Fabric Covered Kitchen Cabinets

Fabric Covered Kitchen Cabinets?? I am freaking out here!!! I LOVE this idea!!! I sent an email to my mother in law so that maybe we can do hers first....I have a feeling Carlos won't be so into them, but you never know....before I even got this blog posted I got a response from my sweetie via email : ewww... ghetto!!!!!

Obviously I don't agree.

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Dear Alexis

Dear Alexis,

I visited your home state girl! California!! While I was there I stayed in a hotel where they had a sleep number bed. You gave good advice all those years ago when you told us that's the kind of bed we needed to sleep better in. So I wanted you to know that my sleep number is 40. I also got to go to Disneyland. You would have loved it there. Maybe I can take you there someday when you are bigger. We will stay in that same hotel and find out what YOUR sleep number is!! I love you!

-Val

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Palm Trees

So it started from the plane...I could see these little pom-pom ball trees sticking up taller than all the other trees and houses. I began thinking then that Palm Trees were not so awesome - more Dr. Seuss and kinda retarded. After we landed and started driving and I saw them randomly popping up I began to try and understand the point of a palm tree - or at least the pom-pom palm trees. Here in Texas we line our roads with large trees to shade our yards, houses and streets....I couldn't see much shade going on with the palm trees. It was really funny to see a beautiful house with all these gorgeous plants and different kinds of foliage in front of it - and a really tall palm tree towering over the yard so when you look at the house you just see this tree trunk. lol!!! You had to look up to see the tree! Anyway, there are other types of palm trees that are much shorter and fuller that look beautiful - but these other ones - the pom pom's (along with the purple and orange trees) gives California a Dr Seuss feel like no other!!

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Sweatin' Here In LA

The plants here are beautiful. I love the purple trees. Carlos thinks they smell awesome and picks up a hand-full of blossoms from the ground and sniffs them - I think they stink and refuse to inhale.
We were driving around getting supplies and there was a man in the parking lot selling big bags of cherries for $5 so we bought some. Mmmm - good!
Carlos had been painting and so I have been wandering around - I go back and check on him now and again so I can take a picture or two or three.

The palm trees here are crazy - I think that I will leave that for another post. Oh yeah, and I am sweatin here in la....its that sticky hot that I am not used to in good ole' west texas!!

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I might die from lack of sleep

soooo....I can barely think right now. Last night I went to bed at 2am and got up at 5:30am. It is 12:30Am right now and I am blogging....I am crazy....anyway, Carlos and I just got done walking the streets of LA. We went shopping cause we didn't have anything else to do, but I am sooo tired right now....this whole blog will probably not make sense. Carlos gets more rest than I do when we travel because he sleeps on the planes....I can't sleep on the planes very well. (I was over the wing again) I am thinking about taking some binoculars next time I go cause my face is smashed up against the window all the time looking out onto the land...I saw a car wreck today as we were coming into LA....the turbulence on that flight was crazy....it is not a good sign when it feels like you are on a roller coaster.....or that the entire plane lost power before take off and they had to pull back up and power it up again....I was ready to get off but the captain called it an anomaly and explained it to us so I stayed. I can't find a microwave anywhere and am dying for some tea....some how hot tap water doesn't cut it.

I just heard the strangest noise.....something keeps calling my name and its not Carlos....there it goes again!!!
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I finally figured out what it was....my bed...its calling my name.....good night!!!!

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Ahhhh....chai tea

I love tazo organic chai tea...in fact, I am hooked. Of all the tea in this photo its the best...the way to drink it is like this:

Heat your cup of water up in the microwave for 1:20.

Put your tea bag in the tea

Pour in 2 packets of Splenda

Then pour a nice bit of heavy whipping cream into the tea

Let it sit 30 seconds....close your eyes, and try not to burn your tongue

On a side note, the Passion tea is freaky....its bright red and very fruity....and there is some kind of chemical reaction between it and then heavy whipping cream because it immediately curdled when I poured some in...but yeah....

