OH I AM SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW!!! I always lock up my MP3 player in a drawer before I go home. I just realized that I forgot to last night and now it is gone. Stolen from my desk. In the last couple of months people have had this happen. I should have know better BUT people shouldn't steal stuff!!! I am so mad!!!!!!!

We had a GREAT weekend! Ashley and Brittany came over on Saturday morning for a day of shopping, movie (TERRIBLE... 40 year old virgin.. just terrible) and some lunch. We then went home to my wonderful husband who BBQ'd us some hamburgers. We made Mint n chip ice cream (yummy) and chocolate chip cookies (Tollhouse of course!) To top it off a fun game of Phase 10 (Ash and Brit are hooked!)

On Sunday, we woke up at 7 am and picked up my mom and went up Big Tujunga Canyon for a 2 hour 15 min hike. It was a great hike with streams and even a waterfall at the end. I only wish I had my camera :( We were home by 10. It's such a good feeling to wake up early and do something like that. You feel like you have accomplished something before most people have eaten breakfast! We also beat the heat, most importantly!

Ash, Brit and I then went and saw The Skeleton Key. I do recommend it! I was surprised at how much I liked it. THe ending was very good which is hard to do in a thriller.

Then home for more Phase 10, dinner at Joselito's with my mom and grandparents and home for even more Phase 10!!!!

A great weekend all in all! Thanks to Ashley and Brittany!!!

PS - The only bad part was during the shopping... I felt like an old mom.... worrying about Brittany getting a skirt too short, or the girls getting a t-shirt with soemthing written on it and me not knowing what it was!!!! Tragedy!!! I guess the big thing right now is to wear band t-shirts, even retro ones are cool. Two different stores had Depeche Mode - People are People t-shirts!!! You know you are getting old when things you still have are now cool again (20 years later... :( again it was all so tragic and sad.....

Here is a pic I took over the weekend. Jamie is in competition with the eucalyptus trees. He is trying to keep them trimmed back (unfortunately he can only get about 20 feet high with all his different contraptions) and keep the leaves off the ground. I think the tree is winning. No, correct that, I know the trees are winning. That's the biggest problem, there are 4 of them and they are about 3 times taller than they should be. We checked into cutting them down to size (they could eb dangerous to our roof come some strong winds) but the bid was $3500, needless to say we didn't jump on getting that done. Instead Jamie bought a bow saw for his birthday and keeps hacking away one big branch at a time. A good thing will be all the great smelling eucalyptus wood in the pot belly stove this winter! On Saturday he had cut down a big branch and wanted to climb on the roof to get some that were hanging over our bedroom. That was fine but the real pain was going to be cutting the branches up for the bins so we went out and bought him a chainsaw. Don't worry I made him promise to NEVER use it while on a ladder! I know he wants to start climbing the trees and cutting away!

So my good friend Julia is going to do the 3Day Breast cancer walk. If you have any interest in supporting her, please click onDonation for Julia Thank you! I know she will appreciate it!

Here is a pretty pic:


That's from our backyard! Isn't it pretty! We thought we just had 2 sticks in the ground and then these big leaves started sprouting and then the plumerias! WOW! and pink too! I knew this house was meant for us!

Orange cat is doing well. She has forgotten the surgery and seems to come to me instead of Jamie... I was gone in Denver over the last couple days and he said he didn't really see her... well I got home at 10:15 last night and within 5 minutes she was sitting at the front door crying. I had to go pet her a bit and give her some more food... wow she can eat!!! When we first started feeding her, you could feel her spine when you pet her, now she's all filled out and very healthy looking. She seems happy too :)

Jamie’s little brother Dave got married this weekend!!! The wedding was in Whidbey Island, Washington. The setting and weather were almost as beautiful as his bride Kristie! Fun was had by all and it was just a great weekend. Here are some pics for those of you interested. Dave and Kristie's Wedding

BTW, for those of you that have been hearing about our newly adopted Orange Cat, I attached a couple of pics… I included Nicki too so she wouldn’t feel left out.

So I brought home Orange Cat last night. I figured she would bolt out of the cage and disappear. Boy was I ever wrong. I opened the cage and she ran to my legs and just started rubbing and purring and begging for attention. I think the poor thing thinks I rescued it from the mean old vet or something!! Well I had to leave but when I got home later she was still sitting on the porch waiting for me to get home. I pet her a bit and went into the house, she tried ot follow me! She sat outside the door and just cried and cried. I finally went back out and pet her for a good 30 minutes or so and then she finally calmed down and let me go in the house. About an hour later she started up again. She has taken to sitting on the rails outside the front door so that she can watch me on the couch. Silly cat. As far as I know she sat there all night. She was there when we went to bed... Nicki won't come out into the living room though.. she is not impressed.

We'll see how tonight goes with the cat... I'll try to take some pics...

Today I will be picking up our little Orange Cat. I accept that it is now ours. It started hanging out at our house before we moved in. We tried very hard not to feed it but about a week ago it just looked so sad and little and sweet that we had to give it some food. Now it won't leave our house. Nicki is very mad and won't go outside anymore. We tried not to get attached by not naming it and just calling it orange cat (that hasn't worked out too well though... getting a little attached.) Jamie decided we should get it fixed for fear of hundreds of little orange cats running around that we would have to feed so we took it in. Today I will be picking her up and since we will be forking out $200 I can consider her part of the family. She will be the part of the family that has to live outside though :( Hopefully she doesn't become $200 coyote food.

YAY!!! I passed my SCUBA final and I am now completely certified! Jamie went with me on Sunday to Laguna Beach and sat underwater and watched me remove my mask and put it back on, very exciting. We then swam around a bit and were done!

Saturday we had our big garage sale and made more than $300, pretty darn good. The best part though was that a bunch of neighbors stopped by to introduce themselves. It was nice to get to meet so many of them. One of them, Jan, lives a couple houses up and walks every morning at 6. Jamie and I joined her this morning and it was really nice. The temperature was perfect and the sun was up a bit, it was just so pretty out. We're gonna do it again tomorrow.