My Trip to Vancouver!

Wow! I have a LOT to blog in the next couple of days.

So I will start with Thursday. On Thursday morning my mom & I headed up to Vancouver BC for our Bryan Adams concert. We made it up there in 90 minutes and had no trouble at the border. It was pure luck. Even though it isn't that far from home, it is really wierd driving in another country. The signs are different and the speed limits aren't followed and there are not nearly as many road signs as we have in Washington. So we spent the day wondering around downtown going into stores we can't afford to shop in and having a great time. I have never spent time in Vancouver, so it was very intersting. By 3:00 pm we both found a starbucks and crashed in the big comfy chairs and enjoyed people watching. It was right across the street from the church where Bryan was playing and we weren't suppose to line up before 6:30.


Well we jumped in line at 5:30, since this guy had been standing there since 3:00- I wasn't going to risk getting a bad seat. So we hung around the church until 8:30! 3 hours in line- I must be crazy. Here are some more great church pictures. I loved this church and the stain glass windows.



So when they finally escorted my line in we got FRONT ROW!!!!!! Now, my camera does NOT take good photos with out a flash. I need to find a camera that does. Anyone have a digital camera that takes good photos in dark places without a flash??? Let me know!!! So a lot of these are out of focus or jacked up- but you get the point: View from my seat, with no zoom.


For the Encore Keith Scott, Bryan's band mate and also cowriter of some of his best songs, came up on stage.

At the end of the concert he came over the the girls a few down from me.

Then he came to ME! I gave him a sharpie & a cd jacket for his autograph. In the photo you can see my pen lid in his mouth- kinda gross, but so cool all the same. LOL.



He asked me what my name was and I told him. He still didn't spell it right but the question mark made it all ok.



It really was am AMAZING concert!!!!!

New Car

Well, we got rid of the Alero in order to save some money and bought a new/used car.
It's a great commuter car. Good gas mileage and hey, it will be a LOT of fun in the summer.

Just a teaser

I have a TON of photos to clean up and look at, so just a teaser for now....

BTW... FRONT ROW BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My own Heaven

For our anniversary David got me a heating mattress pad. We put it on the bed last night and I slept like a baby. It is the most wonderful thing in the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD. I can't believe it. The only negative is that when David got up this morning his side of the bed was cold, so it wasn't as nice to curl up in his spot. Oh well, I guess I will have to stay on my warm side of the bed. Plus the fact that getting out bed in the morning is going to get really really hard!

New Blog

Ok, I started a blog of "randomness" it may offend at times and it may cause you to think. Bottom line I need a place to vent or to ponder thoughts. I hope ya'll check it often and comment or debate the issue.

Enjoy!

Please note, if you offend easy it probably isn't a place for you. It's just me dumping my mind with stuff that is going on or stuff that I am struggling with. You never know, maybe you have the answer.

Wordless Wednesday

I wish I could explain why I used this photo today....I wanted to put a photo of Bryan on here since the excitement of tomorrow night is building, but when I saw this photo I had to share. I'm not allowed to say where the concert is, but this is the building it's in, so I hope to take a photo similar to this one myself :-).

My Fabulous Weekend!

Ok, so Friday I was back to work. I tried to take it easy but of course, I didn't succeed. So when I got home Josiah & I curled up in bed and watched a movie. It was some nice cuddle time. David went out to do some errands.

Saturday my mom and I headed fort he annual quilt show in Monroe.


I saw some amazing quilts and my mom and I actually found some great quilts and I now have three more on my list to do. I PROMISE not to start them until I am done with the others LOL.

I love this one, it's lady bugs:


Here are some "Scrap quilts" I hope to do some of these once I get my scraps organized. (Now that is really funny).






Then on Saturday night some friends joined us at Benihana's for dinner. It was a lot of fun. Michael & Katrina Caceres celebrated 16 years on friday night and the Jordan's had never been to benihana's so it was a blast. We then ended up at starbucks and laughed the night away.