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GMA Week in Nashville

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Does Music Get To Your Nerves?

Carlos and I were in Nashville for the GMA's. No we didn't go to the Dove Awards - evidently they are stupid - full of takes and retakes - and stuffy people...we had a Peanut Butter and Jelly Party on a rooftop. It was awesome. On the way up to the rooftop, I was walking with this guy and he asked me if Carlos' music ever got on my nerves. Since he is a dj, sometimes he works with a 15 second piece that he plays over and over and over again. Then once it is all done, we listen to the set in the car. So yes, I told him, I DO get sick of listening to his music....but never so much as right now. I am in the living room and he keeps playing the first 10 seconds of the song, La Cucaracha....over and over and over.....enough said.

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I NEED These Shoes!!

THIS ONE

AND THIS ONE

AND THIS ONE TOO

Note to Carlos: I wear a 6.5 and I would totally love to be surprised by any or all of these shoes.

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Missing Screws

Every time I fly, somehow I end up over the wing. So I take on the responsibility of checking to make sure that all the screws are in the wing and that nothing is loose or broken. Although I don't think to check that till we are air born, and I am not sure what I would do if I ever saw a loose screw and we were 20,000 ft in the air....it's still I feel an important job. Almost like being seated in the exit row.

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Free Wifi

I hate paying for internet connections. Although I totally understand - sometimes - why they charge, but dang. I am in Nashville right now in a McDonalds. I payed 2.95 for a 2 hour block of time to use the internet....I also bought breakfast, but I guess that doesn't count. I DID eat a really good chicken breakfast sandwich here. Whataburger breakfast is the best....but when you are starving, you take what you can get and hope that the carbs don't stick. I got up at 7am to take my friend to work today. She switched her hours so that she could get off earlier. So I took her to work....now I have till 5pm till she gets off...hopefully I can find things to do here!! Anyway, my battery is getting low - lol!!! If its not one thing its another, right? I have a feeling that I will be in this McDonalds again tomorrow, so see you soon. I will upload some pics of what all is happening...gonna go get another sandwich and THEN I am gonna find a YMCA!!!!!

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Party

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Strawberry Jammin'

Alexis says that the Strawberry Shortcake song "Jammin" is HER song. If she hears you singing it she says that it's HER song not yours and to stop singing it. Her friend Ashley across the street let her play with a microphone and so Alexis started bustin' out Her Jammin' Song. And she was totally fine with me videoing her...and let me know when she was done.

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Finally!!!

I know that I am acting like I just finished this myself, but it feels like it. My life (house, kitchen, laundry room) have been turned upside down during this entire process. My husband is so excited and proud though - makes it all worth it!

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Behind The Scenes At Villyval

What you see in the photo is what I am usually doing....taking photos of everyone else. Hey cousin, know what I mean?? LOL!!

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Sisters

Awww!! Don't they all look beautiful? Thanks to my new best friend PICASA!!

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Laziness, plain and simple

I really believe that we are just getting lazy. This is how everyone hunted eggs this year...so what if it was wet and cold outside??? Why did we have to throw the eggs in the middle of the room and tell the kids to pick them up again??? LOL!!! It's so funny! No one hunts for them anymore - Carlos' theory is that when we were young everyone was broke so you really had to hunt for the eggs cause there wasn't that many...I agree with him and I added that there were also the boiled eggs everyone made that took up most of the space in your basket...sigh...the good ole' days!

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Bye!

And then she said, "Bye! I don't want NO more pictures!!"

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Memaw's Easter Bunny's

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ABC News: Is America Addicted to Porn

Just got through watching the above on ABC's site. Check it out: FACE OFF I really appreciated the entire debate - there is honor on both sides for the other. Much nicer than the debates that you might see between candidates for the presidential election. Gonna call it a God Factor - because I think that since we are in a LOVE WAR - the Porn Pastor is doing an excellent job of calling sin what it is and loving without judgement those involved. Also offering help rather than just leaving some one out there to struggle. Check out XXX Church and Heart Support. Subscribe to their news letters!!

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