NSD WHOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

So it's NSD Saturday and we will be celebrating it tomorrow since Kira and Janice already have plans to volunteer at her school to paint and clean up, Comcast Cares Day- blah! Hehehe! Tod would be doing it but he's on call (YEA RIGHT!)
So today was the worst part of my cold, my head hurts, my nose hurts, my bones ache and I can't stop sneezing! aurgh!
The day didn't get better... went to Costco for snacks for tomorrows crop here and to get some prints and enlargements. The prints were fine, but my enlargements were wayyyy off, chopped heads, people cut out of the picture, sigh, I think being sick and in a hurry I didn't even think to look at how they would appear. The lady who works in the photo dept said to bring them to the service desk for a refund and to redo... yea, here's the thing, I have been in Costco now for an hour and a half, I am sicker then a dog, and , yes AND great Aunt Flo is here and its the second day so, nope, I can't just "stick around" and "refund, wait redo, and wait some more"
My BAD. So I sucked it up and left. I can work with the other pics I have, but was soooooo drooling over the enlargements that I picked out. I suck! haha!

Tomorrow Janice will be here around 10:ish and Kira is skipping school. Mom and Livie will be here too. We will have qvc on since they will have scrapbooking on to. I already told Val and we laughed about how annoying Lisa can be, but soooooooo wanna see some new toys and things to buy.
Tod will be home and has tins of things he will be doing outside.

Tonight I have to pick up Kira from school- they had a DC Meeting and then we have to go to the grocery store for things I forgot at Costco, like artichoke hearts, drinks, cocktail sauce, and lemons.
The menu is:
artichoke dip
shrimp/creamcheese appetizer
chips and salsa and guacamole
Later for lunch:
Pastrami sandwiches and chips

Stopped by Mike's on the way home and I haven't been in there since, hm, like a year, seriously, since Janice and I made my baby shower invits. Man, have they changed. OF COURSE they were out of Cricut cutting mats and blades- I guess somethings never change! ha! Man, Martha Stewart has a corner on the market with her line.
Ended up purchasing a Me and My Big Ideas paper pack, some rub-ons, and a little stamp for mom.
Almost time to eat, Tod is Q~ing outside, pork loin. hmmmmm me likie!

So here's to NSD weekend and I hope ya'll celebrate in your own great way!
Ciao

Happy in Monterey

During Val and Ant's trip to Ca, we took to Monterey and had a great time on the Piere and shopping. We took TONZ of pics, but this one is my favorite.
I have never been more in LOVE with this man then I am now. He treats me like a queen and now I know what unconditional love means.
Happy to be in his arms.

It's Friday and I miss u

Man, I can;t tell you how thrilled I am it's finally flippin Friday!

I worked and talked to Val through email today and I just miss her too much now. I wish we were at Garduno's with our margarita's the size of our heads and eating their KILLER chips and salsa!
New Mexico is a beautiful state and so are Val and Ant!

I thought about this picture all the way home today, yep my two hour commute home!
Kira and Val at Moss Landing Beach 2007.

Bipidi Bopidi Boo

The planning has begun. Usually I plan about 6 months to a year out on vacations and trips, but just the word "DisneyWorld" begins to give me a panic attach and my heart rate increases, while small beads of sweat form on my brow! The park(s) there I hear are huge and you would need a week just for one of the parks.... kay, that freaks me out, since we pretty much know Disneyland in Ca like the back of our hand. Kira and I have been going since she was 2 and there seems to always be something new, but yet it still has the familiarity that never overwhelmes us, just calls us back for more!
The goal is to have the best vacation ever next year at WDW. Tod has never taken a full week vacation, and he hasnt always been a great big fan of Disney, BUT, just talking about it with him, we get super excited, we want all the kids to have a trip of a lifetime and us included. Livie will be 2 and Myoko will be 18.

I have gone on to websites insearch of must see spots and have become even more overwhelmed and had to get out of the website before my head blew off!

I wish there was some book, some site, SOMEONE who could tell me the must see's of the WDW parks and tips and tricks...... until then I will take one day at a time trying to approach this monster without getting all ADD and see what we come up with.

But DAAAANG, WE'RE EXCITED!

Better but not all the way there yet

I couldnt get out of bed yesterday morning, so I had to scratch the idea of even going in early to work yesterday morning. I got in to my doctor, who I havent seen since I found out I was pregnant with miracle baby Livie.
It was so nice to see her, and I realized how much I like her and missed her! She is smart, down to Earth and very funny.
My back pain is something she knew all about and she suffered from it as well. She hooked me up with an awesome muscle relaxer and no need for pain killers, I'm so not into mind altering perscriptions, plus dealing with Livie wouldnt work for me. She told me about all the stretches and pressure points to focus on... with a tennis ball. So I'm down, well I'm on my way to having a back that works in my favore.
hm
...... now I need a tennis ball!

ouch in da back

sigh, I cleaned my house like a MAD woman this last week and had a killer jewelry party on Saturday. Great friends, food and of course my beautiful sister and very cool bling!
So by Sunday I think I hit a wall. My back just stopped workin! lol I think it's that wonderful nerve acting up. It hurts to walk, or to stand up, or get into bed or to... well, you get it right?

It's been like this since Sunday and I soooooooooo wanted to play in my scraproom, clean it and find new treasures..... that's so not gonna happen.

This weekend I have no plans, we're poor, so I'm staying close to home. (Thank you property taxes! blah) so I thought what a perfect time to clean my scrapbook room and get it all rearranged and purty again. We are moving my computer into Kira's room, my new computer is in our room, Aiko has Kira's old computer and Myoko...... well..... she's off to college and will need a laptop soon, till then the kid is never in her room or the flippen house for that matter, so my remidy is, she get's nothin. lol Well now that my back is discombobulated, I wont be able to sit squat or ya know...... sigh.............................

