4 day weekend and $1000

The title might be deceiving...I do have a 4 day weekend, I do not have $1000. I am excited about my 4 day weekend, I am excited to daydream about the $1000 Mandy gave me to blog about spending :)
So for the weekend, not too much planned yet...which is amazing, every weekend this summer has been packed and it's funny that this weekend, one that most people have something planned, we do not. But that is actually very nice! We are going to go to a bbq and visit our friends Jenny and Joe, which will be fun because we get to meet their new baby girl, Madeline Paige- they call her Maddi, and her birthday is the day before our Addie's. We got her the cutest little boots for the winter as a welcome present!
I'm sure the rest of the weekend will fill up and we'll have fun things to blog about on Tuesday!
As for the $1000...it's actually a lot more fun to dream about the $300 million whatever mega millions, only because there are lots of things I want that cost more than $1000, but I'll follow Mandy's rules :) Oooh, really hard because the purses I dream of...Marc and Chanel and Prada...they are all over my limit here. I could take it and buy new stuff for my living room, decorations and what not, but that's too practical. I suppose I would also buy a new coffee pot for our new kitchen....but once again too practical for me to dream about.. So, I would take $400 and buy some new fall clothes, I would take $200 and get some spa pampering, I would take $100 and take C and I to a nice dinner out, I would take the next $300 and split it between shoes and accesories. Now...if I win the mega millions over the weekend, you will be reading the blog I write from a beach somewhere....with my chanel purse next to me.

It's been so long!

So I was having issues getting on here! So finally I'm back! Quick updates- AM's bday was fun, we met gma for lunch and went shopping :) Then her bday party was a blast! The decorations were wonderful, the food was great, lots of friends and family came, and the rain held out until later on! But thank goodness for the tent, it kept us diehards dry well after AM went to bed! (even if the tent did happen to have a big W....thank you Tanya's dad and doc for that contribution)
Then AM and I joined my parents, my brother Mike and his fam, and my uncle in Port Townsend for a family reunion...where I spent 90 percent of the time in bed sick. And I must apologize to my sis-in-law who now has it :( Stomach bugs are NOT fun.
Luckily I recovered and C and I left AM with gma and papa and headed off to Yakima for a wedding and fun times with friends. And a very early departure, which luckily Tanya stayed up to help me pack (by helping I mean I laid in bed and she threw all my stuff in the bag :) and usher me out to the car in my pjs....I don't even think I opened my eyes from the bed to the car. Mind you, it was 5am and my 2am bedtime was a bit later than my usual 10:00! However, our kitchen cabinets look beautiful, thanks to my wonderful husband, and the kitchen is really coming together! Can't wait for everyone to see it!
Last but not least, yesterday was special for 3 people, happy anniversary to tan and dan (haven't seen that one in awhile! haha) and happy birthday to jazz! We had fun seeing her yesterday, and I had a glass of yummy champagne, ok 2.

So much help

So many people are helping me with AM's 1st bday party! It has just been overwhelming, the amount of things people are helping me with! Food, decorations, bringing things for me to borrow, all friends and family. It just means the world to me! I don't know how to say thank you enough...I just think AM's 1st bday is going to be absolutley wonderful because of all these wonderful people in our lives!
Now, hopefully the weather cooperates....anybody know anyone who can help with that...?

Home Again Home Again...

So I'm back home from vacation, back to work. We all had a wonderful time in Penticton! AM had fun playing in the sand, after a day of hesitation and wiping it off her girlie little hands. It was a great week, it went way too fast of course. I was happy that I only ended up working a half day yesterday because the fam I work for got stuck in SLC at the airport on their way home. It was bad for them, but great for me...I don't think I could have handled a whole day back!
Tomorrow is going to be busy running around and getting things for AM's 1st bday party! I am so excited, but I also cannot believe my little baby girl is turning 1! C and I are planning on taking her out for her first bday dinner on Friday. (after vaca she just loves eating grown up food!) I just love this stage she's at though....she is acting more and more like a little girl, her personality is shining through and you can see glimpses of the person she will become. Such a joy....such a fun time. I'm so happy I can spend it with her. We'll have to do some special stuff on Fri, besides shopping for party food :)

I lost the cat...

Oops. I accidentally let both cats out. Only one came back. I called the mom because I even told the babies that this day was going great, except for the cat. The mom said it was no big deal, that he's probably in the backyard hiding. But that small chance that he gets lost, or gets eaten...I will feel terrible! I will feel guilty everyday at work! I will be the nanny who lost the cat! Oops.
I am super excited about our vacation! My days off have been (and will be) crazy as I try to prepare our family to leave, but I enjoy being busy and running errands...if only it's not as hot as yesterday and I sweat unloading the car. I do not enjoy that at all.
On another note, during afternoon naps, I find myself enjoying TLC :) haha, Ten Years Younger...great show, although I just like to see how old people think they are. And once again I am watching Baby Story and Bringing Home Baby. It's like a flahback to last year at this time! I was obsessed with BHB...not so much BS because I was horrified of the actual birth process and I needed no visions in my head of crazy ladies on tv. Well now that I've done it, I can watch :) I just cannot believe AM is almost 1 though....wow.