And one last picture, last weekend we went to Color Me Mine for some fun pottery painting time. So her is the finished product. It was so much fun!! next time i need a bowl :-).

8 Years

Tomorrow marks 8 wonderful years of wedded bliss (at least most of the time). So here is a look back to that wonderful day.









We celebrated on Saturday and I will share those pictures later today.

The One I’m Waiting For

David's Aunt Juanita had this on her blog and I had to do it myself. At least on the blog it's isn't some crappy chain email. :-)

The rules:
1. Put your music player on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the Next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER WHAT (this is in capital letters, so it is very serious).

BEGIN
1. IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
I'll be loving you forever (NKOTB)
2. WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Something Like that (Tim McGraw)
3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
The Night Before- life goes on (Carrie Underwood)
4.HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
18 till I die (Bryan Adams)
5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
I wanna be loved by you (NKOTB)
6. WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Pieces (Rascal Flatts)
7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Broken (Stephen Curtis Chapman)
8. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Baby it's cold outside (Bette Midler)
9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
How do ya feel tonight (Bryan Adams)
10. WHAT IS 2+2?
I'll always be righ there (Bryan Adams)
11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Trying to find a reason (Martina McBride)
12. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Winner at a losing game (Rascal Flatts)
13. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Boy Oh Boy (The Wilkinsons)
14. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Eastside Story (Bryan Adams)
15. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Wayfaring Stranger (Trace Adkins)
16. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Forever, For Now (Harry Connick Jr)
17. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Forget about us (Tim McGraw_
18. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
In This Lfe (Bette Midler)
19. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Somethings never change (Tim McGraw)
20. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Little April Shower (Bambi)
21. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
She's my kind of rain (Tim McGraw)
22. WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
Nothin to die for (Tim McGraw)

Are you kidding?!?!?!?!

Ok, so as most of you know I LOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE Bryan Adams and tomorrow he has a new CD.... Well to top it all off he is holding an acoustic concert in Vancouver BC for 300 personal guest. HOLY COW How do I get my hands on an invite???

So last Friday I got an email from the fan club saying that two tickets were available for a Fan Club member, but you had to guess the secret location of the concert. So off I went to google to search for a venue in Vancouver that would be the right size for this kind of thing... and guess what I WON!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it???????? Now comes the logistics. The concert is Thursday night so I am trying to figure out if I am going to stay the night or drive back and fourth in one evening!!! oh my goodness!!!!! This is SOOOOOOO exciting!!!!!!!!!!!

oh No!!!!!!

Update: Can you believe it... someone posted a comment on this post with ANOTHER virus... what is WRONG with people? Anyways from now on I will have to approve all comments posted on my blog. Please don't let that detour you from commenting- I LOVE comments and I always check my blog for comments!!!!!!!! So when it doesn't show up right away, give it a couple of hours for me to log in and approve them.


Someone very bad posted a comment on my last post that had a link attached to it and it was a virus!!!! I feel just awful, but please don't post links to your comments or click on any links from someone you don't recognize. I deleted the comment and I hope it doesn't discourage any comments cause I just LOVE them!!!!

Quilting Update

This weekend was the church quilting retreat. I was trying to keep it easy, but low & behold, it didn't work :-).
Here is the update on the crown royal quilt:



I need to get a few of the squares fixed, once that is done I can start sewing the rows together. I hope to get it going and finished in he next week or so.

Also, this last weekend we had other things going on.... so here are the details.
On Friday, Josiah & Alex had a dentist appointment. This was Josiah's first trip to the dentist and he giggled the ENTIRE time. the hygentist said it completely made her day that he was so giggly and easy to work with.


Both boys got a semi-clean bill of health. Both have one "surface" cavity so we are going in to get those fixed soon.

