You're a good man....Charlie Browns???

No pictures please

The 5th grade did their big music production of "You're a good man Charlie Brown". It was a stellar performance by the whole grade. I was lucky enough to see it multiple times. Of course my darling daughter was an intergral part (in my mind). Below are pictures and video of the performance.

Taylor in Little known facts.
Supper time with snoopy HappinessWhat a bunch of hams!

Pictures! Finally....

Ashley Danielle...cutie pie! A proud cousin!
Big brother kisses baby sister.

Great Grandma with her oldest and youngest great grandchildren
My baby, loves her cousin!

It's a GIRL!!!

Sorry to be so far behind, but it's been busy down here in texas. My sister and her husband welcomed a baby girl on 12/30. Ashley was born around 1pm and was quite smaller than her brother at 6lbs 14oz. She's adorable and her auntie was so excited it was a girl. Her parents are still wrapping their heads around the fact that it was a girl and not a boy as they had suspected all along. I have tons of pictures but I can't post from this computer. It will wait until we get home.

Santa found his was here to texas and taylor was happy with her gifts. She got the Ihome that she wanted and a the book twilight. We've been enjoying the very strange weather down here. One day sunny and 80 the next day thunderstorms and high winds and the next day it's 36 and freezing. This morning the fog was so thick you could barely see 5 feet in front of you.

We've been having a good time getting to know david better. Taylor is more determined than ever to have a sibling. I have told her that I'm all done so stop holding her breath. She's funny too cause she gets a little jealous when I am playing with david or holding ashley.

Hope everyone had a great new years eve and that 2009 brings wonderful times. 2008 sucked for most of us with homes, so hopefully we'll start to see some rebounding. It'd be nice.

I'm truly lame!

So I know I haven't updated in a while. We've had a pretty mild couple of months up until xmas. Taylor is still on progress for braces. It looks like it's gonna be a few more months before full metal mouth. She needs to lose 4 more teeth. She's doing great in 5th grade. Getting much better grades than last year, her teacher is very impressed. I think summer school did a world of good last year.

We had visitors in November. Auntie stacey and family came up for thanksgiving week. That was different as we are usually on our own, but she's having a baby soon so they couldn't come out in december. Instead we are headed there. We also celebrated my big 4-0 that month. A nice dinner with family at Chow. I didn't drink as much as I would have liked but it was a great night. Nice to see everyone.

School has let out for the holidays and it was bittersweet for me as my boss retired. He was a great boss, even though I complained about him relentlessly. I mean who else is gonna let you get in screaming matches with them and still respect you the next day. My new boss ron has some big shoes to fill!

We head out to Texas for a visit this month. I look forward to meeting my new nephew or niece. I will post pics here as soon as it's born. I had a plan for New years but thats shot now, so it's me, tay and great gma partying it up together. HAHAHA...lets see who can stay up the longest...i'm thinking taylor!

Have a wonderful holiday season everyone.

One Month Down, 9 to go!

So not much is happening here in california. School is school. Tay is doing very well so far (fingers crossed). She started Faith formation (catholic high school here we come!)She might play basketball if they change the practice date. Still waiting for that phone call. Oh and the big news we finally started the steps towards braces. As seen in the picture below:


Headgear is the first step to fix the jaw then the actual braces go on. We expect some time this year 2008 but it might not be until 2009. Tay is the only kid I know looking forward to braces. Crazy!

October is looking to be a busy month. Birthday parties every weekend. Including a trip for mom to so cal. to see the nephew for his birthday. Also looking forward to seeing the cruise friends again. Keep your fingers crossed for an ocean view room too. That would be nice.
We had our first rain or sprinkle. But since that happened I have turned off the sprinklers and will hope it starts raining enought to keep the lawn green.

All the shows are starting back up again. Totally hooked on Hero's and still very confused. I haven't really seen a new show that has knocked my socks off yet but there's still time.

Cya all next month.

Erika's getting OLD!

The gangs all here! Gathered together on Saturday in St. Helena for Erika's 35th Birthday. It was a fun day all around. We met the birthday girls hubby at a park to drop off the minor child (hahaha) and then headed over to merryville winery for some wine tasting. I discovered a dessert wine I liked, something new! After the wine tasting we headed over to the park to meet up with the grandparents and children and Erikas sister made up some food. I don't want to downplay lunch, but I've been looking forward to it as soon as I heard elisa was coming in to town (from Denver) to cook for her sisters birthday. What a wonderful present for us all! She is such a great cook and I have missed her food for years. Although my body hasn't. We had a great time and taylor and annalise bonded again. They begged for a sleepover, but we had plans on sunday already and so did annalise. Those girls are so cute together! I can't believe how big they are. I'd have pictures of them but my batteries died after the crappy shot above. Oops...

5th grade Rules!

Taylor is too cool for her desk!
Today was the first day of school for taylor. The last year of elementary school. She rules above all the lower grades...or so they'd have you believe. We had a beautiful argument this morning over uniforms. It's funny to me that for the last 5 years she has worn a uniform with no issues and now in the LAST YEAR that she has to wear one a simple argyle vest ruined her day. She wanted to wear it over her uniform shirt and I simply informed her that it was not in the dress code. That was it...a happy morning turned into a chore. Now this is not news to her which was the frustrating part for me! We eventually left our house and arrived at school nice and early. Plenty of parking! Taylor beat her teacher in and bounced around visiting people. I chit chatted with a ton of moms...catching up on summer plans and looking forward to the school year. I hardly got anything accomplished today with all the visitors and new moms coming in to check on their account...sign up kids for stuff etc. The day FLEW BY! This month ought to fly by and then next and so on...just kidding. Hope everyone elses first days were great!
Taylor and Caroline...kinda twin like..not even planned!


Look how cute my litte leah is..my favorite kindergartner!