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Morning and happy Saturday!

Well I am up early cuz dh's alarm went off at 4:30 ugh!! They got up but I actually slept in till 5:30. I prob could have slept in longer but I couldn't sleep so I went ahead and got up. They are gone off to the meet and I am here checking in with you all. The service is not till 11 so I will be home fiddling around here till then.

Yesterday turned out so so. It never did rain but was overcast and muggy for most of the morning and I wore long pants and a long sleeve shirt because it looked cold but then when I got to the school it warmed up and between that and the fact that the girls ASSURED me that they would feed us which they didn't I came home with a massive headache. I should have known better and actually intended to eat a little something just in case but got busy and never did. We got there and they assigned us to stations and mine was the snow cone machine! :) Had a nice visit with one of the other mom friends I have known since Shelby was in kindergarten so had a nice visit with her and when Katy came through the line I snagged some of her popcorn ;) The kids got hot dogs and chips and then after their lunch they got to play a bunch of games. I felt bad for the kids who didn't make their goal as they had to stay in their class and do homework :(. BUT I guarantee next year they will work harder!! :)

Anyway then I came home and hung out a bit and had to turn right round and get them a few hours later and then we went to the extra swim practice. Normally we don't have practice on Fridays till after school gets out but since we have missed so many because of the rain they added one so we went to that and then I just ran and grabbed a rice bowl from Jack in the box for dinner. We were orig supposed to go out with my parents but I was not in the mood between the way they were acting and then with my headache. The team never DID post the meet program which I am bummed about cuz we like to get an idea of what the girls are swimming. I am pretty sure Katy will be in both the medley relay and free relay again and I am almost positive she will be swimming the fly again just not sure about the other two indiv events. They have to swim every event at least once during the season and she did the free and 50 free last time so she still has to swim the IM and breast eventually. So not sure if they will have her swim one of the strokes she hasn't done yet or what she did last time. Oh and she has to swim back stroke too. But anyway on our old team they would always post it on the wall at practice by thur or Fri at the latest the day before the meets but this team is really bad about that and it is SO frustrating. Last time we got it at 10 o'clock the night before and this time NOTHING. I am really going to miss not getting to see the girls swim too because Katy is doing SO well this year and it is so exciting! But I must go to the memorial. This is going to be a very emotional day to I am afraid. Last week at this time it was quite emotional as well as he was dying and now this week we need to say goodbye. Of course they say it is going to be a "celebration" of his life so perhaps it will be more of a positive thing and not too depressing but alas I still feel that upon recollection when realizing that he is no longer with us it will still be sad. I know when trying to go through the pictures for the service I was saddened to think that his life was cut short. He was still VERY young and lively and had a lot of life left in him. I also can't help but think about my dad and it is scary to say the least! I have had a lot of dreams the last week about the what if's.

Anyway enough of that.

Sara I am glad that things went fairly well in court and I hope they continue to go in your cousin's favor!

Everyone else I hope you all have a good weekend!!

Oh and Sara I am sorry you had a stressful few days but I know you will have fun at DL to make up for it!! ;)

Take care everyone and I will most likely be gone all day so see you all tomorrow! :)
 
. I also can't help but think about my dad and it is scary to say the least! I have had a lot of dreams the last week about the what if's.

:hug: I know it's hard but try to box away the "what ifs" because all it does is make you anxious and sad. I know the reality, I know chances are that things will get rough and be very sad "some day". Live in the moment, embrace what is now and savor every morsel of it. And laugh, smile and enjoy the craziness of your life. :sunny:
 
ok just so we dont have any mistakes..

there is two sara's me and the other one.. ok the other sara i saw we start reffering to her as "sara1" and the me, we can reffer to me at "sara2"..that way when kelly or anyone else replies back i will know who she is talking too!! and of course the other sara also!! just a thought..

