From depressed to happy.

SO today has been a rough one. Radiohead (my favorite band ever) is playing very very close to my house tonight. I have no tickets and I cant afford the prices on craigslist. My Sister in law Carla sent me a video from the concert in WA last week, I cried for over an hour after seeing it.

My friend Cristina offered to pay for the tickets which is just SO sweet and I love her for it! But I cant go, and that's OK. When people say you make sacrifices for your kids....THIS is what they were talking about.

So to make myself feel better I called up my uncle who works on the Navy base here in San Diego. He can get me cheap Disneyland tickets. Both Trav and I have a day off on Sept 11 because our babysitter's son is having surgery. So we will spend the day in Disneyland with Ava. It will be her first trip so it should be a BLAST! I told her we were going to go and she said "See Princess Jasmine?" So I think she is ready :)


A customer came in today and said that she just took her 2 year old and they have special maps with the attractions for toddlers. We will take full advantage of this! Plus Ava is tall enough to ride on most of the rides. Im happy now. :)

Sometimes....

Sometimes I look at the headlines on my yahoo mail page and just laugh. Why in the hell is "Blogger arrested over leaks of Guns n Roses songs" over "Obama officially nominated"???

Seriously? Who cares about Guns and Roses anyway? I mean they havent been relevant in what... 15-20 years. Sure "Welcome to the Jungle" is a great song (for driving around in an iroc drinking mad dog and wearing drakkar noir)

Anyways.... Awesome for Obama. Im proud this country MIGHT be finally getting their ducks in a row.

Photo Challenge "Look what I made"

This is my latte heart. I made it with love :)

Dancing Videos

Here is Ava dancing with Vicky and Tati and .... Oh crap I forgot her name!!!

I was told that Ava is a Bolivian in her heart and I need to take her to Bolivia some day... Sounds like a good idea.

By the way, this was a family Dinner at Carla's house. It was WAY fun!

(By the way, if you're reading this Carla.... What song is this? Or what CD? I want to have it for Ava to dance to!)




I let Ava hang out with my sister and she taught her to "shake her booty" This is what that looks like.

The Wedding....Photo Version!

Wuv, Twue Wuv. My brother's wedding was beautiful. I must admit I'm jealous (hint hint honey)

Here are some pics.... ok a load of pics! (**Some of them are too large to show in this format, if you see some that look cut off, click the picture and it should take you to my photobucket which will show the entire picture**)

Getting ready...






The ceremony
(keep in mind these are just the pics....I will write all about it later)




They did it!!!!






Family picture time!





Of course a BAJILLION pictures of Ava in her dress














I love this picture because Carla looks so incredible. She was literally a picture perfect bride. Im sure being happy has something to do with it, but WOW!

Congratulations guys.... I love you!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Happy Birthday Emily.


I heart you muchly!

Home

I had a wonderful vacation.

Going back to Oregon was so great! I saw a lot of my friends, of course I didnt get to spend as much time with all of them as I wanted, but thats how it goes I guess.

My brother's wedding was beautiful and went off without any major problems. In fact there weren't ant problems at all. Ava and I missed her cue to walk as flower girl, but thats OK. We got a bajillion pictures of her in her (now demolished) dress.

Oh yeah and I FORGOT MY CAMERA! My brother is getting married to an amazing girl, my daughter is the flower girl. My 2 best friends are there, my grandparents on both sides, my aunt I never get to see, and I forget my damn camera!!!

There are a lot of pictures of the family though so I guess its ok.

I have no pictures right now because we wiped the hard drive on our computer and need to re-add my photo shop and stuff.

Funny story....
We get home and I want to look at my pictures and I turn on the computer. It turns on and then turns off within seconds. I panic. "OMG Trav is going to KILL me" This goes on for 3 days. I tell Trav about it and he comes upstairs and pushes the button and it turns on normally. Baffled, I ask him what he did. "Uhhh I turned it on" I said, "Yeah thats what I have been doing too" He responds with "Was that piece of paper on it this whole time?" I dunno!

Apparently I set a piece of paper on the intake fan and the processor couldnt get air to cool itself off. So it just decided not to turn on.

Im a moron.

As soon as I have pictures I will post them and the professional pictures should be coming soon so I will post those as well. Be prepared to be bombarded by family fun!!