What do you do when your husband is out of town?

I invite cute boys over to my house to spend the night. Nick went out of town on Wednesday to Tahoe for the High Adventure trip with the scouts so I was own left on my for four days. In my never ending quest to be the best aunt ever I decided to invite my oldest nephews, Lucas and Mason, over to my apartment for a sleepover. I love those guys! We had a lot of fun eating McDonalds, swimming in my pool, making our own ice cream creations, building a fort, watching the Ant Bully, playing Wii and hanging out at the playground. I love having the opportunity to spend some special time with them and I can't wait until I have a bigger place so that Dax can come too.

Watching the Ant Bully in the fort.

Wicked Awesome Weekend

This last weekend was a great weekend for Nick and I. On Saturday I had the opportunity to go down to SF to see Wicked with a bunch of the women in my family. I had heard some of the music and knew the basic story line but that was it. It was incredible. I loved everything about it and was excited about how the original story was mixed into this new version. It was a lot of fun to share the experience with most of my sisters, aunts, cousins and grandma.

Even more exciting than Wicked was that Nick passed the Physical test for admission to the CHP academy. We had been pretty stressed about it and were so grateful that not only was it fianlly over but that he had been successful. He had his interview with the panel yesterday and so now it's more of the waiting game to see how he did with that. I don't have any awesome pictures to show from Nick's test, because they frown upon that but here are a few from after Wicked.

Megan and I outside the theatre.

Sam and I with silly Grandma in the background

Some of the crew after the show in front of the Wicked poster

New To Me Car...

My Cavalier is getting pretty janky. This last week after work it overheated, blew a fuse and started spraying coolant all over the place causing stream to seep out of the bottom of my hood. We replaced the fuse and hoped that it would be alright. I barely made it to Auto Zone the next morning before my coolant light went off, not surprisingly since I was there to get coolant. After that it overheated again on my way home...All this is a long way of saying that the decision was made to get me a new car.

Last night after weeks of searching online and some serious loan drama Nick and I headed off to look at a car that we both liked and thought was a great deal. I ended up driving my husband crazy and loving the car! We got a 2001 Toyota Highlander 4x4. I still love it after driving it around all day today and am excited for the little extra love Nick plans to give it. I still feel a little bit like it's a rental car but after we donate the Cavalier I think it will sink in more. It'll be weird to not drive around a Teal Cavalier. :)

This is it!

It doesn't have the money sticker anymore...

The inside

The weekend we've been waiting for...

On Friday Nick and I headed down to the bay area for my graduation. Nick and I have both been looking forward to this weekend for a long time...finally I get my Saturdays back and no more crazy manuals! I was really glad that my parents could come down for the graduation especially since mom has been dying to see me walk across a stage. After the graduation we tried to go to dinner at TGIFridays but as it turns out they are closed for remodeling. After panicing a little because I had no idea where to go we looked across the street and decided that Benihana would be a GREAT solution to our problem. Lucky for us, Dad agreed that we could go...It was such a fun experience and of course Dad made friends with the people sitting next to us who, small world, happened to be members of the church. Thanks to everyone who has supported me these past two years especially my husband, my family and my partner in craziness Miss Jenny.


After dinner Nick and I parted ways with Mom and Dad and headed to Stanford to spend the night in anticipation for the DCI show on Saturday. For those of you who aren't married to Nick DCI stands for Drum Corp International. We stayed at a great hotel. Our room had a king size bed, overlooked a koi pond, and was about a minute away from the show. Unfortunately the show didn't start until 6:30 so we had to think of some things to do to fill up our Saturday. We went and had breakfast at this restaurant called Stacks, looked around the Stanford shopping center, and then treated ourselves to Transformers 2. After the movie we headed to the show a little early in hopes of catching some of the corps practicing around the campus. We ran into some of Nick's old friends and my feet got VERY dirty from all the walking.



After the show we headed home. We finally got home early this morning around one o'clock very tired. I'm officially a fan of the Santa Clara Vanguard (their marching is INCREDIBLE) and the Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets. The cadets show was my favorite though because I knew all of the songs that they played. I was glad that I got to be a part of something that Nick loves so much. We had a great time this weekend and are now taking today to recooperate before we start real life again tomorrow.

Emus, Cupcakes and Dad...

This weekend was packed with fun things to do. On Saturday Nick and I woke up and decided that we were going to use our free passes to the zoo. I KNOW that the Sacramento Zoo has a gazillion birds but everytime I go I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't have other things. We had good time though and saw all that the zoo has to offer. My favorite this time around were the emus because they looked just like Edward and Edwina from the children's books at my school.

After the zoo we headed over to the Esslinger's to celebrate Jill's birthday. Kate made the coolest cupcakes and even though the weather wasn't excatly screaming that it was summertime there were some who decided to go swimming. Jill loved all of her presents especially the baby doll from GG. I was just glad that she still thought that getting books was exciting.

Sunday was Father's Day and after church we went to my parent's house to celebrate. The food was good, the company was good and the cake was cool looking and on top of that I have one of the best Dads in the world. Below is some picture's from Jill's party...enjoy!

Camping!

This past weekend Nick left me to go camping with Chad and the Young Men at Calveras Big Trees. I'm pretty sure that our young men go camping more than any other young men. They always seem to have a great time and judging from the pictures it looks like this trip was not as cold as snow camping but just as much fun.

A Good Reason for a Walk.

This morning was the annual Race for the Cure in Sacramento. My sister Katie started the tradition of walking the 5k three years ago and I was so excited that I got to participate this year since last year I had to be in the bay area at school. This year was especially fun because ALL of the girls were there including Megan, my new sister in law, my mom and Jill, my niece, who was about a month away from being there the first year we walked. We all made it in one piece and even got a cool shirt. It's incredible to me to see everyone who comes out to support this cause and all the survivors in their pink shirts. The walk is such a simple way to show support to those who are affected by breast cancer and I'm excited to keep up this great tradition.

Walking the walk...

All the girls after the race

Go Team Pink Mommas!