Music to my ears and a fabulous haircut

My kids walk around the house singing all the time. It really doesn't matter what the song, to me its the sweetest sound in the world. It makes me happy and I'm so grateful to them for that. When I first started dating Wayne he would "woo" me by playing the guitar and occasionally still does :)
Oh, and the fabulous haircut part! It's true.

Unbelievable

Sometimes I just can't believe what I'm hearing. Things like AGI not taking responsibility for its failure, taking tax payers money and than giving out bonus and the unthinkable Bernie Madoff, I mean really! How could anyone be so greedy and evil? But the news today from Pope (what ever his name is now) on a visit to Africa proclaiming that the Roman Catholic church stands behind its decision to discourage the use of condoms as a way to prevent the spread of AIDS and HIV is unconscionable, unscientific and will ultimately lead to an increase spread of HIV. It's just not fair to expect people to live by the word of a outdated religion.

What have you been up to lately?

Do you ever feel like your so busy you haven't taken a breath, then someone you haven't seen for a while will ask you "what new"," what have you been up to lately"? I swear, every time that happens to me I go blank. It's all the mundane things that no one really wants to hear about thats been keeping you so busy. Do they really want to know about your tax preparations or the cleaning and running around you've been doing? Honsestly, I think for us mom's we're hoping our friends they might have a story or two to brighten our days. So we ask," What have you been up to lately"?

1 to 10 and back again

1.) Evan turned 11!
2.) David (my brother)came for the weekend
3.) Saw Slumdog Millionaire
4.) Went to Sacramento on an overnight field trip
w/ Evan's class
5.) The passing of a good friend Travis
6.) The passing of my mom's brother Rosco
7.) The rain finally came
8.) Taxes
9.) Snowboarding this weekend, again
10.) 4-H meetings
10.) Can't upload pictures on to the computer....Again
9.) Suddenly can right click again. yeah
8.) Tour De Calif. barreled past my front door.
Exciting at the time, don't know who won.
7.) Ian has a girlfriend
6.) Evan passed his test for this first black stripe, on his way to black belt
5.) Started knitting again, a sweater.
4.) Celebrated Mike's b-day
3.) Mike got his braces off!
2.) Wayne's working! Yeah
1.) I promise never to do this again. Cross my heart.

Get yours now

We were lucky to have some pictures taken by my good friend Lisa Damrosch. I love these pictures so much, they really capture a moment in time which is exactly what you want from a photographer . Ian is into riding and Skating and Evan in his Kuk Sool Won. I'm so excited to show everyone and to let you know where you can get yours! http://lisadamrosch.typepad.com/photography/

Bad Cat

And they thought I ate the whole bag!

ChinaTown

Wayne and Ian planned a trip to Hollister Hills about a hour or so south of here to ride dirt bikes on Sunday. Originally Evan said he wanted to go and to make a long story short I talked him out of it. Numerous reasons like: He doesn't have a bike anymore, he'd have to get up at 5:00am, I'd have to go too. You get the point, so as part of my bargaining I suggested a few places he and I could go instead. So out of a fairly long list he choose Chinatown, One of my personal favorites too. We took BART into the city, walked a few blocks to "City View " our favorite Dim Sum restaurant, than started up the hill to the heart of china town, that's when we heard the firecrackers and drumming. What a treat! There was a dragon going from shop to shop stopping in the doorway to do a dance than the firecrackers would go off. Bang, Bang, Bang! You and imagine how excited we were to stumble upon this Chinese New Year tradition of blessing each business. We finished up with some shopping for "only in Chinatown" stuff and of course brought home some steamed pork buns! Yum!!