to jump up there. He makes a little noise like it was hard to jump that high lol.

We also got these popcorn flavor at the grocery store, did you know there were so many options???