HPISD's 100th Birthday

This past weekend Highland Park ISD celebrated their 100th birthday with all kinds of fun events. On Friday all of the schools let the students out early so that alumni and the community could tour the schools and check out their exhibits looking back at the districts past. Friday, I had the opportunity to visit HPHS and check out their exhibit and the school. In the almost 15 years since I have walked those halls, I found that very few things looked as I remembered because my senior year was the year the school began a massive remodeling project. I did have the opportunity to visit the High School in 2010 during my 10 year reunion for a tour. But, I was amazed how different everything looked in a relatively short amount of time.

It was interesting wondering though the halls, one thing I noticed was that the small auditorium had been replaced and turned into a multipurpose room. This was where the "museum" was displayed. It was really fun to see all of the older stuff that had been gathered. It was easy to see all the hard work that was put into this museum.

Sunday, the district had a huge block party at the football field, where you could see student art and a place for kids to play. Across from the football field is the indoor practice field, where the museum was placed. Each school had an area with memorabilia and history from that school. It was really fun to look back at all of the school's and how things have changed, yet remained the same. I would say what remains the same is the dedication to academic excellence and athleticism which is seen throughout the displays. It was fun to go down memory lane with those young and old. B's uncle and Aunt were also there volunteering, and it was fun to hear of stories from them about growing up in HP in the 1940's and beyond.

One thing I did notice is that there did not seem to be quite as many people there from the past community, those who I know would have enjoyed looking back at all the memories. I took B and my Mom with me. We all had a great time and were so glad we got to be apart of this once in a lifetime event. B, my Mom and I all got fun buttons made to remember the fun event. All and all we had a great time looking back at old memories while making new memories.

State Fair of Texas: 2014 trip

I cannot believe that it is already October and that it is time for the fair again. This year I went to the fair with my best friend from Baylor K, and B met up with us there. It was such a fun time. K and I got to catch up and have fun at the fair. When we first got there we got our tickets and went on a kid haunted house ride. It was very cheesy but fun to go on. Next, we made our way to Big Tex to get a Fletchers corny dog and a drink. Then, we headed to a food court and found the HP pharmacy Soda Fountain's booth, where K got a root beer float.

We made our way to the exhibit at the Hall of State. It was really cool seeing all the sports information fro the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, located in Waco. K and I had been there before during our time at Baylor. Our sorority had a crush party at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. It was fun to see the stuff anyway and just catch up. Next, we headed to check out some cars and found a really cool massage chair to try out as we waited for B to meet up with us. We also went through the log house and checked out the dogs that were up for adoption.

Once we met up with B and he got a Fletchers corny dog we headed back to see more cars and headed to see the pig races. Next, we headed back to the midway. K and I rode a ride and B videoed on his phone using slo-motion. It was funny. Then we all rode the Crazy Mouse roller coaster. There was a funny picture of us at the end. Then B and I rode the luv bug ride and I tried a fried s'mores. It was pretty good. Then it was time to head home. Until next time State Fair of Texas.

What's for dinner: cheese enchiladas

Last night I decided to make cheese enchiladas. The first thing I did was google easy recipes and I found a great one with a video which can be found here.  There was a great video that showed how to make the best kind. I watched it and then changed it a little.

I pored in vegetable oil in one pan and in another pan I added a mild green sauce. You can use whatever kind of filing you want. First I put the tortilla in the oil and when it bubbles it is ready to be dipped in the sauce and then add cheese on the inside and on top. Then bake at 350 for about 10 minutes. Wait until cheese bubbles to be finished.

Ingredients

Cheese
Tortilla
Filling

This is another recipe I will try again.

4 U R Colorado trip

Last Saturday B and I went back in time, well at least one hour behind in beautiful Colorado. We flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico and the drove up to 4 U R ranch which is in wagon wheel gap, Colorado outside of Creede. We stopped in Santa Fe on our way up and had lunch at Casasena. Which was really good. The Indian market was happening so there were lots of people around. We got back in the car and continued up to 4 U R ranch. I had not been there. It took about 4 or 5 hours from Santa Fe.

It was a beautiful drive up. We finally made it just before dinner time. We checked in and went to our room. After getting everything unpacked we headed to the lodge for dinner. The food at 4 U R was amazing. It was set up as a dinning room. Everyone was assigned a table that you would sit at during the duration of your stay for each meal.

Sunday we woke up and headed to breakfast. After that b took me fly fishing for the first time which was fun. I enjoyed watching him teach me something he loves and grew up doing. Sunday afternoon I had a wonderful massage. Also I spent time by the pool. Monday we woke up and went into the town of creede. We went I a tour of the mine museum and drove around town. After lunch we came back and went fly fishing again.

Also we walked around the property and saw an old bath house that is on the property that used to be used a hundred years ago. Also there is an abandoned mine on the property that is cool and creepy looking. We got some great pictures during our trip.

Tuesday B went fly fishing while I came with him and read my boom on my iPad while enjoying being outside. Tuesday afternoon we went into the pool and hung out. Tuesday morning there was an outside breakfast that you could ride on a horse to or in your car. It was fun.

Wednesday we got in the car and started our journey to Albuquerque. We stopped in Santa Fe and had lunch at Santa cafe. It was a great place to people watch on our way back to the airport.

Birthday celebration

Last weekend I celebrated my birthday! It was such a fun filled weekend. We started out Saturday going to the zoo. Neither of us had been there since we were kids. My favorite part was going on the monorail. Loved seeing the gorillas and elephants. We learned so much about the elephants because as we walked up there was an information session all about them. It was so cool!

Also we had a great time running into friends and their family. Saturday night we had dinner at S&D oyster company with my in-laws! It was fun.

Sunday, we went and rode the McKinney Avenue trolley were we learned a lot from the trolley driver about our city that we did not know. Then we had dinner with my family at Jaciers. It was a greet birthday and will be a great year.