The Marshall's

Wonder Woman

2012-01-20T11:51:00.001-08:00

Last weekend i got to go to magic mountain with the kids and their parents. I didnt take any pictures except this one. Theresa won a wonder woman cape. Next time she has to win one for me.

Not bad for 9 years old

2012-01-05T19:41:00.001-08:00

My car hit 50,000 miles this week. I never drove more than 2 miles to work in the past 9 years so the miles didnt add up very quickly. Now i am driving 10 miles to work so the miles are showing. Poor car.

Happy New Year

2012-01-02T20:29:00.001-08:00

Just thought i would post a quick picture od my dads cat Jack. He was hanging out in a box...jack in the box. Haha.

Anyway we hung out at Jeremys moms on new years eve. Had some food and a few drinks and were home before 10. I tried to go to bed but we have rude neighbors who were up setting off fireworks. I just realized i didnt even take any pictures from that night.

Hockey Practice

2011-12-17T23:02:00.000-08:00

When we went up North last weekend we were lucky enough to get to watch Brett and Evan's hockey practice. They were both so excited to have us all there to watch them. Evan told me he skates better than anyone else, then he proceeded to spend the most time falling on the ice. The did a very good job and seem to love learning how to play hockey. Here are the better of the pictures.

Scenes from a birthday party

2011-12-14T21:29:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures from Travis birthday party. I think his favorite present was money!! His party was at skating plus which hasnt changed inside ever. Enjoy these pictures, sorry about the blurry one.

A quick picture...

2011-12-12T22:01:00.000-08:00

This is my favorite picture I took of the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday. I was able to download my camera but I am way to tired to go through all the pictures tonight.

Happy 10th Birthday Travis!!

2011-12-12T21:57:00.001-08:00

Today Travis turned 10 years old!! We called him tonight to tell him Happy Birthday and apparently he was in an odd mood because he said Happy Birthday to you too. I asked him if I got anything good for my birthday and he said no. This picture was taken at his birthday party last weekend at Skating Plus. Hard to believe this kid is 10 now!!

We saw the Google car!

2011-12-11T21:48:00.001-08:00

While driving up north on friday we saw the google car on the freeway and then somehow we ended up at the same gas station as them. We had a great time and the twins had fun at their birthday party. Its hard believe that they will be 6 next Saturday. Travis turns 10 tomorrow.

We did go see the Golden Gate Bridge on the way home today. I took lots of pictures that i now need to download. Hopefully i will get to that tomorrow. For now its bedtime!

Did you decorate your tree?

2011-12-05T10:44:00.001-08:00

On Friday we bought our Christmas tree. I like to have lots of lights on mine so last year i decided to add one of my strings of leg lamp lights (you know the leg lamp from a christmas story). Anyway i have another strand of these lights (thanks Aunt Heather!) and am going to hang those up too this year. I finally put some decorations on the tree yeaterday, but it has had lights since friday. What weird things do you put on your tree?

Halloween Sugar Cookies

2011-12-04T20:46:00.000-08:00

Sugar cookies arent just for Christmas anymore. We like to start early and make them for Halloween too. This year we did bats, cats and pumpkins. They sure did taste good.

The kids were excited about the sprinkles I bought. The only problem is they like to use way to many sprinkles. They also like to mix the frosting colors.

Halloween 2011

2011-12-02T10:16:00.000-08:00

Wow I am really behind in posting pictures. Here are 2 quick ones from Halloween. My pumpkin picture came out blurry for some reason.Yes I am still trying to learn how to properly use the camera we bought last year.

Travis was a creepy pumpkin slasher thing and Theresa was Spiderella. They each got a ton of candy like normal.

Lap dog

2011-11-14T19:35:00.001-08:00

My dad's dog thinks she is a lap dog, even though she is the size of a moose. She is also very clumsy and seems to trip over her big feet.

Pirates 4!!!!

2011-10-29T23:30:00.001-07:00

I bought the newest pirates movie the day it was released. This one was funny and entertaining (just like the others). If you havent watched it yet you should. Its set before the other 3 and has zombies and creepy mermaids. I may have to put it in now and watch it.

Halloween costume

2011-10-27T23:05:00.001-07:00

I found this redneck halloween costume the other day. The hat has long hair coming out of the back possibly to remind people of a mullet. Anyway i thought it was pretty funny, not $15 funny, but funny none the less. I do not have a costume this year. I should find something since monday is halloween and i am going trick or treating. Travis has promised me his butterfingers and i am trying to get Theresa to make the same promise. This weekend we are carving pumpkins, well they are helping clean them out and i get to carve them. Now i just need them to pick easy designs.

Its a bird, its a plane, its....

2011-10-22T20:50:00.001-07:00

A giant freaking moth!! Well at least thats what we think it was. This moth or rat with wings was found on the floor of Jeremy's moms laundry room tonight. Theresa kept telling us there was a big moth but we didnt really pay attention to her. I went to go outside and saw it sitting there. Thinking it was dead i went to put my foot next to it to take a picture and the damn thing moved. I jumped and ran back into the house and told Jeremy to get rid of it. He tried to get it out and it didnt want to leave. He finally got it out and it just laid there in the driveway. Creepy looking thing.

Theresa's manicure

2011-10-19T10:39:00.001-07:00

Theresa got a real manicure over the weekend. She had her nails trimmed and got an arm massage and her nails painted pink. This kid loves being a girl!

I am still here

2011-10-17T11:51:00.000-07:00

Its been a long few week. I was sick for the past 3 weeks with a dumb cold that would not go away. I went to the doctor and he said it was a sinus infection so I got to spend 10 days on antibiotics.

Our brother in laws 95 year old grandmother was put into hospice care a little over 2 weeks ago and last Monday she passed away. On Saturday we helped them clean out her apartment. We spent about 7 hours moving the furniture and playing with Travis and Theresa. The kids are handling it very well. Her funeral is tomorrow so we will see how they handle it then.

