Lesson learned

One thing you don't want to do is lock your keys and your purse in your car, when you don't have a spare set of keys available! Yep, you guessed it...that is exactly what I did tonite. The locksmith left awhile ago and I now have my key and purse back in a safe place. When they called to confirm my address, the locksmith asked if I was the guilty party! I could not blame this one on Mark or the kids!!!

On to better things now. I am uploading photos of our 2007 Vegas trip. This is what I plan on scrapbooking this weekend at T's house. I have a sage green Making Memories album picked out for this trip. When I told T what I was working on, she said that is what she is planning on working on too! Now I need to get photo's uploaded for her.

School is almost ready to start. Last night we (the P.T.A. board) went to a conference at Cascade High School. We learned a little more about what our jobs entail, and got a little bonding time in too! I think we have some wonderful things planned for the school this year. I am super excited about being a part of making my kids lives better and their fellow classmates. A special shout out to Alderwood Barnes and Noble for adopting our school. They have lots of great stuff planned for our kids and I know my girls will be thrilled.
Today we met the entire staff, introduced ourselves and told them a little about what we have planned for them, and the students. One thing I love about Hazelwood is how well we all work together. I am impressed time and time again with our Principal and all of the staff. It is really the best school around. The girls are lucky they get to go to school there.

The other exciting thing I have to share is that Mark and I are just around the corner from our 11th anniversary. I am trying to plan a fun, romantic night out and have a few ideas. We have not really had a date night in a long time. We were thinking of going to El Gaucho in Seattle, but I think we will use our gift card to Anthony's and then go out for drinks...maybe at the Matador? I am hoping the weather is nice because I have one other possibility, it requires NO RAIN so do a little finger crossing for us that the weather will cooperate. You Seattleites (this means Kelley, Lee, Dannie, Rob) are more than welcome to meet up with us for drinks. It is Dannie and Rob's anniversary coming up too.

That's all for now. I am off to do a little reading.

Old friends and BIG news

Today was an unexpected sort of day. I went to Safeway in my old hometown, Monroe, and ran into an old friend. I literally have not seen him for 15 years. His name is Aaron and has a 2 year old daughter. It was nice to see him, it was as if it was just yesterday that we were in school together. It makes me feel a bit nostalgic, and also that I wished I had kept in touch with a few other people from school.
Another exciting bit of news from an old high school chum (who was my maid of honor when Mark and I got married) is that she is pregnant and due in January. I am super excited for her and I think she will be a great mom. She already has a step-daughter who she is really great with. Congrats Amanda! We can't wait to meet your new little special someone.
I'm off to scrapbook. I got a lot accomplished today, and now I want to put on something funny to watch and get some craft time in before I get sleepy.

Youtube is wacked out

The posts from Youtube that you can see with the Beatles clip was posted way back in July. I was telling my friend Rose how they never showed up and now magically they have appeared. Almost a month later. Totally strange.

We do it like the pioneers would have

This weekend was a fun camping trip to White Pines with some good friends. The weather was super hot and we spent a lot of time either in Nason Creek or soaking our feet to keep cool.

The kids had a ton of fun together and played really well. We even tried out Hayley's new Lasso Golf game, which kept the kids and adults entertained.

We were really roughing it, no showers all weekend. We also ran out of space in our coolers, so we decided to use the creek to keep our drinks cool-you know just like the pioneers would have. Erin and Mark tried to catch a salmon in the creek with their bare hands, but no such luck! The salmon were huge and this is the first time we have seen any at Nason Creek.

Erin wanted to walk part of the Iron Goat Trail so we started where the town of Wellington used to be. It was a little spooky walking through the old snow sheds, and being at the site of the avalanche disaster that killed so many people. We did however find out that our daughter Molly is a little Forrest Gump as far as her running skills. She has no problem keeping up with Auntie Erin!

On another note, we bought a new car. It is a Nissan Xterra. We need to get a picture of it, but I did not want to take one today because the car is dusty from camping. I will try to do that soon.

We are exhasted after this weekend. We were packed and on the road by 7 a.m. this morning to avoid the thunder and lightning storm. It blew over pretty quickly, but we wanted to stay dry!

The Beatles-Birthday

Happy Birthday to Miss H. She's 9 today!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Psych

Love this show! I am trying to find a clip of the second episode from this new season, they reference Ferris Buellers Day off.

The car is dead

Today, we had to finally decide that yes, we did kill the car! Mark has been working on the Rodeo when he can, and he finally came to the conclusion that it is not fixable. So we promptly took it to the car crusher and sold that bad boy!

Now we have the scary task of purchasing a new car. So many to choose from!

Tonite I scrapbooked a page with pictures from 2001. When we went to the cabin back in March, I put random pictures in a plastic box to scrapbook. My goal was to get most of the pictures scrapbooked, but there was not enough time. Now I have been going back to that box and randomly pulling pictures out.

Here is the page completed tonite.