Organization....what is that??

What is wrong with this picture? Well, this is supposed to be the office. Where the computers are on desks and the boys can talk about cards all they want while they are playing. Apparently it has become the "JUNK ROOM." Not only that, but the beer room, the locker room, the drink room, the poster room, the hotel storage room and last but not least...a sh** hole.

In this first picture I would Like to point out a couple of things...

• The poker table that we just HAD to get from Jake's house. The one that never has been used at our house.
• The FIVE boxes beer 3 Early Spring Beer and 2 Summerfest below the ESB
• The basketball bags that are there for???
• The case of water UNDER the bags
• The wonderful carpet cleaner that needs to go back to my Auntie, but I love it so much....and I forgot it last time I visited Utah.
• Can you see the corner desk?? Me either. It's the one on the far left of the photo...it's covered with Ubaldo's work clothes. I don't know why they can't go in our bedroom.
• The only things that are mine...the 2 clear storage containers...that are usually in the closet, but I took them out to find something and never put them back!
• Finally, our paper towels and shredder.

Moving on....this is the other side of the room.

• The "BEER FRIDGE"
• Empty boxes of beer
• Empty card box from Christmas
• Empty copier paper boxes
• Blue cups
• Tin foil
• Adam's desk.
• My mirror
• JUNK, JUNK and more JUNK. Oh yes and more empty beer boxes

Adam's desk again...showing the MESS of discs and empty Gatorade case. Do you think I need to get the boys moving on now what has become their junk room?? I do.

And this is...wait a second....how did this get in there?? Another story for another time!! It could be my mess, but where??!

Kangaroo Zoo

My mom and I took Morgan, Jace, Aidan and Beau here while I was visiting. They had a lot of fun. There aren't a whole bunch of slides there, maybe 5 or 6, but they still enjoyed themselves for a couple of hours. They even had 2 little play areas for kids under 4 and one for kids 8 and under. Beau liked those the best because she could do it herself. The other kids loved the biggest slide. Their faces were priceless!! We even talked my mom into doing it!

Dustin's Graduation!!

It's official, my little brother has graduated. Congratulations Dust!!

P.S. Thanks to Kalli for the fabulous idea, everyone LOVED it, as they did Zack's!!

Beau, Z's Graduation & Quail Lake

I drove down to St. George and took Beau with me. Katy, Grama Viv and Knox went down in Grama's car. Zack graduated on the Friday before Memorial Day (sorry no pics, but there are some cute ones).

I'm glad that Kalli asked me to come a little early and hang out! We had a wonderful time sleeping on the floor while Grama was on her bed...talking til 4 in the morning!! And creating more wonderful memories with Gram Viv!!

On Memorial Day I went to the lake with Kreg, Mindy, Kalli, Zack, Haylee, Klayton and Slayde. Kreg and Mindy just got some sweet new JetSki's! I had a good time and wish I could do it more often.

Black Butte Lake

Weekend in San Luis Obispo

This last weekend we went to visit my cousin that lives in Templeton, CA. She lives about 25 minutes from the coast, so we took a quick trip over there. This is at Pismo Beach. It was so windy and cold so we didn't stay long. But over all, it was a good trip and we both had a good time!

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!

Well, I have had this wart that sits on the underneath of my wrist. It's right on a patch of eczema. As you know, eczema is dry skin that itches. I scratched and scratched, eventually scratching the wart and spreading it to my forearm. I was inspecting my arm last week and discovered that I had about 5 little warts on it. So, I was ready to get them off. I was tired of scratching and spreading them. I asked Bald if he would go with me to the store to get something for them. It just so happened that he was in the middle of an online tournament. I have recently noticed that ever since I started living with Bald and doing pretty much everything with him, I have a hard time going to the store by myself while he is home! Anyway, Adam, our roommate, just happens to have a Do-it yourself wart freezer that he purchased. I didn't really want to spend all the time driving across town just to chicken out on buying it myself. So, he talked me into letting him do it. It wasn't too bad at first, just a little sting. It was pretty easy going. I let him do all the spots instead of just one. The next day, I had 1 pretty small blister, and 1 huge blister (sorry no pic). The directions said that could occur. Me, being me, couldn't leave the one alone so i put a tiny hole in it. It just wouldn't stop calling my name and just asking me to do it. So I did. And boy did it feel better. Then yesterday while I was drying my car, I scraped the blister off the smaller one, oh man did it hurt! So, this is the aftermath. It didn't hurt right after I did it or even the next day. But for the past 3-4 days, it's been painful. Here is the wonderful after pic that I took today!!

