Gingerbread Houses

We decorated gingerbread houses on the 2nd day of November.... and listened to Christmas music, and watched one of the Santa Clause movies. It was quite festive really.... Although slightly premature. Jenn and I had put up our Christmas decorations the day before and needed to do something to enjoy them!

The 3 Day

Well.... the Breast Cancer Walk started this morning.... and I am at work. I am really sad that I did not get to do it this year.... but there was just too much going on this year to focus on fundraising.... I think I raised a total of $90 out of the $2200. However, I still have high hopes for '09! My plan this time is to sign up as crew because there is not a fundraising minimum for crew members... and then if I happen to be able to raise the money, I can switch to a walker... but still be able to participate regardless. And with no fundraising minimum... that pretty much nixes 99% of the excuses to not sign up with me... so I should have plenty of company :)

16 Days!

MY BESTEST BROTHER WILL BE HERE IN 16 DAYS! I am So ExCiTeD and already planning our week! He is getting here the day I get back from Disneyland.... December is going to be a busy month! Maybe I will remember to upload some of the many pictures I will be taking!

Halloween!

Halloween is generally my favorite holiday, however this year was 100% scaled down and 100% more modest (be proud mom) than the last couple of years! We didnt have a party this year... and Jenn, Brady, Scott, and I decided to go out to the corn maze, which is always a lot of fun! We also went to Scott's neighbors haunted garage which is AmAzInG and WaY better than anything we have paid for to go see! Too bad I didnt get any pictures of that.... but here are some from the corn maze!

Oregon

Here are labor days pics! It was so good to be home! And Scott actually said it was a lot of fun and he wouldnt have minded staying longer... go figure! A couple of my pics wouldnt upload, but here are most of them...

Dad volunteering at the community center....

Us supporting the community center...
We found picture backdrops behind the stage!!
I have cute ones of mom and they wouldnt upload!!!

These pics are from the day we went to the Sumpter flea market and

they have an old mining dredge that we went through. It was pretty neat

How could you NOT miss this?

Me and my bro

Russ worked all day and then we made him cook dinner!

Me and the bf

My mama
And daddy
Scott made us a cake
I think this was the cake in progress....


P.S .... Mom remind me and I will send you a disk of all the pictures.... There are several that wouldnt work on here....

Weekend at Tahoe

I was going to post Oregon pictures from labor day... but I have a couple that didnt upload to my computer... sooooo maybe tomorrow? These are from the Lake Tahoe trip the next wknd. It was a work retreat for the company I started with last week. Scott apparently finds a one day recovery time between trips more of a pain than an adventure, so Holly went with me. It is beautiful up there, and we had a lot of fun!

This is Holly losing at checkers.
.... and this is me WINNING at checkers.

We didnt rent a car so we had to sit around waiting for the bus....

and yes, we learned our lesson.

We spent some time wandering around the olympic village....
The weather was perfect!!
We didnt spend very much time at the actual lake,

but we did at least go down and touch it.

This week

Well I am going to be starting a new job... again... doing the same thing... again... I don't believe my current office will be open very much longer, so I am going to be starting with a new company in a week and a half. It worked out kinda nice... I gave my two week notice yesterday... and my last day is tomorrow afternoon! This is working out nicely because I am leaving early tomorrow to drive to Oregon, and now I am not in a huge hurry to get back for work! I am excited to be able to go home for a few days to see the fam, I really miss them! Hopefully Russ will be home from the fire when I get there, he has been gone all week.. However if I get there before him, I can claim my bedroom which he has taken over. Just because I am not there doesn't mean that he can claim it! Last time I came home he refused to let me have my room and slept on the floor to spite me. Which means I couldn't sleep because I was awake all night feeling guilty that he was on the floor. Dad has claimed Scott for a fishing trip at some point... sad that his daughter is finally coming home and he makes plans with the boyfriend..... I was invited as an afterthought.... but its just not the same that way. Hopefully I will get some good pictures while I am home... and hopefully Scott and I both come back alive after that long in the car together.... we kind of have different opinions on how road trips are supposed to work... I believe one should stop to sleep, and shower and brush their teeth .... Scott believes one should drive and drive and drive and then sleep when you get there. So sorry mom and dad if we show up grouchy and smelly! Maybe I will have to make a bed out of the backseat....

Ouch

In an attempt to be healthy I went to the gym on tuesday and got my ass served to me in a kickboxing class. I was expecting a nice slow warm up... some nice easy kickboxing... and a nice long cool down. All to take place within an hour. But instead I got an hour and a half of constant ass kicking. And now.... I hurt. Apparently one should not delve into such things when one has not exercised for a very long time. I am able to move a little more freely that I could yesterday... for now... I am going to go to another class. Why? Because its time. Unfortunately my constant soda addiction and love of eating out is catching up to me. Im tired. Im gaining weight. And Im grouchy. So here I go. If anyone gets a call in the next couple hours... please answer... its me needing you scrape me up off the gym floor.

Joe and Kaceys Wedding Pics

Team Name

I changed my team name for the 3-Day walk... it was Breast Friends, and I changed it to Walkstars! I put it on a shirt tonight, and it actually looks pretty good. I would take a picture... But I have to get up and go to the airport in 6 hours and I havent packed yet :( Anywho, let me know what you think...

Catalina

Well since Im headed out of town again tomorrow, I figure it's about time to post some pics from the last trip. And since Alena doesn't seem to believe I go places without photographic proof... maybe this will placate her for a few days. Hopefully I don't have to prove my next trip since she is picking me up from the airport! And I'll admit it right now... I REALLY fell short on the whole picture taking aspect of this trip...


This is somehow my favorite picture from the weekend, not hard since I didnt take very many... Anywho apparently its normal to take a mini boat to the dock from your big boat... These of course would be the mini boats.
Unfortunately this is about the extent of our playing on the beach.....

Because of these lovely bacteria warning signs that were lining the water!!

We ate lunch here, over the water actually... It was quite cute...

And here is the bird who sat over us at lunch repeatedly spitting on us and our food! LOL really!