Funny Pictures

I recently started to notice that when we all take pictures for an event or something that we set aside the "bad ones"... well I decided that some of these "bad ones" are actually the best ones!! The saying is that a picture is worth a thousand words... well these pictures are worth more than a thousand.  I began my search of my library to find a couple of photos...however there is a lot more than a couple.  So on slow blog days I have decided to show you these awesomely hilarious photos... so you have some sort of entertainment at work ;0) We will just start with a few random photos...

Here is Molly and Kim... so hungry for s'mores they can't even put it down for a picture

Okay, now this photo is extremely awkward... but to know Dayton's sense of humor is to love Dayton. Although I do love how terrified both boys look...lol

To justify my face in this picture... I thought sense it was being taken in that sienna or whatever its called... I thought I should embrace my John Wayne side!!

Tweedy's Surprise 25th!!!

So our dear friend Tweedy turned 25 this year in August... you might be asking yourself why the heck did you throw her a birthday party in November then??? Well the answer is two fold... one, she was in Europe for her actual birthday and two, we really wanted to surprise her! We decided to invite all her friends and family to meet us at Roux Louisiana Kitchen in San Jose, off Santana Row. We told Tweedy that we were planning a girls night out, so she would suspect anything.  And it worked!! We got there and her first response was "Why is Dayton here?" (even though that is most peoples response when they see Dayton somewhere...ZING!!! lol) Then we yelled SURPRISE!! And she was still a little slow to understand what was happening...lol.  After she caught on...it turned out to be a great night. We got her these sweet purple heels to add to her collection (not that she needs any). The dinner was great and we all got these drinks called hurricanes, which were super cool cause they put dry ice in them, so it bubbled.  After dinner we went to a bar in Los Gatos (forget the name) but it was really fun!! We had a great time dancing the night away...unfortunately they didn't play our song, The Cupid Shuffle, before we left.  Sam was super disapointed ;0) It was another great night out with friends and family!!

Tweedy with the boys

Oh the birthday girl had a grea night with her date ;0)

All Hallows Eve...

Peanuts style!! This years Halloween we decided to take it a little bit easy on everything, so we only slightly decorated...lol!! The entire group decided to do a theme... and we decided on the Peanuts gang!! It turned out super cute!!The party was a big success because it was the same night as the World Series... and we all know how that turned out.  So needless to say the bay area embraced the black and orange, so it made for a great Halloween. 

Everyone seemed to have a great time and the costumes this year were amazing!!! Jon won best costume.. he was a hillbilly.  Of course I had to leave early cause I had work the next day... but it was a fun day at work!! Gotta love Holloween!!

To the left is Dayton's spider that he worked super hard on... it moves and everything!! Very impressive!!

I told Jaybee to dress as a peanut character... and this is what she interpreted Mr. Peanut!!!

Jon with his hillbilly costume... lol!!

Debbi was a gypsie and baby lucas and the whole Burkholder family were some version of Santa Clause... they looked super cute!

My mom was a biker chick...I think the tatoos were very natural looking ;0)

The most creative costume of the night went to my brother and Dominic. I saw them earlier in the day and they were covered in styrofoam dust... then five hours later they show up at the house like this!!

Mike's Hidden Talent

As most of you know Mike and I are not the most crafty people on the planet.  Its hard to believe that such athleticness cannot translate into sewing, paper cutting, or scrapbooking...but it doesn't.  However, in the recent years we have discovered Mike's hidden talent... pumpkin carving!! He does it all without tracing!! I am very impressed with his craftiness... now if only I could find my crafty side.

This is the barfing pumpkin and the skull pumpkin from last year.

Dwight K Shroot from The Office, from two years ago

This year was Snoopy... the whole gang dressed up as Peanuts characters...so it went with the theme!!

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!!