More Houses

Here are some more houses I found in South Padre. I tried to put them in comments under the last post, but I couldnt figure out how to do it. Anyway...I think a cauple of these are in the same community that Clint and Maykas house was in. Take a look and tell me what you think. Oh yea and Nick...something that might interest you and your no-clothes policy, under entertainment on some of the other rentals I had looked at (not these) they had listed that there are nude beaches.

http://www.homeaway.com/USA/Texas/vacation-villa-South-PadreIsland/dni/1/p138484.htm

http://www.vrbo.com/88903

http://www.vrbo.com/101408

Vacation Homes

http://www.homeaway.com/index.cfm/fa/find.aquery/page/1/refinements/regions:5476,Sleeps:13*/

Here are some vacation homes I found for the texas gulf coast. Some are by Corpus Christi, and some are by Houston. There are some down south by Padre Island, but things tend to be more expensive down there and not too many options. All sleep atleast 13. Most seem to be filling up fairly fast, and it looks like the end of May is when the high-season starts, so begginning of May would be good. It looks like the price would be about 1500-2500 for the week.

Anyway let me know what you think. Also Chad said that if we wanted, everyone could fly into San Antone and then rent a 15 passanger van to drive to the beach. This is going to be soooo fun.

Also...on this website you can look at other places for beach homes. I was checking out some on the outer banks of North Carolina that looked pretty nice. Is that still an option?

splash and dash 2007

Well, I might as well use this blog as my own journal, considering no one ever looks at it anymore. No, j/k. I enjoyed the previous comments, and let me give a big shout out to Nick for the comment mentioned on the previous blog. But I figured I would let everyone know how Splash 'n Dash 2007 went.

Well I had a great audience rooting for me. The highlights of April 7th happened when one of my engaged ex-girlfriend introduced herself to mom and dad. And, being all sneaky-like, the fam looked at one another saying, "She's cute. Why doesn't Trevor date her?" Well, if the first adjective doesn't give it away as to why, surely the second one does. Needless to say, my roommates/friends (yes, Chad, I do have friends) that were there thought that that was pretty funny.

The actual race went well. I was the first one "out of the pool". It's in parentheses because we were doing a team biathlon (one swims the other one runs) and I simply finished first in the first heat. However in total we finished in fourth place. You can check out the total results HERE. Here are also some of the pictures from the day.

BYU vs. Dick Cheney

I found this link interesting.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/324450,CST-NWS-byu03.article

Two questions:

1. When did shorts become prohibited? and,
2. Did this topic overtake the single-strap backpack controversy in the letters to the editor?

Tustison Family Legends

First of all, thanks for letting me join the blog again, Nick. I know I have a link to my website spanish-translation-help.com, but it's not like I every overly promote spanish-translation-help.com or try to show how cool I am because I have a website at spanish-translation-help.com. I'll make sure that from now on I don't make this blog a forum for letting everyone know about spanish-translation-help.com.

Anyways, a couple of weeks ago as we were preparing for our trip, I started thinking about legends we have in the family. It started because I told the boys that Mom was a doctor and Dad a banker and how Mom can speak French.

Well, I started thinking about things that have (and will) live on as legends we pass on and here are some that I came up with:

1. Grandma N. knew Helen Keller.
2. Chuck Norris tried to hit on Mom at Imperial Valley College.
3. Mom and Dad met Ozzie Smith and Dale Murphy (and got an autographed baseball from them, which they gave to me. Sorry, Nick, I don't think getting an autographed baseball of José Concepción counts as a legend.)
4. Chad being featured in Police Beat.
5. Chad outlasting Lavell at the urinal.

These are just some I came up with. Please share if you can think of any more.

pumkin cookies, simplified

If you love pumpkin cookies, you'll love this. I recently went to a friend's house where she was serving pumpkin cookies. They tasted just like mine, so I asked where she got the recipe. She let me in on a fantastic secret that I will now share with you. The quick and easy, not to mention lower fat and less calorie, way to make pumpkin cookies is to mix a spice cake box mix and one 15 oz. can of pumpkin for about five minutes with a mixer. Add two cups of chocolate chips, and bake as usual. Enjoy!