Sydney with her friends

Sydney saying good bye to her dance class friends. From left to
right: Ella, Talia, Victoria and Sydney.

Passing the time

I took Sydney to dance class, while we waited, Logan and I decided to
go for a walk at a near-by creek.

Airplane lands on golf course

Yesterday afternoon a small plane heading to Columbus, Texas, landed on the Hermann Park Golf Course sometime around 6pm. I watched the report on the news last night, apparently it was having some engine problems. On the report they mentioned that they wouldn't be moving the airplane until later today and since my office is down the street I decided to drive past it and hopefully take a picture. Unfortunately, I couldn't get any closer (police presence) so this is the best picture I could get with my phone.

Sydney learning to ride a bike

After the curlers

The curlers came off and look at those luxurious curls. She was not
happy to put on the curlers, but she loved the end results.

Sydney in curlers

Today was the first time, that I can recall, that Sydney used curlers.

Logan's Birthday with friends

Logan wanted a SpiderMan cake so Jennifer made him a cake from scratch. Below is a picture of the Spidey cake.


Logan and his friends, we are singing happy birthday. From left to right: Jennifer, Sahil, Sohil, Logan, Sydney, Sarah and Sheeva in the back.



Logan and friends at the bounce place, celebrating his birthday.

The making of TinkerBell

I promised Sydney that I would make her a TinkerBell for her room, so following the same process as "Lightning" I made Tink.

Above is the basic sketch. Below you will see the paint process.

The final product and the proud owner.

A bit of candy

Making a "Lighting McQueen" poster for Logan

After Logan saw the dragon that I made for Skylar, he wanted me to make a Lightning McQueen (from the Cars Pixar movie) for his wall. Actually I think the request was more like: "Daddy, I want you make a talking car for my wall."

To that end, I spent a few hours putting it together today.

First, I found a picture on the web and printed it. I printed a color version and a gray scale version. The gray version made it easier to see the details for sketching. I used a grid method to make it easier to transfer and enlarge the picture. For this grid a half inch on the print corresponded to three inches on the cardboard.

Above are the print-outs.


This is the cardboard with the larger grid and my sketch from original print.


A picture with Logan for scale.


Then I began the coloring process, I used acrylic paint. At this point I was using the color print for reference. Note: cardboard tends to suck-up paint, it takes more paint than you think.


After a couple of hours and a few more gray hairs it was finally finished. Next, cut image out.


Using a utility knife and a new sharp blade I cut all around the car to remove it from the cardboard. Above is the car, cut-out and on Logan's wall.


Now that is one happy boy!

Now Sydney wants Tinker Bell on her wall. . .

Abi's birthday

Abi's 59th birthday.
We stopped by to sing happy birthday and deliver a "tres leches" cake.

Watching TV with Sydney

Lazy Sunday afternoon at my mom's house.

Grandma Tita

Grandma came over to visit this year. She is 92 years young.

Frozen pond

This morning was very cold, I went outside and found the pond was frozen. Looks like there is about 3cm of ice on top of the water. Amazingly, the fish are still swimming around below.

Cold morning in Houston

A very cold morning, and the news is calling for a colder morning
tomorrow.

Skylar's taekwondo school

Three times a week Skylar goes to class. Today was his first day back
after Christmas holidays.

A picture from back in the day

From Left to right and top to bottom.

 

Aunt Julia, cousin Ofo, Mom, Dad

cousin Puca

Me, grandfather Papo, grandmother Chita

cousin Rafa and sister Ana.

Daddy look at this

This is Logan trying to show me his bobo.

Skylar's dragon

Skylar wanted a dragon for his room wall - this is what we came-up
with. It is acrylic on cardboard, it took about two hours to make.

Bird shopping at walmart

I was grocery shopping last Sunday at Walmart when I was surprised by a mystery shopper. Look close at picture, this bird was looking for some peanuts.