Baby Shopping

The excitement of having a baby and finding out the sex tomorrow, finally got to Mike this weekend.  We found this event online that sounded pretty cool called "Twin Valley Mother of Twin's Club equipment and clothing sale", that was going on at the Pleasanton Fairgrounds.  It was only on Saturday and of course I had to work.  So Mike went  with Auntie Kiki and Auntie Blam to this event.  Let's just say I have never come home from work and seen Mike so excited to tell me about his day.  He actually said, "This was the coolest event ever!!" "We are definitely going to another one!" Well $204.50 later our extra bedroom is now filled with baby stuff... and Mike could not be more proud!  I will let the pictures do the talking.

Here is the giant pile of stuff.. some stuff to point out are a baby swing, an umbrella stroller, the trash bags are filled with clothing, receiving blankets, books, and smaller toys.  There is also a bumbo wedged in there too, and I think that U-shaped pillow is called a boppy (don't quote me on that people I am new at this...lol)

This is one of my favorite purchases (and Baloo's too) the seat rolls around so all the toys can be played with.  Baloo has already tested it out... he seems to like it so I think Baby Kirby will too.

This hippo flashlight I think was more of a purchase for Mike, but it made us laugh for many hours.  Whenever his mouth opens to shine a light it makes the goofiest laugh ever.  I love it!!

Not that we know what we are having, but Mike saw this onesie and just had to have it.  Since it is Mike's motto.

 And last but not least the costume purchases.  I think Baby Kirby has more costumes than any other child on the planet already...lol.  Auntie Kiki and Auntie Blam found the frog costume and Mike found the lion costume. I think they are amazing!! Good job guys on all the purchases and thank you so much for going for me!!

Baby Wood...

Well I guess it's time to make the announcement on the world wide web... most of you already know, but since you have been patient not saying anything on Facebook, I thought I would reward you all with some creativeness. ENJOY!!


PS... Thank you Gabby and Jason and of course Baby Sweet for letting us steal some of your craftiness!!

Summer Update

So as I am writing this and going through pictures to post, I am trying to figure out a good excuse on why I have not posted in so darn long.  At first I thought well I have been super busy, but as I am going through pictures and struggling to find something interesting I have done this summer...being busy is probably not the best excuse.  I have just decided that I haven't had a super interesting Summer to post about.  Not that it hasn't been fun, but I think I used up all vacations and huge events in the first part of the year.  Anyways let me update you on the last 2.5 months of the Wood Family's Life...

First thing to happen to kick off Summer was our old roommate (yes I said old...Sam has now moved on to bigger better things and now lives with her boyfriend down the street in Livermore...she's still close so its no so bad.) Anyways she graduated from the teaching credential program and now works for a Middle School in Baypoint!! YAY Sam!!

This Summer we went to A's games to see fireworks, hung out by the pool and just relaxed, and a couple of girls night out dinners which are always hilarious and fun... hmmm what else? Oh we went on a vacation to Tahoe with the Burkholder Family and extended family. We had a great time in Tahoe playing tennis, swimming, miniature golf...oh and stalking a bear that was hanging out in our neighborhood.  Tori got a little close for my liking, but she got some cool photos of it.  I guess since she didn't get eaten, it was worth it. All in all a good Summer...calm a restful.  But I have a feeling things are about to get super crazy!!!

Been a Slacker...

Lately I have been such a slacker on updating this blog and I apologize for that.  But things have been a little busy.  I have been officially moved to nights at my work... but don't you worry its just for another month and then I am back to days!! Whoo hoo!! (new schedule is updated at bottom of page...remember nights people!! So when you call during the day remember nights people!! ;0)I am trying to think of what else has been happening, but I can't, so maybe I don't have any good excuses for not updating.  Well in that case I will make it up to you with both a video and an awesome outfit picture!! Yeah you feel special now ;0)

 

This video is gonna seem really random, but it was just an ah-ha moment I had and wanted to share with people that I care about who also do some bad things that they shouldn't... don't worry I won't mention names but you know who you are after you see this video!!

This is my fashion photo of the weekend from Sam's graduation party (which I will blog about tomorrow). The top is thrifted from this amazing store in downtown Livermore.  The skirt is from Banana Republic, tights and belt are from Sam's closet. And the shoes, which you can't see too well, are from Payless. The garden looks really good too... which is Deb and Dayton's backyard.

My 30 before 30 List Update aka This Girl has been Workin

I'm here to update my 30 before 30 list! I know a couple of you will be surprised that I completed some tasks on this list but to you I say " stop hating, haters." Most of these tasks were completed because my parents are coming into town tomorrow and I have to meet Momma Rosa's high standards. Now on to the completed items:

#4. Organize my home office desk and #5. Decorate my home office walls.

Okay this task was sadly a year in the making. I like to say our house is small and storage is limited so we liked to just put all our crap in the home office. You might ask "Hey I thought you had a garage?" and I'd say "Have you met my husband? He is a home wine maker and the garage is our makeshift winery." Duh, what else would we use our garage for? Let's take a look at some before pictures (please don't judge or report me to hoarders.)

