Splish Splash I was taking a bath

I love taking bubbly baths!  There is nothing better than to sit in a hot bubbly bath and relax while reading a book.

So when I saw this bath tub in Mexico I knew I had to try it out.

 This tub was amazing! I have decided that this is the size of tub I want in my house.

This is what was left of all the bubbles. 

I'm really sad I only got to use it once. But that's ok because now I  have an excuse to go back to Mexico!

Californacation

I love vacations.  And lucky for me I have been fortunate to have in-laws that like to vacation and are willing to take me along with them.  In July we drove to California for a couple days. Sadly the pictures from the baseball game are on my other camera so I'm going to have to leave those out for now.

We got to go to a Character breakfast at Disneyland one day.  It was fun because there were some characters that you normally don't get to see. Like Piglet and the Fairy Godmother. I didn't get any pictures of them but I did get a picture of Rafiki.....or as Brian likes to call him LaFreaky.














Tigger was also there and he was the funniest character. He tried to eat Ben's breakfast. In this picture he is saying grace.


I LOVE breakfast.... Especially Mickey Waffles..MmmMMMM

When I was little I wanted to get married in the "Mickey Mouse Temple."

I love funnel cakes....sadly no one puts marshmallow cream on them anymore so their not as scrumptious as they could be.

One of my Aunts looks like Ursula, so I was always scared of her when I was little.

I want my hair to do that

For some reason The Little Mermaid ride broke down.  Lucky for us we were at the very end of the ride so we got to see it all. Bad for us since we were at the end of the ride we were the very last ones to get out of our clamshells.
This is how Brian and I felt about being stuck in a clam shell.

 

Bahaha this is probably one of my favorite pictures of a picture. This was on the Tower of Terror right before  you drop.  I love the look on my mother-in-laws face!! We are only going to drop to our deaths and she has a look of pure boredom... Her face is AWESOME!!!!

Universal Studio's was pretty amazing as well.. If you can't tell by my face I was sorta in shock trying to take in all the awesomeness that's Universal.....And we hadn't even made it into the park yet!

I'm still in shock in this picture but that's because I was just slobbered on by a huge T-Rex

I thought the back lot tour was extra awesome.. This building is the clock tower in Back To the Future, and the main city building in Bruce Almighty. I'm sure it's tons more movies but those are the only ones I can remember.

The little go cart from Little Rascals "Dear Darla, I hate your stinking guts You make me vomit.Your scum between my toes. Love Alf Alfa."

The car from Mr. Bean

My favorite song when I was little was "On the good ship Lolipop" and I always wanted hair like Shirley Temple, so my Grandma took me with her to her hair appointment so I could get a perm to look just like Shirley Temple.

My family loves John Wayne so of course I had to take a picture of his fist punch in the cement.

We also got to walk down Rodeo Dr.  The whole time I was singing in my head "Pretty woman, walking down the street. Pretty woman the kind I like to meet."

Now this is the size of suitcase I need!!!!















This was just a drive by picture, but I didn't know that the L.A Temple was that big!

We got to stop at the beach and I couldn't help but climb on this extra large beach chair

And of course the best way to get off a really big chair is to JUMP

mmmm I want to live close to the ocean again. *Sigh*

Welcome to the Gun Show

















Yup I think it's time for another trip to California!

A Little Cuteness For Your Day

Every once in a while I just need a little cuteness in my life.


How cute is this?!

I wouldn't mind having a kid if they were as cute as this!

I told him to do "peace", so this is his "peace"















See doesn't cute just make you feel so much better?!?!

Fish Stories

The fish around the docks are a big hit with people.  Especially the little kids who like to fish.  Too bad for them it is illegal to fish on the docks.  I am constantly telling people they can use their hands, toes, nets whatever they can think of, but they can't use fishing poles and hooks.  Unfortunatley for this little boy he didn't listen to us and he got a fish hook stuck in his hand.

(sorry about the quality of pictures, they were taken on my phone and the light was terrible but I didn't want to ask the poor little boy to move so we could get better pictures)

That's Coley working on the fish hook. And those are my cute pink pliers!

