Day before Easter

Hey Happy Easter to everyone!

Tomorrow we will be having Easter Sunday here at my house. I am very excited! This is my favorite holiday! Spring brings new beginnings and hope.

I will share pictures of my family and hope everyone will stay healthy and happy!

Love to all!

Coronado Island on the Rocks

Helping Steph down off the rocks, what a good sister I am!
Lance and Stephanie, no he is not on anything to make him taller, he's TALL!
Help me down Lance!

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This was a great night with great friends and great wine!

Weekend of FUN!

Well went to San Diego this past weekend, Wow talk about looking into the past!!! I haven't been there since I was in my early 20's. That was a loooong time ago!!LOL

Well we went to Lance's (my nephew's) home and spent the weekend with Steph, Bobbie,and my new family. Il oved them all, what a wonderful time! Eating out a lot, eating at home a lot, laughter and tears. I will always treasure that weekend, cried when I left and look so forward to getting back together soon! We actually have a lot of family that lives close now. I am glad! All within three hours away!

I will write more, POPCORN time!

Ready for the week

Wow what a week ahead of us! My sister Stephanie is coming into San Diego for a week to visit her new grandson. I am picking up Bobbie on Wednesday and we are going to go down to SD until Sunday. Rachelle will be flying down on Friday and staying until Sunday. This is going to be fun!!!! Ron (Bobbie's son )will be coming down on Saturday so we will have a house full of family!!!!! I am so excited!!!! Hopefully Andy can make it down on Friday for the night and stay to join all of us.

Sunday I will be taking off and driving to Las Vegas for the Gift Show and will be coming home on Tuesday or Wednesday evening. What a huge week ahead of me! Hopefully I have enough energy to do all of this. Hum, visiting, eating laughing and shopping, I think I can be tough and make it.

The boys are going to check out colleges this week with their AVID class. They are leaving on Wednesday morning and will be seeing many colleges from San Francisco to Santa Barbara. They should have a great time! They will be home on Saturday afternoon. Andy will probably stay home because of the time schedule.

Our 3rd anniversary is on the 29th, Friday. We will go ahead and plan an weekend away, probably to Santa Barbara for a cooking weekend and wine country later in the month. Doesn't that sound like fun?

Well enough for today, I will be writing for later on in the week. I promise to take a lot of pictures of everyone. Love to all

Great Day!

Well I am excited about today! My nephew is coming up to go skiing with his family and new baby! I will be seeing the baby before the grandmother does, that makes me sad. I will be going over there today to see if they can use the boards from my sons and visit before I have to leave for the evening

Later tonight there is a performance at the PAC and Andy and I are going. Tanya is providing the desserts for the performance. Should be a great show, we are really looking forward to the performance.

Gail and I will be going out to lunch with the baby while the boys are skiing, later that evening we will make a great dinner to celebrate all the great blessings we have! Then on Monday Andy will join them for the afternoon for the last ski run. Should be a lot of fun!!!

So to top that?!!! My sister Stephanie will be coming out on the 26th!!!!! Wow! She will be arriving in San Diego on Tuesday and Bobbie and I will be going out there on Wednesday through Friday. I am soooooo excited!!!! Since Friday the 29th is our anniversary, I don't know if I will drive home or hopefully he will drive out there and we will celebrate our 3rd (12th) anniversary. Get it Leap Year? That way I can stay for the entire weekend. Rachelle will probably come out for the weekend, I don't want to miss seeing her. We'll see.

Well enough for the day, Jumping in the shower and getting on with the day. Hope everyone is doing fabulous!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Well this is a great day! I am sitting looking outside watching it snow, and snow a lot!!! Surprise! Had no idea that a storm was coming in!

Going to Lunch with a girlfriend and tonight we are going to a Rotary Dinner to celebrate the day of love.....

Tomorrow I am hoping we are going to Lake Arrowhead for the day, need to get out for a bit!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day. My love to everyone!

Fools Gold

Andy and I went out to the movies and sushi last night. We went and saw "Fools Gold". It was really a great movie! Treasure hunting in it's finest. It was not shot in Key West but it really looked like (except for the incredible water) and and it really made me want to go back. I LOVE KEY WEST! I have looked up Mel Fisher and the treasure hunting excursions they have and really have talked to the boys about making taking a year off before college and do something exciting. They have a program that you can sign up for a year and dive for treasure. The pay is minimal but the life experience is second to none. Heck, why can't I sign up? Could you imagine saying to your kids "Yea, when I graduated high school I took off for a year and searched for treasure in the Bahamas with Mel Fishers team."?



With the travel bug hitting at it's peak, I wanted to book another trip down there as soon as I got home. We have talked about renting a house for a month next summer when the boys graduate high school, but with the hurricanes, well, let's say I don't want to experience that disaster, I had enough on my own land with the fires and earthquakes.



Today is beauitiful and the snow is melting fast, needless to say, it is extremely MUDDY! I am staying in the house today, just peeking outside from time to time, I wish I could sit out and get some sun on my face. Spring is still too far away. I am just glad that I had this over the winter and not the summer, makes staying home a little easier.

Well since I have two sets of friends that are leaving for Hawaii today I have just some guidelines for everyone who wishes they were in Hawaii

Guides for living Hawaiian Style:

Never judge a day by the weather
The best "things" in life aren't things
Tell the truth, there is less to remember
Speak softly and wear a loud shirt
Goals are deceptive. The unaimed arrow never misses
He who dies with the most toys still dies
Age is relative. When you are over the hill, you pick up speed
There are two ways to be rich-make more money or desire less
Beauty is internal-looks mean nothing
No rain, no rainbows
Tell everyone you love them and you will always have plenty.

Well my friends, be safe, have a great time and know that I wish I was there with you, maybe next year. Have a cocktail on the beach and a kiss for me if you would. Until you get home, be careful! Love ya!