The kids also had the 7th off of school so Jeremy and I had them for the day. We decided to get them out of the house and keep thier little minds on something besides their great-grandma, so we took them to golf-n-stuff. We played a round of golf, which they loved and were pretty much done after that. I was still pretty sick and got very tired playing golf. They had a great time and told their dad all about it when he picked them up.

On the 8th I went to the Scotish Festival at the fairgrounds. I need to download my camera still otherwise I would post some pictures. Gretchen came to town for it and so I got to spend the day with her.

Just a quick update from me now. Pictures will hopefully get posted this week.

Weird weather!!!

2011-09-23T21:45:00.001-07:00

This morning to woke up at about 5:30 to what sounded like pouring rain. I didnt look outside or anything i just went back to bed. I got up around 8 to feed the cat and it was dry outside so i thought i was just dreaming that it was raining. A few minutes later the thunder started and then it waa pouring rain. It fell so hard it sounded like hail. The rain only lasted about 10 minutes but thw thunder hung around for a few hours. Now its really cold and cloudy out and smells like rain. Maybe we will get more rain tonight!!

Happy 30th Birthday!!!

2011-09-18T10:31:00.000-07:00

My little brother is turning 30 today!! Isn't he cute in this picture, its from one of his birthdays.

Happy 30th Birthday!!!

Things you see in oxnard

2011-09-16T10:29:00.001-07:00

Oxnard can be interesting some days. I was driving on Rose and saw this poor dude. Someone didnt tie his load down very well. He tried to turn right and his barrels fell off.

Things you see in the mall

2011-09-02T10:40:00.000-07:00

I was at the mall last weekend and i saw a hurricane simulator. Yes you can pay money to expirence a hurricane. Doesnt that sound like fun? I have to wonder who came up with this idea. Do malls back east have earthquake simulators?

Weird and creepy

2011-08-28T20:45:00.001-07:00

We saw this van on the freeway a few weeks ago. At first i was trying to figure out what was on top of and then i realized it was naked manaquin torsos. In the back window we could see the arms and legs and in the side window was all the heads. It was really weird and creepy!

Isn't it August?

2011-08-27T00:09:00.001-07:00

Emily and i tried to go to the beach today for a nice relaxing summer day and it started to rain! It wasnt just a sprinkle either. It was big fat drops and it got cold and windy. My dad said he saw that we are supposed to have thunder storms this weekend. If that happens we will have some crazy weather!

Baseball summer...

2011-07-27T23:37:00.000-07:00

Travis and Theresa have been playing baseball this summer. Here are a few pictures of them. I would have posted more but my computer is being really slow. I will post more later once I figure out why its taking so long to upload the pictures. I will have a bunch more to post next week. We are going camping at Lake Lopez and I plan on taking tons of pictures. We have Jeremy's friend staying at the house to take care of the dog and kitties.

Happy Birthday Emily!

2011-07-09T23:23:00.001-07:00

Today is my sisters 19th birthday. I am not sure how she got so old. We went to sizzler for dinner and they sang to her and made her wear this silly hat. Of course i took the picture with my phone and i was sitting next to her so its not the greatest picture but at least i got one.

Happy Birthday Emi Sue.

Happy Birthday Grandma!!!

2011-06-21T22:02:00.001-07:00

Today is my Grandma's birthday. She is one very special person in my life.
Thank yoy Grandma for everything you have done for me!!!

Saturday driving....

2011-06-13T22:33:00.000-07:00

We went for a drive on Saturday up to Ojai. First we stopped at the Nordhoff Cemetary which is really old and small. There isn't any grass but there is a ton of dirt and plants. Emily and I were wondering around and came across this old wooden headstone. What caught my attention was the last name...Stapleton (my mom's maiden name) and I thought it was odd that there was a Stapleton there from the civil war. I think the dates said 1844 to 1918. I may have to go back and see if that is really what the dates were. It is still in pretty good condition for being there for so long and being made from wood. Next we drove up the 33 and came across this waterfall on the side of the road. We were able to walk to it since it was about 30 feet from the side of the road.

We saw lots of wild flowers. Most of them were yellow but I found this purple one.

We got out of the car to see these yellow flowers and as soon as I opened the door all we could smell was flowers.

It was super foggy and you couldn't see anything over the side of the mountain. I think we will have to go back up there again soon so I can take some more pictures.

starting early

2011-06-12T22:34:00.001-07:00

Theresa is ready to learn how to drive. They want to start learning so early now days.

We went for a drive yesterday up to ojai and the mountains beyond. I am going to download my camera tomorrow and will post pictures of the things we saw.

Thanks Mom!

2011-05-25T20:55:00.001-07:00

My mom sent me a target gift card for my birthday with instructions to buy something fun. Well what could be more fun than a movie about love and garden gnomes? Well there is probably a lot of things more fun but i really wanted this movie. Thanks mom for my birthday present!

Pirates of The Caribbean 4

2011-05-21T22:31:00.001-07:00

This movie was awesome!! I loved every second of it and really want to go see it again as soon as possible. We made the right decision by going to the 1010 am showing this morning. There was about 20 people in the theater. There was a few small kids but they were very quiet. When we went to see fast five some people had a baby and the kid screamed for part of the movie and they didnt bother to take the kid out of the theater, it was very annoying. I did enjoy pirates very much. I liked it better than the second and third ones.

More Birthday Celebrating

2011-05-18T21:55:00.001-07:00

We went and bought our tickets to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean this weekend. I love the first 3 movies and am super excited to see this one. We are going to see if at the imax theater which is not cheap, but we had a $25 gift certificate that we won in a raffle at a bowling for boobs fundraiser so it is only costing us $9!!! Cheaper than paying for 2 tickets to a normal movie. Captain Jack Sparrow here we come!!!!

$31.00........

2011-05-13T12:04:00.001-07:00

That is how much I had to pay to renew my drivers license this morning. I noticed on Tuesday that my license expired that day and I had never received the renewal paperwork in the mail. I went online to see if I could renew it but you had to have some special numbers from the paperwork. So I made an appointment with the DMV and the soonest opening they had was for today. So I came to work early and then left to go to the DMV and I done and back at my desk 40 minutes later. When the DMV lady told me it $31 I was shocked. I told her that I remembered renewing it and it had only cost $12.00. She said that when she first started working for the DMV back in the 70's it $3.25 to renew your license. At least it was a pretty quick trip to the DMV.

