April

I went to Washington with my mom and the pastors wife from my church to the American Baptist Womens Conference.

And Allen's I went to San Diego and San Juan Capitstrano for our anniversary.

March

March was quite a busy month.

I had to go to Berkeley for work and it was a long week.

Super Bowl

As we do every year, I shaved Allens head today to represent the team he wishes to win the super bowl. Allen wants the New Orlean Saints so ...
Now we're going to stock up on super bowl supplies. It's been raining but we are not in the way of any of the mud slides but we've been watching the news all morning. It's been crazy. It's so incredible how destructive mud can be and we are currently being warned about flash flood warnings for LA county. Hope everyone else is doing well.

January 2010

We have not been up to much this past month. We have been cleaning up after the Christmas holiday ... putting decorations away, moving furniture around, putting away presents, etc.

Last weekend I decided that I needed to get serious about being healthy for 2010 so I bought a treadmill at sport authority and have walked on it every day since.

So my New Years resolutions are:
1) Read all the books in my cabinet
2) Excercise daily

Allen's New Years resolution is to lose weight.

We'll see how we do but last year my resolution was to send out birthday cards to everyone that I knew and that seemed to go well.

Last couple weeks of December

Allen and I visited my parents in Chico for the first time in many years. It was great to visit with everyone and although Allen went home on the Sunday after Christmas I was able to stay through until the following Wednesday.

My sister got into a car accident and that was a lot of drama. I don't want to get into any more details.

Allen and I had a boring New Years Eve at home watching TV and a bunch of movies that we rented. Midnight came and went as it always does and we went to bed at 12:05am as we usually do. It was neat to have an extra day off with Allen.

And this past weekend we spent cleaning up after Christmas and cleaning the house. We have been neglecting since before Christmas.

Tonight we went to Black Angus for dinner, I ordered a really bad steak and then Allen made me go to Lowe's. He had to return an electric screw driver (I asked him what the difference was between an electric screw driver and a drill and he didn't know) and they gave us all kinds of stuff ... you don't have a box ... I need someone from tools to verify this is the item on the receipt ... why is it missing parts ... blah blah blah.

Well, this weekend we have no plans so we'll probably go to Costco and we'll probably watch a bunch of TV.

Festival of Lights

So last Friday Allen and I went to the DWP Festival of Lights at Griffith Park and it was awesome. I would highly recommend it. The best display was the the one from LAX. They had the resturant, the light towers and a plane taking off. Second place display was the entrance it was a tunnel Christmas lights. Christmas lights are awesome.




Then on Saturday we went to Marina Del Rey to see Allens uncles boat in the parade of lights. Although we never got a hold of him, I'm sure we saw the boat. It was very strange. There were only like 6 boats and there were like 100's of people and it was pouring. I wore 2 pairs of pants, 2 shirts, a jacket, scarf, beanie, gloves and combat boots but I needed wind shield wipers on my glasses.

Sunday was a much more lazy day. We spent the whole day decorating the house for Christmas.

We have finished all our shopping but it's that darn wrapping that I haven't gotten to yet. But there is always tomorrow. But tomorrow I plan to do the Christmas cards but I'm sure I'll find time before Sunday when we'll be celebrating Christmas with Allen's dad. And between now and Sunday I have to bake a boat load of cookies for Allen's presents for his co-workers, go to a Christmas party and we have committed to volunteer on Sunday to wrap presents for MEND. Oh, and I have to pack for Chico and wrap all of Allen's gifts before Wednesday when we're celebrating with each other. CRAP!!!!

1st weekend in December 2009

Ahhh! Allen and I almost gotten eaten by a billion year old shark!


This past weekend marks Allen and I's nine years of dating, so we went to a moutain cabin in Ramona, Ca (by San Diego). We had a great time and the cabin was about the same size as our 1st condo.

On Saturday we went to a LA Kings vs St. Louis Blues hockey game and the Kings lost but we got a super cool bobblehead and Allen bought me a little breast cancer helmet to go on him.

On Sunday we went to Seaworld, it was super cool. We saw the shamu holiday show and ice skated. It was a great reminder of what winter fun can be like. The only thing missing was a inner tube and some snow.

We even brought up the Christmas decorations and we've been threatening to start decorating this weekend.

As a side note, Allen and I just bought an ipod ... I know we're like the only people in the world without one but we bought it using money we got from collecting cans ($30) and lost coin change ($191) and we each but in $20. It was amazing... we had $20 in pennies.