December Snow

So instead of posting all of my photos from the snow we had today on my blog, I have placed them in a gallery on Matt's SmugMug account here.

This picture is one of my favorites from the day.

snowy branches

My greenhouse

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Weekend away

This was Matt's favorite picture from our weekend away.

Branch in the Water

What came in the box?

That would be a Tiffany Necklace

My husband is so sweet and bought me a necklace from Tiffany & Co. for my birthday. And that was on top of a wonderful dinner at Canlis, and a weekend getaway. I married an awesome guy!

Awesome boss

My boss is so sweet!

She believes flowers are a vital part of any girls birthday, so she ordered me flowers for my birthday. Of course she said they were from everyone, but everyone asked who they were from, so no one else was in on it.

A dozen yellow roses

A comical story from my birthday...

From what I hear, there were three different people who thought about buying me cake for my birthday at work. Since I am the person who normally does that stuff, they wanted to make sure I got a cake! So Kate is the one who eventually ended up in charge of the cake, after they realized that 3 people were all going to buy cake. We had a conversation about cakes a few weeks ago, and I told her my favorite is lemon chiffon (especially if it comes from TanTop Bakery in Orcutt, CA). Kate decided she would not settle for getting me anything less than lemon chiffon. She called the first bakery the night before my birthday, and the told her they need a minimum of 48 hours notice, which she didn't have. So she continued her search and called the next one, who told her, "our baker has gone home for the day, but I will leave her a note to see if she can accommodate the request". When Kate checked in with them on my birthday they said "we didn't have the ingredients for lemon chiffon, so she make strawberry chiffon" . Therefore Kate continued her search because she wasn't sure if I liked Strawberry, therefore wanted to try to get Lemon. She calls another bakery and is told, we don't have plain lemon chiffon, but we have a coconut-lemon chiffon. This was close enough, so I had a coconut-lemon chiffon cake for my birthday along with cookies & cupcakes.

My coworkers are awesome! They made my birthday grand!

Happy Birthday to Me

guess what was in here

Today is my birthday, and I got this cute little blue box this morning. I finished showering and getting dressed to find I had this on top of my vanity where I do my makeup. So it is up to you to guess what came in this box ;-)

Pelicans from Christmas

When we went to California for Christmas the one thing I wanted to do while we were there was take a trip to the beach. So a couple days after Christmas we headed over to Pismo Beach so while we were there we took some photos and had lunch at Splash Cafe for some of the best clam chowder ever that is served in a decadent sourdough bowl.

But before we got lunch we did take photos, and here are some of a Pelican that was standing on the edge of one of the pier railings letting people get somewhat close considering how they normally fly away when people get near.

Up Close & Personal with the Pelican

As I said he stayed for quite some time, so I got a number of different shots, but he never flew away so I could get a shot of him flying

Content on the Pier

The Base of the Vase

So one of the things I like about my arrangement of flowers is the bottom of the base where I used an assortment or rocks & pebbles to hold the stems in place and give some bottom weight to the arrangement. Therefore I present you a picture of just the base.

Rocks and Stems

Decorating

Here is a picture of my first bit of decorating our new home. On Sunday afternoon while Matt & I waited for HalfPrice Books to figure out how to give us back almost nothing for 100 books we went into JoAnnes to look for silk flowers for me to make an arrangement out of and this is what we ended up with.

Decorating the House

One more Kyle photo

Kyle loves the Chronicles of Narnia, so when he saw the blanket with the characters he told Mom he wanted to buy it. Therefore he was surprised when it showed up on Christmas morning as one of his gifts. And I thought this was a very fitting photo of him, so here you go :-)

Kyle Peeking Above

Kyle as a fan

When my family came to visit this past summer we had the opportunity to enjoy a Mariner's Game, and Kyle dubbed the Mariner's his team. It happened that the game was against the Angel's which was the team my dad was rooting for, so they had a great time, and Kyle's team won the game!

So for Christmas we made sure to get him a Mariner's cap, and he wore it the rest of the week. At first tags and all, but by the time we left I think they had all been taken off

Mariner's Fan

Fudge Time

In my house we made candy at Christmas Time instead of cookies. One of my brothers favorites to make is Fudge...The alternative reason on why can be seen below. Many of the other candies we always make are Peanut Brittle and Toffee which you cannot eat when they are hot.

Kyle and Marshmallow Cream

Umm...can I get some of it?

Maybe the force of sucking will pull it off

Got a little bit, doesn't that taste good!