Tomorrow I am going to Disneyland for a post birthday trip. Hopefully it won't be to busy or to hot.

A few quick vacation pictures...the waterfall in Solvang

2011-05-01T16:19:00.000-07:00

Our truck was in a movie!!

2011-04-25T18:52:00.001-07:00

We rented Gullivars Travels this weekend. Part of the movie, about 5 minutes worth, was filmed in ventura and Jeremy was working security for it. If you look close at this picture you can see our blue truck next to the black truck. I took a picture of the tv when i saw the truck. There is a scene in the movie where they walk down a dock to a boat it is the fock that you walk fown to get to Aunt Heather and Uncle Jim's boat and they show their slip minus the boat. This movie did not get the best reviews but i enjoyed it. I found it to be a little odd but pretty funny.

Double Whammy

2011-04-19T19:39:00.001-07:00

Last night we went to urgent care because i have had a cold for a week and was not getting any better. After waiting for about 3 hours i finally saw the doctor. I have a sinus infection so i get to take antiobiotics and cough syrup with codiene. We had been home for about an hour and a half when i had stabbing pain on the left side of my back. So after about an hour of constant pain we went to the er. They decided i have a kidney stone. The scarey part is we spent less time at the er than we did at urgent care. I went to work today for 45 minutes and then came home to take pain meds and get some sleep. What a fun monday night for us.

A few vacation pictures

2011-04-17T16:22:00.000-07:00

I have finally downloaded my camera and am trying to go through all the vacation pictures. Here are a few for now. We hiked up to a waterfall in Solvang and at the beginning of the trail was a warning about mountain lions. One child was missing from this picture because he had to go to the bathroom.

Theresa and the waterfall. Such a cute smile.

The 4 kids sitting on a log on the way back from the waterfall.

We took a few pictures of the kids at the waterfall and this one was one of the better ones. We will have to go back there again and take better pictures.

My Target find

2011-04-11T21:21:00.001-07:00

I found the original Annie movie at Target the other day. It was on sale for $4.75. What a deal!! I remember watching this at the Ventura Theater back when i was in Blue Birds. I never realized that Tim Curry was in it. I am going to watch it now and hope it is as good as i remember. Hopefully i didnt waste $4.75 on a terrible movie.

Movie Review

2011-03-30T15:32:00.000-07:00

Who doesn't love a Johnny Depp movie??? Over the weekend we rented The Tourist. It was a really good movie. Not a lot of action but the story line was entertaining and it starred Johnny Depp. So if your looking for a really good movie to watch then rent this movie. I don't want to say very much about the plot because it might give away the movie.

A few quick football pictures

2011-03-27T19:33:00.000-07:00

Travis is #6 on the green team and Theresa is the only girl on her team. They seem to be having lots of fun. I will have to post more pictures after I go through them all.

Broken Glasses

2011-03-21T13:04:00.000-07:00

Yesterday at about 5:30 Jeremy and I were playing a video game and the lens in my glasses fell out. I went to go pop it back in and found that the frames were broken. They snaped apart. How does that happen when you are wearing them? I of course freaked out about it. We called lenscrafters and they were open until 8 so we went over there only to be told they could not help us and we should go to Target. Uhm ok, how is target going to help? Well we ended up buying krazy glue which is what is holding my glasses together right now while I am at work. I get to leave early today to go see the eye doctor and get a new pair of glasses. Fun times.

Crazy dog

2011-03-20T22:09:00.001-07:00

My dog loves to sleep and be in weird positions. She had a long weekend. She got to go to Travis football game on saturday. Today she got to go outside in the pouring rain to go potty. She hates getting a bath but she doesnt mind going outside in the rain. I am going to download my camera this week and will post pictures of the kids playing football. Theresa scored a touchdown and Travis got to play quarterback.

Early Birthday present to me!

2011-03-14T20:25:00.001-07:00

I bought a very early birthday present for myself last weekend. I love this movie. I used to watch it all the time when i was younger. We bought it on dvd and i wore it out. This collectors one came with a booklet, the movie, a board game and some other little goodies. I think i may have to watch it again tonight! I remember watching with my dad and a friend of his once and they bother laughed hysterically when Data used his pinchers of hell. Yes total classic 80's movie.

Earthquakes, Tsunamis and bears...oh my

2011-03-11T11:20:00.000-08:00

Ok so bears have nothing to do with earthquakes and tsunamis. I did not watch the news last night so I did not hear about the earthquake and tsunami until this morning. I decided to fall asleep watching a movie last night and not just any movie. I was watching 2012, the END OF THE WORLD movie. Yep some people hate this movie I find it very entertaining and I love to laugh at how far fetched the movie is. So yes I got up this morning and was checking out facebook on my phone while waiting for the water in the shower to heat up and I see TSUNAMI WARNING. I kept reading some more and then I thought I am really awake? Am I still sleeping and dreaming that there was an earthquake and a tsunami?? So I take my shower and once I was done I turned the TV on and saw some amazing videos of the Tsunami tearing across Japan. I say amazing because how can all that raw power not be amazing? Tsunamis are pretty impressive as long as they stay away from my house. Now here I am sitting at work and none of us are really working. We are to busy checking out the videos on the internet trying to see more footage of the TSUNAMI and trying to see how it is affecting us. Yes it is most definatly Friday.

Migraines are no fun

2011-03-09T13:41:00.001-08:00

I have a migraine headache starting and i have 3 and a half hours of work still to go.

I need to download my camera this week. I have pictures to post of travis and theresa playing football last weekend.

Learning how to blog from my phone.

2011-02-25T11:42:00.001-08:00

I am trying to figure out how to post blogs from this new phone. Its not as easy as it was with my blackberry!! I am also playing with camera features on my phone.

We went to dominicks last night with jeremy's family and they no longer have capacchino ice cream. They company that made it has discontinued it. They are looking for a new one but that was the best part about going there.

