Photoshop Elements ROCKS!!!!!

Here's Tam and I in the MUD week ago or so. It was a very interesting experience . I think I would do it again sometime but with a huge amount of lavender rubbed under my nose!!! Or peppermint!!!!

This was at Golden Haven in Calistoga.

Evil Cookie Eater!!!!

This boi was at my house last night!! He could not wait to get his hands on this cookie
and bite his head off!!!

See the glimmer in his eye...He's loving this!!!

See his smile?

Oh no he ate his smile off!!!! Dont' be sad boi!!! It's okay!!!! There's more cookies!!!

Okay so this was totally posed !!! That's Justin for playing along!!!!

He caught me a bass !

I got a birthday card from Napolean this year!!! How cool is that? I'm also sending out lots of birthday love on my flickr photos!!!! I'm sure by now you know where to find them!!!

Today is Saturday. I hope to stay in my robe (my new super soft robe) all day and putz around the house. I got a new clothing storage thing in our bedroom and it's not quite working cause I have been to busy (or some may say lazy) to keep up on it. Also I thought I would put this funny photo in about how different Rob and I are. I'm a thrash and he isn't!!! We are truly ying and yang and that's okay!!! That's what makes it work for the last 18 years!!!

I got my holiday cards printed and they are still sitting here. So if you get yours for New Years...no worries!!! Hope everyone has a nice holiday!!! Peace and Love to you all!!!

What's up 39 ?

Okay so it's here....the year before the big 40!!! Oh yeah!!!! It was a great day due to all my friends and family that made it special....check out my flick photos for more celebration and holiday fun!!!

A few of my favorite things!!!

Tam took me to Calistoga for my birthday today. We left about 10 AM and got home around 7pm. She only called home a few times to check on her adorable baby girl. Hey she's only 10 months old and I would of been calling to check in also!!! I accidently left my cell phone at home charging so I was "out of the office" today!!! Oh well!!!

The day was beautiful and it's been a really long time since I had been up that way. Well except for Rob's work party in Yountville. St. Helena had the best make up beauty product store and we had a great time laughing in there at all the funny products they were selling. Some of you may see some of these at BUNCO in February!!! We stopped at the Napa Outlets on the way home and Tam got some cute clothes at Gymboree Outlet for Kendall.

Calistoga's downtown is really cute and we had lunch at Checkers. I guess that's where alot of the locals eat. The COBB salad was yummy and I always like a Roy Rogers to complete my meal!!!

THANKS TAM!!! Love our birthday spa days!!!!!

Just bring my refills and make sure to add the grenadine!!! YUMMY

We got mudd'd

What a very interesting experience the mud bath was. It was both of our first tims doing this and I give Tam HUGE kudos for trying something so "un-clean". First of all...mud does not smell too good. It would of been better if they had some aromatherapy to rub under my nose. The mud is so dense and think that it's really hard to even get down to the bottom of the tub in the mudd. The heating coils are at the bottom of the mud and your not even supposed to lay on the bottom. It would of been hard to even get to the bottom anyway. Getting out was laughable and was hilarious. We were like two pigs stuck in the mud !!

I have a few cute photos but need to do some Photoshop work to two of them before I can post. This is a G rated blog after all. Tam and I were laughing hysterical several times during this experience. I suggest that everyone try it just once in their life.

I think a little birdie told me that I'm getting Photo Shop Elements for my birthday so hopefully sometime this week I will get to re-touch those photos and post them!!!

got mud? I did!!!

got mud ?

I'm off to Calistoga with Tam. It's a celebration mudbath and massage for my upcoming birthday this week. It's our first mud bath and should prove to be interesting!!!

Will post later with photos!! LOL

Happy Holidays !

Brotherly Love!!!

The First Graders had their winter performance last night. They did so great and were so cute!! You can check out FLICKR and see more photos of friends and family at the event!!

Big Big THANKS to Aunt Wen!!!

How cute are these ? The kids went with Aunt Wendy last weekend and had some gingerbread house fun!!! We had Rob's company party so the kids went to the BAY for the weekend. It's always fun with Aunt Wendy!!!

Thanks Aunt Wendy for always making it fun for the kids!!!

You can see more Aunt Wen photos here.

East Bay Vivarium

My kid wants to live here. He also wants to work here. I wonder if you could drop your 11 year old off there on a Friday night and pick them up on Sunday? Kind of like a work program for kids!!!

This is his favorite place and Christmas might come early next weekend for the little reptile freak!!!!

Even if you are not a freak about reptiles but your kids just like to look at them....I highly encourage you to take a weekend trip here and check it out. It's like going to the zoo ! Plus 4th street Berkeley is really fun!!!

