I miss you

Today is my grandmother's birthday and was the due date for my second pregnancy. Thinking about both of them leaves me feeling a little broken today.

I miss you grandma and baby. I hope you are together somewhere.

1000 awesome things

I am never really on the cutting edge of anything, so my guess would be that most of you have already seen this, but one of the blogs that I look forward to reading everyday is 1000 awesome things. It is simply a countdown of 1,000 awesome things. This blog just makes me happy.

Here are a few of my favorites:

http://1000awesomethings.com/2009/06/16/743-taking-your-high-heels-off-at-the-end-of-the-night-and-walking-home-in-bare-feet/

http://1000awesomethings.com/2009/06/30/733-laughing-so-hard-you-make-no-sound-at-all/

http://1000awesomethings.com/2009/06/01/754-getting-gas-just-before-the-price-goes-up/

http://1000awesomethings.com/2009/05/25/759-dropping-a-glass-and-then-sticking-your-foot-out-so-it-hits-your-foot-and-doesnt-break-on-the-ground/ Chris loves this one! "Kick save"

http://1000awesomethings.com/2009/05/07/771-waking-up-before-your-alarm-clock-and-realizing-youve-got-lots-of-sleep-time-left/

There are so many good ones! Which are your favorites?

5 days...suck it up

Tonight is night three without the hubby. He went on a fishing trip with my dad and cousins. While I love that Chris and my dad are two peas in a pod, and Chris is truley the son my dad never had, I miss my love! It is only five days but I miss dinners together, hearing all of his work stories that I don't really understand because of his technical jargon, and snuggles before bed. Two more days to go. I'm such a wimp :)

A little piece of Greece in Cali

Two summers ago Chris and I went to Greece and we fell in love with it. The beaches, weather, food, music, dancing, and people were all just amazing, and we could see ourselves staying there forever. One night we were in a restaraunt surrounded by local greek people, eating wonderful food and listening to live music. All of the sudden the band began to play a traditional greek song and the diners just threw down their forks and got up to dance. They just stopped eating their lamb and baklava and began to dance with one another. It was right there that i decided this place was amazing. Any place where you can stop what you are doing and start dancing and celebrating with strangers in public, was a place that I liked to be. It was so festive, and fun. No dance floor, just good people and tradition. A wonderful place to be.

Feeling a little nostalgic, I decided to bring a little piece of greece to us. So on Friday night I packed us a picnic dinner and we went out to the beach and transported ourselves back to that wonderful summer. I made some Chicken Gyros with tatziki. yum! It was such a wonderful evening with hubby and puppies and I just love doing things like this during the summertime. A picnic on the beach transported me and made me feel like I was on vacation only 5 minutes from home.
Our Dinner

Dodger and Charlie watching the waves

:)

Us with baby Zach. *sigh*

Tuesday Blues

I had such a great long weekend this week which made today so hard. Friday, Chris and I had a nice long dinner with friends and margaritas! Saturday we went to two birthday parties and they were so much fun. The first one was at the beach so we got some awesome sun time, and both were filled with wonderful people. On sunday we spent a great day with Kate, Tim and Baby Zach. It was such a nice visit, and it is amazing to see the changes in Zach. Kate also gave us their extra bed so now I get to start putting out guest bedroom together. And if that wasn;t enough excitment, we got to go to the dodger game with Whit and Joe yesterday. I am so thankful that I have such wonderful people in my life to spend time with. It was a great weekend.

Sorry, my camera was missing in action this weekend. oops

Summer School: What was I thinking?

Right now I am sitting in my summer school classroom while a male student is glaring at me. I think he is contemplating ways to kill me because I took his phone away from him. He is challenging me in some way. He will not look away and although it is slightly intimidating I choose to not engage in this staring contest. Money is evil. It is the only reason that I have chosen to subject myself to this for three weeks. The hours are good, the money is nice, and it is only three weeks, but summer school is a different crowd, and I am beginng to wonder what I was thinking.

you made my night

On Saturday I spent most of my day and night doing something I did not want to do. I was one of the judges at the Mr. Moorpark pageant. I have this little problem; when people ask me to do something I can rarely say know. A lady that I work with puts on the Miss Moorpark Pageant and needed me to help with the Mr portion. So I spent a few hours evaluating male students on their speaking skills and the way they worked the stage in a tuxs. It was pretty wierd. On the way home I had to stop by the store to pick up some things for a bbq the next day. As I was walking down an aisle in my dress and hees ( not normal grocery store attire but I had to look nice at the pageant) a lady came down my aisle, tapped me on the shoulder and said, "I just wanted to tell you that you look really sexy." She said it in the sweetest, most non sexual way ever. It is not very often that a stranger tells you that you look sexy, and it is really not often that they can say it with out being creepy or offensive, but it wasn't. It was so sweet. There are times that I see people and think, "wow, what a cute dress" or "She/He looks so nice." I don't know the person, and I think that they will think I am weird. Well forget that. I am going to pay it forward, because that ladies comment in the grocery store made my night!

Projects, projects, projects

I have been on vacation but feel busier than ever. I really don't know how anything gets done during the school year. We have been working on a few projects around the house. The big thing that we tackled last week was building the patio cover. Okay, so I more supervised than built, but I did paint all of the wood. Chris and my dad did the building after work on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Doesn't it look great! While they were building that I spent the week painting the wood, finishing up on painting our master bedroom, looking for a couple more pieces of furniture for upstairs and adding some touches to our bedroom. It is still far from done, but I am working on it.

I made some silhouettes. I look like a 10 year old in mine :)

I found this piece at an antique store in Ventura and fell in love with it! That is all for now.

I never stop teaching

Yesterday my sister called me in a panic. She is taking a college algebra course, and it is kicking her but. Some people get math and others don't. I have always been someone that kind of gets it. I know, so weird. An English teacher that actually likes math. But it is true. I think I like and respect it for how different it is from literature. It is exciting and kind of refreshing to be looking for one right answer. Her course is online and as we did her homework (she did it, with some tutoring and coaching from me) we would cheer and give each other high fives when the screen displayed the word "Fantastic!" to let us know we achieved the correct answer. I know this sounds so dorky but four hours of Algebra homework on a Monday night was kind of fun. I know, sick! I think more than anything I was proud that she was understanding the material because of me. Every time she said. "Ok, now let me do it on my own", and she did it and came to the correct answer, I felt such a sense of pride. Teaching really is so rewarding. I may be on vacation but the teacher never dies :)