Before pictures:

Yea it was a hot mess in there! Now look at the new and improved home office.

After Photos:

I love how it turned out! I added my Ikea shelf and my new bulletin board. Now I'm all inspired and can start making Matt's wine labels.

#8. Organize/decorate the floating shelves in our living room.

I was a bad blogger and didn't photograph the before of the shelves, my bad. Nothing drastic really changed, I rearranged some of the items and added a couple of books for height. I like the balance of the shelves more now. I'm trying to work with what I got as far as decorating goes at the moment since my cash flow is more like a trickle.


#10. Take an art class.

I took a calligraphy class in San Francisco and I loved it! And contrary to Mike's statement it wasn't filled with 80 year old grandmas. Some day people will realize I'm way more hip than 80 year olds. Almost everyone there was around my age or younger. There were only 2 older ladies. Calligraphy is awesome but something that takes years and years to perfect. I hope to work on it here and there and get halfway decent at it. My next art class I want to take is letterpress printing. Now I just have to find the closest senior center ;)

So there you have it my friends. I have completed 4 items off my list. Sure its June and I have 26 more items left, but slow and steady wins the race. I think I'll have 3 more items completed by next week.

Vegas Fashion...

As most of us girls know, things you wear in Vegas you probably won't ever wear again in real life.  With that being said I think we looked fairly classy for being in the Sin City.  My quote when shopping for this trip was "Yeah wear whatever...its Vegas," only to be scolded (and I mean that in a very loose term), by Mike saying, "there are still rules in Vegas!!" Gotta love the husband! Well us girls never pulled a "Britney Spears" and with enough tape our girls never made a surprise appearance. So all in all it was a great fashion weekend of things that we may never wear again...

I am not one hundred percent sure where Sam got her dress (but I wanna say Macy's in the prom section, I forgot to mention that they best time to shop for Vegas dresses is during prom season...go figure!) And her shoes are from DSW.com

My little (and obviously using that word generously, probably tiny would be better) black dress is from a store in the Pleasanton Mall ($23.00... cause it was damaged!!! YAY!!) And to be honest this was one of the more conservative choices in that store...lol.

And here is Tori in her amazing blue dress... I am not sure wear she got this though. All I know that this dress was picked out 1 day before we left. I also know that it was between this dress and a dress that had zebra print and feathers on it (Let's just say I think we all think she made a good choice here). Her shoes are Jessica Simpson slingbacks from my closet (Yes, people do occasionally borrow from me).

What Happens in Vegas...

ends up on my blog. (should I say our blog even though Kimmy never posts...hmmmm). Anyways we went to Vegas this past weekend because Mike had a coaches clinic.  Maybe I should rephrase that, Mike went to Vegas because he had a coaches clinic and everyone else tagged along ;0).  The weekend was a total blast!! Of course I can't reveal everything that happened because I love my friends way too much to embarrass them like that (or myself).  But lets see if I can give you a few highlights...

TOP 10 EVENTS/ QUOTES from this past weekend...

10. Wooty (Sam you don't spell it with an "i"), Half-rican, Canadian, and Bubbles (our name tags on our club crawl the last night we were there... guess who is who)

9. Th Blue Smurf Martini... the greatest drink ever!! Doesn't even taste like alcohol (always a good thing).

8. Tori's Birthday being celebrated at Hard Rock Cafe... with a very specific shot.

7. Everyone winning some sort of money gambling by the end of the trip.

6. Sam going to the bathroom at a club with the stall door wide open thinking that her stall was the only stall in there without a door. (It had a door...lol)

5. Tori cleaning gum off her "Biggest Fan's" T- shirt at 3 am on the strip for an hour.

4. Tweedy and Sam's sunburn (inner thigh and armpits... really ladies???)

3.  A note written by someone in their sleep (not that hard to guess who) saying " I finished Tweedy's Vegas Drink."

2. Jon tanning by the pool with socks and a t-shirt wrapped around his head like a durag, then getting in the pool saying "I am just like Michael Phelps, this is my natural habitat."

1. Tweedy falling down the stairs at the MGM Grand... pretty much the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life!!

We had a great time and created some great memories... we definitely missed a few people though!! So we will just have to do this again (Maybe next Mother's Day...lol Just kidding Deb.)

Yes we clean up nice... but take a look at the shoes.  We had heels (of course) but as we learned the hard way the first night, we could not walk everywhere we wanted to go in them.  So we purchased Dr. Scholl's Fast Flats... the greatest fifteen dollars we have ever spent!!

Jon in his "natural habitat"!!! Notice the girls expression behind him...lol

I got my backless shirt!!! As Kimmy pointed out its circa 1998 (I am all about the classics). And of course the thug life part of our little group... lol.  They look so hard don't they?

Had to have our standard bathroom photo... and this one had doors on the stalls ;0)

Fun by the pool...just ignore my antenna hair

And of course the photo of our entire group... which we took four of because Mike kept having his eyes closed... we finally gave up as you can see.