He was fishing with a Rapala fish hook and they have hooks on both ends.  He was so excited to catch a fish that he reached down to pull it out and he got one side of the hook stuck in his hand.  Usually when you hook yourself you push the barbed end of the hook through the skin and cut of the barb and pull out the rest of the hook.  Well this little kid got the hook stuck in the meaty part of his palm and it was pretty deep.  We decided we didn't wan to damage anything so we suggested his dad take him to instant care just down the street. Before we could throw the fish back in the water, he asked if he could get a picture with it. 

Notice the happy smile even though the fish hook is still embedded in his flesh.

The best part of this whole ordeal was when they were getting ready to leave the docks. The dad looked at his son very seriously and then asked:
Dad: Son I have a very big favor to ask you!
Son: What dad?
Dad: So when mom see's this she is going to FREAK out! So I need you to calm her down and tell her it's not as bad as it looks and it doesn't hurt.   Can you do that for me?!
The little boy sighed and put on a brave face and said: " Sure Dad, I can do that for you!"

Lentiginous

Brian sometimes hates going places with me because I tend to embarrass him.  Say like when we went to McDonald's and I ordered a kids meal and the guy at the window asked what kind of child's toy we wanted, (while he tried to peer in our window to see the kid in the back). So I just told him, "a girl toy, it's for me". Brian almost died he was so embarrassed! He said he would never go back there and he hasn't!

Brian thinks all the awkward encounters we have with people are because I look like a lost puppy. But this encounter I was just standing there and did nothing to provoke the man.  It all started with Brian's mom finding an armoire for free, it just needed a little TLC.  Brian and I decided it would be a good project to fix up together.

Our first stop was at Rod Works to find an embellishment for the top of the armoire. I thought it was a really neat store, and Brian wanted to barf.  We found some things we liked but decided to check out Tai Pan Trading before we decided on anything.  I have never seen Brian move so fast through a store before. We were in there for maybe 5 minutes max before Brian had, had enough of "girly" stores and just decided to get the embellishment at the other place.

When we finished with the "girly" stuff, he was excited because we were finally going to a "Man" store, Home Depot. When we walked in he took a deep breathe and said, "Finally! don't you just feel at home here?" with a giddy look on his face.  I just rolled my eyes and followed him around.  When we made it to the paint desk we told the guy what we wanted and he started getting it ready.  He then turned to me and asked me how long I had been lentiginous? I looked at Brian and he gave me a look like "what have you done this time"? I just looked at the man and said sorry I didn't know what that meant. He then asked if I liked being lentiginous and I told him since I didn't know what it meant I didn't know if I was happy about it or not.  He then laughed to himself and said, "it means your freckled faced." I ahhhed and told him I had them as long as I could remember.




Then things got a little interesting..... He recited a nice little poem to me about freckles, and he also did it an Irish accent! When he finished he asked me if I was Irish or Scottish or perhaps even Scandinavian? I told him I didn't know and he was very disappointed. But not for long because soon after he started telling me about his family history, and how his family was on the mayflower and how he gets part of the Declaration of  Independence because one of his ancestors signed it. I was smiling at him, and out of the corner of my eye looked at Brian. He had a look of sheer terror on his face and looked like he wanted to bolt out the door as fast as he could.

When our paint  finally finished the man handed it to us and thanked us for our business. Brian and I took the paint and walked away. As we were walking to the car I told Brian this was not my fault and he couldn't hold my freckles responsible.  He was very traumatized by the whole thing because he realized something.... Not even his precious man store is safe when I'm around.

Sunday Drive

Sunday was such a beautiful day that my mom and I decided to go for a little drive up Monte.  The little girls were here hanging out so they came along too. Since it's flooding around here we decided to check out the reservoirs.

Our first stop was the Woodruff Reservoir

I always thought it would be fun to get a tube and float down the spillway

But the landing would be a little rough.  If you notice the water would shoot you into the air and then straight into the rocks below.

Our next stop was Birch Creek reservoir.

If you want to actually see the reservoir you have to hike up a little hill to get there.  We took a break at about halfway for some pictures.

 

Jumping + Wind = Crazy Hair

 Yeah for us!

On our way home we decided to stop and take some pictures of this old trailer.  If you didn't know any better you would think it was the water that had destroyed it

It was a great day!

School is out!

I have been going to school for almost a year straight!! I finished my last final today and this how I feel about it.

(PS turn up the volume! =D)