SO NOW I WANT JANICE TO COME PLAY WITH ME AT MY HOUSE WITH HER COOL NEW BIND IT ALL!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! MINI BOOKS HERE WE COME!

Thank you Easter Bunny Bok ~ Bok!!!

I love this kid!

A Father's Love

It's been a looooong month for me emotionaly. I'm not sure how to even figure out why it has been so draining and daughnting.

I love Easter, it's my favorite holiday. It means a lot to me, the whole thing, means the world to me. What Easter is about to me is understanding that Jesus died for my sins, and then rose from the dead to be with our God until He returns once more. Pretty powerful stuff Right? Right!. I'm flabbergasted by His love for us. As I'm here in the flesh, things are extremly hard for me at times. Tons of stresses, tons of resposibilities and tons of things to get done and take care of. People to please daily and tons more people I seem to disapoint daily as well.
Dealing with my daily stresses can get to me, and this month, day after day, it came to a boiling point. Then I was no longer stressed but mad, mad at people, mad at myself and mad at God. I know, I know. I SOOOOOO KNOW!

Since I never had a great track record with an "Earthly Father", I learned long ago, the only father for me was my Lord God, He IS my Dad, and with that said, I can be mad, I can be, angry, I can through a fit if I need to. He love's me, he love's me no matter what, as I do my own children, right? right! I have yelled, and screamed and cried at Him and through it all He stands by me, supports me, and loves me. I look at Tod daily and how he interacts with his children and now little Livie and I am pleased to no end and also envious that I so wanted an earthly dad like him. Who wouldn't. So this is how I treat my Father, who told me, I am his child, his Love for all times. I treat him as he is my Father, my friend, and my everything. So when I'm mad, He knows it, when I'm sad, He also knows it. He hears me, He rewards me and other times, those unanswered prayers are EXACTLY what I needed.

As I through my fit and yelled and cried and screamed, I knew it would ok in the end.
He works on me everyday. Everyday He loves me. Even when I'm not so good.
Thank you Father for the ultimate sacrifice, thank you for loving me forever.

Cupcake Scrapshop

So I have been on the search for a good site to order kits from. It's taken me months and months of searching, fair price, great products, cool site, and cool community.

(I stopped hoping for an owner that was pleasant and not a troll)

Well, I found it all!

Cupcake Scrapshop

http://www.cupcakescrapshop.com/index.html

Great kits- CHECK!

Good price- CHECK!

Cool site- CHECK

Cool community- CHECK!

AND THE OWNER! SHE'S A DOLL!

Colleen Vasconcellos!!!

She's sweet, kind, responsive and very helpful!

I can't wait for my March Kit to arrive!

He's a Master-Baiter!

Tod called twice during the sand crab tournament. "Kay, Listen, Don't get all excited or freaked out, because I have an hour left to go, but RIGHT NOW, I'm winning."

I was so tickled for him, so thrilled that after 4 years he had his chance to win.

Tod and I know he hardly EVER wins anything, no contests at work, no raffles, no fundraiser raffles, no lotto, no nothin. It seemed like his luck was starting to change, just the week before, he won on a football pool! VERY COOL! Tod and Kira jumped up out of their seats screaming, "YEAY! YEAY! WHOHOOOOOO!" in the living room, as his team made the touchdown, moving Tod into the winning football pool square, where his name was scribbled.

Just a little over an hour had past from the first call from Tod. My mom had picked up the phone the second time and she laughed and screemed with delight. "RIGHT ON TOD!!!, OK I'LL TELL HER!" "TOD WON JEN! HE WON!!" my mom ran into the other room to let me know.

We were all so thrilled for him, I couldnt wait for him to get home, so I could see his smile, to see his fish, and the cool winner package he was set up with.... and my mom could tell him, "How cool Tod, cuz your the Master-Baiter!"

Article from the paper on the Tournament: (OF COURSE THEY GET HIS NAME WRONG- PSHT!)

Local and visiting perch anglers met last weekend for their yearly surfcasting showdown. The annual Sand Crab Classic Perch Tournament provides a spot of excitement in the middle of our dreary winter, and proceeds raised from the contest go to support the Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project. This is the fourth year for the derby. Despite blustery conditions, threatening skies and surf that grew from merely big to huge as the day progressed, a good number of fish were brought in for measurement. Some of them were BIG.
The heavy wind and rainstorm held off just long enough for all anglers to meet at the Santa Cruz Yacht Club by 2 p.m. Once all the fish were measured, it was clear that top honors would go to Todd Schallenberger from Watsonville, who used a GULP! sandworm to catch his 15-inch barred surfperch. Schallenberger fished his 9.6-foot Lamiglas rod paired with a Shimano 2500 Sahara reel in the surfline at 7th Avenue Beach with partner Tom Larimer. Both anglers caught and released limits of perch from the surf, where Larimer also caught two striped bass up to 24 inches. Schallenberger actually took home two trophies this year: one for first place and a special trophy for biggest fish using GULP! bait. He also won two new rod-and-reel combos as part of his prize package.

Niiiiiiiice weekend

This weekend was just the three of us, Tod, Livie and myself.

Mom went to Dorthy's, Kira went to her dad's and Tod's girls went with their mom.

We havent had a weekend like that in so long, I can't even remember when the last time it was.......

Tod worked, but we met him for lunch and then Livie and I went to the mall for some cute spring clothes for her. The next day we made our way to the new Walmart in Marina.

Bought tons of baby food, a new and improved carseat, a toy for me, a little zip file thingie for my new computer, and a cool cookbook from Taste of Home.

The days were beautiful, the sun was shinning and the weather smelled of Jasmine and my childhood. Nice warm California days.