Snow! Wind! Sunshine & 70?

Thursday morning we woke up to a pleasant surprise about 2 inches of snow. WOW! It is the end of April and we got snow. I woke the girls up at 6:00 am with a whisper of "look out the window" and they were dressed, brushed and fed by 6:30 and out the door. They were so excited to go play in the snow I couldn't really deny them the opportunity. Cheyanne and Heather played outside until 7:30 then went to school where believe it or not the kids are not allowed to play on the play ground when there is snow :(. The rest of the day was just windy and cold but not cold enough to keep the snow it had all melted away by 10:30 and sounded like a rain storm streaming off of the roof. It left quite the muddy mess. Today is was sunny and 70 I haven't even put a jacket on.

On other things the house is coming along nicely and I am sure it will look beautiful when it is done. We are almost done with the flooring and I am half way done with the painting. Last weekend I somehow turned 37 but I am not sure how it happened though. We didn't do too much celebrating because we were working on the house but Todd did take me out to dinner to King's Fish House in Rancho and I had the always yummy Parmesan crusted sand dabs and some shrimp cocktail. Tomorrow we are going to the Lemon Festival to hang out for awhile and hopefully see some friends then it will be back to working on the house for me again and back to work for Todd.

One Whole Month

Well we have been up here for a whole month now and still aren't fully settled in yet but we have made some progress. I have managed to paint the living room, Todd put up closet rods in the closets so we could hang up our clothes, took out the 3 dead trees right next to the house, trimmed some of the other trees, Todd hooked up the phones line so I could have a computer, put up a fence and we took down the Christmas lights. I still have to paint the whole rest of the house and will be working on that this week. I am hoping to do some of the flooring this weekend but we have another glitch so I don't know if that will happen.
We took a walk around here over the weekend and explored some of the dirt roads and "bunny trails" by our house. There are a million rocks out here so next time we go for a walk we will need to carry a backpack to carry the girls loot back in. They both have been interested in rocks since they could walk and I am thinking about getting some geology books so they can figure out what we have. I am a little rusty on my rock identification so I could use a brush up too. The other thing I need to get is a bug I.d. type book, there are so many bugs up here and as I found out Saturday even the harmless looking little caterpillar out here is really a demon in disguise. I thought that venomous caterpillars were only found in places like the Amazon or Florida but no they are here too. They fall out of the tree, land on you and you don't even know it until you brush up against it and your arm swells up, turns read and hurts. Crazy buggers, and I was worried about rattlesnakes.

My Mexican Food Addictiction

There I said it I am an addict, I love Mexican food and I can't live without it. I am not talking Taco Bell either I like pretty authentic stuff and they must have a good salsa. This has created a small problem for me since we moved. I'll admit I have been spoiled having grown up in and living next to Ontario all my life where there are numerous yummy little hole in the wall places on every corner. I also have been blessed with a Hispanic side of my family that really knows how to cook. So having moved up here to the sticks has had some drawbacks. There is a serious shortage of good Mexican food here. I have tried a couple of places and so far nothing compares to El Ranchero, Patty's, Los Monitos, Jarritos, King Taco or Taco King BUT I have found one place that so far is better than the rest. Casa de Ortega (just down the road on hwy. 138) has some pretty good enchilada's, salsa and guacamole. I also had a strawberry margarita and it was pretty scrumptious. The real test is going to be the carnitas, if that is good they will soon be tired of me there because so far nobody can make a decent carnitas taco up here. I am keeping my fingers crossed but I am still going to drive all the way to Ontario to get my carne asada from El Toro meat market on 4th and Grove.