I just tried acupuncture last week! Pretty cool stuff. As she was about to put a needle into my forearm she said I would feel an electric shock! WOW! I felt it! It felt like electricity shooting out my middle finger. Very weird! I recommend this to anyone that wants to try something new!

My my my, what a couple of weeks!!! To start all the fun, I was able to work in Florida for a day and go with Jamie to visit his parents! We didn't tell them ahead of time so it was a surprise! It went over huge! He dropped me off at the end of the driveway and while his parents, brother and sis-in-law came out and were hugging and helloing, I snuck down the driveway. Jamie looked and said "Who's that?" They all turned and I swear they did not recognize me! Finally Jamie's mom screams DIANA and runs over and starts the hugging! It was great and probably one of the best surprises I have ever pulled off (with Jamie's help of course!) Well we had a great time and I even had a really good work session out there so Nestle got it's moneys worth.

We then had Christmas Eve at our house...



A few days later an old Jr High friend named Simon (who happens to be my very first boyfriend) was in town from New York. I hadn't seen him in about 10 years and some people hadn't seen him since Jr.High! So we had a little party at our house. The most interesting part was when Jamie was in the backyard getting a lemon and the basket from the picker broke and fell on his lip! It required 5 stitches! Click Simon's Party for more pictures.



for NYE we hosted a New York New Year! The plan was to celebrate New Years at New York time so we could be in bed by 9:30 but we ended up having such a good time we celebrated Central, Mountain and Pacific time!!! That's right, Jamie and I were up until 12:30!!! Playing lots of poker helped and we had such a great group of people over! Click New Years Eve 2006 for the pics...





And if that wasn't enough.... we went to Vegas the next week and stayed at the Wynn. It was amazing! Floor to ceiling windows on 2 walls that overlooked the strip... WOW.
Click Las Vegas for those pics!

Last but not least, we ended the holiday and started the new year with a wedding. My friend Dave from work (you may have heard of him as one of Jamie's mountain biking buddies) got married to his perfect match, Kim. It was a lovely wedding and we were so happy to be there!

Click Dave and Kim's Wedding for those pics!



So now it's back to work as normal.

I hope everyone had a great holiday! We were able to surprise Jamie's family by me showing up in Florida with him! We had a great time and a wonderful Christmas back here as well. Jamie is still enjoying his 3 weeks off..... lucky boy!

OK, I have told this story about 20 times but Jamie asked me last night if I put it on the blog. So here it is, this happened to me yesterday:

OK, here is the setup: I work in a 21 story building. There are 2 sets of elevators in the lobby. One side goes to to floors L-10, the other side goes 10-21. You can cross over to the other elevators on the 10th floor if you want.

So here is the story: Today we had a fire drill and I am part of the ERT (Emergency Response Team) so I manned one of the stair wells, there are 2, one on each side of the building..... kind of like the elevators. Anyways, as part of the fire drill we had people go down to the 9th floor instead of going all the way out of the building. I stood at the door and told people to go to the 9th floor and wait outside the door for more instructions. I keep telling this over and over.... A crabby woman comes in and I tell her to go down to the 9th floor, here is the rest of the conversation:
- "The 9th floor is on the other side of the building."
- I said, "You can go down the stairs to the 9th floor."
- "But it's on the other side of the building"
- "The elevator to the 9th floor is on the other side but the stairs go to all floors"
She rolls her eyes at me and heads down the stairs. I hear her say to someone else as she is walking down:
- "That girl keeps telling us to go to the 9th floor but it's on the other side of the building so I don't know what she is talking about!"

OMG, how do these people get out of bed! I was telling a co-worker of mine and he said I should have told her to take the stairs to the 10th floor, cross over and go down the other set of stairs to the 9th floor!

Well this weekend was Grandpa's 90th Birthday Brunch. It was a great success! We spent Saturday getting all the food ready and it sure paid off. I don't think anyone left hungry.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Sequoia with our friends Jules and Kristen.



We did a lot of hiking and saw lots of trees. Duh...



We also learned a new game called table scrabble and got out of eating Tofurkey!!! (J/K Kristen!)

It was about 35 during the day and just plain freezing cold at night. Kristen kept a fire going the whole time, YAY Kristen! We did hear that it snowed on Monday so we barely missed it. Thank goodness as none of us were prepared for snow. The trails were cold enough that I don't think we would have made it in the snow!

Here's to next year, I hope we can do it again!

Over the weekend I went to Mandi's party for her son Jack's 3rd birthday! It was alot of fun and I was able to go out with Michele afterwards. We went to my house for a bit so my mom could see the kids and Jamie got to play with them. He spent a lot of time spinning! Check out the pics...Kolbe and Kaylee