Do You Believe?

Pristina singing her favorite song at Great America karaoke….

Damn, does that last entry say May 18?!?

Been busy busy busy these last few months, I guess. Lol. Let’s see…went to San Diego/Anaheim over Memorial Day weekend, celebrated my cousin Lisa’s graduation from SDSU, took the kids to Legoland then Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland. The kids’ first time, and they LOVED it. I guess that’s going to be our vacation destination from now on…well, when we go to SoCal, that is.

After our SoCal vacation, we came home so Dillon could finish out the school year, then it was off to Vegas…where we got married.  Yep, finally did it.  I was chatting with a friend and he asked why we weren’t married, and I explained that I didn’t think it was necessary, since there was really no benefit to being married.  We argued for a while, then he told me to look up the tax benefits.  Sure enough, we’ve been missing out all these years, lol.  So I decided since we were going to Vegas anyway for my sister’s high school graduation, and (some of) my family was going to be there, we might as well do it while we’re there.  The kids were the happiest, I think. The family members that weren’t there, and weren’t notified, were NOT happy. 

Hmmm…let’s see what else.  I don’t think anything big since then.  My car passed 100k miles, lol.  Had a mini family reunion in Monterey. Alexandra started a new ballet school. We’ve been doing the normal daily stuff, but I’m trying to do more outdoors-y stuff with the kids.  We went to Point Lobos a few weeks ago, they had a good time there.  Been spending more time at GG Park.  Spent a day at Gilroy Gardens.  Celebrated Jasmine’s Sweet 16th at Seacliff Beach on a cold ass day.  Oh, got a new iPhone 3gs, but I didn’t want to…yet.  HBY made me   Been shopping, of course.  I buy things faster than I can take them out of the bags at home.  I’m now debating between a 17″ Macbook Pro or an iMac.  Actually, I’m really still debating if I should make the switch to Mac at all, I have a hard time thinking I’ll be one of “those Mac users”…

That’s been our summer in a nutshell.  I didn’t get to bring the kids to Hawaii this summer like I wanted…I can’t use a Delta buddy pass on a Northwest flight until 2010, and I dont want to risk getting stranded at SLC or LAX alone with the kids, so we may go in October, or we’ll just push it back until next summer.  Hopefully October, though.

Still on our to-do/visit-in-the-near-future list:

• Ferry ride to and picnic on Angel Island
• Explore Point Reyes (specifically “Dillon” Beach, lol)
• Santa Cruz Boardwalk (I can’t believe I haven’t gone all summer!)
• Great America
• Coit Tower

Dillon goes back to school on Aug. 24…wonder if I can get all that in before then? I also have two birthday parties…oh, AND  a stamp day!! I REALLY can’t believe I haven’t had a stamp/scrap day at all this year.  That’s just crazy, lol.  Scrapbook Expo coming up this week…I may go down on Friday, but I’ll have the kids, so I don’t know if I should do that to myself…

Our long-term to-do/visit list:

• Explore Big Sur
• Hike the Pinnacles (although I’m not sure if Babygirl’s big enough for the caves, which is really why I want to go)
• Visit the Giant Redwoods
• Yosemite (but not to camp)
• Dillon wants to visit Mt. Rushmore…I don’t even know where that is
• Grand Canyon

I hope to get to do all of that by the end of next summer, although Mt. Rushmore is iffy..

Okay, I think I’m current now.  I’m sure once the school year starts and we’re back to a normal routine on a normal schedule I’ll update more often.  I think I’ll start a new Project 365 on Aug. 24.  Lol.

Tougher than the sun??

Huh? Well, I’m DEFINITELY not as tough as I thought. I normally don’t get sunburned, and if I do, it’s just a little redness that is gone the next day. Well….after wandering around Phipps farm looking for berries (actually, I was mostly taking pictures) then building sandcastles at Pescadero State Beach (I only took a few pictures then), I have a FAT SUNBURN!!!

It’s pretty unbelievable actually. I haven’t been this sunburned since my Sophomore year in high school when we went to a volleyball tournament in Manhattan Beach and I swore I didn’t need any sunblock and only used dark suntan oil. Hahaha, what a dumbass…

Stampalicious is up and running!

I still need to figure out a good template and find some nice graphics, but the content is there…just gotta start cranking out cards to keep putting up…

Stampalicious

We’ll Always Remember Aunty Judy

Aunty Judy passed away in early April of this year, and the memorial service was held today in Piedmont. It was a nice service, there were A LOT of people there! They served Hawaiian food and her halau performed Papalina Lahilahi and Kawailele o Nuuanu. So sad, that song, it always makes me feel kinda sad. Anyway, the service was really nice, Andrea talked a lot about her memories of Aunty Judy and other people got up to tell their stories. There was also a really nice slideshow someone put together with a lot of pictures of Aunty Judy, these are the pictures that I had that were included in the slideshow…

I will always remember Aunty Judy…

Oh! And…

what’s up with the weather today? It’s crazy, it wasn’t even really warm yesterday, just all of a sudden last night was a little warm and then this morning, I went out to bring Dillon to school and couldn’t believe it was so warm at 730 in the morning. Supposed to be hotter tomorrow? Uggh. I thought living in San Francisco would protect me from all this warm weather, lol.

Something Funny…

I was blog-hopping and came across Elsie Flanagan’s blog (of KI Memories’ Love, Elsie line) and got caught up. Her blog is really fun and full of creative ideas and inspiration. So two things I got from her blog:

I thought that picture was so funny, I had to steal it…and two: THIS SITE. Lots of cute stuff…

New Stuff from Michael’s

I had to go down to Michael’s to get some replacement cutting mats and blades for my aunt’s Cricut that I’m borrowing, but of course they were out of stock. BUT! They had two new SEI lines, one of which I HAD to have For some reason I can’t find pictures of it anywhere online, so I took my own:

Cute, right? AND it was 50% off all boxed kits! So of course I bought one, even though I have no idea what I’m going to use it for. And the paper pads were 40% off, so I got one in the same line.

Now all I have to do is figure out what to do with them

On another note…sometimes when I plug my memory card into my computer, there will be random images on there of HBY’s damn fish. Sometimes even videos – like minutes long – of the fish just swimming around. How retarded. But I decided to post a couple of the pictures here:

What an ugly thing. I don’t know if you can tell how big it is, it’s about 7 inches long and more than 4 inches high. It bullies all the other fish in the tank, but when Alex goes to over to the tank and slaps the glass really hard it bolts to the corner. HBY gets all pissed off when she does that, hahahahahaha

Maker Faire in San Mateo

Just posting a pic that John took of the 3 of us (me, Debbie and Daph) at the Maker Faire this past Saturday. Me with a funnel cake, of course. Not nearly as good as the ones at Great America or Bonfante Gardens
Damn, I really HATE being the shortest…

Free rice?

Click here to donate. I played along a while and “donated” 720 grains before I had to go cook dinner.

For dinner tonight? Fried rice. Wonder how many grains I use to make enough for the 4 of us…