oh and it's saturday!!!! BLAHHHHHHH had to redo my budget today, but i do it online that this this called.. www.budgettracker.com, anyhow it's super great.. and then i balanced my check book with my mom, came right to the penny!! yay!!:yay:. and now i am trying to decide if i want to go to disneyland or not!:confused: last night was awesome! saw the 80's allstarz. they were fun to watch the guitarist that wears the DEVO hat Is super H O T!!!!!:upsidedow, and well the band is good at what they do witch is play 80's music. and of course a crowd favorite they played footloose!! and of course the line dancers got there line dance on( i don't know the dance yet).it was fun though. rode on snow white--love that ride. did california screamin love that also. rode on matterhorn, yep love it! and oh tea cups--well don't love that one soo much anymore, to much of the spinny for me! :):rotfl2:

anyhow so that was my night in anutthsell oh adn i found video on youtube from people that had recorded WOC test runs at night.. yep i found 4 that were in well 4 parts. it was AWESOME!!!! i sat this morning and watch all 4! SOO exciting i can't wait to see it:banana:

anyhow i hope all is well with everyone else!:flower3:
 
Just a quick hello, I'm right in the middle of moving so I haven't had a chance to catch up yet but wanted to pop in before I'm completely unavailable for a couple of weeks.
Sounds like drama has not subsided while I was away. I'm sorry to hear about your uncle passing.:hug:
And Alison, that sounds very painful I hope it doesn't come back.
I will catch up with everyone as soon as I can. Take care of yourselves ladies!!
I can't believe my time in scotland is over. :sad1:
 

Morning gals and happy Sunday!

Well I must admit I am glad the last week is over. Wow was that emotionally draining BUT I have to say being able to get together with the families was nice. It is sad that it takes something like this to get everyone together but we hadn't done it in awhile and it was so nice to see everyone!!

The girls did AMAZING at their meet and I hated to miss it but I am glad I went to the service obviously! Katy swam the Medley relay and their team took first!! Then she swam the 25 free and got first, she swam backstroke and got third but dropped her time which was good and she is still in the top 5 overall so that is really good, then she swam butterfly and took first again and then last they did the free relay and their team took first as well. So she did AMAZING!! Shelby swam the 50 free and took 4th, the breast stroke and took 5th and the butterfly and took 3rd. So she did well in her categories as well. On my end we arrived at the golf club and it was BEAUTIFUL. It was up in Cameron Park and it was a PERFECT beautiful sunny day and the club overlooked the golf course and they had it set up lovely. My cousins had poster boards with tons of photos and then a power point slide show through the years which was also very nice. They invited people to come up and speak about my uncle and then we had a nice lunch. They had also made copies of some lovely photos of him and his granddaughter made these lovely frames and put them on the tables and we were able to take one home. I have pics of my uncle but it was nice to have one of these of JUST him.

Then we all caravanned over to my other aunt and uncle's house and had more food and visited. All in all it was a good day with lots of laughs and only a few tears. It was a very nice remembrance!

Today I am taking all my photos in to get developed and otherwise I don't think much else going on. Then tomorrow starts the last week of school!! Have work tomorrow and then Wed is my post op and Friday I am not sure yet if I will be volunteering on the last day but then Shane is going to a golf tournament through his work on Thur and Fri through the weekend and I will be taking the girls to our first away meet by myself this Saturday and Sunday is the Girl Scout end of the year party and Shelby is bridging to Juniors. So it will be an exciting week for sure.

NOTHING going on the following week except we are going to hopefully go see Toy story but then on the 21st we leave for DL!!!!

So that is my next few weeks in a nutshell!

Sara (funball) glad you had fun at DL!!

Tina good luck with the moving!

B thanks for the thoughts and you are right I am not dwelling it is just something I think about once in awhile. My dad has had a LOT of health problems in with this sudden passing of his brother it makes you think but honestly the irony in all this is my mom is very overweight, eats bad and has a VERY stressful job and I always think the irony would be that she is going to die first and THAT actually scares me more than anything because she is the one that works and takes care of everything! I am always on her about taking better care of herself but she doesn't listen. :( Hopefully that doesn't happen but it is def something in the back of my mind!

Anyway have a good rest of your weekend everyone and talk soon!
 
