Krista's Baby Shower

It is quite amazing that we are in the section of life that baby showers are out numbering bridal showers!! I can't believe how many of my friends are having babies... I love it!!! Puts the baby fever on the back burner for awhile... lol. Whats a little ironic about this post is that as I am posting this my friend Krista is giving birth... so obviously I am a little behind.  Anyways we had a "nursing reunion"/ baby shower for Krista's baby boy Aiden!! It was so great to see everyone and play games and just catch up on life! I of course, being the competitive one that I am, won one of the games.  It was the guess how big the belly is with ribbon game (I am sure that is the official title)... I  swear I was only a centimeter off!! I was quite excited to say the least.  It was a wonderful day with my nursing friends!!

So my friend Grace painted this free hand for baby Aiden's room!! He has a jungle theme room and so she did it from memory!! I can't believe how good it turned out!! It put my store bought present to shame...lol

Katie apparently has craftiness too!! She made this blanket.. and it also matches the room!!! These girls are AMAZING!!!

Kimmy's Birthday Fun!!!

In celebration of Kimmy's last birthday in her twenties, we went to Campo di Bocce for a nice dinner and some bocce ball.  Earlier in the day we took a family trip to the fabulous city of Oakland to see the Pixar exhibit, eat at Sauls, and get some Fentons ice cream.  Both were fabulous... apparently Mike and I like museums that show cartoons.  And of course Fentons and Sauls were fantabulous!!!

Bocce was a lot of fun... there was a lot of food, wine, and "friendly competition."  We decided to do guys vs girls... well lets just say that the girls absolutely dominated!! We were so good that the boys wanted to stop or they started changing the rules!! I believe at one point the score was 15-1!!

It was a really fun night to spend with the girls and boys.  We all cleaned up so nicely!!! LOL!! I can't wait for the in laws to turn thirty cause I know we will do it up big!!! Only cause we love them so dearly!!

A Be-witching Night

As new Livermorons we have yet to discover some of the great quality events this town offers... until last Wednesday!! Thanks to our non Livermoron friend Tori, we discovered a tradition that consists of everyone decorating witch hats and walking around downtown drinking different types of martinis.  Although I am not much of a martini kind of girl... I am very much a dress up in costume kind of girl.  So Sam and I decorated hats... which I was very impressed with Sam's ability to sew!! The night turned out to be a lot of fun... even though we didn't make it to the top ten in cackles and hats (apparently I am losing a lot of contests, I just realized!) It was a fun night out with the girls!!

Mike didn't want to come out with us because he thought it was mostly for women... which he was right, but he decided to be a hooded scary man before we left.

We tried to cheers before every martini... but after the tenth one we kind of started to run out of things to cheer about... apparently that means life is pretty good!! But there were sixteen different martinis to drink!! Anything from jalapeno watermelon to pumpkin pie!! AMAZING!!!

Me and the Blam sporting our craftiness... I think we did pretty good! But our competition was stiff, so next year we will be better prepared!!

Salsa Competition

A couple of weeks ago at Alden Lane Nursery, we entered a home-grown tomatoe salsa contest.  Since we basically have a salsa garden we used all our veggies... hoping it would garuntee us a win.  So we did a major harvest, chopped all day, Sam cried over our onions, and we didn't even get in the top three!! We were the only ones that did a pico de gilo (not sure how to spell that) , so we think thats what hurt us.  However, when Mike went to pick up the container the women working there said they liked ours the best because it was a pico style! So I guess we learned for next year that we will magic bullet all our veggies!! Or just enter in two styles, so we can please everybody. 

We obviously had tons of veggies... these pictures don't even show all the onions we picked!! Our sink is about a foot deep and it was almost filled to the top!!

The ingredients were:

white onions, green peppers, jalapeno, red peppers, banana peppers, tomatoes, cilantro, lime, lemon, and garlic!! AMAZING!!!

Here is the final product!! We had to make a quart of salsa... so we made twice the amount because we knew we would eat a lot of it before the contest started.  We thought it was really good!!

My New Humble Abode

And when I say humble I mean humble!! As most of you know I recently started working at UC Davis Medical Center as a RN on the Pediatric ICU unit!!! YAY for having a job!!! Anyways the location is in Sacramento, so it is about one hour and twenty minutes away... so that kinda sucks.  But on the bright side I met two girls at orientation who were also planning on commuting... one from Richmond and one from Reno!! So we decided to get a place together by the hospital, so we have somewhere to crash when we have back to back shifts.  Anyways we found this one bedroom apartment right accross the street from the hospital for 650 a month!! So split that three ways and we are paying as much as we would just to park!! The place is clean, but it looks like it never made it out of the 70's. So here are some pictures... and don't worry it looks somewhat sketchy, but there is a police station right accross the street!! (I am not sure if that makes it more sketchy now that I think about it...lol)

This is our kitchen which came with Glad Wrap (weird).  And now we have plastic silverware thanks to Debbi!!

Me and Gloria claimed this room because there is a wall AC unit and it is BLAZING in Sac!!! And we are on the second story so it can be like an oven sometimes!!

  This will be Erin,s room when she moves in and another girl may move in too!! YAY!!

     Here is the bathroom... and the towel is up cause there is no curtain.