Playing with my phone

2011-02-24T14:56:00.001-08:00

A few quick pictures

2011-02-13T16:50:00.000-08:00

I took some pictures of the kids at the park this weekend and these are the best ones that I have found so far. Theresa had agreed to let me take pictures of her and then she did not want to coraporate. Travis didn't want me to take any of him but then he would smile everytime he saw me point the camera at him.

LA Zoo Trip

2011-02-03T19:58:00.000-08:00

Last weekend I tool Emily to the LA Zoo since she had never been there. Here are some of the over 200 pictures I took. Yes I really took that many pictures.

We watched the Meerkats for a while. Whenever I go to the Santa Barbara Zoo they are never out so I was happy to see that these ones were out and sitting on a rock.

We checked out the stinking flamingos. They smell bad.

We saw this creepy looking bird watching us.

This oragatang (yep not spelled right) he was sitting by the viewing window checking us out.

This one was busy eating.

This is the big silverback gorilla. His name is Kelly.

The koalas were sleeping like normal.

This chimpanzee was picking his nose and eating it.

This lion was sticking his tongue out at us. Actaully he was licking the female lion and I caught him as he was trying to get hair off his tongue.

The tiger was sleeping.

And the rhino was drinking water and opening his mouth for us to see his tongue.

The Hippo was actually out of the water. We went back later in the day and he was in the water.

This big bear was sleeping on a rock and then he woke up to stare at everyone.

This was the Meerkat when we first got there. He was posing on the rock. When I pulled out the camera he turned and looked straight at me. We had a really good time and I would love to go back again.

My camera

2011-01-26T21:27:00.000-08:00

I was playing with the camera on my phone and decided to take a picture of my new real camera. Thanks to my most wonderful Aunt Heather I have a really big lens that I LOVE!!! Going to go play with it this weekend, as long as my cold goes away. We have both been sick for 2 weeks now and it does not want to leave.

Camera fun

2011-01-25T19:18:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we went for a drive up to Lake Cachuma. I really wanted to go play with the new camera. The pictures are out of order but here are some of the better ones.

We took Emily with us so she could get out of the house and play with her point and shoot camera.

We saw a really pretty woodpecker.

And some flowers by the lake.

And some bushes. The lake was pretty full of water. This weekend I am taking the camera and Emily to the LA Zoo. Emily has never been there so I figured I would take her and get her out of her bedroom where she spends all of her time.

A few quick pictures

2011-01-18T20:45:00.000-08:00

I played with the new camera this weekend and here are just a few quick pictures from the park this weekend. The last one is Theresa's devil look as I call it.

Face painting....

2011-01-13T11:18:00.000-08:00

In this case it would be arm painting. This is Theresa's arm from the same night as the octopus balloon. Theresa wanted a hello kitty but tinkerbell style. Her balloon even matched. I have a picture if that somewhere that I need to post.

Balloon animal

2011-01-12T08:43:00.000-08:00

Every week at cocos they have kids eat free night and they have face painting at balloon animals. This octopus one was made for Travis. He asked for a surprise and this is what he got. I really wanted to be a kid that night so I could have one too!

My favorite movies of 2010...Post inspired by my lovely cousin Laina!!

2011-01-03T00:34:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Laina's fun post of her favorite movies of 2010, I decided to make my own list...so here it is! Shrek 4 was a really funny movie. I love the first 3 and so we had to watch the 4th one. We actually saw it at the Santa Barbara drive in with a group of friends and had a really good time. I don't think this one was as funny as the first or second one but it was still a great movie.

Toy Story 3 was another drive in movie for us. We took our nephew Travis to see it at the drive in and it was his first time going to one. We sat in the back of the truck and ate popcorn and nachos and laughed through out this movie. My favorite line was when Barbie told Ken "Nice ascott"! It was to funny. I do have to say that the ending made me cry. We now own this movie (had to have it since we own the other 2) and its sad to say but we have not even opened it yet. If you loved the first 2 then you will like this one.

Grownups was a movie that we rented and then had to buy because we could not stop laughing in it. Whats more funny than a bunch of grown men acting like dorks? My favorite part (they even showed it in the commercials) is when they are at the waterpark and they pee in the pool and the water turns blue. It was really funny. If you have not seen it, you muct watch it.

Jeremy went to see The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the theater and I am not sure where I was that I didn't ger to go with him. He rented it for me a few weeks ago and I loved it so much that I watched it twice in a 24 hour time period. I love Fantasia and this movie is kind of like a live version of it. It was filmed very well and the special effects were great. We were able to use some of our Christmas money to buy it last week. Target had it on blu ray for $14.99!!

Hot Tub Time Machine was my favorite comedy movie of the year. The best part of this movie is when the black guy (can't remember his name) was trying to understand what was happening and so he asked a white girl what color Michael Jackson was and she said black. This movie had tons of 80's music and the clothing and hair was done so well that I felt like I was back in the 80's. It did have it's cheesey moments, but it made me laugh hysterically. A definate most see movie if you remember (and liked) the 80's.

Alice in Wonderland...who doesn't love Johnny Depp?? This movie was brillant (at least I thought it was) I was lucky enough to see if opening night at the Imax theater in 3D!! If you haven't seen it, you probably should rent it and watch it. If you love the Disney cartoon version then you should love this one too. Johnny Depp was terrific as The Mad Hatter and you could even see a little Captain Jack Sparrow come out in his performance. This was probably my absolute most favorite movie of the year.

Thanks Laina for this idea!!!

I am most looking forwarf to May 20 2011 so I can go see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Johnny Depp is back as Captain Jack Sparrow. It was orginally supposed to come out the day after my birthday so I was going to take the day off to see if but now that it is coming out on a Friday I will get tickets to see it that night and I won't have to miss any work!!

We are so mean...

