Face Painting, Boots and Grocery Shopping

Hooray for the weekend!!!!!  Today was filled with a trip to the farmer's market, trying a new bbq restaurant (I gave it a "meh"), "family boot day", grocery shopping and finally a couple hours at the pool.

Farmer's Market was awesome as usual.  We got tons of awesome produce, some more czech sausage and skirt steaks along with local Pineapple Balsamic Vinegar and dairy free cookies!!!!  A new vendor this week was an airstream bakery.  When I saw the posting about them on fb - I messaged them and asked if by any chance they would have dairy free cookies (a total treat for Mia because that generally isn't available) and they did!!!! When we went by they had set aside two for her and didn't even charge us.  It was totally sweet.  We will definitely be going back next week and buying some.  :) (and maybe begging for the recipe too)

I think I've mentioned it before but I <3 H.E.B.!!!!  Their "bulk foods" selection is fabulous.  Today we got different fruits for more homemade granola bar and made our own trail mix.  I was also able to get ground ginger for a total of $0.08 because they had it in bulk and all I needed was 2 tbsps for a recipe I'm going to try this week.

Fabulous start to the weekend for sure.

Basil, Boots and Petunias

When I went out to water all the herbs and flowers this morning I found that the sweet basil had sprouted!!!  None of the other herbs have made an appearance yet but our flowers are doing beautifully.  One of the seeds Mia planted has sprouted and the other plants are putting on all kinds of new blooms.

Mia and I went on a shopping expedition today to find me some authentic cowboy boots.  I have a pair of knock offs that I've had since before Ben and I started dating but now that we live in Texas I felt like it was time to get some real ones.  I decided on some beautiful Ariat books that are dark brown with turquoise stitching ... and I already have my eyes on a black pair - but I'll have to save my pennies for a while ... maybe for Christmas. :)

It's a holiday weekend!  We briefly considered traveling north or south and checking out some sites but in the end just decided to have a "no plans/do nothing" weekend.

A huge thank you to all the service men and women for your brave service and to your families for their sacrifices as well.