The Espinoza Family Blog

Yesterday while I was out watering, I noticed this BIG frog hopping along ahead of me as I watered. It finally got annoyed with me and my water and hopped (in 1 leap!) across the grass to my potted plants along the pathway. I called Isabel over to see it and what happened next was hilarious!

She went hopping along with the frog trying to catch the big thing. She eventually did, after we both had a few laughs about her trip around the yard!

I only had my cell phone with me, so it’s a bit fuzzy.

We normally see a lot of frogs (of all sizes) in our yard but this year, we’ve only seen a few small ones.
This one has been the biggest one this year.

The Big one.
She eventually let it go and went back to playing in her sandbox.

We’ve noticed this Crab Spider in the flower garden several times and we stay away from it but I do enjoy watching it from time to time.

Today I noticed it was dragging a very large dead bumble bee up the side of one of my flowers.

Giving that big old bumble bee a bear hug!

The Crab Spider had the bumble bee all anchored up with web.

It dropped it at one point.
When I went back to look at it later in the evening, the spider seemed to be sucking on the
bumble bee’s head!

Today we took our spork to the “auto-spa” for some much needed time and attention.
Need to take care of her, I love this thing and am very thankful for it. She gets us where we need to go.

It got a good long bath, a clay-bar rub, steam cleaned the engine, vacuumed and shampooed inside, waxed and totally detailed.

This photo is from my phone, since I forgot to get a picture of the clean engine with the camera.

Our spork SPARKLES and it’s smooth as the day she was made!
7 hours at the “auto-spa” and she looks great.

This whole area where the soot was from the Dodge fire is finally gone!
So is the moss growing on the roof (who knew?!?)!

… Now if I could only fit it back into the garage, I just need to move some wood.

Today was day 3 of  Isabel’s cupcake class (which is offered through the school) and it is also the last day. The class was “off” the past 2 days due to the holiday.

During class today they made a panda bear cupcake.

Poor little thing lost it’s head, 1 arm and both feet on the way home. We had to repair it and then leave it in the fridge before taking it out to get a picture.

Her panda cupcake!
She did a great job on all her cupcakes this week!

Looks yummy!

Today was day 2 of  Isabel’s cupcake class (which is offered through the school).
She’s really enjoying it.

During class today they learned how to make popcorn! They made 5 mini popcorn cupcakes!

Isabel with her mini popcorn cupcakes.

They used marshmallows for the popcorn on top of vanilla cupcakes. Very cute!

Today was day 1 of Isabel’s cupcake class (which is offered through the school). She really enjoyed the time spent with friends from school and decorating and eating cupcakes!

During class today they made 2 cupcakes. One was vanilla (she ate this one during class) and the other was red velvet.

Isabel’s red velvet cupcake.
It was so warm outside it melted in the car on the ride home!

She got to choose how to decorate this one.
She had EVERYTHING on it!