North for the Weekend

This past weekend we took a trip up north to visit Rebekkah and the rest of the Steinbeck family. We had a great time, but it seemed way too short! Adam and John spent the majority of the time working on tiling their shower.

Here is John working on the tile that goes around the knob of the shower. It was quite tedious.

John really enjoyed wearing Adam's 'Indiana Jones' hat...so much that he had to get one of his own!
I got recruited into cutting these small triangles for the cool pattern they put in. Rebekkah said I totally look like a hip pottery shop worker. I think she's right! I normally don't look so glamorous on our tile jobs.

Here is the dude's hard work! Doesn't it look great?

John wound up getting a hold of the camera, and took this beauty of a video. Please note that I'm not posting this because of me...but because of the baby!



Rebekkah and I mainly just hung out and took care of the kiddos. It was great getting to see them again, and Addison is getting so big! She is just starting to smile which is so exciting!

I learned that she is a very particular sleeper, AKA she only likes to sleep on her mom! Poor Rebekkah has the hardest time getting anything done when she can only set Addison down for maybe 5-10 minutes max. I was lucky enough to have her zonk out while I was holding her on Saturday night, which enabled Rebekkah to make dinner. I love it when my job is to just hold the baby. I totally got the easy job.

Here Rebekkah is showing us her multitasking abilities.

I also got to play with Syd in her pebble garden, (sand box with pebbles instead of sand). I actually don't have any funny stories from the weekend, which I know is totally unacceptable, but I guess that is what happens when you spend it with a normal family!

Here is a cute video of Addison when she got the hiccups (make sure to watch the belly!):

We did find some time to set up a photo shoot, which is always tradition. This has to be one of my favorite photos. She looks SO cute here! Or totally skeptical of this homemade setup.

Here Addison is wearing a homemade hat and booties. My mom made the hat, so this photo is for you!
Sleeping Beauty

This is one of my faves of the mother daughter photo shoot. Like how they are color coordinated?

I think Addison knows she's in trouble with that look!

Cutie Puties

Hey all! We had a great weekend in Ukiah, but I don't have any time to post any more photos tonight, since we just got Mario Kart in the mail today. Duty calls!

Lovely Ladies in Green
This turned out a little blurry because Addison is in her swing. This is one of the few smile photos I got though.

Such a cutie!

They Have Nothing to do with Each Other

My mom sent me this mouse agility video today, and I HAD to share it! It’s so silly to think someone spent the time to create such an elaborate course.

My good friend Jaymie is a Pampered Chef consultant, (in Washington), and she recently gave me the link to her online store. THIS IS IN NO WAY TO TRY TO RECRUIT PEOPLE TO BUY THINGS FROM HER. This is solely for your records if you ever need it! I thought it might be handy if you don’t know of a consultant, you can order straight from her website. She has gotten me quite a few freelance jobs, so this is the least I could do for her.

My friend Sarah shared an article through Google Reader the other day that featured this item:

SPY LENS

Description:
I can't tell you how many times I've let a good picture go simply because I didn't think it was appropriate to point the camera directly at the person I wanted to shoot. Well, it looks like my days respecting others is over: this spy right angle lens adapter works on all SLR cameras and acts as a mirror for the lens which means the photographer can take a photo of a Star Jones look-alike (pre-surgery) dressed in neon green pants, a white crochet half-top, and hot pink spike heels while pointing the camera at a pool table on the other side of the room! Dudes, this totally would have come in handy for me last weekend.

Is this not the coolest? I cannot tell you how useful this would have been to have at all the weddings I’ve gone to. I normally have to have John do a fake pose so I can really get a photo of the person behind him. Do not think this is mean or rude! See for yourself! These photos were a must!

This lady was sitting like a real lady...ok, so it was like 1000 degrees, so I will cut her a little slack.

I had never seen a neon flame shirt before, that is why this was a must. If I only had the spy cam, I could have cut John completely out of the photo!