2011-01-01T23:04:00.000-08:00

Travis asked us for a million dollars for his birthday this year...wait I mean last year. So we did our best to find a million dollars in fake money. I couldn't find a million but I found some. I decided to wrap the fake money in 2 different boxes and put in a real $20. The pictures are backwards but you get the idea. I hid the real money and had notes on the packages so he could open them in order. The kid just tore open the boxes and didnt read anything. I had to tell him to look for some real money. I did find a million dollar chocolate bar that we wrapped up and gave him for Christmas. Needles to say he was happy about the real money, but wasn't impressed with the fake money. I told him that his list did not specify that he wanted real money and he told me that he would not have asked for fake money. Yep he is a 9 year old smart boy. I need to catch up on posting pictures so I will post some other December pictures soon!

Happy New Years Eve!!

2010-12-31T23:56:00.001-08:00

One last post for 2010!!! Not that I have anything to say right now!!

Find the puppy!!

2010-12-28T13:41:00.000-08:00

Its a game like Where's Waldo!! My dog loves to be under the covers and wrapped up in many blankets. I bet she would have been harder to spot if her eyes weren't glowing!!

My new "niece"

2010-12-24T10:22:00.001-08:00

Meet Minnie she is Travis and Theresa's new puppy. Or my new niece has Theresa calls her. She is just a baby about 13 weeks old and little snuggler when she wants to be and a little biting terror at other times. Isn't she sweet looking? Yep looks can be decieving! She is very sweet and loveable until the teeth come out!! She loves to lick the kids all over, yep that's because kids are sticky and taste good.

And the rain rain rain came down down down....

2010-12-22T09:26:00.000-08:00

Day #....wait its been raining for so long that I don't remember when it started. I do love the rain, but I'm starting to feel like Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day!!! It has just started raining again and there are reports that we could get 8 inches today! I may need a boat to get home after work.

Shopping in the rain!

2010-12-19T12:27:00.001-08:00

I went shopping in the rain yesterday. This is the view from my parking spot at the mall. We parked up by Target and had to walk all the way down to the other end of the mall. At least the spot was at the front of a row! I got smart later on in the day and had jeremy drive me to the outlets and drop me off at stores. The plan was for him to circle the parking lot while I was shopping but the outlets were pretty empty by the time we got there. Out shopping again today and hoping to be done soon!

Happy 5th Birthday!!!

2010-12-17T11:38:00.001-08:00

Today is Brett and Evanns 5th birthday!!!! Its hard to believe that these 2 are already 5 years old!! This picture if from their birthday last year when I bought them shirts that said "I'm the Nightmare they warned you about". Aren't they cute????

Who you gonna call??

2010-12-15T15:01:00.000-08:00

I found this Ghostbusters 2 set at toys r us. The price $64.99!!! That's a lot of money for 4 dolls!!

Sugar cookies!!

2010-12-13T20:25:00.000-08:00

We did sugar cookies yesterday and this one is my favorite. I got bored with adding sprinkles so I used glitter gel. And then I ate it!!!

Happy 9th Birthday Travis!!!

2010-12-12T23:10:00.000-08:00

Travis turned 9 years old today!!! This was taken at his birthday party on Saturday. He got tons of presents, $60 and another $40 in gift certificates to toys r us!! I have some more pictures to post later. Its late and I need to get to bed.

Happy Birthday Buddy!!!

This is just wrong!

2010-12-11T21:16:00.001-08:00

At toys r us tonight I found this doll. Its a change my diaper baby and its anatomically correct! I was going to get one for Theresa until I started checking it out and saw things that should not be on a doll and they did not have any girl ones left! I even had 3 employees trying to find me a girl one, they did have 3 boy ones left. I would not buy that for a 6 year old!

Captain EO!

2010-12-10T23:43:00.001-08:00

Does anyone remember disneylands captain eo?? Best 3D sgow ever!

Seriously??

2010-12-09T10:54:00.001-08:00

Hugglies?? How many different names can they come up with for a blanket with arm holes (or a backwars robe as I call them). Anyway I found these ugly hugglies at burlington coat factory last night. Yep I was out shopping which is why I didn't post a picture yesterday. Travis has a big birthday party this weekend and I needed to finish getting his present.

Happy Anniversary and coffee!!!

2010-12-07T19:57:00.000-08:00

Today is our 8 year anniversary. I should post a wedding picture but I don't own a scanner so I can't put the pictures into the computer. Yep we got married right before digital cameras were popular. In fact we got a digital camera as a wedding present as well as a regular camera and neither one of them work now!

To celebrate I had a peppermint mocha from starbucks today. Jeremy is at work tonight, so we went to dinner over the weekend. Now I'm going to watch a movie and go to bed.

What I want for Christmas!

2010-12-06T21:31:00.000-08:00

I really want a new camera. I want the new canon txi2 I think is the proper name but I like the price on this one. Actually the price for this was is from black friday but it is much cheaper than the other camera. Anyone want to chip in money so I can buy a new camera?

Cousin It???

2010-12-05T23:04:00.000-08:00

One very cute picture from visiting my cute cousins last weekend. Almost forgot to post a picture today!! My goal is to post one picture every day this month, just to see if I can remember to do it!!

We got some of our Christmas lights up today. I was working on them by myself when I noticed that one of the lights was out and I while I was trying to pull it out the light broke and cut my thumb open. I ran inside where Jeremy and my dad were installing the new garbage disposal (Yes it is finally in!! No more backed up sink!!) and ran into the bathroom to wash the blood away and make sure there was nothing in the cut. Jeremy put 3 bandaids on it and I bleed through them. It has stopped bleeding but is pretty painful. So I only got part of our lights up and then found out a lot of our old lights don't work and so I get to figure out how to finish them this week. Yep what a fun day.

I forgot to post a Saturday picture!

2010-12-05T00:36:00.001-08:00

We tortured the poor dog and put her reindeer antlers on her on Friday night. She was not happy!

Is that a squirel on your head?

2010-12-03T10:42:00.000-08:00

Emily isn't going to be happy about this post. She put on a Chip or Dale hat (I never know which one is which) and didn't expect me to take a picture! Haha! I took it and I'm posting it for everyone to see. Oh yeah and yes of course this was taken at Disneyland.

Picture of the day!

