I left my heart in San Francisco

For Valentines Day, Colby took me to San Francisco! I couldn't stop singing "Rice a Roni, the San Francisco treat, ding ding" the entire flight. Once there, I moved on to "If your going to San Francisco". Probably you all are loving me right now. Catchy isn't it??

There was a storm a brewing when we landed but it didn't stop us from being tourists! We wandered to the end of Pier 39 and had dinner at Bubba Gump's and that is all I got to say about that!

We were lucky enough to see Billy at the Wax Museum. Liz, we put in a good word for you!

Gave a little prayer out to Pope John Paul II and all of his homies!

If only we had a pitchfork...

Confucius say " He who farts in church, sits in own pew"

Colby at the end said to me "You know them aren't real people?"... I was crushed...

We will be posting as the week rolls, Colby thinks I am cool-aid drunk and need to go to bed.

235?@!# Say what!

We went bowl'n Saturday night and Colby rocked the house! He bowled a 235, truly I didn't even know the score could be that high... I thought 100 was the ultimate score :)

I do blame these shoes for my poor performance... Everyone knows a good pair of kicks gets you far in life! Oh, and I couldn't figure out why I would stick to the floor at certain times until I took off my shoes and saw there was gum on the bottom! I am calling this game rigged!

Caution, men at work

Colby and Uncle Donny spent Saturday building a work bench for the garage! It is strong enough to hold a small army and it will act as your bomb shelter if anything should ever go awry! The bench was made out of an old bowling alley lane we picked up on Craigslist. The second piece of the lane will be our coffee table and end tables eventually.

Rainbow brite

Lo and behold it is a rainbow!! I made Colby follow it one night after work and I swear it took us to Target! It was magical! That Target has some special ad peeps, I tell you! The sales were amazing! I truly thought we had hit the promised land!

Craftin' with Kimmie

This past week I have been working on baby gifts. We have 10 pending babies that we know of besides our own. Here is the first two projects I completed. A onesie and matching tag blanket.

Baby needs a new pair of shoes!

Wait, baby got his/her first pair of kicks today in the mail! Thank you Uncle Donny and Aunt Wendy, now Baby S will be stylin' come Apple Cup!

I can ride my bike with no handle bars

Okay, so maybe I can't ride my bike with no handle bars but I plan to work up to it! Today Colby and I took out our brand spanking new Christmas present bikes! It was so much fun riding a round the neighborhood and lake!

My bicycle is a beach cruiser and Colby's is a mountain bike. Don't you just love my white wall tires?

Colby got the hang of riding right away, while I was another story... I promise I didn't ride the entire time with my eyes closed but a few times as I was scared!

The fog was lifting off the lake as we rode by. It was a beautiful scene.

Riding back into the development I was feeling much more confident. We plan to pick up helmets the next time we are out. Thanks Mom and Daddy O, Tracy, Wes, Sophie, and Ceci for the kick butt bicycles!

Blue Sky! We opened up the windows when we got back from the ride and aired out the house! Sure smells like spring! Yippee!

Just having one of those days

Today was one of those days when I didn't even want to get out of bed as I knew work was going to be bad. Okay, so I may have contributed to my own demise with the famous words "just ship it". Let me state for the record it was well past 4pm on Friday when these troublesome issues arose and I pretended that Monday would never arrive and I wouldn't get caught in my web of "just ship it".
Flash forward to Monday morning.... Work was, as predicted, terrible and I spent the first few hours correcting my "just ship it" moments. When a grower called I knew I was in trouble! I didn't think 3 o'clock would ever come.

When we arrived home tonight I found three lovely packages on our step! 1. Colby's passport, which he had left on a flight home from Edmonton. The passport took it's own trip to Sacramento, thank you Horizon flight attendant! 2. A lovely card and book from Megan! Thank you so much, I haven't read this book, so I am excited to start it. 3. A Harry and David's gourmet food basket, I was in love! I assume this is all for the baby or at least that was what I explained to Colby :) I plan to try it all tomorrow while Colby is in Boston. Hey, the kid has to eat! Thank you Mom and Daddy O!! Tomorrow is already looking up!

So this is what the North Pole feels like...

I was in Grande Prairie, Alberta yesterday and I had to take this picture on my way to the airport.

It might be hard to see, but yes, that says -17. Standing outside for 2 minutes to get gas in the rental car was torture.

I guess we were lucky, it was -29 last Friday. I tried to look for the picture I took a little over a year ago when I was in Little Rock, AR. The temperature on the car there said 117.

Aaahhh, the pleasant experiences I have on the road sometimes :O)

2008 - A Year In Review

January



2008 began with the purchase of our first home.


February



We moved to Samammish while our house was being built.


March



Easter festivities at number 81 road.


April



"Goatgate" - leave it at that.


May



Flew to Boise to celebrate CiJae's birthday


June



Busy month moving into the new house, Kim's South American adventures and our 30th birthday party.


July

Viva Las Vegas!

August

Liz and Myron's wedding.

September

Another busy month with fence building, corn shucking, Santana, Spokane, Light The Night walk, and a visit to the motherland...Pullman.

October

Keep on walking at the Heart Walk.

November

Bet your turkey doesn't dance this well.


December

2008 ended with snow, snow, snow!!!

2009

Year of the baby.

Here is a little snapshot of what's coming in July!!!!!

We apologize in advance for the singular focus of the blog for the forseeable future :O)