Her shoes totally matched her dress! I thought it was too cute. (See! Some of my spy photography is used towards good!)

Sometimes you need to capture good cleavage.

These are the shoes of someone we actually knew! I had no idea her second job was a stripper!

These totally did not go with her dress...and no...the wedding was not in a barn...or in Humboldt. Those would have been the only way they would have been acceptable.

I think this one speaks for titself, I mean ITSELF!

Ok, so I must admit that I didn't realize how many spy photos I have taken! I can even think of a few others that I don't have on this computer! I can't believe I am actually posting these as well. Oh geesh.

Is that What I think it is?

This past weekend John and I saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I had previously mentioned it before in this post because my sister-in-law worked on it last year. I don’t know how many of you have seen it, but let me just say that there is a fair amount of male full frontal nudity in the film. You heard me…frontal nudity. This was quite shocking at first, but the more it was shown the more I liked it! No…not for that reason you perv…get your mind out of the gutter!

After the movie I told John how glad I was that there was some male nudity in the movie. He asked me if I really wanted to see it. I told him no, I did not have a strong desire to see men flapping in the wind, but it is the whole point of there even being ANY male nudity in a movie.

How many of you can name 5 movies where you see a woman naked? Ok…now try to name 5 that have a man naked. Easy right? WRONG! All I can say is that it’s about time that someone, other then Kevin Bacon, has decided to bite the bullet and show his goods.

Who cares if it’s not the most pleasant to look at? Let’s get some male/female movie nudity equality! Who’s with me?

Sneak Peak

Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been reading like a mad woman over the last few days trying to finish my book club book. Don't start thinking I was a slacker and waited until the last week to start reading the book. I actually have been reading it for the last 4 weeks. It wasn't an easy read for me, but I really enjoyed it. The book is called Three Cups of Tea. I'll try to write on more of it later.

We had a nice weekend, which I hope to post about soon, but for now, here is one photo for you from an event that we went to.

Game On!

So I must admit that Sarah is speaking the truth. I can’t help it if I’m totally awesome at video games! She should really be thankful that I’m forcing her to be the best she can be. I mean we all know I’m totally innocent in this situation.

After I had reached my high score I clicked off that page, only to find that it ERASES your score! I know!! So I panicked and had to play again, so I could prove with my screenshot, that I am in fact awesome at this game.

If you would really like to waste some time, check it out.

http://www.hurtwood.demon.co.uk/Fun/copter.swf

Another one of my faves is penguin baseball. I think I got a 319 today. Again...if you have time to waste, check it out:

http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swf

In other exciting news…look what I found online today!! Printable temporary tattoos!!! Can you just imagine how much fun you can have with these? Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Serenity Now

The plumbing problem is now fixed and I now have hot water in the kitchen! Yeah! I mean I was totally going through withdrawals not being able to do dishes. My livelihood was totally in the crapper.

I drove home like a mad woman today, cutting off who knows how many of my neighbors. I only got flipped off once, so I'll take that as a success. I ran inside and scanned the back splash and the cabinet...it all looked good. Then I looked up and saw this:
I really am thankful that that is the only thing we have to repair. Although I was secretly hoping that he wouldn't have to open any part of the wall. I think because the roof line on that part of the house is at a sharp angle he wasn't able to get his equipment in the wall. The total cost was around $875, but I'll have to call him tomorrow to see if the leak was 'sudden accidental' or 'wear and tear.' If it was sudden accidental then we can submit a claim with our insurance. I really hope it was, as I'd like to be able to afford food next week.

So now that the leak is no more I can finally relax a little bit. I didn't realize how stressed out this whole thing made me. Tonight however I had to clean the kitchen, as there was a nice thin layer of dust over everything in the kitchen. Here is a photo of all of my dirty dishes. Yeah right! I don't eat that much! There are also dishes that I had to take out of the dishwasher.
If you click on it and enlarge it, check out the counter. You can see the plumbers hand print in the dust. Too bad I don't have a construction theme kitchen , or I could have totally left it as is.