Heading out on the Roe Boat...

see you in about a week. Wish us good weather and cheap gas prices. LOL

Another new (old) post...

I actually went back to May and finished a post I had started then. Aren't you proud of me?

We Survived...

the by now "infamous" wedding reception. Our friends Stephanie & Jim got married on April 13th in Costa Rica. We offered them our house to host their Washington reception, (they also had one in Texas). So we've been prepping, cleaning, waxing and moving stuff around in preparation for yesterday's big event. My husband was happy to finally have the motivation he (we) needed to get our garage cleaned out, some stuff moved around and everything clean and sparkling.

We had tiki torches set up, tables with beautiful seashell centerpieces and much more...

About 80 people showed up, give or take, of which quite a few were kids. Stephanie has connections through the Indian tribes and had a guy named Alex cater the event. The food he whipped up was phenomenal. Didn't know they ate that good in Costa Rica. We had some wonderful chicken on a vegetable mix rice, a black bean fried rice (I can't recall the Costa Rican name), coleslaw, green salad ,watermelon and pineapple, and of course the mandatory wedding cake (thank you Costco!). The piece de resistance was his phenomenal pork, which was slow baked in a banana glaze and finished off with a sweet and sour mango salsa. Yummy! We had leftovers today and they are almost better the second time around.

So today, after feeding the people that stayed over breakfast, and cleaning up the party remnants, was a lazy day. We spent some time watching beach volleyball and I am happy to say that Misty May and Kerry Walsh are on their way to kick some butt at the summer Olympics in Beijing. Imagine playing in 101 consecutive matches and winning them all. What a legacy... Do you think I could quit my job and move to San Diego to pursue a Beach Volleyball career? A girl can dream, can't she?

Ok, Ok I know it's been forever...

but I'm back...

I've thought lots about updating this thing, but it just never quite happened. So here I am, finally.

Since my last post we've made some major home improvements, sowed some lawn, planted a vegetable garden, acquired beautiful hanging baskets, had several parties (and a few more to go!), sent Ben off to Navy Basic Training, had company from out of town stay over, went fishing, played some beach volleyball, planned to go camping and to a family reunion, and so much more...

I am taking two online classes at BIG Picture. The first is the always fabulous Stacy Julian's "Have More Fun" (and who doesn't want to do that?) and the second is Photography 101. I have learned so much from both classes already and wish I had more hours in the day to committ to them. How fun is receiving a package from Stacy with a fun message to make your day, which also included a mysterious Kazoo? Who knows how to play a Kazoo, (without looking it up on the internet, which is what I did, and I still can't play the darned thing!) LOL So if you've never checked it out go to BIG Picture right now and start by taking some of their free (YES! I said FREE classes), it will be so worth your time...let me know what you think?

Anyway, I hope you forgive me and I will try my best to be more like Julie my new blog hero. I swear she updates her blog every single day (well, not when she's on vacation in a cabin in the woods), but every other day, even when it means getting up at the crack of dawn. And Lisa, one of our new TOM girls, my new scrapbook idol, her stuff rocks, check it out here, here and here... And this is Lisa.

I will return sooner rather than later this time. I promise.