Cooperstown: Part 1

I'm still trying to wrap my head around what happened this last weekend and while I do that here are a few pictures. More to come :)Rickey with Jeff Idelson - President of the Hall of Fame. This was during the actual induction ceremony.

Me, Rickey, Mom, Ry-Guy, Dad - This was right before Rickey did this cool Legends press conference. Lots of Random people wanted to take my picture. It was weird and flattering. This is me giving Jeff Idelson my very first Hi Rickey sign (20 years old!!!) Jeff offered to put my sign in the Hall of Fame with Rickey's display!!! HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!?!?!?

Oakland Tribune Video

When I saw the A's banjo playing guy at the induction ceremony I totally started laughing! I remember him from my days back in the Oakland Colosum! Very cool - Also, we have been friends with Fred Adkins for a while and it was great to see him as well!

COOPERSTOWN!

So we're in Cooperstown right now and I thought I would give y'all a quick update! Cooperstown is awesome - so beautiful. If you don't have any idea what I'm talking about click on the following links. :) EN-HOY :)

http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_12887351?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com

This one is a little bit embarrassing! :)

http://www.bay-area-sports-blog.com/2009/07/22/rickeys-weepy-superfan-is-all-grows-up/

This one is in the local Cooperstown Newspaper

http://thefreemansjournal.com/2009/07/henderson-rice-heroes-in-eyes-of.html

Anyway - Enjoy the articles. I will post pictures soon :)

So You Think You Can Dance Top 14

Here are my favs from last night's show... I can't stand Cat Deeley...

This one is weird, but I really liked it for some reason :)



They are dabomb.com at Hip Hop - Love Tabitha and Napolean's chorography!!!



I can't stand Kupono... But this was awesome! And more Twilight music PLEASE :) This might have been my favorite of the night.



I love Brandon and Jeanette!!! They are probably my fav couple. (just watch the dancing... the commantary is long... and Cat Deeley BUGS THE CRAP OUT OF ME!!!)

Girls Camp 2009

I went to Girl's Camp for 1 day this year to spend some time with my Beehives. THEY ARE AMAZING! And I love them! Here are some pictures. :)Katie!Niya!Nora!Amy!

Maria!Maria did the ropes course - she was a total pro at it!

Amy and Niya climbed up Jacob's Ladder - that was tough! But they made it all the way to the top!!!!

Coach Purses :)

Hey Friends -

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I LOVE SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE

My Little Brother Graduated from HIGH SCHOOL!

So Brettley Simper is my adopted little brother. He has all the qualities that I always assumed a little brother would have... ie: annoying, follows me around, etc. Just kidding! Brettley is dabomb.com and I was SOOOO GLAD that he saved tickets to his graduation for Ben and I. We love you Brettley!!!!

I also love all my inside jokes with Brettley... I want to remember them so I'm writing them down on my blog. I'm sorry for those of you who do not know what I'm talking about

Be proud of your dawg

I'm a pr prrro professional pho phhhhh phhoo

Rad

Brettley Simper-Fi

dabomb.com/diggity

Lame.org

DP (or DP.com/Ben hahaha)

The Band DP.com

Read your notes

Throw something at Ben

Hot Dog song
(P.O.T.A.T.O.E.S)

etc...

Lately

We went to Disneyland last week for Brettley's birthday - it was fun! Ryan loved the water. Ryan also likes to talk on the phone. He is getting so big and I keep telling him to stop growing up so fast but he doesn't listen...

NEW MOON BABY!!!

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE Edward, but Holy COW... Jacob was cast well!!! OMW - My 13 year old girlishness is coming out in full force!

YES!!!!!!!

Order Cable TV today!!! Will cancel said TV when this show is over :)

You are Great... YOU are Amazing!

My dad emailed me this video. It's about 15 minutes long, but it's SOOOOO GOOD! So take a minute and relax and watch this video - I promise it will make you smile :)

VEGAS BABY!

Had quite the exciting weekend. Thursday ended up being my last day of work and it was bittersweet for me. I'm glad that I'm not working anymore, but I'll miss it too.

So Ben and I didn't really get a chance to celebrate my birthday because of work and church stuff so this last weekend was my birthday extravaganza! We were going to go to Harrah's Rincon and just stay one night and go swimming, but apparently Memorial Day weekend hotel prices are ridiculous! They wanted $450 for ONE night! That was just stupid. So we decided to go to Vegas! It was so much fun!!! We left Friday after work (We left Ryan with Nana and that was hard for me! Ben and I missed our little boy!!) we got into Vegas about 11:30p. We stayed in the Hilton - which was nice, but nothing exciting. I think I expected a little more out of it. But it was still cool!On Saturday we played :) We had brunch at the Excalibur buffet (it was gross!) Then we walked around the strip. I have decided that the Belliago, Ceasars and the Venetian are the COOLEST hotels on the strip and I want to stay in each of them at least once! We loved the Belliago because of it's cool/rad/spectacular water fountian show.