Just a quick hello, I'm right in the middle of moving so I haven't had a chance to catch up yet but wanted to pop in before I'm completely unavailable for a couple of weeks.
Sounds like drama has not subsided while I was away. I'm sorry to hear about your uncle passing.:hug:
And Alison, that sounds very painful I hope it doesn't come back.
I will catch up with everyone as soon as I can. Take care of yourselves ladies!!
I can't believe my time in scotland is over. :sad1:

Aww....I hope your moving process goes smoothly and that you have a safe trip back to Canada. It feels like the time has really flown by huh? I hope that we will be able to talk to you more once you are on a closer time zone to us :)
 
Morning and happy Monday gals!

2 weeks from today I will be leaving for DL!!! I can't wait!

I am SOOOO ready for this trip I can't tell you. I got through my surgery and now my uncle's funeral so now it is just a waiting game before we can go. The girls last week of school is this week and they have field day today. Not sure about Tues-Thurs but they always do fun stuff on the last day and as I said I usually volunteer but not sure yet if they need help or not. When they were younger they actually did stuff like in kindergarten they had a scavenger hunt for dinosaur bones and all the parents were asked to help make the "bones" out of dough and then we hid them and the kids dug them up. Then in 1st grade they always do a big huge luau type party and I helped both during Katy and Shelby's years. But they didn't do quite as much in 2nd and 3rd grade so not too sure. I know Shelby's class is having a pizza party but haven't heard ANYTHING from Katy's. Although I am sure they will do SOMETHING.

Next week is going to be the MOST boring. School will be out but we have to drag through the week till our trip and since we are so excited and nothing is going on I am sure it will DEF drag LOL.

I will have to take the girls to work with me and I have our CPA coming in next Monday but otherwise Tues-Thur the girls and I will be home hanging out so that should be fun at least.

We have a swim meet this Sat and it is our first away meet and Shane and my parents both will be out of town so I will be winging it alone. I wouldn't mind if it was a home meet but I am not thrilled about going to an away meet by myself cuz I have never even BEEN to this pool before and am not familiar with it but I am sure we will make due. I am excited to watch the girls swim again!! And I am looking forward to Sunday as well and the girl's girl scout party!

The following weekend we have a river cat's game (our local minor league baseball team) that saturday after swim so HOPEFULLY I will feel up to going. I am usually pretty trashed after a meet so we shall see. But anyway then of course that Sunday is father's day so I am thinking we may take Shane out to lunch and a movie or something.

Anyway that's pretty much it for me. I hope you all had a good weekend and have a good day today!
 
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Good Morning! Happy Monday!

My co-workers decorated my desk and got me flowers for my birthday and my boss's wife made me brownies. On the front of my desk and behind me on the fileing cabinets there are streamers and a Happy birthday sign. :)

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I stopped by my mom's house on the way in to work because she had gone to Disneyland on Saturday and had gotten me the June Tinkerbell pin.

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She also got me a Cheshire Tail which is like a Tigger Tail but strawberry flavored insted of orange.

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Well guess what else she got me...

The Disney Dooney and Burke purse!!! I was so excited. I would never spent that much on a purse myself so I was so shocked.

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We didn't end up going to DL on Sunday. We are going to wait until next Saturday because that's when the Summer Pass comes out which is like 3 days for the price of one since DBF doesn't have an annual pass. Plus we will get to see World of Color.:thumbsup2

DBF took me out to lunch at Famous Dave's and them we went to the movies. We saw Killers. It was ok. After that we had Blizzards at Dairy Queen. Then we came home and I watched New Moon for the first time. I can't wait for Eclipse to come out.
 
Happy Happy Birthday Sara!! I am glad you had a good day and WOW lucky girl! So jealous about the bag!! It is so cute!! Have fun next weekend!!
 
ohh man what would give to have a bag like THAT!!!

YES another twilight fan! *high five* and oh happy brithday sara!!!

