Camping

Here are some pictures from our camping trip. My first camping trip. I survived!!!!

Art & Becky's tent

Amber's Tent

First night we arrived

I woke up to Art cooking sausages on the grill. Art washing the pan.

Our Campsite

Art grilling hot dogs over the stove.

Our wonderful lantern. It didn't hardly give any light. The moon was so bright that night.

Computer

So our computer at home took a dive! I haven't been able to add any camping pictures or updates on sewing projects. I added a couple pictures I took from my cell phone. Hopefully in the next couple weeks we will buy a new computer. Thank goodness for my blackberry or I might have gone crazy. =)

New Skirt

Last weekend I sewed myself this new skirt. It's sooo comfy! I just love it. I used one of my jean skirts as a pattern. Added a few inches, made a waste band, and added elestic to the back. I was very pleased with how it turned out. I want to make a couple more.

My New Hair Cut

I cute my hair a couple weeks ago with shorterly layers and added bangs. I am honestly still trying to get use to the bangs.

Cupcakes

I received a cake decorating kit for a wedding gift. I tried it once and it was a HUGE mess. Tonight I decided to make some cupcakes and buttercream frosting. This is my second time trying the cake decorating kit. I have to say it was a 100 times easier with the buttercream frosting. Frosting is soooo yummy!

Here is the link for the buttercream frosting. www.wilton.com/recipe/buttercream-icing

Gilroy Garilic Festival & Meeting New Friends

Yesterday Art and I went to the Gilroy Garlic Festival. I have wanted to go every year. One of my knottie/nestie friends has been planning for a few months to fly up from Southern California to come to the festival. That sealed the deal this year because we wanted to finally meet in person. I have talked to the same girls on the Knot and now the Nest for almost 2 years online or texting, but never met them in person. We all planned our weddings together and some of us were married on the same day. Krystal and her husband Eric were also married on April 12, 2008. I was able to meet them yesterday and had such a wonderful time. Krystal is such a sweet girl! I wish they would move to Northern California! Here are some pictures from the day.

Art and me with the say no to plumping chickens. Watch out this might be our Christmas card!
Art with the garlic festival guy!

Eric, Krystal, Art & me all married on April 12, 2008

Krstyal and me at dinner

A couple of us went out for Moroccon food. We had a great time and the food was soooo yummy!!!!

Country/Suburb Girl

I realized today after 15+ years that I am honestly a country girl. I was in SF for a few hours today. I am fine with going to visit the city, but I am not sure about going to the city daily. I saw all these people walking around on their lunch hours...taking public transportation....having a grand time. I am terrified of public transportation or giving my keys to some parking lot attendant for the day. The thought of taking public transportation daily to SF seems crazy to me. I could be one of those "Bart" riders.

Please bring me my horse and buggy! LOL The first time in 20 yrs understand why my dad loved ND so much. He use to complain about the traffic all the time in MI. I loved it for awhile....I finally am at the place I understand all his complaining.

I will become Little Miss Prairie if need be. I like the 10 mile 10 minute commute! I always wanted to be the city girl. I just am not sure I am a city girl after all. Maybe I am a suburb girl.

July 4th

Art and I went to Redwood City for their 4th of July parade. We had planned to stay for the day in Redwood City for a festival. There were way too many people and it was way too hot. We went to the in laws to grill out and shoot off some fireworks.

Hoola Hooping Exercise Group.
The civil war guy being pushed in the wheel chair cracked me up.

Blue Daddy Car

Blue Baby Car

Here we are waiting for the parage to start. Doesn't Art look thrilled?

Getting ready to shoot off some fireworks.

Nana & Dora

Here is my husband lighting a firework to throw at my feet. He kept throwing these little fireworks that spin around at my feet. I would scream & run away. He thought it was so funny.

Santa Cruz

A couple weeks ago we went to Santa Cruz for the weekend!

The Zoo

Yesterday the company I work for had a picnic at the San Francisco Zoo. We had to go on a camera scavenger hunt for the first 2 hours. Then we went back and had lunch. We had a lot of fun. Art and I went to look at all the animals at the end. We didn't have time to look at the animals while we were running around taking pictures.

My husband being a cute kangaroo!

Prairie Dogs

Here is a picture of the cage where the tiger jumped out and killed the kid in 2007, I believe. Now they have glass over, so it can't jump out. Art and I were talking how the tiger had to be really mad in order to jump so far. It isn't just a little jump. Doesn't look as big in the picture.

Art said the female lion was acting like me...She kept putting her feet on the male lion. He said I always have to touch him while I am sleeping. When the male lion would move she would wake up and move closer to him. Aw how sweet. =)

Bear digging fish out of an ice block.

Me next to zebra and giraffe. I had a giraffe print purse and a zebra headband. Festive!

This man was carrying the eagle to scare some of the birds away, while they fed some gross birds! See the bird above with the long hanging things on their neck.

The peacock above just walked right in front of me across the path. So pretty!

Sewing

Here are a few things I have been sewing lately. I think I have made about 8 bibs, 8 burp cloths, 10 wet bags, 2 dresses, and 4 onesies. I have added some of these items to my etsy site. The little dresses are just soooo adorable.

