It’s how I Cinco De Mayo :)

Any other Irish girl LOOOOVE Cinco De Mayo like me?!!!  Maybe it's the street tacos I dream of!  Or the live music of a fabulous mariachi band playing!  Or even the fresh, "made-at-your-table" guacamole that you dip your freshly salted chips into.  Aaaahhh! How can you go wrong with live music, fresh appetizers and a…

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Thank You Gift

Thank you's are important.  You can't say thank you enough and the written thank you is a life skill that I am hoping to pass down with my children and hope they will continue to do so with their children.  Our world is filled with so much technology that takes us away from these intimate…

Wallpaper Accent Wall

Holy hello, my little blog!  I have been neglecting you!!!  It is not that I have been sitting on my buttocks, watching Soaps all day and eating Bon Bons!   With dance competition season and baseball season (hubbie's the coach), school auction and art project deadlines, traveling to LA, etc., our lives have been in a…

An Egg-cellent Easter Activity

YAY! It's spring break!  And what do the Manos' do on spring break?  Chill out and get ready for Easter, of course!! 🙂 After seeing Hamilton (YES!  WE GOT TICKETS!!!), we headed to our Sunriver home Sunday morning.  Whenever we come to Sunriver, we have lots of together time: walking to the village, having hot…

TGIF: Green Cucumber

Well it's almost St. Patties Day!!!!  Time to pull out all the green in your closet!!!!  I love green but I don't tend to purchase things that are green.  In grade school if I (heaven forbid) forgot to wear green on March 17th, I could always use the excuse that I have GREEN EYES (so…

Delightful Veggie-packed Dinner

I love a challenge.  I DON'T love to challenge people!  I am referring to when I hear someone say, "Oh, that can't be done." or "Only she can pull that off" or "I have no idea how that would be created."  It sparks something in me that takes it from "No you can't" to "YES…

TGIF: The Bubbly Grape

Valentine's Day is long gone but the pink bubbly lives on! Today for TGIF, I am bringing to you a lovely light beverage that will tickle your taste buds and enlighten your mind.  Today, I bring you The Bubbly Grape. It is an infused drink (I just love an infusion, don't you?!!!) topped off with…

TGIF: New Orleans Special

Have you been to New Orleans?  I have!  ONCE! It was with my parents and my little sis. I was only 12 years old.  I remember going to dinner at Brennan's, this super fancy restaurant where the men were required to wear a suit jacket to be seated!  Well... my family and I had been traveling…

Frozen Party

Does your little one LOVE Frozen, the movie?!!! With all this snow in Portland, I thought I'd share my daughter's FROZEN birthday party from a few years ago.  If I asked my daughter today, she would say this was "soooo 3 years ago" but looking back, it was such a fun party to pull together.…

The Search for a Dresser

Have you ever sold something on Craigslist?  My husband has been very successful doing so but I have not.   Not that I have tried.  I'm a little scared :).  I leave him to deal with the strangers.  But... I've looked...oh have I looked on Craigslist!  I can think of one piece in our house, the…