Scrap Booking Day

August 7, 2011
Today was a scrap booking day with Hannah and Georgia.  It was so much fun to see Hannah working so hard to make each of her pages perfect, and then help Georgia do 10 pages in an hour!  She whipped through those pages like a mad woman!  They are both such great girls with unique personalities and quirks.  I love them both!

After we scrap booked for a while we went to Yogurtland for lunch!  The girls really wanted to go, and they were meeting their cousins and family at Medieval Times at 3:00, which is a weird time to eat dinner, so we decided it would be fine to have a sweet lunch!  They were SUPER excited to see that they got Hello Kitty spoons and bowls, and they loved their treat lunch!

After Medieval Times, Georgia decided to go home with her mom and dad, so it looks like it's just Hannah and I until Tuesday!

Yard Sale!

August 6, 2011
Today my sister had a yard sale at her house.  So, we all took stuff over and joined in!  It was fun to spend the day with my family, but it is a lot of work too.  But even with all of the hard work, I love that we can always manage to have a great time together! 

This is right at the beginning of the day, we hadn't even put everything out yet, but people came and started buying stuff, so we had to wait to get everything out, so that's why there are still boxes everywhere in the picture!!  : )

After the yard sale, Hannah, Georgia and I left for LA, they are coming to stay with me for a few days!  We were all tired but excited to come to LA.  Our first stop was Coffee Bean to get a little energy for the drive home. 

I love this picture of the girls, but not so much of myself, oh-well!

After our LONG drive home, through LOTS of traffic and a quick stop at In-N-Out for dinner, we had a fun night in, playing Wii and getting our stuff together to do some scrap booking tomorrow.  

Here they are singing to the "Sing It" game, they were so cute and did a great job singing!  I'm looking forward to more fun with Hannah and Georgia tomorrow!

I Heart Ventura

August 5, 2011
Today my mom and I started cleaning out their storage unit, to try to get everything out.  What a job!!  It was tough work, and very tiring!  After we were done hauling stuff over to my sisters for the yard sale tomorrow, my dad took up to dinner at Andreas!  I had been wanting it for so long, and I was so happy to finally just go to the Ventura harbor and eat some yummy fish and chips!

Who wouldn't want to sit here and look at this beautiful view while eating a delicious dinner?  I <3 this place.

Fixing Up the House

August 4, 2011
The house fixing-up continues...  Last week we went to Ikea and I got a new spice holder for my kitchen.  I didn't know it would be a spice holder, but that is what it has turned out to be.  I actually saw this when I went to Ikea in San Francisco with Jenn and loved it, but didn't want to carry it back with us on BART, along with all the other stuff Jenn had to get for her house.  So, when we went to Ikea in Burbank, I almost cried when I couldn't find it!  But they had just hidden them upstairs in the display area, which we skipped.  I finally got to hang it up, and I love it just as much as I did in San Francisco! 

It's the basket thing that I loved and just hung up.  Isn't it cute?!?!

Reminders of China

August 3, 2011
While helping my parents move I found a souvenir from one of my China trips.  I had gotten it for them, but they don't have room to hang it up now, so I "borrowed" it back from them to have in my house, and promised to give it back if they ever want it... I hope they don't! 

We had these made in China, it is supposed to be Psalm 23 written in Chinese, but I have never asked anyone who can read it if that is really what they wrote!!  I decided to hang it up today, and I love it.  It will be really hard to give it back if they ask for it!! : )

Back to the Airport

August 2, 2011
I went back to the airport today to pick Laura up from her time at home.  It is always fun to drive into the airport and see all the activity.  Not always fun when there is lots of traffic, but today was pretty easy.  As I was sitting at the light on the off ramp I was reminded of how amazingly huge LAX really is, this is just a tiny piece of it... Wow!!

Cleaning Out

August 1, 2011
I can't believe it's August!!  Wow, the year is more than half way over, but I'm still taking a picture a day, well, usually more than one picture, for my blog.  : )

Today I was finishing up some cleaning and cleaning out that I started yesterday.  One of the projects I had was to go through my CD's and get rid of the ones I don't listen to anymore.  It is kind of hard to let go of some of them, but I hardly listen to CD's anymore, so they are really just taking up valuable space, and I had to get rid of some of them.  Here is the final outcome:

It may seem like I still have quite a few, but when you consider that I had that whole rack full, and two rows across the front of the entertainment center, you can see I got rid of a lot of them.  These are just the ones I can't let go of quite yet, although I'm sure the day will come when I can!