Food truck Frenzy

Whoa! This has been a busy week. The kids are off on spring break so I had to figure out fun things for them to do all while making sure that my Food truck LaRosita-Mexican Food (find us and like us on facebook,  you dont have to live in Texas and you dont have to come to any events, I just want more fans so my page can be easily located.) is stocked and ready to go for this weekend.

I had tons of shopping to do. Let me tell ya, it was pretty easy, since my older one could watch the baby while I filled the grocery cart with 100 pounds of beef and chicken fajitas, limes, tomatoes, onions, and jalapenos. I would have bought cilantro but my cilantro is taking over the garden. It so loves the cooler sunny weather. Once it gets too hot, cilantro starts to bloom flowers and drop seeds. Not quite what I need.

So, the food truck is working this whole weekend in Arlington. Its been a slow go. I even hear that some major food truck players who traveled from Galveston Island are so angry that they plan to sue the event coordinators. I signed a petition to try to get our money back as well. We paid 400 dollars for this event that's including the food. If we don't break even I will definitely want my money back.

Now some people would say, that events are risky. Anything can happen and weather is usually the culprit. This weekend however, the weather is gorgeous and the sun is out, the problem is that the event was not publicized and not very many people know about it. That is one of the other risk, lack of publicity. BUT, again, the problem is that we including many other vendors agreed to pay top dollar for this event because the pictures that they used to lure us to their website and eventually their event were from an event held at the Texas Motor speedway for a NASCAR event! An event in an old shopping center is hardly equivalent to a NASCAR event!

So as my hubby and brother stick it out at the event, I am home with the kids trying to stay positive. Its only 5pm as I write this, people will eventually want to look for something fun to do on a Saturday night and on St. Patricks day to boot. I'm just hoping they chose to go to the Arlington Spring Fest on 1010 Collins in Arlington. Look even our food prices are cheaper than all of the competition around us. That isn't the problem either. Ugh, oh well, so goes the food truck craze. Like they say, you win some you lose some. I hope that by the end of the night we end up WINNING at least a little.

Two Birthdays ago and a food truck ready to go

Well, It's that time again. What time you ask. Spring Festival time that is. My food truck, La Rosita Tacos (by the way find and like us on FB) has been sitting and waiting all winter for this weekend to come. Why you ask. My don't you have a lot of questions today. OK, so I'll tell you why. We have take the entire winter off from the food truck. Not because we didn't want to work, but because we didn't have any festivals to attend. Not that Texas winters are unbearable but, what are you gonna do? We didn't have anywhere to go.  The good thing is that this weekend will be our very own season opener and the excitement in our house is through the roof.

And with all of the excitement I had a chance to sit down today to look at a bunch of photos I ordered of my kids birthdays. My big girl turned 13 this year. I will not comment more on that subject since I am prohibited by her highness to even mention her in my blog or facebook or even in day to day conversations. My little girl turned 5 this year, you may have read about her and her antics recently, and my baby boy turned 1 in December you may have also read about his latest adventures recently.

So as I looked at all of the pictures I think back at how fun their birthdays were. One in particular stands out in my mind. That of My 5 year old. She requested a princess party and so a princess party she had. We went out bought the most inexpensive pink party decor and princess cake we could find. I even stayed up late for a week trying to hand make her birthday invitations. After all of that work, they did not come out how I had imagined so, I threw them out in frustration and went to the local mega mart to pick up some simple and not very cute invites. Needless to say, I was ticked off. I wanted everything to be perfect and the invites were not, but, since I was out of time I had to settle.

I recently found this web site that offers so many beautiful invites. And yes, I kicked myself. Why had I not checked online first? I could have had the prettiest invites and saved myself a ton of grief.
Oh well, perhaps next year I will remember to check this blog and the link above to find the help I will definitely need.

Nailing all the details before bringing puppy home

Guest post written by Ashley Larkson

Back around Christmas, we first thought about bringing home a puppy for our kids as part of their holiday gifts. But then we started doing research about how much a full-bred puppy can actually cost. Then because of that cost, we ended up not bringing home a puppy for the kids. I was so relieved that we hadn't promised one at that point! Well we've been thinking it over and kind of figured out that adopting a puppy from a shelter might be our best option.

We would adopt an older dog but we want the kids to kind of grow up with the pup, so we're going the young and untrained route. I was browsing puppy adoption listings online a week ago when I saw info about DEBT settlement and decided I should definitely look into it. That's the reason that paying for a full-bred puppy wasn't an option for us.

But we're going to be able to make it work, even on our small budget, because the shelter we're going to adopt from neuters and does a lot of other things for free.