One Word

I saw this on another blog.
Now, the way this works, is I answer the following questions with single word responses, and pass it to 7 other bloggers who then do the same.....but I couldnt figure out how to notify these bloggers that they need to do it...so if you read this and you have a blog: TAG you have to do it now on your blog :-)

1. Where is your cell phone? Desk
2. Where is your significant other? Home
3. Your hair color? Bleached
4. Your mother? Fabulous
5. Your father? Passed
6. Your favorite thing? Life
7. Your dream last night? Work
8. Your dream/goal? Peace
9. The room you're in? School
10. Your hobby? Tons
11. Your fear? Jobless
12. Where do you want to be in six years? Country
13. Where were you last night? Bed
14. What you're not? Calm
15. One of your wish list items? Camera
16. Where you grew up? Creek
17. The last thing you did? Walk
18. What are you wearing? WorkWear
19. Your T.V.? Nogin
20. Your pet? Janet's
21. Your computer? ON
22. Your mood? Anxious
23. Missing someone? Boys (my 2, not others!)
24. Your car? Musty
25. Something you're not wearing? Hairband
26. Favorite store? Nordy's
27. Your Summer? Short
28. Love someone? Many
29. Your favorite color? Blue
30. When is the last time you laughed? Today
31. Last time you cried? Week

Waiting, waiting...

So, the news is out that my school district is cutting teachers. Now we're just waiting, waiting, to see if I'm one of the ones who're cut or not. Fingers crossed I'm not!

But, life at home is good. Jackson is just happy as can be (most of the time!) He's grown to love stuffing things in his mouth and unfortunately has found his thumb. Yesterday the rain stopped long enough to go for a little walk. Hopefully the rain will be gone by this weekend. But, if not then we've set up his exersaucer and he loves it!

And here's a funny one. Jackson now easily can scoot out of his bouncer. Such a boy, he fell out and kept on watching TV...

"Whoa! Donnie blow-dried my hair and I slept in until 8!"

Rainy Day

Ugh, rainy day. Which means I'm stuck inside all day with 20 kids. Next year it may be 28 kids! If they take away Class Size Reduction, we'll have up to 28 kids in Kindergarten through Third Grade classrooms. And of course, that is if I still have a job. They'll be cutting anywhere from 45 to 63 teachers next year if the budget goes through. So, we're hoping for the best, but preparing if the worst happens. Trying to think of the positive, I'll be home with Jackson, and actually have time to cut coupons or vegetable garden! I keep thinking that there's good that comes from every situation. So, if I were to lose my job, maybe I'll find something that I'm really good at.....besides my current job.

Jackson's 3 Months!

Yup, Jackson's 3 months, and now probably the biggest baby you've ever seen! But, he's such a happy little guy now.

Superbowl went well. Except for the Cardinals losing. I guess since I don't really care too much about either of the teams, it was a pretty good game. Actually exciting and not a blow-out for once. Unfortunately, I think Jackson was more excited about the ice skating that Janet, Susan, and I watched before the game. Uh oh! Donnie's not going to be too excited about that!

Video

I think I've figured out how to add videos. Sorry if this first one is boring, of course I think it's adorable!

Wine Tasting Birthday Weekend!

This past weekend we finally celebrated my 30th birthday! Since my birthday's in December with the busy holidays, we decided to wait until January to celebrate, and we sure are glad we did! It was a wonderfully sunny, beautiful day.


All I wanted for my birthday is for my friends to come up wine tasting, so Donnie and I sprang for a limo and we got to do it the real way! Also, it's the way Donnie and I met. 4 years ago, for Heather's bachelorette we came up wine tasting in a limo/bus. After our first winery, for some reason we told the bus driver we wanted beer! So he drove way down-valley out of the way to Safeway, where the fire truck was waiting in the parking lot. The rest is history!

We started our tasting at Madonna Estate, personal friends of Donnie and I and one of our favorites. We had a wonderful tour and private tasting!


Next, we went to Ceja Vineyards. Donnie and I will definitely be back there again, what a wonderful small vineyard, with Bocce Ball! We even found out the winery has weekly Saturday Salsa lessons downtown, we'll have to try that sometime.

The Bell at Ceja,





After spending time there we stopped for lunch at Oakville Grocery. The adorable grocery store on 29 that I always look at, but have never been in. We got sandwiches and chips and headed to our last winery, Fluery. Fluery was picturesque, with Adirondack chairs and vineyards all around. A beautiful end to the day! When we got home, Janet had made us a fabulous homey dinner, raviolis, casserole, and salad. I need to turn 30 again!

HGTV Dream Home 2009!

Wouldn't it be amazing to win the HGTV Dream House! I can already picture gardening, cooking what we grow in the beautiful kitchen, and reading to Jackson in the adorable kids room. Ah well, a girl can dream....

The Duck Pond

Yesterday we decided to get rid of Jazmin's dog food. :( (Very sad, but we will get a puppy someday soon) We'd had it in the garage and hadn't gotten rid of it yet. So since there were 2 bags of it, Donnie decided we should go down to the river where there is a huge duck pond. Aparently it has been taken over by seaguls, there were thousands of them! It was hilarious, other families were there feeding them. They fly right in front of you and you can throw the food into their mouths while they are flying! Jackson woke up and was fascinated by it.

Here's Donnie swarmed by them when he walked over to the other side of the pond to try to feed the actual ducks,

The Best of 2008!

Well, I will totally admit that Donnie and I were old folk this New Years and didn't even make it 'til 11pm. Maybe next year we'll be caught up on sleep and whoop it up!

28 greats of the year 2008 (not really in any particular order)

28. Chocolate cake for my 30th birthday lasting a week(and waiting to celebrate my birthday in 2009)
27. Family around for the holidays.
26. Getting back into regular clothes.
25. Donnie having a safe fire season.
24. Celebrating our first aniversary!
23. Kristen getting 2 months off with Jackson.
22. Making it through the worst of the sleepless nights.
21. Donnie getting to go crabbing with friends.
20. Not working during summer vacation.
19. Donnie getting to chaperone high schoolers in Palm Springs at the Fire Academy.
18. Telling family we're expecting.
17. Janet moving to Napa.
16. Jackson beginning to "talk."
15. Heather & Stacey throwing me an amazing baby shower.
14. Zinsvalley for Valentine's Day.
13. Celebrating our Baby's welcome dinner at Walnut Creek Kaiser & family coming to see us.
12. Having several visitors to the house to entertain throughout the year!
11. Many fabulous wine tastings with friends and family.
10. Sea World and petting sting rays.
9. Another year at Tahoe with the family.
8. Showing Donnie around Santa Monica & going to Jinkys.
7. Visiting the Privetts in San Diego.
6. Hosting our first Christmas.
5. Disneyland even when pregnant still being the happiest place on earth.
4. Donnie getting to go to Argentina.
3. Donnie passing the Fire Academy and becoming a permanent Engineer.
2. Our little blessing, Jackson Thomas.
1. All of us being alive, healthy, and blessed to be born into this world!