Happy Birthday Kate!

Happy birthday Kate!

My big sister Kate is awesome. I've always wanted to be just like her. She's always had her own creative style that I wish I had. I remember growing up I often wanted to borrow her clothes to wear to school but I had to ask the night before which I gladly did because her stuff was way cooler than mine.

When we were younger I also wanted to dye my hair black just like Kate but Mom wouldn't let me and I remember being really devastated about that.

I hope you're having a sweet birthday love your guts!

Happy Birthday Ben!!!

My big brother Ben is pretty amazing. I thought he was so cool growing up, don't worry I still do. He always made time to play with me wheather it was helping me with a painting or putting stickers all over my face I always had so much fun with him.

Nice Toss!

I remember riding the bus back in elementary school all the way home and the conversations me and my friend would have. We frequently talked about who's brother could beat up who. I always won this conversation hands down because my brother was in High School. "Oooooohhhhh"

Thanks for always being such an awesome brother I hope you have a great birthday and I still think you could beat up the other brothers.

Have a Happy Birthday!

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Happy late Halloween! I wanted to share with you our night out on Halloween and where I got the idea for my costume.

We have been watching this show on TLC called "Toddlers in Tiaras." It is a show about kids that are in beauty pageants and the parents that actually put them in these contests. It's all really people no actors and the ages of the kids that are in the pageants range from new born on up. It is the craziest show because they put these kids in ridiculous costumes with big hair, lots of makeup and fake teeth called "Flippers." These poor kids look like adults all made up and it is so weird they have a talent competition, beauty walks, and my favorite part of the pageant is Western Wear. I love it! This is my interpretation of the show...I clearly won Grand Supreme! By the way my crown was 7" high oww!This is the walk these little girls do, love the action shot.The parents in this show are the worst, they are usually crazy and the ones pushing their kids to do this. If you haven't seen the show my costume is a little ridiculous please watch, it's like a car crash you can't stop watching. Happy Halloween 2009!

My favorite part of the night was when we were getting ready to leave, two girls came running up to me screaming and laughing. They were screaming Toddlers in Tiaras they loved my costume. They thought it was the funniest thing they had seen all night and totally knew what my costume was from. Those two girls made my night and all the time it took to make my costume. Yep, I said make I sewed the whole thing myself. It was probably the most uncomfortable costume I have ever worn, next year gunny sac.

Roger I love you!

I heard that Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers were going to be in town and I needed tickets. The band is formally known as The Refreshments and I love their music. They were scheduled to perform at the baseball Field after the Diamondbacks game which I thought was pretty cool. See some baseball then a concert and my friend Lisa from work also wanted to go. We got to the baseball game a little late so we could get cheep tickets only $6! I'm not a huge fan of baseball but I enjoy watching, hanging out, and posing with cardboard cut outs of baseball players but we were really there for the concert. Go D-backs! We got up to use the restroom and some random lady that worked there asked if we were there to see Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, yes!!! Then she handed us VIP passes to go down on the field and see them up close and personal after the baseball game!!! Ahhhh We were screaming and jumping up and down like little kids...I might have even hugged this random lady too. We were so excited. We were still jumping up and down when we realized she disappeared like a ghost, she gave us the passes and disappeared. If we didn't have the VIP passes we would have had to watch the concert from the stadium with everyone else.

The concert was amazing, I love Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers and seeing them down on the field was so awesome because it's really bright and the stadium is huge! Sorry Lisa I love this picture this is how excited we are!!!I wanted them to play a certain song so I got into my bag and wrote on a piece of paper the song so I could hold it up. This song is called Leaky little boat and it isn't something they play a lot and it's one of those secret songs...Anyway I held up the piece of paper and Roger himself looked right at me and shrugged his shoulders and said maybe. OMG! He looked right at me, that was so cool! Roger I love you! We had the best time.

Some of the band members signed my sign, and we had on matching Chuck Taylors.

Ben? What are you doing at the baseball games snack bar...weird?

We had the best time....I wonder if I will ever grow up....probably not. :)

Sun City! Ahoy I'm saling!

So, we have started garage sailin' the last couple of weeks because it's not a bajillion degrees out anymore. We have been yard sailing in our area and they are ok but there are never very many. So we decided we would go up North where all the old people live because they have all the good stuff. We started a couple of weeks ago going to Sun City and it was awesome cha-ching, jack pot, ahoy I'm sailing! We score every single week.

Sun City is the most amazing place to yard sale ever, totally worth the 30 minute drive for sure. All the houses are from the the 50's-70's and are in perfect shape. They kind of look like the neighborhoods in the movie Edward Scissor Hands and they all have astro turf or green rock no one has grass...no one. Oh did I forget the nick nacs, each house has several items in the front of their houses like frogs playing a banjo, or a fake bridge and wishing well, you even get the occasional flamingos. Fab-u-lous!

It's a 55+ community and everyone is just so dang nice about selling their crap, I love it. Of course I am always looking for anything vintage and we always find it. A couple of weeks ago I was looking for all things sewing because I'm crafting lately. I was on the look for vintage fabrics, ribbons, and notions and we found it. I bought 4 boxes of stuff for only $15.00, it was an estate sale and the grand kids of the grandmother that had died we in charge of the yard sale. When they saw I was looking for all the sewing stuff they invited me inside the house to rummage through 2 closets and 2 dressers of fabrics that they hadn't pulled out yet.

They said they weren't even going to bring it out because they didn't think anyone would be interested in old fabrics, wrong I am! Here are some photos of what I got, probably doesn't look like anything but a pile of crap but trust me it's everything I was looking for that week.

What's new?

Nick posing silly for the camera

Nick has only 2 weeks of school left and he already has a job doing what he wants to be doing. I'm so proud of him, and can't wait to here how much he enjoys his new job. To celebrate his graduation I asked Nick if he wanted to take a quick cruise or go out of town somewhere for the weekend and surprisingly he said he wanted to go to Bisbee of all places. We have some friends that we annually take a trip to Bisbee with and we love that town. So, our friends are meeting us there and we will do the usual Bisbee stuff which usually involves a lot of antiques. I love Bisbee!!!

I got an A in my math class, that's right ME an A in math, I know you can't believe it and I didn't even cheat :) and I have already started the second math class. I think I might be able to do this after all. I still need everyone to keep their fingers crossed for me though.

I had a day off a week or so ago, and what do you do on a day off? You make homemade bread of course.

I was really nervous because I have seen Mom make it a thousand times but I have never done it myself and unsupervised. I called Mom before I got started to walk me through the recipe and she recommended that since I have a smaller mixer I should make smaller batches and then combine it all in the end by hand. I guess it can burn out the mixers motor if you have to much in it? Mom also recommended that I should write down the recipe because I was going to half it, and I thought that was silly because I could just half the recipe in my head as I go....well I got started and Mom was right I should have wrote everything down first because I started making the whole recipe instead of halfing it. Oh well, it turned out good for my first attempt and was really tasty. They aren't as pretty and perfect as Moms bread but it was my first time.

The famous green tuperware thanks Mom!

It's kind of lumpy but not bad, not bad at all.

On a totally random, but funny note I keep a glass of water on the night stand for Roxy our cat because yes she is spoiled and has me trained. Any how, I woke up that morning and from my view from the bed this is the first thing I saw kind of creepy. Ah ha ha ha h a...it is a bobble head that was made for Nick and then I added the sombrero can't you see the resemblance it looks just like him. I laughed out loud, totally random I know.

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Guess who got an A on her math test??? Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!! I haven't been in a math class in 7 years owww you don't even know! Keep your fingers crossed the grade I got wasn't a mistake :)