A Sure Sign of the Holidays!

October 17, 2011

One of the sure fire ways to know that the holidays are just around the corner is when you can break out the Peanut's Holiday movies!!  You have to get them out a little bit earlier than the other Christmas movies because they have Halloween and Thanksgiving movies in the pack as well.  I grew up watching these, and still love to sit down and watch them throughout the holiday season!  Yay!!

Flowers To Brighten Your Day

October 16, 2011

I went down to the flower mart yesterday to pick up some flowers for the shower and one of the places was having a special on sunflowers, $2.50 for a bunch!  So I got some for my house.  I was so happy to see them all day today!  Flowers really do help to make a day more cheery, especially when your not feeling so well.

They look so pretty on my kitchen table!

I also had one extra gerber daisy from the arrangements I made for the shower. 

So I had to include a picture of this one too.  I love flowers!

Baby Shower part 2

October 15, 2011

Tonight the baby showers continued, with a shower for Susie, preparing to welcome Amayah Gamaz into the world very soon!  It was lots of fun celebrating with Susie and lots of guests. 

Susie is in the flowered dress.  Eiko is with her and will have her baby Monday!! : )

Playing a design a diaper game.

Praying for Susie, Marcos and Amayah.

The 4 pregnant ladies!  Laura, Susie, Danielle and Eiko

Congratulations to all of them and the new babies we will soon be welcoming!

Baby Sprinkle

October 14, 2011

Tonight we had a baby "sprinkle" for two of the ladies on staff who are pregnant.  They both have other children, so we just made sure they were pretty stocked up on diapers, onesies, wipes, burp cloths, soap, lotion and all the other essentials for the first few months of their babies lives.  It was really fun celebrating the soon to be new arrival of baby girl Gutierrez, and baby boy Cummings!  Unfortunately, I only took one picture, and tuned out HORRIBLY!! But, I'll post it anyway.

Danielle and Laura, at their about to "Pop" party!  : )

Hangin' With Ronny

October 13, 2011

Tonight we got to go to the Ronald Regan Library in Simi Valley to attend a dinner for Prison Fellowship and World Impact's The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI).  We got to go through the museum for free if we got there early enough, so Steph and I headed out right after school and had some fun in the museum before going to the dinner.  Mostly that meant taking funny pictures with Ronald and Nancy Regan.  Here they are:

Our self portrait with the Regans!

Steph giving her Evita speech behind the Presidential Podium.

We saw Jim on our "tour" and he took his turn behind the podium too!

Just walking the halls and laughing with the president!

And this is actually where we had our dinner.  Amazing view and right under Air Force One (which we did get to walk through as well, but you can't take pictures in there)! 

Phewwwwwww...

October 12, 2011

I don't really need to say anything more that what this picture says:

It's hot!

Pot Luck

October 11, 2011

Today we had a pot luck in my community Spanish class.  It was so much fun, and very delicious!  Half of our class is learning English and half is learning Spanish, so we got a great mix of foods.  The only bad thing was that I got full to fast, I wanted to eat more!  : )