Then after the quilting retreat I was lucky enough to join a group of women from our Sunday School class to paint some pottery, a secret love of mine that I wish I could do a LOT more often. I didn't get many photos cause Katrina is wonderful taking a ton of photos with her camera, so I just got mine out long enough to get a picture of her and Theresa enjoying their first trip to the pottery place. I will post a photo of my plate when I pick it up on Wednesday.


Then on Sunday the Jordan's invited us over for lunch. I got my camera out when the kids were playing. It was a blast to watch them enjoy each others company and get to know the Jordan's a little more. I can't wait to spend more time with them.

Syrah, Sadie, and Josiah playing:


Alex just hanging out


And this final photo sums up the whole FUN weekend:


This was taken Saturday night, I caught up with David and Josiah at Boston's after painting pottery and it wasn't long before Josiah curled up on my lap and konked out- too funny since Josiah wouldn't even wake back up for his ice cream.

It was a GREAT weekend!! I need some rest now, but I had such a great time that I would do it all over again!

More Photos

Things have been so busy for us! Sorry for the lack of posts, but today & tomorrow I am home sick because of a bad lupus flair, so I hope to catch up on all my blogging!

Two weeks ago Josiah came down with the flu. On Saturday morning he seemed to be doing MUCH better. David had to go into work for an hour so I took Josiah back to the Seattle Library to find the "red room" that Kim told us about. And look we found it!!!!


the whole floor is red and we had a good time wandering around. We also found some more fun books to read, including one called "Cori Wants to Play Football" it's about a little girl named "Cori" (Spelled the right way and everythign!) who wants to play football! it was so neat.

here are some photos of us hanging out on the 10th floor enjoying our books & the view.


Oh & did I mention that while Josiah was sick he pulled out his front teeth?


By the time we got home Josiah took another turn for the worse. The library ended up being too much for him and he started to get sick again.

Something to enjoy

Josiah got an MP3 player a while back and I filled it with a lot of music. He loves Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams and many other artists (A boy after my own heart), so when I filled the MP3 player I was careful to put songs on it that weren't "bad" for his little ears. Every once in a while I catch him singing along and I wonder if that song should be on there. On Sunday we were waiting, in the van, for David to finish up in church and I caught Josiah singing along to a Bryan Adams song. It was so cute I pulled my camera out and he sang the whole thing for me. The fun part is he doesn't know some of the words and he guesses them- so it's pretty cute.

Keely's Wedding

On Friday I was lucky enough to stand up with a good friend of mine while she got married. During photo time, her 7 year old daughter had my camera, so the angle is a little off, but enjoy...
Here is Keely with another one of her bridesmaids.





In order to save some money Keely got her flowers through a wholesaler and her mom did all the center pieces and I did the bouquets. I have NEVER done bouquets in my life, but I think they turned out all right.
Bride's bouqet:

Throwing bouqet:

and you can see the bridesmaid's bouqet in the photo's above. I also helped out with Keely's make up and the other bridesmaids make up (Neither one of them are girly girls and neither one was comfortable doing make up). I also did Arianna's hair (keely's daughter).


And then there was the reception. It was probably one of the funest weddings & receptions I have been too. The wedding, was a minor roast on the groom. The priest went to high school with both Keely & Paul so there were some GREAT stories and the reception had dancing. So of course, not knowing anyone there other than Keely I danced the night away (And I paid for it the whole weekend...). Here are some photo's & Stories of what went on- of course of david dancing. David threatening to attack the cake before the bride & groom arrived.

Keely's aunt was getting a little fresh with David, but then again he was in a three piece suit and was incredibly hot, so who could blame her? I did have to reclaim him though.
Saturday night fever anyone? I was very excited about the cake. Keely hired Mike from "Mike's amazing Cakes" to do her wedding cake. Now for those of you who watch the food network know that Mike is a good friend to Duff Goldman. So even though I didn't get to meet Mike it was so cool to taste a cake and see a cake that is in the same league as Duff Goldman. I hope this video uploads.... I know you all have to turn your head to the side, but it's for Theresa- it's David dancing to Ice, Ice, Baby just for you :-).

