One Full Month

I have been at my job for one full month now, and I must say, I really like my job. I am blessed to work with 6 great women, and I enjoy what I'm doing (cash application and general office help in the accounting department). The company itself is just a great company. It supplies physical therapy and rehab supplies to hospitals, long term care facilities, and the like. They have a great work ethic and it's a real employee friendly place. Working is fun!

I'm so glad I was able to find a job in the health care industry; it is a growing business despite this bad economy.

Another Year Older...

Today is my birthday. I think I'm going to be 27 this year. At work everyone celebrated with a delecious chocolate cake. And a song. I love my new job by the way!

I celebrated on Friday with Jason and our good friends Cory and Traci. I have wanted to build my very own build a bear at the Build a Bear workshop for a very long time now, so I did just that. A cute little curly tan bear with a cute pair of denim overalls. I named him Tanner.

We ate dinner at Macaroni Grill. We had appitizers, the main course and chocolate birthday cake, with which I was sung Happy Birthday to in Italian.Traci gave me my gift; a pair of totally awesome, gorgeous purple high heels and some Depeche Mode cd's that I only had on tape. (The old ones from the 80's). I love them all!!!! My friend did good.

My dad sent me money so I bought shower gel, lotion, and purfume at Bath and Body Works. Butterfly Flower; my new favorite scent.

After dinner we went and saw the new Tom Hanks movie, "Angels and Demons". I loved the movie! Now I want to read the book.

Saturday I spent cleaning the house, uploading my new CD's and laying in the sun, and napping, and watching the Preakness. Woo hoo! For the filly and girl power. I love horse racing.

The weather has been beautiful (finally). Big A started his job at Wild Island over the weekend. Only 2 more weeks of baseball left. Life is busy, but good.

1st Place Winner!!!!

We had a Ward Chili Cook-off and Pinewood Derby race last night. Yours truly won 1st place for my super hot chili. I was so excited. I never win anything...but now I won this...

I'll have to dig all the cans out of the trash so I can remember exactly what I threw into it and post my recipe.

Mr. Butler ran a pinewood derby car in the race, but didn't do so well.

At least one of us is a winner!!

After the dinner we went and watched/listened to my brother-in-law play guitar at Bully's Meadowood. He just started learning to play about a year ago and is really good! He plays all the songs from memory. Him and a buddy play, the buddy sings, but my BiL sang one song and he was great. It was a blast.

Today, I'm celebrating Mothers Day with my family and lovingly remembering my own dear mother. Two years ago I spent the entire day with my mom on her last Mother's Day on this earth, and I'm so glad I have that memory. My mom was the best, and I miss her everyday. I am very grateful she was my mom and my friend.

Happy Mother's Day to all my blog friends on this beautiful day!

I'm Back...Aren't You Happy?

The day after Easter the kids and I left Reno for a change of scenery and some fun before I started my new job. We went to Santa Cruz California for 4 days!

Monday, after we got to my dad's house we drove down to Capitola Beach and played in the surf before dinner. Mr. Butler totally loves the beach and ocean! After dinner we drove past the Santa Cruz lighthouse and the darkened Boardwalk (it was closed).

Tuesday, my Dad's lady friend, Sally, got us tickets to the Boardwalk. The day was super windy and a bit cold, but we had a ton of fun. My kids now love the boardwalk as much as I always have. Mr. Butler is my adrenaline junky. He went on the log flume ride all by himself, and went with me on the not wooden roller coaster. I went on the ferris wheel with Louie Blue and decided I do not like ferris wheels. Big A loved the dinosaur train ride (of course). I can't wait to go back!

Wednesday, we went to the Seymor Marine Research lab at UC Santa Cruz ang got to play with the star fish and sea annenomes and see the two bottle nose dolphins. I love dolphins, by the way! It was again very windy and colder than Tuesday so we didn't get to see the tropical birds and it was maiting season for the elephant seals so we couldn' see them either for obvious reasons...Later in the day, we took a picnic lunch and went to the beach in Aptos and walked out on the peir to the cement boat.

Thursday we spent the entire day playing in the sand and surf at Capitola beach. The wind was finally gone and it had warmed up, but the water was fridgid, so Mr. Butler was the only one who really played in it. We got to play in the tide pools, collected lots of shells and rocks, got sand in places sand should never be, and got sun burned beyond belief. It was great!

Sadly, we came home Friday. But, that night was 80's Bunco, which I wore things that were actually from the 80's, and I won with the most wins! Even with my serious sun burn, I had so much fun!

I started my new job on the 20th and I just love it.

The 2 little ones are enjoying baseball still. Louie Blue got her first two hits of the season on Saturday and got game ball. She's not very good, but she's having fun, and that's what's important!

J is working on wood bases for our taxidermist and keeping busy with it and making money to boot! He enjoys it and he does very nice work!

I have over 200 pictures from Easter and Spring break, but my home computer is just about out of memory, so I can't downoad my camera disk. Hopefully soon! Actually as soon as I have some extra time, but what's that?!

Sorry this post is long, but now you're mostly caught up!