First Dateaversary

Today is the anniversary of my first date with my husband. It was also the first day I met him! My Dad fixed us up on a blind date. Husband and Dad worked together at the time. He came and picked me up and brought me a red rose (so nice!). Then we went to Sizzler and after that we went to see Far & Away. Aren't we cute! You can tell what decade it is by his glasses on his head and his pants, not to mention my curly hair.

Ready for their new owner

I just finished up the bookmark for the winner of the book club of the month contest. Here is her stuff all ready to go out. Make sure and check back at the end of the month to enter the next one!

Toothfairy Save and Tidbits

The toothfairy ALMOST didn't make it to our house again. It's a good thing the kids are sleeping in this morning! I think she's collected just about all the teeth I paid hundreds of dollars to get filled last summer. Those teeth are worth A LOT!

I'm feeling very yawny-yawnisher today.

Yesterday I hardly did anything but somehow I got my house looking cleaner. That was inbetween playing literati (on yahoo) and being on facebook all day. Now no one will come over until it is thrashed again. Like the other day when Trevor had a little friend over and his mom came to pick him up. Yeah. My house was BAD. So embarrassing.

Anyhow.

Melissa has a birthday party to go to in town today so I'll go hit the grocery store while she's there.

Jessica is camping with her friend. On a boat. Somewhere on a lake. She's supposed to come back Sunday so it's been rather quiet here the last couple days. Best time to send your kids camping with someone else? When they have PMS!! ::insert evil laugh::

Trevor was playing with my camera the other day. This is my favorite picture. It just cracks me up!



I hope everyone survives the 4th of July. Instead of hanging with friends like we usually do my mom TOLD US that we will be spending it with the family. So we'll be bobbin around the pool and eating bbq and trying not to get annoyed with anyone. That reminds me must buy more booze...

Happy 4th of July everyone!

Yard Update

Here's a few pictures of my yard in it's current state. I had just watered so everything is wet.

Big pile o'bark there, maybe I didn't quite need that much, oops.

We need just a little bit more rock for the front

I love that the alyssum is filling in!

I raked the driveway a bit but I'm going to have to get all that grass out there eventually. ICK.

I thought this bush was dying but it's getting new leaves. Weird. I moved the other one onto the other side of the yard and it has a few new leaves on it.




Going to start working on the big grassy/weedy area.

I got a few more plants yesterday, they were marked down everywhere I went!

Side yard. I have a feeling we'll be taking out the brick and putting in wood for the flower bed edging.

Book & Book Mark Winner for June

Book Club Book Winner!



The winner is:

TIM & LUCY



I don't have your email so please email me at liljewelsemail AT aol.com BY FRIDAY thanks and congrats!

Book Club for June!

This month's selection was

The Piano Teacher by Lynne York

From Amazon.com

From Booklist
An easy journey into familiar territory: the small North Carolina town of Swan's Knob sometime in the late 1970s. Known as Miss Wilma, the gentle, upright piano teacher of the title keeps her life in order and finds comfort in it. She comes home after playing the organ for a wedding to find her daughter Sarah--thin, uncommunicative, and tense--on her doorstep with her granddaughter, Starling, but not with Starling's dad, Harper. York moves the point of view between Miss Wilma, Sarah, Harper, and Roy, the local distinguished gentleman who finds himself quite taken with Wilma, as all hell breaks loose. A handsome stranger comes looking for Sarah and is soon accused of murder. Harper's weaknesses are of the hippy-dippy kind but loathsome withal. Sarah doesn't get her mother's bone-deep kindness. Sad family stories leak out of direct, well-wrought prose. Romance, justice, and family win--probably. GraceAnne DeCandido
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Everyone liked the book, although everyone agreed that it started off slow!

In usual book club fashion I have one of these up for grabs!

Just leave me a comment by WEDNESDAY AND you can get a 2nd entry if you become a follower. If you already are than just do a 2nd comment letting me know. ALSO you will get your choice of one bookmark from my Etsy store. You can choose whichever one you want!