2010-12-02T10:45:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago Jeremy and I went down to Disneyland for the afternoon since it was raining and we had nothing else to do. Anyway on the drive down there we were on the 5 stuck in traffic when I looked over and saw this Los Angeles County Zombie Control car. I thought wait did that say what I thought it said. Of course I had to get a picture of it, this is the best one I was able to get. Who paints their car funky camoflague and puts Zombie Control on the window? Someone must have seen Zombieland once to many times! (which by the way if you like silly zombie movies, that is a must see at least one time movie)

Decemeber is here!

2010-12-01T11:16:00.001-08:00

I love December! My anniversary is on the 7th, Travis turns 9 on the 12th, the twins turn 5 on the 17th and even after all that there is still Christmas to look forward to!

I was going through my phone yesterday and found a bunch of funny pictures so I thought I would try and post one every day this month. This picture of Travis is one of my favorites! I should have saved it for his birthday but I couldn't. This was taken on his birthday last year when I took him to Disneyland in the pouring rain! We had a great time though because it was empty!

I found my brother!

2010-11-30T13:29:00.001-08:00

Ok family this one is for you! I was going through the pictures on my phone and found a recent one of my brother. It was taken in July so I'm sure he still looks the same!

Where did November go?

2010-11-22T14:59:00.001-08:00

Wow I knew it was almost Thanksgiving but I didn't think it was this week! Where did November go? I have been super busy and not really paying attention to what day it is. I have some pictures to post but they are still on my camera. Jeremy is out buying a new garbage disposal right now since ours is done. It hasn't worked right in months and now we have to plunge the sink just to get it to drain. I think he is planning on installing it himself.....I hope he knows what he is doing!

Trick or Treating

2010-11-06T18:17:00.000-07:00

Travis was a doctor this year. He might have been a crazy doctor though with the crazy knife he was carrying.

Theresa was a fairy princess. She was verysparkly and happy. She kept running from house to house so she could get as much candy as possible.

Here is a look into Travis's bag of candy.

Travis, Theresa and our friend's little boy Tyler. As soon as we were done trick or treating the immediatley wanted to eat all of the candy. Travis was nice and gave me his bytterfingers because he doesn't like them.

Cracked!

2010-11-03T10:26:00.001-07:00

Over the weekend my windshield was hit by a rock and now it has a nice big crack in it. It seems to be getting bigger with the heat we are having but it could just be my imagination. I'm just annoyed by the whole thing.

Did you carve your pumpkins yet???

2010-10-30T23:01:00.001-07:00

I have carved 3 pumpkins so far today and I have one more to go. Hopefully I will get it done tomorrow but I am worn out after doing 3 of them!!
I bought 2 pumpkins for us and I just finished the first one.I made the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man from GhostBusters! The small parts were a pain in the butt to do! The other one I am doing is The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland, the new live action movie, yes its Johnny Depp's face, its not going to be very easy to do and I am to tired to try and work on it tonight. This is Travis's pumpkin. He chose the pattern and he even cleaned out must of the pumpkin himself. I can't wait until he is old enough to carve the pumpkin himself!!

This is Theresa's pumpkin. She had to have a skull and crossbones like her brother but chose the girl one. She tried to help clean it out. She did a pretty good job but wasn't able to get all the guts out.

Tomorrow night is trick or treating time. I will hopefully remember to take my camera and get some good pictures of the kids and their candy. Travis promised me some of his butterfingers because he doesn't like them.

Pumpkin carving!

2010-10-26T09:00:00.001-07:00

I am trying to plan out how I'm going to carve my pumpkin this year. I really like this one but I think it may be a bit to much for me considering the fact that halloween is this weekend!

I did have a pumpkin at home waiting for me to cut it open and I noticed this morning the top by the stem is squishy! It must have broken when it was picked up and now it is uncarvable. So now I have to go get a new pumpkin.

New Flavor Of Nyquil!!!!!

2010-10-25T12:01:00.000-07:00

On Thursday I had a sore throat and a runny nose. I thought it was allergies, but by Friday I was feeling pretty yucky. In fact we ended up closing early for the day and I went home and laid on the couch all night. I didn't want to eat or drink anything and felt horrible. Jeremy had to go to work that night but he set up the humidifier for me and I laid in bed and breathed in all the lovely vapor filled air and was hoping I would fill better the next morning. Nu luck I woke up Saturday still congested and was running a fever. I stayed in bed for a long time and ended up getting up so we could run to Target to get Nyquil and toilet paper. You may ask why not just send Jeremy by himself, well he likes to look at all the stuff and when I send him by himself he comes back with things I did not ask for and always spends way more than what was allowed. So I went with him to the Nyquil asile where we were surprised to find a new flavor! It's vanilla cherry swirl, of course we had to try it since I can't stand the nasty green flavor.

So with my prized Nyquil in hand we grabbed the much needed toilet paper and off we went, next stop was to get something for dinner since he had to go to work early that night and I was not in the mood to cook. I really wanted pizza, don't know why I wanted pizza with being as sick as I was, but pizza sounded really good. So we went to Dominos since they have the special of a medium pizza with 2 toppings for $5.55 or some low price like that. Jeremy went in to order the food and I sat in the car, starting to feel even worse at this point. I really wanted to be home already but I didn't want to pay a tip to the pizza delivery person so we waitied for 20 minutes to get our pizza and home we went.

After I ate I decided it was time to tr the new nyquil. While it still had a bad taste I could handle it much better than the green one. I took a normal dose and waited for it to work. I was ready to go to sleep at 7pm but knew if I did I would be wide awake at 3am. So I forced myself to stay awake until about 10pm or so and then went to bed and guess what happened then.....I was wide awake at 3am!!!!! It took me 2 hours and another shot of nyquil to go back to sleep. I guess this new flavor did not work at that great compared to the original nyquil that you have to get from behind the counter and have to have your id scanned to get, at least with that one if I wake up I can fall back asleep pretty quickly, not 2 hours later!!!

So I guess my leasoned learned is that you need to stick with the good nyquil and just because they have new flavors that may taste better it does not have the same ingreidents that make you feel nice and loopy. That reminds me we also saw that nyquil makes an alcohol free formula now. Isn't that why we take nyquil for the alcohol content??