Dinner Time

Every night we sit down to a full meal just like this..the crock pot on one end of the table and the rice maker on the other. ..okay TAM get off the floor and stop LAUGHING!!!!!! I did start the crock pot this morning and before gymnastics the rice maker. Rob got home and sat the table and got the "trees" steamed!!! What a guy!!!!

He's just a skater boy !

Is it just me or does he look huge in the above photo?

My little guy is growing up!! He's almost 12 ! Goodness where does the time go?

Excuse the white trash, tarp covered summer bar!!! We have to protect it from the elements!! Wolfie's been practicing going off his jump and wanted me to capture it!!!

Fun & Games

Anyone ? Bueller ?

Okay so no one has guessed yet where we went.....so here's a virtual tour of our day!!!

Check this out!!!

Study Buddy!!!

That's my boi!!!! Thanks to my stand in mom for snapping the photo!!!

Guess Where ?

We had such a nice day yesterday. I don't have time to post all the photos but want to take a guess where we went? If you grew up in this area it should take you down memory lane!!!

Lexi Loves Piano !

Daddy Brought Home FUN!!!

Rob went to a class in San Francisco and meet up with his sister for dinner that night in China Town. He brought some sparklers back for the kiddos. The smell always brings me back to being a little kid and the excitement of the 4th of July.

I have been good Santa !

Think he will leave one of these under the tree? Yeah I don't think he will but it was lot of fun using this for a weekend!!! We took family photos and used one of Rob's friends Nikon cameras. It was the one he used at his old job. It's not every day that I get to use a $5000 camera!!!

Hat Girl !

Some of my favorites!!!

Now that I'm working and need to put a fresh face on each day I have been having fun with make up. After going virtually without makeup for quite some time it's been fun to experiment. My sister in law got me hooked on a new powder Bare Escentuals. It works great and I don't even need any liquid foundation. It's a little pricey at first (about $60 for the starter set) but it last's a long time and comes with 2 or 3 nice brushes and 3 powders. Also it comes with a primer moisturizer.

I also love the face products that philosophy makes. They work great and don' feel greasy on my face. They are a bit more spendy than the Neutrogena I have been using but I don't go through it that fast so it should last a while. Plus I'm almost at the amazing age of 40 so I need to take better care of my skin!

Here's some of the fun lotions I have been getting. Also a few Smashbox sample products that are good for getting a matte face.

These are 2 of my favorite everyday perfumes!!! Can't go wrong with these fresh scents!!

Okay so what are a few of your favorites?

Relaxing Sunday !

We went to church last night and tried a new church. It was like going to a rock concert. Very uplifting and a great pastor. It was nice to sleep in a bit and here's a glimpse into our relaxing morning!!

Wacky Wednesday!!!

Hey everyone!!! It's WACKY Wednesday!!! It's a FUN DAY!!!! Okay my sister in law Wendy beat me to putting Thanksgiving photos up. I think she was secretly coveting the photos I took and was trying to copy my style. WHATEVER!!! :-)

Here's Wendy & Karen doing the Friends thing!!! You both look beautiful!!!

Here is my sister in law Marcey and myself doing the backwards friends thing. You can tell that she's a hair stylist cause my hair is dry and flyaway and her's is curled perfect and very much in awesome condition!!! We almost put our butts in the frame so you
guys got really lucky it was just our heads!!!

Thanks Uncle Kurt for this photo. Your really helping me out there!!! LOL

We had a very nice Thanksgiving at my in laws house and everyone was there!!! It's a place where you can have two "heaping" plates of food and no one cares. Well one sil might call you on it but you can still chow down and not care!!! LOL

Gobble Gobble

Family Photo Time!!!

My sister and her family

Rob's family. We suprised the grandparents the day of Thanksgiving and asked them
(well really told) them to put white shirts on for a photo before our feast!!!

My girl.....

Rob borrowed a friends Nikon for some family photos this last weekend. It was hard to keep my hands off it!!!! Here's my sweet girl...

Going, Going...GONE

The long hair..it's gone...for now. He was ready for a hair cut and it was either this or a mohawk. Hey if the boy wants a mohawk I don't care it's his hair. I think he realized that he would be very Mike Bibby'ish after the MoHawk was all done and he wasn't "down" with that short of hair.

After church on Sunday he was ready for the cut. We went to the local Supercuts and sat down and he wanted to look at the hair books. We looked through them and he didn't really see anything he liked. So we got up and left!!!

Right before we leave to celebrate Thanksgiving with my sister and her family he decided that he wants Daddy to cut it. Daddy loves to cut him some hair!!!

Gobble Gobble

Well it's Turkey Day today!!! Gobble Gobble to all of you....hope you have a super day and eat lots of mashed potatoes!!!! YUMMY!!!! I love my mil's gravy and can't wait!!!