Book Club selection for July is

Barbara Delinsky's Flirting With Pete

From Amazon.com

From Publishers Weekly
Cassandra (Casey) Ellis, 34, a single, successful psychotherapist, is the newest of this prolific writer's heroines. The novel opens with a memorial service for Dr. Cornelius Unger, a brilliant and reclusive psychologist who is also Casey's father. She never knew him personally, since she was the product of her mother's single encounter with Unger, and is shocked to learn that Dr. Unger has left her a $3 million townhouse on Boston's Beacon Hill, complete with a maid, Meg, and a gardener, Jordan. Casey has always felt hostile toward her famous, mysterious father, even though her mother never expressed any anger. She's uneasy at first about living in a luxurious house haunted by her father's presence, but soon finds its meticulously attended gardens a source of relief from professional stress and the emotional turmoil of caring for her mother, left comatose after a recent accident. Moreover, she is attracted to handsome, virile Jordan. While she's rooting through Dr. Unger's personal papers, she comes across the story of Jenny Clyde, a young woman in her 20s who was abused by her father for years before being rescued by a police officer. Casey becomes intrigued: is this incestuous relationship fiction or one of Dr. Unger's case histories? Why did her father leave it for her to find? Delinsky (The Woman Next Door, etc.) weaves Jenny's story through the novel, and meshes her and Casey's fates in a melodramatic climax. Both stories have some lapses in credibility and underdeveloped supporting characters (Meg is particularly weak), but the plot is more sophisticated and fast-moving than some of Delinsky's earlier work. It will satisfy her fans and may even win her some new readers.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Sounds like a good one! My neighbor gave me her copy to borrow so I will start it after finishing the book I'm currently reading.

I also ordered one off www.paperbackswap.com so I will have one to give away.
Make sure you check back next month to win one!

Warped Tour 09 & San Francisco Treat

Yesterday I took Jessica and her friend to San Francisco for the Warped Tour. We took Bart like last time but didn't get a hotel room.

The plan was to be at the Bart station at 9:15 to meet up with some more of Jessica's friends. Later I found out these "friends" were boys. Imagine that lol. So we got there and were getting our tickets and Jessica finds out they are already on a train, couldn't wait for the next one apparently. She was PISSED.

So we get to San Francisco finally and the girls get off at the Embarcadero Station, I told Jess to just follow all the other kids lol. She gets so turned around and lost so easily. I think I was the only parent there with kids going to the concert but I didn't think she could handle getting there on her own. So they get off and then I realize I have their tickets in my pocket. You need the tickets to get out of the train station! I get off at the mall and text her saying UMMM I have your tickets. She said they jumped over the thing that lets you out. Nice, we are felons I'm sure!

I walked around the mall a bit and settled on some Panda Express for lunch. Then I hit the streets and walked around a bit. I went into Old Navy and got a bathing suit for $10, they had them on sale for $5 each piece! I didn't try it on though since the line for the fitting room was huge. If it doesn't fit I'll take it back here.





I went into a bunch of stores and looked around but didn't buy anything else. Then I was just walking and wow what is that?? It's China Town!

Entrance to China Town

I think this was a bar, so odd in the middle of normal buildings!

I went into the Kite Shop, the SMELL was overwhelming.

Cool kites but it smelled so bad in there.

Cool building!

This church seemed a little out of place in the middle of China Town.

I was really intrigued by all these ivory carvings I saw in a bunch of windows.

Apparently they are all "antiques".

Like the light poles? Neat building too.



Am I bright enough for you?

After you get to the end of China Town you can go to "Big Al's" and get your adult book store and video fix.

After China Town I wandered my way back towards the "Bart" area and found this nice wall to have a break on. It was behind the Jewish Museum (debated on going in)



and St. Patrick's Church I think it was. Sitting here I just felt so small.





This is the doorway to that huge building



After wandering around a bit more I found this weird building that said it was a theater. I can't remember what it was called, but I went in and they had a movie theater in there. I checked the time and I was right on time to see The Proposal!



I got a kids meal which was only $3 !?!? for a little popcorn, a good size drink and a BIG bag of candy. I'm still wondering if the girl messed up somehow.

Sandra Bullock is HOT in this movie. She wears these fierce heels through most of it. I about died laughing with the dog/eagle scene. This is definitly a great chick flick!! Best one I've seen in awhile!

When the movie was over I sent Jess a text and the concert was almost over so I made my way out to find the Bart Station. I went up a block and it was right there. I got on the train and got off at the girls' station and waited for them to come down.

And waited, and waited and waited.

There were lots of kids coming down and everyone was burnt to a crisp. Finally after forever they finally came down and I handed them their tickets to get in, but they wouldn't work right because they were never shown as getting out of the station. If I was smart I would have just ran them through the machine. They had to go up to the attendant and she fixed them for them.

We got on the train (with the boys, one of which I think is a new boyfriend) and it was packed and stinky. Thank God the stinky boys that I was sitting next to got off before too long.

We stopped on the way home and had some dinner at In & Out (tried to go to Mimi's but there was no where to park!). We got home around 9 and then I took the girls to Jessica's friend's house to spend the night since they have a pool.

All in all it was a nice day! It wasn't so bad being by myself since I could go anywhere and do anything I wanted and didn't have to worry about anyone else :)