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anyhow, it seems like everyone had a fab. weekend! i know i did! hurry for your trip kelly!!!! :cheer2: WOC is right around the corner, still havn't decided if i want to battle it out on saturday the 12th with the crowds or not! or wait till i can do my own "opening" night myself the right way, complete with a dinner at Naples and maybe a prosecco to celebrate :littleangel:..hmm havn't decided!! i was playing around on youtbe this weekend and found many videos of them testing late at night WOC. it was pretty awesome! and that is all i am going to tell you so i don't spoil it! :littleangel:

anyhow have a GREAT monday everyone!!!!

ohh oops i almost forgot, for the last 2 months i have been working soo freakin hard at loosing wieght, i started at 155, and now i am down to 133!!!!!! and i feel great, i feel like a jenny craig sucess story-excpet i didn't use jenny craig! my tip--drink things like smoothies that have acai berry or pomegranite in it!!
 
ohh man what would give to have a bag like THAT!!!

YES another twilight fan! *high five* and oh happy brithday sara!!!

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anyhow, it seems like everyone had a fab. weekend! i know i did! hurry for your trip kelly!!!! :cheer2: WOC is right around the corner, still havn't decided if i want to battle it out on saturday the 12th with the crowds or not! or wait till i can do my own "opening" night myself the right way, complete with a dinner at Naples and maybe a prosecco to celebrate :littleangel:..hmm havn't decided!! i was playing around on youtbe this weekend and found many videos of them testing late at night WOC. it was pretty awesome! and that is all i am going to tell you so i don't spoil it! :littleangel:

anyhow have a GREAT monday everyone!!!!

ohh oops i almost forgot, for the last 2 months i have been working soo freakin hard at loosing wieght, i started at 155, and now i am down to 133!!!!!! and i feel great, i feel like a jenny craig sucess story-excpet i didn't use jenny craig! my tip--drink things like smoothies that have acai berry or pomegranite in it!!

I'll be there on the 12th. Since all but the Premium passs are blocked out I'm hoping that Saturday won't be as bad as Friday or Sunday but we will see. Maybe all the crowds will be at DCA so DL won't be as crowded...I'm hoping.
 
I'll be there on the 12th. Since all but the Premium passs are blocked out I'm hoping that Saturday won't be as bad as Friday or Sunday but we will see. Maybe all the crowds will be at DCA so DL won't be as crowded...I'm hoping.

ohh i know i am hoping too. i still havn't decided yet though. i'm sure the smart ones will purchase a block out ticket! lol lol :lmao: but i wanted to pay what i have put on my credit card before i go see WOC, becuase i wanted to take my self out on a "date" ..(lol lol) and have a great dinner etc then see it!

well you will have to let us know how it was! ;) AND that is the other thing..like how early on saturday would i have to get to the park to get a fastpass for the show???
 
here is some photos i took with my phone this weekend!

i think everyone will like these!! ;)


this is the Allstar mickey mouse!! :)

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Silly Symphony Strings in action (action shot!) :) this is soo much fun!!:)

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..and last but not least. sunday's view of Paradise Pier! It was hot(88 or so), but so nice--:)
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Thanks for looking!!!!! :tinker:
 
Good morning and happy Tuesday!

Fun pics Sara (2) ;) Glad you had a good time this past weekend. You guys are so lucky that you can go as often as you want! I SO wish I could do that. Esp every time things get stressful or whatever it would be SO nice to be able to go there and de-stress. I could go there and just sit and people watch and have a coke and just listen to the sounds and look at the sights and be happy! :)

