I swear if my kids acted anything less than thankful for any gift they got at X-mas, even if it's a joke like these - I especially love the kid with the old banana - they would be coming with me to the closest homeless shelter to give away any and all gifts coming to them for the year. It will teach them a lesson to appreciate everything they have, that's for sure.

So since we just passed our 3 year wedding anniversary I figured it was time to take care of the Honeymoon Video.  Broken in to 3 parts below, is our 2 week trip to Kauai, HI. 

Here is a still shot that Charles wanted me to take....



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So today is closing day and we figured that we'd go to our home mountain for Easter. We hit the bar early and thank goodness we did Pete scored a $25 tab in the easter egg hunt. As we speak he's getting me my Bloody Mary. What a great closing day!
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Finally had a minute to myself and decided it was time to finally use my mixer. Made sugar cookie dough and a dozen cupcakes decorated in the valentines day theme, Vanilla cake filled with Raspberry Jam and Fudge. Since I wanted to post a picture of my latest project and I don't have my computer back yet, you'll have to wait to see the nicer shots from my camera.
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So my Christmas started out good, I headed out to work for my first shift and I ended up making a decent amount of dinero, just look at my awesome spanish, for a lunch shift.  So I decided since I was probably going to be home late I'd make the drive home during my midday break.  This would have been easier if I left at 2:30 like scheduled but it just didn't work out that way.  I literally came in the house said 'Hi' to Pete and left.  He did manage to surprise me with the shirt I liked at Keystone.  Translated it means...Who is the most epic?  I am the most epic!

Here's the front

And the back

and a Nepalese bracelet from our friend Kumar, Who by the way would be my one and only choice to go rafting with.  The man has like 30 years experience!  It's a good thing since I think that's where Pete and I will be working this summer.  I usually get roped into trips.  This year I'm looking forward to being on the water more. 
 So I head back to work and as I'm about to make the turn off our little hill, where you can't stop if you're driving my car, a car packed full of people stop on the WRONG SIDE of the ROAD and give my dirty looks cause I almost hit them.  Yeah, you where stopped in the middle of the road pointed the wrong direction on the wrong side.  Really!!!???!!!

Then as I'm driving toward where the road is paved there is a guy in the middle of the street putting his hand out for me to stop.  You want to know why?  Well it was because his kid was sledding their driveway.  Really!!!???!!!  I almost stopped the car and got out to tell him what I thought.  I was on my way to work.  Maybe if you think your kid is that stupid, the driveway wasn't even steep enough to ride down, you should sled in the backyard!  They had plenty of other spots on the property that would have been much better suited.  They were probably to lazy to walk through powder. 

Anyway, the rest of the day was fine until I was leaving work.  I was waiting at the light by the restaurant, which has been taking like 15 mins to change this week, when a guy in a old bronco or something flew by going at least 60.  It's 35 there and is for another 2 miles.  He had his flashers on so I guess he was trying to warn everyone of his stupidity.  I was expecting to see the cops chasing but no luck. 

We did manage to give away one of the gifts we bought this year.  Andy was joking months ago that we all needed snuggies to lounge around the house in.  Well, that's what he got for Christmas.  And they are even multi-purpose, who knew you could wear them fishing!

And look people are even taking the snuggie and making it into redneck evening wear!

We aren't doing anything special for Christmas this year but Sheila pulled out some of her stuff and decorated one of the trees we have in the living room.  At least we have a place to put presents! 

Should have posted this closer to Halloween but we were talking about it recently and it's such a funny video.  Enjoy!

So since Thanksgiving is supposed to be one of the busiest days of the year for us we do a huge buffet and everyone works.  This year I had the assignment of Hostess.  I wasn't too happy about it in the beginning but I figured I'd be able to have my own dinner since I'd get out at 4. Since things were slower than normal in the morning I was asked to stay and hang out for another hour just in case it got super busy.  Well, I had some food from our huge buffet then headed home to relax and get Pete ready for his shift.  I decided I'd wait to make my own dinner later this week when everyone was back in the house.

So Sheila and I went to Frisco awhile back to look at a new consignment shop she had heard about.  I ended up getting a bracelet that I wore for Halloween, I fell in love.  It's hard to see how much it sparkles in the picture.
It turns out that she was a Hollywood costume designer and is pulling things from her own collection and selling them in this shop.  It's a place that I'll have to check back into from time to time.

They have lots of cool stuff but everything is really expensive.  I found a Victrola that was amazing.  Since there is no hope of even thinking about buying something like that now I figured a picture is just as good.

Here is my tribute to mothers.  First I found an e-card that I wanted to share with any Mother's reading this out there (Thanks to Hallmark.com & Ella Fitzgerald)


For your Mother's Day entertainment I went looking on YouTube for some funny videos but this was the only one that really had me laughing.  Is there anything better than Mr. T singing about mothers? I don't think so. You'll die laughing. Enjoy and Happy Mother's Day!

According to the producers 'Marge receives a nighttime visit from the most powerful force in the universe who teaches her the true meaning of Christmas: Martha Stewart.'