I know I had been lagging on my blog. My sil said she's sick of seeing my tennis shoes. I'm trying to find some cool stuff to blog....but since I can't really talk on my blog about work stuff....your stuck with an old boyfriend story!!!

Have a good one !

Oh my

Well today was Friday at work and also payday. It's a great day to just be casual. So I wear my favorite jeans and decide that I'm going to wear my tennis shoes. For those of you that know me in real life...you know that this does not happen very often at all. So here I am strolling down the aisle of my friendly local Wal Mart and I also have sanitary pads and Metamucil in my cart. So I'm dressed like Shrek doing an impersonation of Sporty Spice goes to work on casual friday. Yeah I was looking hot. Fo Sho....Then I see him...the ghost of my past...the dreaded ex boyfriend.

I spy him cause he's to freakishly tall and do the "oh crap" my ex boyfriend is in Wal Mart duck and cover. He's with his wife but still I don't want to say hi and do that whole "thang". I think he must live in Davis cause this is the 2nd time I have seen him there. So we miss each other and that's fine with me. It ended alright. I left him crying and listening to A-Ha and Asia as his heart healed!! :-)

Funny thing to this story is when I was dating him in high school I went with his family to Tahoe and shared a cabin with another family and their kids. Well one of their kids invited a friend to Tahoe also and that friend was my hubby Rob. I really didn't give him the time of day cause I was all wrapped up in the giant boy. Two years later Rob and I meet were working together and he asked me out. I said yes and it's been 18 years later.

So the next time your in Wal Mart buying pads be sure to stack the frozen pee's over them cause you never know who you might see!!!

So awake now!!!

Okay I'm so awake now!!! LOL Sorry but Mondays and Tuesdays kick my butt and I'm really just exhausted at night. I'm better now!!! Whew didn't mean to scare any of you!!! Go to my flickr photos and click on contact photos and see if you can find MOM WRITES photos. You can see how she deals with tired and cloudy days!!!

Okay so my TIVO shows are pretty good right now.

House of Carters: WOW it's a train wreck that I can't turn away from. Want to feel better about your own dysfunctional life? Just watch this show about the 5 Carter siblings and you will instantly feel like your floating on a cloud!!! These kids are MESSED up !

Gene Simmons Family Jewels: Okay I wasn't a big KISS fan but I love this show. Even though he won't marry Shannon Tweed they have been together like a billion years. They have two adorable teenagers and are really a very loving family. He's way into himself and quite the businessman but it's quite an entertaining show. It's fun when Shannons sister comes to visit cause she's a crazy Aunt and lots of fun!!!

The Bachelor: Oh poor Prince Lorenzo. Which girl will he choose? Did you see the previews for next week ? The one lone single tear falling down his cheek? I wanted to slap Sadie when he gave her the fantasy suite card.....yes I agree with her morals and values...but just cause you go to the fantasy suite....does not mean...well you mature viewers know what I'm talking about. Who will he pick?

Save Me From My House: Love this mostly British house re-do show. A family writes in and their house just isn't working for them but they don't want to move out. A team comes in , evualates and re-does some stuff to make it work for them!!! I like the ideas and am always struggling with a smart thing to do for our piles of shoes. Jesus really had the right idea about shoes. Either a pair of flip flops ( okay old school Teva's) or barefoot. None of this "Well I have to have black and brown work shoes and then white and ivory shoes for the summer and all the weekend shoes also" Keep It Simple is a great motto!!!

Then there is Survivor and I hope that Jul takes it to the end. I like him and think he's a cool player. I also like Ozzy and when the team of 4 took both challenges in the last show.....we were yelling like mad at the TV!!!!

LOST: Okay how an they do this to us? Feb 7th? They won't be back till then? GOODNESS....it was just getting good. Go JACK with his bad self the last show!!!!

So other then that I TIVO House Hunters, Oprah, The View and I think that's about it. Can't wait for Entourage to come back on!!!

Okay so I'm going to leave you with this funny photo of my cat Chloe. She's big and big like but really likes to squeeze herself into time places!!!

Too tired....

to blog....to do anything but go to work..come home....drive kids around....feed kids.....check my e-mail...catch up on some TIVO.....make dinner.....or watch Rob make dinner......tired.....



EDITED: I just read what I wrote and realize how down and out it sounded....I'm fine....just tired...the rainy weather makes me want to stay in bed....

Yeah.....

It's working now.....my phone that is!!! LOL

So call me!!!!

Phone Issues......

Our phone is jacked up. So if you need to get Rob or I....call me on my cell phone or e-mail me....

Strange that our DSL works but not the phone......need to get McGuyver on it ASAP!!!

Disneyland Photos

Okay grab a Red Bull or Cup of Coffee for all these photos!!! Over 200.....might take a while....sorry to do this to you......

Disneyland Oct/Nov 2006