Snow Trip

I've lived in California my whole life. Growing up I only ever remeber going to the snow 1 time. So as an adult one year my friends and I went to Tahoe in April to scrapbook for the weekend. There was still snow. Me being the dork that I am found a sled and everyone laughed at me as I used it a few times. 2nd trip to snow.

My poor kids have never been, well wait Kacey went last year with a friend, and my dad stopped along the side of the road one year when he was hunting or something with Austin and pelted him with a snow ball. Any ways, on Monday my girl friend and I took our kids for the day to the snow. My kids had so much fun. The snow was 2 weeks old and more like packed snow cones than snow so we didn't get too wet, and they didn't have to bundle up. It was fun! I enjoyed watching them be silly and have fun. Here's the hight light of our trip.

Austin



My Brat oh it's Kacey ;)



Me and My Girls (Extra is my BFF's daugther)



Bailey



Emma



Emma and Kacey



Austin after a crash



Kacey

She's 9 Today!! Wow!!

My baby is 9 today! How the heck is that possible?? Geez where has the time gone, pretty soon I'll be whining that all of my kids are grown and gone and have nothing to whine about! LOL

So we did the traditional wake the birthday kid up to singing to them. She's so funny, she's like I'm not 9 till 8:30 am! Hehe! She has a little shoe in her room with all her birth stats on it. And I guess she was checking it out recently! She took it to school with her today to show everyone so they would know "for sure" today is her birthday! LOL she also took some cookies to share with the class.

Anyways...here's my birthday baby! She is sure growing up fast!

Hello! Anyone home??

So I haven't been here in what a few months? Hadn't felt like writing, I feel like I'm talking to myself so what's the point right? LOL But here I am anyways rambling away to myself, not like I don't do that all day long anyways.

The holidays are over! Can you say ya!? Now it's on to Birthdays, Emma's going to be 9 on the 8th, my husband will 41 on the 10th, then Bailey will turn 11 on 2/6. Fun fun fun! I have no idea what to get Emma, I think I'm going to get her a bike. She has one, it works, it fits, but it's a hand me down. The poor kid in 9 years of life has never had a new only belonging to her bike. She has everything else she needs...so what the heck! LOL

Here's a rare thing...



Ok I give up I resized it on my end but it's still huge and only showing Austin. Ugh!

Yep that would be all 4 of my kids in the same picture all some what smiling and looking like they actually love each other!

Hope your new year is off to a great start!

October Weather

Well I haven't come by to share a whine in awhile so today is your lucky day! Every October it never fails. Hot all the way through the month. All week this week it's been warm in the 80's today, the day before Halloween it's overcast, cold and yucky. So our kids that have been running around in shorts all week will yet again freeze their buns off on Halloween, but this year sounds like we will get the added bonus of our first rain day! Score! Extra miserable cold AND wet on Halloween! Ugh that's fall for CA for ya!!

Wow!

I thought I could easily figure out how to change my design her. Haha! Day 3 of playing with it. Last post I tried to post didn't even go through. And here years ago I had a web page of the kids up and running. Guess I'm not as HTML savvy as I thought! Oh well bear with the whiteness until my headache goes away and patient comes back to try again!

Yummy!!

I made the best dinner tonight! I was worried because all the coating on the chicken fell off, but I made the sauce with all of it and then sliced the chicken and put it back in the sauce and YUM!! I stink at cooking if you don't know that. So the fact that I got it to turn out when it looked like all hope was gone was good! LOL

Here's what I made...



Parmesan Crusted Chicken

I'm older today!

So today I'm one year older. I think I need to stop having Birthdays as I don't wish to hit 40! It's quickly getting closer and it's kind of scary to me. I remember throwing my mom a big surprise party when she turned 40 and man I thought she was so old!

My bestest friend came over this morning and woke me up with Starbucks! How sweet was that. My kids let her in as I was dead to the world and didn't hear a thing. They were too afraid initially to come wake me up. LOL got them trained well finally! So I sat in my jammies and had my Starbucks with Jenay and we chatted. It was really nice. I love her!!

My mommy had a big birthday dinner for me last night. It was YUM-O, the best turkey I've had in awhile. My brothers and their families came out, my baby niece is so sweet, I got to cuddle with her while her crazy brother ran around with my kids. He's a cutie too but he doesn't let me cuddle him any more.



My mom made the most amazing home made cakes. I have half of one still in my fridge. Great! Another 5 lbs to add to my ass! LOL