We are friends and we are laughing

Here are the promised pictures of our tv mishap. I know you were dying to see them. Normally our table is clutter free, but we were re-arranging things in the kitchen, thus the appliances and cereal boxes. Note the brown things on the floor. Those are the cocoa pebbles Aaron was eating when the tv came crashing down and he tried to catch it. Our Kix box took the brunt of the fall and will never be the same.

These are the lovely holes in our wall. An anchor and a screw is still stuck in the wall. That should be fun to get out!

Courtesy of Sandy, Aaron and I had fantastic seats to a recent Padres game. Unfortunately they lost to the Cardinals, but we had fun hob nobbing with all the people who actually have money and buy seats close enough to see the detail on the players shoes. He's blocked in this picture, but sitting two rows in front of us was a Padres alumni, the man who's picture was on the tickets we were holding. Aaron tried to get an autograph, but apparently 5 rows back is the rif raf section and he was quickly shooed away. On a side note, having those tickets helped me see just how elitist new stadiums are. Before everyone went in the same entrance and used the same stairs. Not any more. New entrance, new stairs, separate restrooms and restaurants. I digress. We had a good time. Thanks, Sandy!

i'm not exactly sure when i became obsessed with these delightful jars, but i did. maybe it was in a dream and the idea stuck in my head. perhaps being fearful of a larger commitment, i had my eye on the 4 oz jars. i just knew i had to have them. but, being very cheap, i knew i did not need to have them at the crazy price Von's was charging. after much research on the internet i learned you could get them for a song from Ball's website, but the shipping was as much as the jars. i was not to be deterred. more searching ensued and i found the golden hawk. ace hardware's website sold them and would ship them for FREE to a local store! nothing beats free. i quickly ordered them and picked them up a week later. (btw, i heartily recommend ace hardware for ordering and picking up in store.)

i stared at them for a minute when i picked them up, so the guy behind the counter must have sense a problem and asked if everything was ok. i replied, 'oh everything is wonderful. i am just so excited. you made my day'. what a nerd. anyway, avocados are on sale this week. i can't wait to make guacamole and hand out little yummy summer gifts.

since my last post? i guess i can start measuring how time flies by how frequent my posts are. or maybe it means we have nothing exciting going on in our lives.

my dad called me yesterday to chat and noted how he checks our blog daily and hasn't seen anything new lately. i thought that was really cute. thanks for watching, dad. i'll step up my game.

fate, or our tv, must have heard my father's request because last night when aaron was turning on the tv it fell off the wall. and landed on our kitchen table. oh, and took a bunch of the wall with it. awesome. we documented the debacle for our blog and i should be posting pictures shortly. don't worry dad, i don't blame this on you. i blame this on our ghetto walls and our unfounded optimism that the wall could hold it in the first place.

I love friends who have lived a thousand lives and share with you their stories and lessons learned. I think to really learn about humility and forgiveness it has to come to you from the most unexpected sources.

We went with Aaron's family to Universal Studios on Saturday. While looking back through the pictures I realized I didn't get a shot of everyone, but oh well. Here are a lot of pictures of our adventures. None of us had ever been so we didn't know what to expect.We are too small to tell in this picture, but Aaron is sporting a freshly shorn head with a Mr. T style mini-mohawk. I was not amused. See what happens when the temple closes for two weeks?This was a posted warning for the Mummy Returns ride. Yikes. Do people really have to be so graphic? Can't they just say may cause dizziness?


We went to a show where they explained the 3-D effects behind many movies and I randomly decided to volunteer. I never do stuff like that, but I think I just wanted to get out of line and I was able to bring all of Aaron's family with me. They shrunk me down and I had to fight a huge cat, I was in a scene from the Mummy Returns and above shows me eating chicken with the Norberts. It was interesting to see how they make things happen.

As a throw back to my old lady status, of course my favorite ride was the tram that takes you to the Universal Studio backlot. I thought it was so cool to see where movies and TV shows are filmed. They have some great sets.

I had seen this s'more maker on a blog and pointed it out to my friend at work because I thought it was hilarious. Who would think of such a thing? When you read the product description it is very detailed about how the water (you add water below the white lid in the back) evenly distributes heat in the microwave ensuring a perfectly melted s'more, how the arms provide the exact amount of pressure needed to coagulate the ingredients, etc... We totally cracked up about it. When my birthday rolled around, the s'more maker arrived on my desk. What's even better about it is that Aaron and I don't have a microwave at home. Kind of like the cheeseburger phone I just had to have, but we don't have a land line.

But, when Aaron's family was in town recently we used the microwave in their hotel room to give my s'more maker a trial run.

many times there are not enough hours in the afternoon/evening to get everything done. i consistently feel like my after work activities consist of running from one task to another on my to do list and i just can't get it all done. especially with working in the temple on saturday mornings because a day that used to be made up of errands in the morning and fun in the afternoon had the morning errand time nixed.
my solution? get up early! some of the things i've gotten up early to do include grocery shopping, cleaning the house, laundry (which means going somewhere to do my laundy. i haven't had the luxury of a washer/dryer in years), and dying my hair. all this before work at 8:30am. i think this idea came about when i was in college working full time and going to school full time. those were busy days. is that odd? does anyone else do this?

I'm sorry I haven't posted these sooner. Aaron's family is in town right now and work is crazy, so...