Another Busy Weekend

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Yesterday I went to our friend, Michaela's, baby shower -her babies due next month. That was right before going to see Gallagher with Tom and some other friends.

Today after church, Tom went home and I met Michaela at a cooking class to watch a demonstration on "how to make baby food at home". The class was fun and I learned a few new things. It was aslo just nice having some girl time too! After the class I went home to do some chores around the house while Tom went to work on one of the other houses. Michaela's husband, Paul, also went to give Tom a hand. Guys need "guy time" too!

I cleaned up a little , did some laundry, and just finished planting some strawberries. I bought a Topsy Turvvy (the thing holding the strawberries) because the one I bought for my tomatoes, the plant is doing very well. I tried planting strawberries last year and didn't get a single berry! We'll see if this works.............(stay tuned)!!

Too much fun

By Tom

Yesterday after a long hard but productive day of renovating a rental house Shari and I met up with some friends at Tommy T's to see Gallagher the politically incorrect and extremely messy comedian. We sat in the front and didn't buy the plastic ponchos offered at the door. Our friends sat in the back and sides of the stage and bought plastic, apparently they are afraid of food. It was funny watching everyone sitting around us up front freaking out and putting on the ponchos and plastic as soon as he got in to the messy part of his act. He then convinced everyone to put the plastic down then flung a bottle of strawberry syrup over the unprotected audience. That sticky pink syrup got everywhere. An older guy sitting across from me freaked out when a glob landed on his pink shirt that he took off an hid under his plastic for the rest of the night. The one thing Shari hates in this world is mushrooms. Gallagher made a concocsion made mostly of canned mushroom soup and a huge glob of it landed on the table right in front of Shari I laughed so hard, I have tears in my eyes thinking about it right now. I'm glad it didn't land on her it was funnier to see the large pile of the thing she can't stand sitting their on the plastic covered table. We got out of there without getting too messy. We were going to get a burger with our friends at our favorite restaurant "the Ale House" afterwards but ended up going home instead. I guess I didn't realize how much food I caught until I went to put my seatbelt on. I don't mind cleaning stains out of the seats and doors of my truck but I should probably try and avoid getting cream cheese up in the retracing seat belt. I took my shirt off and threw it in the back of the truck. Once home we jumped in the TV hot tub and ordered a pizza. Where we got sucked in to watching an "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" marathon.

What a fun Saturday.

Lifebook (ok ONE more)

FAMILY & KIDS

Lifebook Pics

OUTDOORS PAGES

(THERES MORE PAGES BUT THIS CAN CONSUME THE ENTIRE BLOG)

Lifebook Pics

Our Doggies

Lifebook Pics

Our Wedding & Us Pics

Lifebook Pictures

Promise Letter & Where We're From!

Busy... (cont') Lifebook

It took all week but we made a "Lifebook" to give to our potential adopted babies birthmother. It was very fun making it and turned out soooo cute! We almost wanted to make a duplicate copy so we'd have one to keep for the baby. We hope our birthmother enjoys the book and when we send her letters and pics , she can add them to the book too!

Busy...(continued again)

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It was Administartive Professionals Day this week. Cooworkers surprised me with flowers. I also finished my Business Writing class yesterday that I was taking in Palo Alto. NO MORE commuting for me! I love working 6 miles from work.

Busy....(continued)

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I've been going to cake classes still and we've been learning to make flowers. The last class is next week and we'll be adding our flowers to the last cake (stay tuned for photo)

Busy...Busy.....Busy..

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(See my version picture) of our riding day that Tom Blogged about on 4/14 it was MUDDY!)

Okay! There's been a lot going on so we haven't had much time to blog so I'm going to post a couple mini blogs so I can attach a pic to each one. (haven't figured out if you can attach more that one per blog, but I don"t think I can)

After almost nine LONG years with the same company, Tom made a BOLD career move and started a new job on Monday (yeah)!! He was working silly hours where he was traveling all night long and at times, felt like I never saw him. Now he has to commute BUT, he gets off work at 2:30pm in the afternoon and he really seems to be enjoying his new job and coworkers. He even gets home before me. It could not have come at a better time since everything we do has the adoption in mind. It will be SWEET to have a stay-at-home mom AND dad home by 3:30pm !

