Memorial Day

We had a very fun Memorial Day weekend - Friday night I got to go to book club, my first one - all of the others have been on my birthday , or Tyler's Bday or I was out of town - I really like these ladies - very down to earth and fun. It was at this one lady's house who is Indian - she made the Best Chicken Marsala - my mouth was burning of course, but it was soooooo good.

We read this book - SNOOOOZER - not one of us finished the book and we only meet every other month! Soooooo boring - with a few good points. I guess Oprah did some video cast with it on her show - it's supposed to be much better together. Way too much about the Id, Ego, and Spirituality, but more worldly spirituality if you understand what I mean. So not on my "Good Reads" recommend list at all....

Saturday we had no games - it was great - Mike and I decided to go up to the Temple - we were on our way, would have just made the 10am session, and ding - my recommend was expired by a month! You could tell the Temple Worker was so sad for me.... but we tried! So weird because I've never done that before - oh well.

So we came home to be with the kiddies and worked in the back yard all day - it was very productive. On Saturday night we joined about 70 other parents from our elementary school and went to Tommy T's which is a comedy club - it was a hoot - we had VIP seats and had a blast!

Sunday was regular church so all was well - then we had our friends the Arnolds come over for a BBQ, it was very fun - they have 4 kids too and Chandler & Greg are best buds - they had a family against family football game (sans the moms - we stayed inside where it was warm)

Monday is our Ward's annual Memorial Day Breakfast - and our family tradition is to ride our bikes to the church - it was fun, the kids love going on bike rides which is nice since Mike and I like to go more now. We just had to pull Lucas in the Burley - and poor Ian - we were supposed to get him a new bike for his bday last October - well, we have yet to get one so he had to over pedal on his little bike. The ward decided to have a huge Spring Cleaning at the church - so we were supposed to clean bathrooms, floors, outside windows, walls, you name it - so we were there for a while, I came home exhausted!

Then our friends the Beans had a neighborhood bbq - they have the perfect backyard for it too, pool, sport court & lots of space to sit and relax -

But then it all had to end and back to the grind on Tuesday - well I'm off to do more laundry!!!! It never ends..

Finally an update

Here we are enjoying a fabulous dinner at Brannan's in Calistoga. My friends and I had a wonderful trip - it was so relaxing and we ate and ate and ate, I think I gained 4 pounds!!!!!

The spa was really relaxing - not quite as elegant as I would have expected - it was one of the oldest mud bath places in Calistoga (I only went for the massage, not the mud....)

But we have a good combo - we all love to eat and shop. I got a really cute linen pair of pants and a cute blouse - all with Hawaii in mind of course (we're going next month!)

On our way home we stopped at the Coach outlet and I couldn't resist my purse fetish and bought one of those cute sling purses that holds absolutely nothing - but it was a steal!!!!



Michele & Laura



Me & Judy



Judy's fabulous Ahi dinner



Michele & I shared the Salmon & Pork - to die for!!!!!



Today was Lucas' Bike day at school - he was so proud of his bike!



Last week before my girls trip it was back-to-school night....

Ahhhhhhh

This weekend is my first girls weekend in forever - I know - I get to go to a foreign country by myself to see my BFF but having a local Girls weekend is just something I never get to schedule into the calendar.

So this weekend I plan on doing this.....




A little of this......




And a lot of this......



This time there are 4 of going - most places were already sold out so that was all we could sleep with - we're going to Calistoga for Mudbaths and Massages - it should be fun, I just bought a boat load of unhealthy snacks, a book & my friend Laura is bringing toe nail polish to go along as well....so tomorrow I'm off!!!

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Happy Mother's Day!

We had a really nice mother's day this year - totally forgot to take pictures of the kiddies - but Linda should be posting pictures of us relaxing while the men and children toiled! Linda and her family came over as is our tradition. We got yummy tri-tip sandwiches, lots of yummy snacks, and the kids made us giant homemade chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches!!! Can't ask for more. I even got breakfast in bed - so nice to have late church this year.

My mom is here too and my brother and SIL came and brought her this giant edible fruit basket, me flowers and then took my mom to lunch and a movie.


Such a nice day - I love the handmade cards and pictures - they kids wanted to get me a new softball mitt but they want me to pick it out - so funny at the end of the day - my husband gave me a giant hug and said, "Now I know why you get so tired, I'm exhausted!"

What special things did you get today??

Tri Tri Tri & A's

Well I'm back - we had such a busy couple of weeks. Mike's parents came to town Mike & I could go down to Lake San Antonio for the Wildflower Triathlon he's been training for since January. We had to camp with the Team In Training folks - it was so much fun - however very tough conditions. I can't believe people do this every year! As you can see by my photos - it was like Woodstock - wall to wall people - they estimate between 40-60 THOUSAND come to this annually. Just people that participate is over 7000. It was 3 events in 2 day. Mike did the Olympic Length which was 1.5K Swim (almost a mile), 40K Bike (about 26 mi), 10K Run (over 6 mi). His time was 3:32 which was great since there are so many hills and it was hot!

It was really fun I got to meet some of the great people he trained with and hung out with some of the girlfriends - we cheered the boys on (the girls did the Sprint distance the day before) and got pictures of all the friends - the 3 hours went by so fast! I was wishing I was out there too!

On Monday we had those great seats behind Homeplate again at the A's game - we had 7 seats so we invited 2 of the Smiths to come along - Chris stayed home with the other boys and watched Lucas and Linda and Judson came along with us - we had a blast - Linda and I were so sick - all of the food is free - so you just order whatever is on the junk menu..... we had popcorn, nachos, pizza, shrimp salad, mini cheeseburgers, ice cream, licorice, chips, hotdogs, hot chocolate, cookies....ugh, so gross..........but very fun - and best of all (even though we had to leave because it was getting late) the game was great and the A's won!