Category: Family Stuff
Early Morning at the Zoo, Caught the Monkey Bully
| August 10, 2011 | Posted by Angela under Family Stuff, Local Places & Events, Why I like San Antonio |
One of the biggest advantages of having a San Antonio Zoo membership is being able to enter the zoo before the doors open. Zoo members get to enter at 7:30am, all other guests, 9am. What does that mean?
1) Less heat
2) No crowds
3) Animals are out playing!
I took Jacob last week and we saw some interesting animal interactions. The monkeys were our favorite and we spotted a monkey bully. Check it out.
Then we saw ducks playing the mating game.
And to top it off, we took a nice train ride through Brackenridge park. My son was flirting with this beautiful little girl sitting behind us.
It was an adventurous day with my son.
Busy Being a Mom, Among Other Things
| March 15, 2011 | Posted by Angela under Family Stuff |
Jacob is now 4 months old and I couldn’t be more blessed. I was home for 10 weeks, thanks to Rackspace, and was able to bond with the baby and really discover the gift of motherhood. Things happen you don’t expect, like
- Learn to eat with your left hand (if you’re right handed)
- Leave the house without brushing your teeth
- Allow your hair to be frazzled
- Forget about work
- Cry for no reason
And I am sure as life goes on and Jacob grows older, many more surprises will be in store. I am back to the office now and feel greater than ever. Work is busy, I am still coaching volleyball and we are in the process of remodeling our home. Above all though, family is most important. Balance is the key word for describing my life right now.
Waiting for @jacobbartels
| November 5, 2010 | Posted by Angela under Family Stuff, Random |
Jacob should be arriving any day now. As we wait for his arrival, I am thinking about the era Jacob will be born in and thought it would be neat to document some of the 2010 highlights:
- Barack Obama is President.
- Facebook and Twitter are the main forms of communication online with more than 500 million Facebook users and more than 50 million tweets being published per day.
- Haiti suffered a magnitude 7.0 earthquake with an estimate 200,000 deaths.
- The MacBook Air is released, weighing 2.3lbs with a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
- The Gulf of Mexico experienced the largest oil spill in US history with as much as 60,000 barrels of oil leaking per day.
- Gas is $2.50 per gallon.
- New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts for their first Super Bowl Victory.
- Texas Rangers make it to the World Series for the first time ever.
- 33 Chilean miners are rescued after spending 68 days trapped in a mine half a mile underground.
- The Discovery space shuttle is scheduled to have its 133rd and final mission.
- A ticket from San Antonio to Dallas on Southwest.com is $49 one way.
- UTSA is launching its first Football program scheduled to kick off Fall 2011.
- San Antonio still has no NFL team.
- Texting and driving is made illegal in San Antonio.
- Some artist named Justin Bieber is apparently a big pop star among the kids these days.
- Toy Story 3 is the biggest box office movie of 2010.
- Mom and dad work at Rackspace, a 12 year old cloud computing company with close to 3000 Rackers.
- Mom spotted her first gray hair this year.
- As of today, Dad has a full head of hair.
- @jacobbartels will be born to make the world a better place.
My cousin Renee joins the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders Volleyball Team
| August 11, 2010 | Posted by Angela under Family Stuff |
You may remember a post I wrote about my cousin’s high school volleyball team being featured on the front page of the San Antonio 
Express News Sports section for making it to the final four of the 5A State Championship. She was a senior at the time and preparing for college. She has decided to join the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders team. They have already begun practicing and she was mentioned in the Islanders athletic blog today, Trio of Freshmen Setting The Future for Islanders. They quote:
The biggest factor working in favor of the Islanders and the players is the athleticism shown by all three newcomers. Logen Bourque, Renee Ramirez and Brittani Loux will be the three newcomers helping run the Islander offense. Bourque is the tallest of the three, standing at 5-11, while Ramirez is 5-5 and Loux is 5-6.
Way to go Renee! We’re so proud of you!
My cousin Renee makes the front page of the San Antonio Express News Sports section
| November 16, 2009 | Posted by Angela under Family Stuff, Health & Fitness |
My cousin, Renee, a senior at O’Connor high school played for the varsity volleyball team this past season. They beat Reagan, making them number 1 in the city. They made it to the final four for the 5A State Championship, beating a team from the valley. They went up against Austin Westlakes, a team that had won the IV-5A title the past 2 years. This was new for O’Connor and I am so happy Renee had the opportunity to make it that far. It will be an experience she will never forget. She is #5 on the far right. Go Renee! Read the full article here.
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