Jeffafa Dunham.com

2010-10-21T14:29:00.000-07:00

I leanred today that Jeff Dunham and his amazing puppets will be at the Rabobank convention center in lovely Bakersfield on January 30th. Tickets go on sale tomorrow and look like they aren't going to be that cheap. I really want to go see him but it may have to wait until the next time he will be playing somewhere close. Unless by some miracle the tickets are cheap and aren't sold out by the time I look for some.

Dark stormy weather

2010-10-20T14:26:00.001-07:00

We had lots of thunder and lighning last night from these dark clouds. We even had some hail. Did I get any pictures of that....NO we were on the oppisite end of town visiting my cousin Mark since he was in town to do the plumbing on the old house that I grew up in. It got really windy and cloudy and we heard lots of thunder and then we had a few big ldrops of rain and then it was silent. It was really weird! Once we got home we got some more rain and thunder. Today we are expecting some scattered thunderstorms. I actually brought my camera to work with me in case we get some more weird weather!

A Day at Disneyland......again

2010-10-10T21:46:00.000-07:00

In September we meet the twins and their mom and grandma at Disneyland for the a day. Of course it was the day after the hottest day of the year there and it was still hot when we were there. My pictures have posted backwards but at least they are up! It is Halloween time at Disneyland and they normally put up a lot of decorations. These "pumpkins" are up above the main entrance.

Ok I posted this and then I noticed that all of the text is at the bottom of the pictures. It was supposed to be with each picture. I am to tired to fix it now but I am sure you can figure out which text goes to which picture!!
Here is Jeremy and the boys waiting for the tram at the end of the day. It was still pretty hot at this time even it was dark and after 8pm.

We noticed earlier in the day that We We noticed earlier in the day that both Jeremy and Brett were dressed the same. The both had on red shirts, navy shorts white socks, black shoes and black hats. We called Brett "mini me: which made him made later in the day when he was tired, he said "I'm not mini me, I'm Brett" which of course made us all laugh.

We each took a boy on the Teacups, I had Evan with me and I thought we were spinning pretty fast but as it turns out we were not going as fast as Jeremy and Brett.

The boys wanted to take a picture making a scary face in honor of Halloween. I'm not sure what happened to Evan's scary face, he looks bored here! We had a really good time even with the heat. Mychele and I took the boys on Splash Mountain for the first time. When we got off Brett said he liked it and I told him he needed to tell his Daddy all about it. He said his Daddy wouldn't like that ride, it would make him scream like a girl!! We also took them on the water ride at California Adventure which they both loved and of course wanted to keep going on it. We can't wait until the next time we get to go to Disneyland with them. Hopefully they will be tall enough to go the Indiana Jones ride. I think it is the only ride at Disneyland that they haven't been on yet.

I want a taktoo.......

2010-10-10T21:26:00.000-07:00

First my brother in law was able to fix my computer today!! Yeah at least I don't have to go buy a new one!!! I was going through the pictures on it and I found these pictures from August that I never shared. When we went to the fair we came across a booth that sells stamps and ink that are for your body. Jen bought some of them and we went home and had a "taktoo" party as Evan called the tattoos. For some reason blogger is being weird and is posting my pictures without a break between them. The top picture is all 4 kids. Brett thought he was being funny and kept making odd faces so I took the picture anyway.

The below pictures are the kids fake tattoos. They had fun picking out the ones that they wanted and wanted to put them on themselves, but nope the adults had to do the stamp and the coloring in. Theresa had a butterfly but her picture has disappeared from this post somehow. I am not sure what is going on with this! Oh well I will have to play with it before my next post, its late and I am tired and cranky tonight and really need to go to bed.

Computers and :Haircuts.

2010-10-07T13:14:00.001-07:00

My hair was driving my nuts last night. It was way past due for a trim. We are on a really tight budget these next few weeks and so I really didn't want to put out the money to get one. Well we went to Great Clips where is it $15 for a haircut. I got right in and was done in less that 15 minutes. They guy who cut my hair then decided it took so little time to do my hair that he only charged me $6!!!!! So with a tip I only paid $10!!!

We are now having an issue with my computer. We had bought me a netbook after Christmas last year and now it has some virus and I can't do anything with it. I am hoping that we can fix it ourselves and that it is fixable. I really don't want to be without my computer and I don't want to buy a new one. I was able to download mt camera to the computer but I can't do anything else!!

Movie Review

2010-10-05T11:24:00.001-07:00

I forgot we rented 2 movies 2 weekends ago!! First we watched the new Robin Hood, which was good but long and boring in some spots. They really could have cut out a lot of the dialogue that was not needed to keep the story going.

The second movie was Letters To Juliette which was very good. It was a happy movie that just made you feel good.

Weird Weather

2010-10-05T10:43:00.000-07:00

Yesterday morning we had some rain or really heavy misting fog, anyway the ground was all went so it could have been either one. Today they are calling for rain from later today through Thursday morning. Maybe even some scatter thunderstorms!! I am ready for the rain. I found my sweaters to wear to work so I don't freeze all day. I have a heavy blanket on my bed so I can stay warm all night. I didn't wash my car this weekend hoping that the rain will do it for me. Jeremy is off the next 2 nights so I don't have to worry about him driving around all night in the rain. The only problem we are going to have is the dog. She does not like the water and since it hasnt rained in a while she may not even remember what it is.

I am hoping this week to be able to pull out some of my halloween decorations. I am ready for fall and winter to get here!!! I was trying to dress Jeremy up as a Hooters girl for Halloween this year but it looks like he will be working that night so he won't be able to go Trick or Treating with us. I guess I will save the Hooters girl idea for next year.

October starts tomorrow???

2010-09-30T15:33:00.000-07:00

How is it possible that tomorrow is October 1st?? We had a great time at Disneyland. It was hot and humid but we still had fun playing with the boys. I didn't take that many pictures though. My camera told me my memory card was full so I had to delete some of the bad pictures. I am going to download it in the next few days and will post the cute pictures I took.

Who broke the outside ac??