I loved the Venetian for a few reasons - The Grand Cannal Shops (I love to shop - even thought I didn't get to go into any of the stores), the Gondola rides

Our Gondola driver... he was well... I may be in like with him! He was such a cool guy - from Italy and sang amazingly - obviously :)

We saw Streetmosphere - which is a little preformace inside the Grand Cannal Shops. It was pretty cool. We didn't do a whole lot around Ceasars - The bathroom was nice :) But I loved the huge mall-like thing they had. :)

This would be so cool in a HUGE nursery :)

I had a great time - And can't wait to go back in the NEAR future!!!

Just Kidding

So I found out yesterday that my last day of work is actually THIS Friday! I'm excited, scared, nervous, happy, sad, etc :)

So next week I will be doing this...

And sometime in the near future I plan on reading this...

Remember Me?

So sorry for my complete lack of posts lately. I have been overwhelmed with "stuff" - mostly work. But I have good news! May 29th will be my last day of work! Sorta... I will still go in once a week to do billing, but for the most part I will be a full time stay at home mom and I cannot wait!
Haven't taken any pictures lately - sorry! But for now there is one thing you should know... I have found the world's best mascara! I've been trying a few out lately and I really liked this Body Shop Volumizing mascara, but then last night I bought Cover Girl Lash Blast because the brushes looked the same, but Lash Blast was about $7.00 cheaper (only $6.50 at Walmart) and luckily it is dabomb.com of mascaras! I LOVE IT! Try it - It's worth it!

Ryan is doing good - getting so big. But we've got a problem. Ryan loved Nursery in the beginning, but the past couple of weeks - he has refused to go to nursery and when I leave him in there one of the leaders always comes to get me because Ry is inconsolable! I don't know what to do - Any suggestions from you moms with kids in nursery???

Well I will try to blog more in the future and comment more too!

Easter

So Easter was 2 weeks ago and I finally have a moment to sit down and write a post! I have been crazy busy lately and my blog has seriously suffered because of said business :)

Easter was great - went to church... Ryan had a hard time at church because he was so tired (we have 1p church so ALL the kids are tired) He wouldn't go to nursery and fell asleep with me in Young Women's. Poor lil'guy!After church we headed over to Shane and Melinda's for an Easter egg hunt! Ryan and Olivia had a great time search for eggs :)

Silly little faces - they are so darn cute!!!After that great egg hunt we went to my parents house for dinner and it was fantastic! Our friends Gary and Bliss joined us and we were really glad that they could come! I made the BEST dessert EVER! It was called Fruit pizza dessert and it was AMAZING! :)

I got goosebumps!

Susan Boyle Sings on Britain's Got Talent 2009 Episode 1 @ Yahoo! Video

Service Project

A week or so ago we had a service project. Ryan was a big helper. He would pull the weeds and put them into the bucket!
I don't know who that nasty girl in the hat is next to Ryan...

MIA

Sorry to be missing in action lately - life has been a bit more crazy than usual. About 2 weeks ago, we (meaning Shane) had to fire one of the women who worked in our office (she was high...) So I have been working WAY too many hours now and it sucks - I'm sure that the paycheck will be good, but I hate being away from Ryan so much. Today was the first day that I didn't cry on my way into work... I really want to be a stay at home mom, but just can't right now. But I am really excited for the day that I will be able to do that!!! :)

On a better note - I cooked dinner for my family tonight! For most of you this is probably not a huge deal, but for me it's GIGANTIC! I never cook dinner - Ben is usually the one who cooks if we have a home cooked meal, but this week is the end of me being a HORRIBLE wife/mother. So on Sunday, I planned out what I wanted to make this week and yesterday bought the fixings and tonight I cooked Parmasian Chicken! It was a fun receipe and Ben really liked it :)

Other than that, everyone is doing good. Ryan is getting so huge that it's crazy! He's talking a lot more everyday and it makes me a little sad to see how fast he is growing up.

Ben... Drunk?

So last night we hung out with some friends in Oceanside and we were driving home about 9:30pm with Ryan in the back seat mind you :) Ben thought it would be a good idea to pick at a callus on his hand while driving. In order to do this, he had to drive with his knee. He is apparently not good at driving with knees and was driving by braille :) Anyway - long story short, Ben got pulled over because the cop thought he was drunk :) haha!!! I think having Ryan in the car help the cop believe us - that and Ben had to do an eye test - which looked really funny and I was having a hard time not laughing! The cop was cool and told Ben to pay attention to the road! Ben really knows how to show his family a good time!