Update: Today my arm is feeling almost back to normal!

This is For Grandma Viv!!

Weekend Fun!

These are just some pictures of us shooting skeet. Eric came up for the weekend to go to the Gun Show with Ubaldo and Jake. We ended up shooting for the day on Saturday and they went on Sunday.

Lisa & Jake (top) Eric (bottom) & me
Jake and Lisa
Bald being funny...I almost dropped him!
Eric (left), Jake and Ubaldo shooting the skeet on the tree.

Not A Whole Lot

Not much has been going on. Ubaldo was up in the snow for 15 days, and that wasn't much fun. I was mostly a hermit. But now he's home and we are back to our normal lives!

This is a typical night at Apartment one-two-seven!! The boys playing cards and watching movies!
While Ubaldo was in the snow, he grew out his beard. The snow and wind hurt his face. So when he got home he thought that it would be "Hilarious" to go with the Miami Vice "stache". It's not a very good picture. I thought that he was going to shave it, but NOPE, he decided that he needed to keep it for a bit longer! As of today he still has it!!
And this is just a covered bridge that we found on one of our drives. Not too far around that turn it's all dirt road, so he decided to turn around!

Snow Time!

So, that horrible storm that hit Northern Cal...

Bald had to go to the Sierra Nevadas to do chain control on I-80. Which, the weather was fine the first night. Then the second night is when it hit Chico. It was SO BAD. I thought that the wind was going to blow a tree or something bad on to my car. But luckily it didn't. We lost power in Chico for FOUR days!! After the 2nd day I had enough, so I went to Truckee, CA. That's where Bald was staying. The drive there was awful, but having power was SO nice. I stayed there from Sunday through Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, when Ubaldo got back from his shift, we went for a drive. Lake Tahoe is only like 30 minutes away. The lake is HUGE! I couldn't believe it. We didn't get a chance to go to the other side because of the road conditions and Ubaldo needed to sleep before his next shift. But it was beautiful. I only got a couple of pics because it was FREEZING!

This is just a quick shot of the hotel we stayed in, Hampton Inn.
Cute little snow pose.
Cute little beenies!
Lake Tahoe from the McDonald's parking lot!

Our first Christmas tree

This is our tree....thanks Mom. It needs a little something more. Maybe some ribbon? But it's good enough for our first one.

Bald thought that it was funny to take this picture because I was cold.

Time with Beau

On my last day there, I went and got Beau. I took her to my Arriola Family Christmas party. She was looking cute as ever with her little piggies. She had a great time playing with all the little kids there. There were about 4 or 5 kids that were her same age. She was like the Energizer Bunny, I thought for sure as soon as I took her home she was going to crash...YEAH RIGHT! She had to show me all her new tricks that she had learned and did pretty much anything so that she didn't fall asleep. I love that little girl and all of my other cousins!

Dad & Me

I spent a few days with my Dad. We went to see Beowulf in 3D. We had a good time. Then we went shopping for a star for him to put on his flag pole. It turned out really nice. I had a good time with him, it was just too cold for me outside.

Do you love our glasses??

Temple Square

After the party, Kalli and I went to see the lights at Temple Square. It was FREEZING! We took some pictures, but we were too shy to ask people to take our picture, so we only got one of the two of us. You will have to ask her to see it.