2010-09-27T10:44:00.001-07:00

I just read this on weather.com. Its freaking 98 outside in Ventura! 98 when was the last time it was 98 here???? Good thing I am at work today with the air conditioning on! But the bright side is tomorrow its only supposed to be 76. To bad I will be at Disneyland with Brett and Evan all day, its only going to be 91 there tomorrow.

Must be a Wednesday thing

2010-09-22T14:37:00.001-07:00

Last Wednesday I saw a dancing banana on my way to work. This morning I saw another one! I was able to read his sign this morning and he is advertising $1.00 oatmeal at Jamba Juice. Poor guy I wouldn't want dancing banana on my resume.

The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever so you can rest medicine.

2010-09-17T09:12:00.000-07:00

The truth is Nyquil sucks unless you by the behind the counter one with all the good drugs in it. I have a cold or something yucky. I have been running a fever and coughing and all of that fun stuff. After a few days of having a fever we decided that I needed to go a doctor. Wednesday night we went to urgent care and i was given some antibiotics and the really really good cough medicine, the kind with codeine in it, to help me sleep through the night without coughing. The bad thing is when i wake up in the morning I start coughing again. I can't take the stuff while I am work since I kind of need to be awake while I am here. I am feeling a little better today and may even try to go have some fun tomorrow. Oh wait maybe not tomorrow, I get to see the foot doctor at 4 today and possibly get a 3rd cortisone shot. Wow what a fun day for me!

Chilis

2010-09-14T10:29:00.001-07:00

Isn't Travis talented? Chilis is doing a create a pepper coloring thing for childhood cancer and this is how Travis colored his. Can you tell he likes the Dodgers? I tried the honey-chipotle chicken crispers I have been craving them since.

Not much else is going on with us. We spent the weekend not doing anything since we have been busy lately. Actually jeremy ended up having to work saturday night and sunday night so we really couldn't do much. Hopefully he will be off this weekend so we can go do something.

Foot Update

2010-09-08T12:16:00.001-07:00

See the red spot on my ankle? Well last Friday I got a second cortisone shot. It was numb for a good 5 hours or so and then the pain kicked in. This one hurt a lot more than the first one. It felt like I had just had surgery on it. It was not a fun afternoon for me and it continued into the weekend. Monday night I noticed that the injection site was red. I kind of forgot about it until Tuesday night when I saw that it was a bigger red spot and it was darker and hurt a lot. This morning I called the doctor and was told to come in right away. He thinks it could be a rash from the cold spray he uses or some of the cortisone leaked out and reacted with my skin. He called in a prescription for some cream to put on it and told me to call him on Friday. The good news is the shot is starting to work, the bad news is I keep getting a different side effect each time I get one! I may have one more shot next week and that it will be for a while. I'm just worried what new side effect I will have from that.

A Day at the Fair!

2010-09-06T13:01:00.000-07:00

Wow I am really far behind in posting summer pictures!! Here are a few pictures from our day at the fair. This is Travis going down a slide.

Brett, Evan and Theresa wanted to ride an airplane.

Brett and I on the tilt a whirl. I took Travis on this later too but didn't get any pictures.

Theresa rode the bumper boats.

Eva, Travis and Theresa waiting for the pig races to start.

Brett and Evan.

Travis and Theresa.

I have some other pictures from the weekend that I will post later.

August 13th A day at the beach.....

2010-09-01T20:52:00.000-07:00

On August 13th I got to spend the day at the beach with Travis, Theresa, Brett and Evan. When we got there, there was a little girl digging a big hole. Of course all the kids wanted to help her. They wnded up with 2 holes and a tunnel going between them. This is Travis laying in the tunnel.

Here is Theresa trying to break the tunnel.
Travis being nice and posing for a picture.

Brett and Evan playing in the tunnel. Actually I think Evan crawled through and Brett was still digging. Once the sun came out we had a good time and it was a great start to a fun filled weekend. We spent Saturday and Sunday at the fair, I will post pictures of that later.

Now that it is September I am going to try and finish posting all the pictures from the summer. There was over 400 pictures on my camera when I downloaded it the other night. I think some had not been erased from the last time I downloaded it. I still can't believe that summer is over already. We are finally getting warm sunny days snd not so much fog. I think I am ready for the winter and some rain!

Bowling for Boobs

2010-08-30T21:03:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we went Bowling for Boobs.....it was unlimited bowling for 2 hours for $25 so a lady could earn money to do the breast cancer walk. Travis and Theresa had a good time and ended up bowling for all of us. I was able to bowl some but then my foot was bugging me so I stopped and let them bowl for me. Those kids did better than I did!! Theresa bowled a 103 onthe last game and I think my highest was 97. Yep I got beat by a 6 year old!!!

I didn't know this but in order to walk in the breast cancer walk you have to pay $2300!!! She was able to raise enough money with all the stuff she did. Anyway here is a few pictures from our night.

Happy Birthday Mom!!!!

2010-08-30T20:35:00.000-07:00

Today is my Mom's birthday! It is also her wedding anniversary, yep she got married on her birthday. This is a picture of the card I sent her. They have 6 cats and I was laughing when I saw this because I could just imagine one of her cats doing this!

Happy Birthday! Thank you for being such a terrific mom!

Happy Anniversary to you both!

Foot Update

2010-08-27T09:58:00.001-07:00

So I have had a lot of pain from the cortisone shot and I found out it is a side effect from it called a cortisone flare or something like that. The pain should go away in a few days and then we will see how well the shot worked.

I need to post pictures from when the twins were here but I also need to download my camera. Hopefully I can get to that this weekend. We are doing a chairty bowling saturday night called Bowling for Boobs. Jeremy is going to bowl for me since I don't trust my foot yet. Anyway watch for pictures soon!

What was I thinking?

2010-08-24T20:15:00.001-07:00

I had the cortisone shot in my foot this afternoon. He said there was numbing stuff in the shot that should last 5 to 7 hours. Well at hour 4 that stuff started to not work anymore and my foot hurts a lot now!!! I get to deal with this pain for 24 to 48 hours and then I will hopefully feel better soon. I go back next friday and may get a second shot. Yep this wasn't my smartest idea.