Driving Lawn Mower

Art's dad fixed Perkins riding lawn mower. Amber and Art decided to take it out for a test drive. I refused to drive it. I haven't driven a lawn mower since Uncle Rueben almost ran me over with his truck while I was driving Grandma Fischer driving lawn mower. (see story below)

When Billy and I were about 8 & 10 we went off to get the mail. Billy wouldn't let me drive the 4 wheeler, so I decided to take the driving lawn mower. He said I could ride behind him....but OH NO either I drive or forget it. Off to the highway we went (about 1/2 mile) to get the mail for mom. On our way up the hill to the mail box we both decided to go on the opposite side of the hill. I think it was more like Billy wouldn't follow behind me so I went to the other side. Can you see a pattern here? I have issues with being in charge. What can I say I am the oldest and I am a born leader. =) Well off we are driving up the hill and what do you know...Uncle Rueben comes flying down the road in his red dump truck. He comes over the hill and there is a kid on each side of the road driving. He was screaming and yelling. Billy and I kept driving away. I think our eyes got real big and then we started laughing.

Well once Rueben got home he called my mom up yelling. What kind of home schooler are you that you don't teach your kids what side of the road to drive on. My mom was completely confused. She didn't know we had went off to get the mail or where we probably were at this point. We lived on a farm and ran all over during the day. My parents had company over, so mom was trying to get the story and off the phone. My mom told him she would talk to us.

When we got back to the house my mom asked us what happened. Mom said that we needed to drive on the correct side of the road when we go over hills. Later that week my cousin Gina came to spend the night with Grandma. We tell Gina what happens and she gets a great idea. (Gina always had a lot of great ideas) Let's put up a 25 MPH sign (this sign was in the shop that grandpa got at an auction) and a little pamplet. The little pamplet said something about a crazy driver that almost killed 2 small children. We took our sign and pamplets up to the road and tied it to the tree. I wish I had one of these pamplets today =)

Well here is another issue....the tree we tied our sign too was on Uncle Ruebens son Leeroy side of the road. Well Leeroy calls my mom all upset. Do you know what your kids have done??? He tells her about the sign we put up with the pamplets. He read the whole story to my mom. Well now my mom just cracks up laughing hysterically. Leeroy gets even madder. He said that sign has to come down right now!

My mom calls grandmas house looking for us and tells her what happened. Grandma now gets upset. She comes to find us and says come on we have to move the sign...this time we are moving the sign and pamplets to OUR side of the road. Grandma was so mad that Rueben and Leeroy got so upset over something kids did. Grandma said that kids should be able to post whatever they want and have some fun.

I passed on driving Perkins lawn mower, so that Rueben doesn't come trying to drive over me again. = )

Craft Project

Last night I cut out these bibs and sewed them together. Tonight I cut out the little designs and added them. It took me about an hour total to make them and $3.50 for both. I love the wiener dog bib!

Happy Father's Day!!!!

I love this picture of my parents walking me down the aisle. This is just them....dad is on a mission to get the job accomplished. Mom is crying or emotional....me I am just along for the ride. LOL

I hate living so far from my parents because I always miss special days like mothers day and father days. I feel I have the best parents. I feel the older I get the better my relationship with my dad! We always have such a grand time together. Usually laughing about crazy things. I Love you dad!

Tori Spelling

I didn't really ever like Tori Spelling until the past year. For some reason I started watching Tori & Dean on day. I guess nothing else was on tv. When her book sTori Telling came out I put it on my Christmas list. Read it in a couple days. I just finished reading Mommywood. Took me about a day to read it. I just love her now. She is a celebrity but she is human. I think I really start liking her when she was talking on her show how she just wanted to be a good mom. She was so sincere about it. I hope she writes another book!

Thursday

This past week I have been training in San Francisco at one of our offices. Parking in SF is horrendous!!!! There is 2 hour parking....most of the streets have street cleaning in the morning, so it's hard to find a place to park without moving your car. The office manager had an orientation in the early afternoon. When the woman arrived for orientation she parked her car in the metered area. The office manager told her to move her car to another place because it would be at least 2 hours. So the woman moves her car and comes back to finish orientation.

Now this is when things get crazy. I think you might have had to be there to understand why this is humorous. The woman comes back about 10 minutes later after she was done with orientation. She said my car is gone it's been stolen. We all looked at each other. I said let me go outside and see if I can see it....I can't imagine the car was stolen in the middle of the day with lots of people around. We aren't in the ghetto. Plus I wanted to make sure my car was outside. lol There was no car where she said she parked it. There were some other cars that were the same color on the street. While I was gone the office manager helped her call the police. This woman had NO idea what year her car was, license plate #, or anything. She barely could describe the car to us. UGH!

Finally we found out the car had been towed because she was blocking a driveway. OBLIVIOUS!!!!!! I called the police to find out where it was taken, was given the towing company info, called them to see where they were located and when she could pick up her car. The car was already there. It was going to be $243.50. They MAYBE had the car an hour. If she didn't get there before 5:30 they would charge her an additional $43 bucks.

Then the woman says well I have no idea how I am going to get there or even how public transportation works. She has an accent and I can barely understand her. She left the office and said she was going to try to find some way to get her car. At this point I just cracked up laughing. We all felt bad her car was stolen, but she was so clueless. I said to the office manager are you sure you want to hire her to help take care of elderly people?

After work I head to the library to pick up some books I had on hold. I see 2 of the books on shelf and there is a large cloth bag with 10 books that has my name on it. I take all the items to the counter and told the guy. I think there has been a terrible mistake why do I have 10 of the exact same book? He said you ordered the book club version. I said can I just have one book? I had to take all 10 books or order just the single copy. WHAT! LOL At this point I just busted up laughing. Ok I will order the single copy and wait.