Overall it was a GREAT wedding! I had helped Keely for months with ideas and money/time saving "Martha Stewart" hints to have a great wedding on a budget. We had a GREAT time and I can't remember the last night I danced the night away. Which leads to this last story: Keely's request to the DJ was to play all the bad wedding songs. So we danced to The Chicken Dance, The Electric Slide (Which BTW, David had never heard of... WHAT???? I was the QUEEN of the electric slide in high school), The time warp, YMCA and MANY, MANY others). It was a BLAST.

Did you know?

I'm madly in love with Bryan Adam's music. And did you know, HE HAS A NEW SONG??????

Yep and a new album that comes out soon. I love music. Music can say so much. So when I read the words of his new song my heart melted. Here you go and if you want to hear the song you can listen on the side of this blog.

I Thought I'd Seen everything
adams/kennedy/lange ©2008
i like the way we are - i love what we've become
when i'm in your arms - i know i've found the one
i love your kiss me mouth - and your static touch
its just the way you are - that makes me feel so much

no one could ever know - what we're like alone
rollin' round like rain - we're a midnight storm
like a river rising - i feel it thru your skin
when we're together - i never want it to end

i thought i'd seen everything - til i saw you
i thought i'd been everywhere - til i'd been with you
i thought that everyone knew what i knew
i thought i'd seen everything - til i saw you

i like the way we are - like a raging fire
burning up the night, burning with desire
you're such a sweet temptation - you know i can't resist
electricity, hey every time we kiss

President's day

On President's day we all had the day off. David wanted to work on my parents basement (It's our gift to my dad for Christmas- David is completely their basement, which mean's dry wall and a new bathroom).

I decided to take the boys for a fun day to the aquarium. My parents joined us and it was a lot of fun.


How tall are you compared to a 6 gill shark???





And my favorite part of the aquarium? this glass fish enclosure that is above your head. I could just stand under it and enjoy the fish for the longest time. It is so great.


Other stuff I did in the last two weeks???

On Saturday some girls went out and celebrated Katrina's birthday, it was SOOOOOOO much fun and I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. Then last night I met up with Katrina and Theresa to celebrate Theresa's birthday and it was a BIG one so we made it extra special. I didn't pull my camera out so you will have to check their blogs for the photos.

Also I watched Gabe again. that baby is amazing and my brother is blessed to have such a good baby - and he is such a good dad, I am so proud of him!

Wordful Wednesday

Instead of “Wordless Wednesday” today is “Wordful Wednesday” (I know that isn’t a word). I have been pondering the following for days & I hope it makes you ponder a little too.

Last Saturday I was asked, “What did you thank God for this week”. For me that was somewhat easy, other than the obvious things (family, home and food) I answered Mount Rainer as the sun comes up.
On Monday I was listening to a sermon online and in the sermon the Pastor asked “Do you thank God for EVERY little thing?” Did you thank God for getting up this morning? Did you thank God that you knees work? Did you not just thank God for your food, but for the fact that you can lift the spoon to your mouth, or that your mouth can chew it up. Did you thank God that your car started, or that you had a red light to ponder something, maybe Him for just an extra moment.

Now at first I was thinking, yes I thank God for everything always, but then I thought- do I mean it, or am I just rehearsing the same thankfulness that I say every day?

So this morning when I got out of bed and my morning stiffness didn’t last more than a few steps I praised the Lord that my body is beginning to take to these meds. I then thanked God that my lights & water worked in my house. I continued to find things all the way to work and still while I am at work to praise Him for and REALLY mean it. I even had a moment where I thanked Him for the diagnosis of Lupus & Fibro, tears welled up in my eyes, but I was in a joyous, thankful heart for such an amazing answer to my prayers.

