What a looooooong day !!

7:00 am Drag myself out of bed to get ready for champagne breakfast and meeting.

8:00 am Get Steven out of bed and dress for our busy day.

8:30 am Leave for Breakfast

9:30 am Go to appointment

1:34 pm Appointment over... sold a house :)

1:35 pm Take client (that just bought the house) out to lunch.

2:30 pm Send Client back to Los Angeles

2:35 pm Decide to buy a car, drive to Visalia Honda

3:00 pm Leave Visalia Honda with 4-letter words dancing in our heads for the sales agent in Visalia Honda.

3:05 pm Decided to drive to Selma (40 min away) to Scott's usual car spot.

7:45 pm Drive away from Selma Honda in our new car.

8:00 pm Ordered dinner as we were starving.

9:37 pm Arrived home, stuck Steven in the shower.

9:42 pm Stuffed tired little man in bed

9:56 pm Checked e-mail and responded accordingly. Started blog this message.

10:15 pm Will go give the car a hug good night, brush my teeth and go to bed.

6:30 am Will get up to get ready to cover the office on 12/31/07, and gain new clients to pay for the new car that I will be driving to work. :)


This was a looooong never ending day for a grown up to deal with and I must brag about our little man. At 8 years old he handled himself better then I have ever seen him handle himself. So he really does listen when I nag about good manners and being respectful of others and picking up after himself etc etc. He earned 4 hours of Wii time tomorrow and my undivided attention with the little plastic army men for 1 hour when I get home from work tomorrow.

Time to shut down and hug the car.

Goodnight

Ahhh the Wii

I am so greatful that the Wii was given to us by Santa. We have had so much fun playing golf, tennis, baseball, bowling, Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong Blasters, and boxing. I can't wait until we get Dance Dance Revolution. This game has really helped us get our energy out and exhaust ourselves. I will include some video of some of our energetic play.

Today we also went to Walmart with a $300.00 gift card in hand ready to stock up all of our cupboards again. It took 2 hours but we did it, we spent $300.00 and .19. We have very loaded cupboards for months and months of healthy tasty home cooked meals. Putting it away wasn't to bad either cause Blaine and his girlfriend came over and I put them to work. Blaine got a PS3 from Santa and I am excited to see what a Blue Ray disc 1080p on our HDMI tv looks like. (what ever the heck that means.)

We actually had cold weather here the last two days as it has been in the 40's. I got to wear a sweater today, not just any sweater but a sweater I got for Christmas.

Very busy day

Well we made it home yesterday with just enough time to finish up a few last minute things to prepare for the events of today. Our day started early with all of Scott's family coming over to open their gifts. (Scott Steven and I open our gifts on Christmas morning after we check out what Santa brought us.) Since I decided not to cook for everyone this year due to our vacation and the timing of it, I recommended that we go to Big Bubba's Bad BBQ for lunch. The food was beyond excellent and all the kids took turns riding the machanical bull....yes even Steven got to go on it. We are friends with the General Manager and Assistant Manager and they agreed to let Steven go on it and they manually controlled the bull so he couldn't get bucked off. About an hour after they left our close friends Chad, Kathy, Kevin, and Kayla came over to open gifts and Kathy brought lots of appetizer type foods with her so I wouldn't have to cook dinner. Wooohooo. They were awesome. After our friends left at 8:00, Steven and I put out Almonds for the reindeer, peeled an orange for Santa and cleaned up his room in case Santa wanted to come in and give him a kiss and leave him a present.

Here are a few pictures from our day. Unfortunatley I forgot the camera for Big Bubba's so you'll just have to use your imagination.

Gifts brought buy Scott's Family for all of them and us as well. Talk about a lot of gifts, holy cow.

Kevin and Kayla openening the gifts we got for them and us opening the gifts we got from them.

Steven's Christmas Presentation

We had a great time listening to the kids sing and watching Steven introduce himself his friend Aleya and how christmas is celebrated in Sweden. It was a tissue moment..sniff sniff....

tThe 4 2nd grade classes sang a few songs together and then educated us on how different countries celebrate Christmas. It was so well done. Normally the school rents the convention center and all grades perform but they figured this year it would be easier and cheaper to have each class perform seperatly in the school cafeteria, that way the families could enjoy their kids performance for 20 min unstead of 10 min and not have to sit through a 2 hour program that includes all of the classes.

Finally

I just love these plates that Eric gave me for Christmas 15 years ago. They have held up so very well over the years and many moves.

I have finally made the time to post the picture of our special fake tree. I must say in real life it does look good.

It looks like we are on track to sell two more houses this week. (At work the funny is: plan a vacation and you will get real busy all of the sudden.) Soooo true. I see alot more vacations in my future. :)

We leave on Wednesday for our Cancun Vacation....yahoooo. Mom and dad arrived in Cancun today and I am sure it took them all of 20 min to unpack and hit the pool. I plan to take a lot of pictures (not of myself) and I hope that some of them will be blog worthy. I told my boys that I am not wearing make-up,my hair will be in a ponytail the whole time, and I am dressing for comfort rather then style. Scott is very happy about that as long as I shave my legs. hee hee. What a guy. Scott and I have planned out our tours and it appears as though we are going to get a lot of exercise over the next 10 days. eeewwwww.

Anyway I need to get to bed as we have a full day of house tours tomorrow.

Busy week

We had some fun using these nifty holiday plates I got from mom and dad while we put the decorations on the tree. :) Good stuff. This is a most delicious crab cheese ball from Save-Mart. mmm mmmm mmmm.


This has been a great weekend. Steven and I had a good time shopping for toys for tots and our homeless bags.

Steven donated $20.00 of his own money toward the homeless bags, so off Target we went to shop for all sorts of great stuff for the two duffle bags we decided to do this year.

Tonight we will begin our search for a true homeless person to give each bag to. We want to hand them both out before we leave for Cancun.

We told Steven that this year he was to buy a toy for toys for tots with his own money. He chose to buy 4 toys for toys for tots. He bought 4 boy toys so I decided I would by 4 girl toys. We went right to the drop off point and turned in our gifts. Steven felt so good for giving, he decided that he wanted to buy us dinner. So we went to Red Robin at his request. We had a very nice time.

Why does this happen

So yesterday afternoon I was outside stretching out the Christmas lights and creating a scene in my mind. I plugged all of the various outdoor stuff together and I was excited that all lights were lit and accounted for.

Next I unplugged everything and started decorating. I was very excited with how things were just falling into place.As I finished up I started to plan my plug-in stratagy and low and behold, some of the lights had an extra wide side of the plug and they didn't fit into anything else. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. So I had the opportunity to re-arrange things a bit and most of it was able to plug-in. The rest will need to sit in darkness until I can find extension cords that fit the silly ends. Also to my dismay, last night as darkness is creeping up on me, I like Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation, call the family out to witness my masterpiece and only a portion of the lights light up. As I grumbled and started shaking the light strands some came back on. Today when I leave the office it looks like I will get to inspect all of the lights again to ensure they light up properly, oh and I get to check each light in the light up snowman to figure out which one is burnt out so the snowman can have his body back. Thank heavens our daytime temps are in the high 60's. Good times I tell ya.

Tonight we are going to Fresno to pick up a sister of a friend at the airport, followed by a quick stop at Maggie Moos, then we will pick up Poker (the chihuahua for those of you that don't know him) and we will take him for a drive around Lemoore to look at the pretty Christmas lights. (spoiled dog).

I am almost done with our Christmas Tree and I will soon post this adventure along with pictures for your reading/viewing pleasure.