Disney Birthday

On December 14th we flew down to Anaheim to meet my family and Bob's parents at Disneyland. We spent Saturday and Sunday in the parks, exhausting ourselves. By 9:30pm Sunday night, after the fireworks, after many rides with a smile stretched across my face from g-forces, I said goodbye to my twenties and it was great.

Merry Christmas!!

Here are photos from the holiday with the family, the dogs and with Cascade girls. It was almost a white Christmas!

Trip up to Oregon

Bob and I (along with Lulu, Izzy and Mani - J & R's little dog)headed up to Oregon on the 20th and here are a couple of pictures. We drove west and then north and avoided the snowy mountain passes.

Goodnight Dogs!

Lulu and Weezy in their matching beds! Now if only i could get the cat to lay between them...

The 100th Post and Almost 30 weekend

Happy 100th post little Blog!

Next weekend I am turning 30. This last weekend Bob and Jeanne decided to surprise me, big time. They both showed up at my office on Friday morning! I had no idea she was coming to us. Then that evening he surprised me with a dinner and a HUGE group of friends. There were 24 of us for dinner. When they all sang Happy birthday I had tears in my eyes. 18 months ago, I only knew 4 of the people sitting around the table. We are truly blessed to have such wonderful friends here in Davis. Thank you all for coming and celebrating my almost 30th birthday!

Now here are a few pictures from the weekend!

8 out of 9 is not too shabby

That is the score ladies and gents. I have taken all nine of my exams and passed 8 of them the first time around. Let me tell you the story from Friday....

I left work early and as I drove home I had to pull over twice because of a clicking noise I could hear but not find. When I got home I found it, a nail in the passenger front tire. Bob of course pulls it out only to hear the whistling sound of the tire losing air. So he shoves the nail back in and prepares to put the spare tire on so we can drive to Vacaville to have it fixed. I go inside and my phone rings. It is Sheila telling me Caitlyn wanted to say 'hi'. I love my niece dearly, but this really wasn't the time to chat in the language of a four year old. She says 'hi' and then I hear Sheila in the background, along with my parents. 'You Passed!' My response was, 'which one?' because I have been waiting to hear about two exams - one all the way back from October 1st, and the answer was, 'Both!'. I was jumping up and down at this point. I smiled all night long. This has been a long 8 months, but thank you again for all of you who helped me through it. Now we just have to wait for March 6th when I can retake (hopefully) my last exam. (Side note: I still have to take the state exam, but for Oregon it is an open book test followed by an interview and it could happen in June or September.)