Sorry I didn’t post yesterday, had so much to do AND we did more today!

Today was a very busy day. I knew we’d have to get up early since I had a haircut and yesterday was spent doing some research on a 2nd monitor.

After we dropped off Emmy with her Aunt Julie (for a softball game) Joaquin and I went electronic shopping. It took most of the morning but we had to be at the school baseball field by 2pm for his practice. I then got my monitor but still working the kinks out.

Thursday was an even busier day. We got up around 8am then had some breakfast and made my 9:30am haircut appointment. We then swung by my work to pick up a foam cutting tool so I could take it to my sister who really does alot of craft work at her business, partiestogobyjo.com.

But, on the way we stopped off at the ATT store since somehow my son managed to lockup his new phone. 20mins later we on the road to my sister’s store in Helotes. You can click on the pictures for larger view.

After an hour of showing her the great tool (she’s gonna get one) and some costume dress auditions by my kids, we were off to see my Mom or Nana.

We got there and my Mom was outside cleaning up so we pitched in. I took the pictures. :-) My Mom loves seeing the kiddos and we hung out for about an hour then I rewarded my kids by taking them to SMASH BURGERS.

Good stuff. Joaquin and Emmy loved the burgers – so did I!

We got home around 2pm and while I labored away in the study still messing with my new iMac, Joaquin and Emmy practiced softball pitching in the backyard. Around 3:30pm we headed off to take Emmy to her 2nd softball practice of the week. Joaquin practices tomorrow.

Then around 6pm I took off to go help my bud move some stuff into his new downtown apartment. Way cool. I’m so excited for him.

Tomorrow we have to go help move a sofa out of my father-in-laws condo (god rest his sole) into Liz’s niece’s apartment. Then at 2pm, Joaquin goes to his last baseball practice.

I’m gonna do some serious cleaning in my study and finally get my setup the way I want it.

Hopefully I’ll get to set up Joaquin’s iMac over the weekend and finish out my list – it was rather quite ambitious.

That’s it for now. More tomorrow.

Beto

Got more done yesterday even though it rained. We even got sidetracked a bit but that was part of the fun.

We started our day off by sleeping in a bit. But by 9:30am we were off (while it was raining) to see the Dinosaur exhibit at the Witte Museum. A good buddy of mine (Jonathan) told me we should arrive early so I was worried we were going to be late. But we only had to wait a few minutes. It was a little crowed but we enjoyed the Dinosaur exhibit.

Then the kiddos took be me through the rest of the museum. I hadn’t been in a while so it was neat for me. Kids loved that they got to lead me around. See the pictures below.

Funny thing was after an hour and a half we stepped out and WOW! Look how many people were waiting to get in! (last picture below) The line was long and stretched out to the parking lot! Again, I’m so glad we got there early. I would not have wanted to stand IN THE RAIN to get into the exhibit.

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As we were driving off, I remembered a couple of people telling me about this bakery in Alamo Heights and since we were in the area, we stopped of at The Broadway Daily Bread. Good stuff. I bought some fresh baked 1/2 loaves of bread and some muffins for us. I’m sure Liz will love them.

Then it was off to find a case for my son’s new phone. No luck there. We got home around 1pm and had lunch. Then I snuck into my office to tackle setting up my new iMac. I told the kids they had to sort and fold the five baskets of laundry I had done the day prior.

…hey…don’t call me “Evil Dad” – they loved the Dino visit! So they had to finish some house work!

So, I began installing the new iMac. As I had mentioned I decided just bring over the core apps (mail, iCal and network settings) to my new iMac and reload all the other 3rd party apps. That was most of my day. I finally pushed away from the Mac at around 9pm. As I was rubbing my eyes and stretching my back, I heard some noises coming from Joaquin’s room.

I walked over and saw that he was clearing off his shelf in preparation for us to raise the hutch so he could be ready to receive my old iMac – new to him!

Just like Papa.

So that’s it for yesterday, got another busy day today. I’ll try to post tonight.

Beto

Had a productive day today. Early in the morning, I got a pleasant surprise.

Apparently my dental hygienist was sick today so that meant they couldn’t do my cleaning and deep scaling. I calmly stated I would reschedule it when I get back to the office next week.

WhooHoo!

Now that is one great way to scratch something off my list!

We did get to do the laundry, clean up the kitchen from last nights dinner and run to Dave and Busters to use up some cards for the kiddos. They had a great time playing video games.

My Emmy racked up an impressive 694 tickets from the games so she redeemed them for some cool items at D&B.

I realized it was going to rain this week so on the way home we detoured to Hobby Lobby to buy some “rainy day” creative projects. Joaquin got a 2006 Camero model kit. I have a 68 Firebird model I purchased a while back and we can both build it when we’re trapped at home when its raining. Of course my little girl wanted some modeling clay and some “sketch by the numbers” project so she can have something to do as well. We hope it doesn’t rain but just in case.

The biggest news was we got Joaquin a new phone today.

He’s been asking and I told him to wait but when I stopped off at Office Depot to get something to clean off my keyboard…more on that later. While we were there, Joaquin spotted a Radio Shack and he asked if we could look into a new phone for him. Twenty minutes later, I walked out of THE SHACK with a giddy 14yr old teenager sporting a toothy smile. My 10yr daughter was at my side, bummed that her repeated requests to get a phone went unanswered.

So I’ve update my list with the new items and promptly checked/scratched them off. Heck I even had dinner cooking when Liz showed up after work. That allowed us to eat and then she took Joaquin to get his haircut. Another item we added to the list. He and Emmy have baseball practice this week too.

Tomorrow we hope to make it to the Witte Dinosaur exhibit after we get some breakfast. That should be fun.

More tomorrow,

Beto

So I’m starting my Spring Break this week with my kiddos. They are off, so I’m off. They are still too young to be left alone for a week (14 and 10).

Unfortunately, Liz will have to work so I’ve come up with a “to do list” and showed it to here so she doesn’t think we’re just goofing off or relaxing.

I mean, WE ARE ON VACATION.

But I digress.

I’ve already knocked some items off my to do list and I hope to check off a lot more before the week ends.

I think the toughest of all of these will be setting up my new iMac. I’ll need to transfer all my files to this new behemoth AND then give my old iMac to my son Joaquin.

If you think I was salivating to get my new iMac – he’s been doing just the same.

Only problem is that I’ll need to “raise” his hutch on his desk since the Mac he’ll be getting is much larger and won’t fit on his desk the way it’s currently set up.

I’ll be posting updates on my blog as we (the kiddos and I) move along the week.

And I’m sure Liz will add some items along the week as well.

So let’s see how much we get done – check back frequently.

Beto