Last year we didn't put a Christmas tree up since we were in the apartment and most of our stuff was in storage... This year we got THREE!!! Check it out!!!
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El anio pasado no pusimos arbolido de Navidad porque estabamos en el departamento y la mayoria de nuestras cosas estaban guardadas abajo de muchas cosas... Este anio pusimos TRES!!! Chequen!!!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Christmas Decorations
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Labels: Christmas, Decoration, Holidays
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Long time... No deck stain...
After all the rain in October, we finally got around to cleaning our deck, in preparation to staining it, last weekend... we still haven't made it to staining it, but hopefully that will happen sooner than later and (crossing fingers) it won't be so long that we'll have to clean the deck again before we do it :-S
John put the cleaning solution on, and I rinse the whole thing off 3o minutes later :-)
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Despues de toda la lluvia en Octubre, finalmente logramos limpiar la madera de la terraza, en preparacion para pintarla, el fin de semana pasado... todavia no la pintamos, pero espero que eso suceda pronto y (haciendo changuitos) no pase tanto tiempo que la tengamos que limpiar otra vez antes de pintar :-S
John le puso la solucion para limpiarla, y yo a enjuague 30 minutos despues :-)
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Labels: Deck
Friday, October 16, 2009
We have a fence!!!
Our fence was finally installed today!!! When it finally stopped raining (mostly) for a couple of days...
I got home around 12:30 when they were about 80% done, but I took some pictures in progress any way :-)
I'm still getting used to how it looks with a fence now (for before pictures, click here). We're pretty happy to have it installed now, even though it is now evident that our sod doesn't go to the end of our property on either side and our grass got a bit mangled from the process :-(
So here are some pictures (maybe 15 more than necessary, but what ever :-D), introducing: the fence!!! :-)
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Hoy instalaron nuestra reja por fin!!! Cuando finalmente dejo de llover (o por lo menos no llovio tanto) durante un par de dias...
Llegue a la casa como a las 12:30 y ya llevaban como el 80% de la reja puesta, pero de todas maneras tome unas fotos del proceso :-)
Todavia me estoy acostumbrando a como se ve con la reja ahora (para fotos de antes, picale aqui). Estamos muy contentos de que ya este instalada, aunque ahora es evidente que les falto ponernos unos pedazos de pasto en ambos lados del terreno y aunque el pasto se danio un poco durante el proceso :-(
Y aqui van unas fotos (tal vez 15 fotos mas de las necesarias pero ni pex :-D), presentando: la reja!!!
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Area
I've been wanting to post a picture of the general area where I live specially to give my friends that live far away an idea of it.
We live around the area on the top left where the pink dot is, about 9 miles away from the Missouri River, and only a few miles from the Busch Wildlife Reserve, which is almost 7000 acres and has around 38 lakes!!!!!
It's a really calm, quiet area, and hopefully it'll stay that way for years to come :-)
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He estado queriendo postear una foto del area donde vivo en general especialmente para que mis amigos que viven lejos se den una mejor idea.
Vivimos cerca del area donde esta un punto rosa en la esquina superior izquierda, aproximadamente a 9 millas del Rio Missouri, y a unas cuantas millas de la Reserva Ecologica Busch, que consiste de casi 7000 acres y tiene como 38 lagos!!!
Es un area super tranquila y sin ruido, y espero que siga asi muchos anios :-)
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Labels: Area, Lake St. Louis, Map
Halloween Wishlist
I want the first 2, 2 of the window things for the 2 bottom floor windows and the "fortune teller" along with the table clothes :-)
And John wants the 2 last ones (the creepy ones) :-D He wanted some mummies for next to the door, but I think they're sold out :-S
All of it is from Grandin Road.
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Nuestra lista de deseos de Halloween.
Yo quiero las 2 primeras cosas, 2 para las ventanas del piso de abajo y la senora que te dice tu suerte, junto con los manteles que estan ahi :-)
John quiere las 2 ultimas (las que dan miedo) :-D Queria comprar unas momias para a un lado de la puerta, pero se me hace que ya no estan disponibles :-S
Todo es de Grandin Road.
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Labels: Grandin Road, Halloween
Halloween
We went to Target on Sunday to get some Halloween Decorations, I told John that we should only buy a few and I'll buy more the day after Halloween for next year :-) So we already have some items on our wish list :-)
So far we already bought 2 tombstones, 2 sets of lights (we're thinking about buying a couple more), and a pumpking that you can conect and has a light inside.
I think we'll go this weekend or next week to Rombach's to get our real pumpkins... And I want to get some hay :-D
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El domingo fuimos a Target a comprar decoraciones de Halloween, yo le dije a John que nada mas compraramos poquitas cosas y que podemos comprar mas el dia despues de Halloween para el anio que viene :-) Asi que ya tenemos algunas cosas en nuestra lista :-)
Hasta ahorita ya compramos 2 placas para tumbas, 2 juegos de luces (estamos pensando en comprar otras 2), y una calabaza electrica.
Yo creo que este fin de semana o la semana que viene vamos a ir a la Granja Rombach a comprar nuestras calabazas de verdad.... Y quiero comprar paja :-D
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Labels: Halloween
Ooops, I forgot to post this...
But I now have flowers in my flower bed!!! I planted them last Friday and they seem to be doing well.
And I'm supposed to get the bulbs I ordered sometime next week!!! :-)
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Se me habia olvidado postear que ya tengo flores en mi jardinera!!! Las plante el viernes pasado y parece que estan agarrando bien.
Se supone que la semana que viene me llegan los bulbos que ordene!!! :-)
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Speaking about gardens...
As you can probably tell, I get Grandin Road's catalog all the time (I think it's from when I bought an air bed from Sky Mall when I was moving to STL), and a few months ago we saw the fountain that appears on the first picture, which made me think about getting one for our back yard... We're not getting one any time soon (I don't think... and the reason is... we're putting in a fence soon, which is another post on it's own, by the way), but that doesn't mean I can post about it :-)
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Como se habran dado cuenta, me llega el catalogo de Grandin Road seguido (creo que empezo cuando compramos el colchon inflable de Sky Mall cuando me iba a cambiar a STL), y hace unos meses vimos la fuente que aparece en la primera foto, lo que me hizo pensar en poner una fuente en nuestro patio de atras... No vamos a comprar una fuente pronto (o por lo menos no creo... y la razon es... que estamos en el proceso de poner cerco, lo cual merece un post para ese tema unicamente), pero eso no quiere decir que no pueda postear al respecto :-)
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