Yesterday was another stressful day at work. Our office manager is getting ready to go on vacation for a week and a half and that ALWAYS stresses mom out and of course all her deals are having issues and it is just NOT a fun place to be. Plus I have had a headache for a few days and just wasn't feeling that hot so I went in and got all my work done and was waiting for mom to get done so we could run a loop and go have lunch but then a customer came in and I KNEW it was going to be at LEAST another hour so I just left. I'm glad I did cuz I was NOT feeling well. Anyway then I went and picked the girls up from school and found out that they did NOT get their yearbooks like they were supposed to and they aren't getting them till wed at the end of the day. This school drives me nuts. They have cut back on SO much. The kids didn't get hardly ANY field trips this year and now they are trying to do away with 6th grade and they aren't even TELLING the parents. I only know because I have friends on the PTA. And now this thing with the yearbooks. The high schools got theirs back in MAY! The kids are not going to have ANY time to get any signatures because Thur and Fri are both short days! I will be glad when they are out of this school! My kids started at a different school but they closed it after Katy completed kindergarten and we had to move to this one. I didn't mind it the first few years but it has just gone downhill. Then this year Katy had ONE teacher for fourth grade and at the very LAST second they switched her and this one has NOT been good at ALL! I just hope she gets a good one for fifth or this time I AM going to say something! They don't even tell us the kids teachers till the FIRST day of school cuz they know the parents will complain cuz they mess with stuff so much. It is REALLY stupid. Plus I guess I am not going to know if next year is Katy's last year UNTIL sometime next year! SO dumb! I told my friends if that is the case then they BETTER make sure the 5th graders get proper treatment and get all the stuff they WOULD have gotten had they stayed through 6th grade like the camping trip and promotion etc. It is NOT fair for this one class to get skipped.

So I guess we will have to wait and see but I just feel so bad for Katy cuz it always seems to happen to her!

Anyway today they don't have much going on and I just have a bunch of laundry to do and then tomorrow I have my post-op so I am going to take the girls to my dad's so they can swim and then hopefully Shane can pick them up and take them to practice from there. And then Thurs morning I guess Shane is leaving for his golf trip. So it is going to get interesting.

Hope everyone has a good day today and talk soon.
 
I'm trying to decide if I want to pre-order a Picnin Meal for Saturday. It's only $14.99 plus you get reserved veiwing for World of Color. Probably better than trying to get a fast pass first thing in the morning...:confused3 The meals don't go on sale until the 11th. Do you think this means at midnight?
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I'm trying to decide if I want to pre-order a Picnin Meal for Saturday. It's only $14.99 plus you get reserved veiwing for World of Color. Probably better than trying to get a fast pass first thing in the morning...:confused3 The meals don't go on sale until the 11th. Do you think this means at midnight?
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wait..what?? those meals are only good till the 11th? like they stop taking reservations on the 11th? or this is only good for opening weekend?The impression I got on the picnic meals was that, this was something that was going to be sold through out the summer for WOC….and that it was not JUST for opening night. I figured that maybe the fancy pansy meals would be only good for opening night.. That is what I got from reading the WOC info and that was a few ago, unless I read it wrong and or things have changed….
 
wait..what?? those meals are only good till the 11th? like they stop taking reservations on the 11th? or this is only good for opening weekend?The impression I got on the picnic meals was that, this was something that was going to be sold through out the summer for WOC….and that it was not JUST for opening night. I figured that maybe the fancy pansy meals would be only good for opening night.. That is what I got from reading the WOC info and that was a few ago, unless I read it wrong and or things have changed….

You can start ordering the picnic meals online starting June 11th. But I don't know how quickly they will sell out so I'm wondering if I should stay up till midnight on Thursday that way if they go on sale first thing on the 11th (12:01am) I can make sure to get mine. The food choices don't look to good but for the priority veiwing for WOC I might buy them...
 
You can start ordering the picnic meals online starting June 11th. But I don't know how quickly they will sell out so I'm wondering if I should stay up till midnight on Thursday that way if they go on sale first thing on the 11th (12:01am) I can make sure to get mine. The food choices don't look to good but for the priority veiwing for WOC I might buy them...


the picnic meal photos! they looked REALLY good, the descritpions aren't that great. but the pics look good! i think you should beat everyone to the punch and wait up till midnight!! :rotfl: hey if you want one that is what you got to do ..right?

so check this out!

http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/blog.php?b=695 mmmmmmmm yummy!!
 
the picnic meal photos! they looked REALLY good, the descritpions aren't that great. but the pics look good! i think you should beat everyone to the punch and wait up till midnight!! :rotfl: hey if you want one that is what you got to do ..right?

so check this out!

http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/blog.php?b=695 mmmmmmmm yummy!!

I imagine they will sell out pretty qiuck. I'm not sure how many they have each day.
 
well i guess you better get dialin at midnight for your picnic meal so you can insure that you do get one!! :cheer2:
 













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