Camping with ATC's

Shari got a new bike this year and we just got it past the break in period, completed it's first maintaince and are now ready to ride full throttle. So we went to one of our favorite OHV parks Hollister Hills. The forecast was for some showers but it rained hard most of the time. We caught a little break in the rain and made a nice camp fire but spent most of the time snuggling in the camper. The dogs had fun. The next day we drove home and went riding at our local park Carnegie SVRA. It was a Tuesday the rain had stopped. We had the entire park to ourselves. No dust and not too much mud. We rode for over 3 hours straight and are feeling it today. As I write Shari is at her cake decorating class squeezing a piping bad with her sour muscles. I prefer riding a bike over a quad because they don't beat you up as much but I didn't have a chance to fix the front breaks on my YZ so I rode the Yamaha Warrior and Shari was on her new Polaris Outlaw 525. She let me take it for a few laps around the track and that thing is silly fast. With the brand new hole shot tires on it was sure footed too.

Now that we finally had a chance to ride it to our potential (not the bikes potential it had a lot of untapped performance to spar). We can now make the obvious suspension and gearing changes. We will start by lowering the springs and taking a tooth out of the front sprocket. After that I'll consider revaluing the shocks for a smoother ride. I don't think Shari will be going big on any jumps so the stiff sock set up can be softened with no fear of bottoming out. The more important thing to Shari is removing the stock gunfighter graphics and putting on some pink flames to match her helmet.

TGIF!!

ENTERED BY SHARI:

Thank goodness for Fridays! Feels like the weeks are getting longer now that the weather is so nice. After work Tom and I went to a friends house to see their new puppy. So cute! Then we all went to dinner. We are home now getting things ready for the weekend. We will probably settle in early so we have energy for the weeekend. Plus it look sas if there will be a large garage sale next door (YES!!) so I will be making my way over that way before all the early birds. I took some much needed vacation days on Monday and Tuesday so Im in NO hurry to do anything!

Can't Wait Until "My Day In Court"

Entered By Tom,

Today for work I had to go to court to process some papers, while waiting in line for about 30 minutes I had plenty of time to people watch. A guy in dirty construction boots and a dress shirt was loosing it at the divorce window apparently frustrated by the paper work he was trying to file. He was the only one at that window and returned 3 times while I was their after making corrections. I think the clerk was borderline about to have him thrown out. The good looking young, couple could be heard filling out a restraining order at an island station next to where I was standing in line. The guy was wearing dark sun glasses. It's anyone's assumption as to who they where filing against or what happened, I was making up stories in my head about him getting punched in the face over his girl. An extremely over weight security guard used his key to come in from the emergency exit doors and then obnoxiously said hi to some of the lady clerks who where trying to help people. He asked about how so and so was doing and tried to carry on a conversation oblivious to the fact that everyone seemed annoyed by him especially the people at the windows who where trying to file things.

The Superior/Civil/Small claim window I was at is also the adoption window. I look forward to the day I get the go to that window to file for our adoption. It's got to be the most positive happy thing that ever happens in that court house.

APRIL FOOLS DAY!

Entered by Shari: Today was April Fools Day. This year was like every other year, where one of us thought we out smarted the other with the better prank! When I came home from work I presented Tom with an actual "reckless driving & speeding" ticket that I had Police officer friend write me. He wrote it as if it were real. At the top I had him write Fool for the officers name hoping Tom wouldn't notice. I had Tom going for a long time. After answering his 20 questions I finally broke down and told him to read the officers name (Fool)! He laughed and told me "good one"!

When I went to the kitchen to make dinner, everytime I opened a door; a bunch of little helium balloons came floating out at me. There were balloons floating from the fridge, every cabinet, and even the dishwasher. I guess there are more hidden around the house, so I better stay on my toes so I'm not shocked everytime I open something.

Very fun ,but I think I won!!