So I challenge you today, to find those small things we take for granted and stop to praise Him for He is the author and creator of our faith. Feel free to post comments on what you did today to praise Him for your day- I would love to hear them!


PS- I hope to post more stuff to my blog soon! I have been so tired latey and the blog took a hit. I am feeling refreshed and ready to start posting! Praise the Lord!!!!!

My Friend, Boot

I want you to meet my new friend. His name is Boot, I know it's not very creative, but I can't think of another name for him.

I first met Boot last July when dealing with my ankle pain. Boot has been a good friend, he has supported me through the pain and stiffness of a bad ankle. And, at the end of July Boot was retired to the closet and Boot was there alone for those several months.

Well last week I had to go in search of Boot. I called out for my dear friend in desparation. You see, two weeks ago something snapped in my ankle. I didn't think anything of it until late the next day I wasn't able to bear any weight on my ankle so the doctor told me to find my friend the Boot.

So here I am with Boot, back in my life, supporting a bad ankle. Boot was saddened on Tuesday when my doctor stated that I should only need to have him around for one more week. And if my ankle didn't get better we should do another MRI to see if a piece hasn't broken off and it isn't floating around in there. If that's the case than it's another surgery. Both Doc and I agreed that another surgery would be a bad thing.

So to my friend-Boot- you maybe around for a lot longer than next week. You may become a lifelong friend.

Way too funny not to share.

I was laughing so hard... This is stuff I can picture David doing!
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Wordless Wednesday

Funny Videos

Wordless Wednesday

Ok, so I am going to start a new segment on the blog. "Wordless Wednesday" Each wednesday I am going to post a photo. It might be funny, it might be interesting or it might be beautiful. I'm not going to post any words with it just a photo. So today I didn't get to creative with the photo, it's a repost, but I hope you enjoy it.

My weekend

During my quest to figure out why I can't post video from my camera to online I somehow deleted 1/2 of my weekend photos!!!!!

On Saturday I babysat Gabe (my nephew) for the day. Here are some moments that I will get in trouble for.
One of the missing photos is of him trying his first piece of chocolate... a cadberry egg. This pic is from my cell phone- so it isn't good quality.


then I let him play with my mom's laptop- sorry that one got deleted along with Josiah playing on the laptop.

Then we took him to lunch for his first taste of other things.

French fries?




And then there was the Wendy's frosty. I gave him a little taste and he was hooked. Everytime I brought the spoon to my own mouth he followed with his wide open and wasn't happy when I didn't share... sorry no photos of the frosty either.

We had such a good time. He has learned to kiss and coo. He has such a great personallity.

Valentine's

Those of you that know me really well know that I passionatley hate forwarded emails. I don't even read them. I don't have time and personally the chain letters and the if you do "a" you will get "b" are a hoax... Yes, even the ones that claim Bill Gates will give everyone on this email a $1.00. So when someone sent me this link I hestitated- until I saw it was posted on ESPN. Now instead of forwarding this out and starting one of those awful forwards myself I thought I would share it with all of you and HOPE that you would take 10 minutes to send this boy a valentine.
Click Here

The short story is this. It's a 3 year old boy with a rare form of cancer and they want everyone to send him valentine's to get the word out. How can you not? If you don't have time to read the whole store scroll to the bottom for his PO Box address and send some love!!! I would love to hear if you did this- or if I'm just wasting my time :-).

No Posts?!?!?

Ok, so the threatening emails can stop... I am posting a new post. Please understand that I haven't been feeling very well over the last few weeks and the meds I'm on for my lupus have really started to take their toll on me. So here you go an update....

Almost two weeks ago we got snow! it was fun, Josiah and I went out for a little while to play in it. We then spent the rest of the day inside, I worked on the quilt.... and the boys enjoyed just being home. It was a nice day.


I love the snow! I know to several of you this is just a dusting of snow, but not to us this is plently and we love it. The best part- it was gone the next day so life could pick back up.