Bogus Attempt!

Ok so here is my not so pretty attempt to make a cute cake after not making one in sooooo long. It's been 3 years since my last cake decorating class i had and my creativeness was not up to par. Even though everyone thought this was cute which by the way thank you to those who did, i can't help but be my own worst critic though. I have all these little figures that i bought hoping to do some cute cakes later in life i thought it was high time i used some of them. So for one of the girls birthdays at church i tried out my much needed to be practiced upon abilities to make a cute cake. The theme as you can see was Sleeping Beauty. In my head i had the cottage and a stream (which i was going to do trees as well, but didn't want to take that much time doing them). I was going for the forest scene. Cute in my head and ok turn out, but it was just supposed to be better. For one thing everything started out all wrong. When i turned over the cake most of the bottom stayed in the pan(which i know and totally forgot to put wax paper down) Then when i was frosting it i couldn't get the frosting as smooth as i wanted it. Then i couldn't find my basket weave and my grass tip. So instead of the cute basket weave on the cottage and grass all around on the ground i did little strokes of my knife to make the cottage look kind of log cabin feel and i sprinkled cinnamon sugar on the ground for dirt. I put too many characters on the cake, but didn't want to leave any out so as an end result here is the cake.

(yeah in my head i pictured something totally different)
I can't wait to take some cake decorating classes again!!

One more Pic

I forgot about this pic. I liked the Jelly's, but i wanted to have Sam sit on the ledge that was there and pose right in front of them, but he didn't want to get to close to them. Oh well i'll settle for this pic!!

Fun day at the Aquarium

We had the pleasure to take our cute little nephew to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Longbeach. (We were supposed to take Maeby too, but she was sick). Of course i didn't check the battery in the camera which was almost dead and did die on us so i had to revert to my phone. These pictures were all taken on my phone. We had a lot of fun even though it was a lot smaller then i expected. Sam really liked it. Only bad part of the whole day is that i got bitten by one of the birds. Evil Bird. All of the sudden it just clamped onto my thumb and wouldn't let go. I was shaking it to get it off, but it wasn't letting go, even by that time it was upside down. I couldn't really freak out about(which Jake said that i hardly showed that it was biting me) cuz Sam was right there and he was already a little frightened about the birds. He didn't want to get very close to them and i didn't want him to be afraid of birds for the rest of his life. The bird was most likely just trying to get the nectar that spilled onto my thumb earlier, but i still say it was an evil bird!

This is the Evil Bird. See how it's already looking at my thumb! This was taken right before it bit me. This is as close as Sam would get to the birds!!

This bird was a good little birdie! (i don't know how the pic turned out like that, but i like the colors)


A bunch of Seahorses. I thought they were cool!

See all the baby sharks on top of each other. Yeah we got to pet those.

I think Sam was trying to grab one!

Too bad there weren't sharks that were actually this size there. We did see some big sharks, but nothing that big.

We also got to pet bat rays which was really cool cuz they would come right up to you saying pet me! I don't have pictures on here cuz that was on my real camera and I haven't gotten those pics off yet.

We ended up eating at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant that is across the street from the Aquarium. It was fun. They quiz you on Forrest Gump Stuff and try and make it a fun experience. Since i don't eat sea food i had a nice hamburger which i shared with Sam. Jake had a whole lot of different type of shrimp and Sam tried some too. Overall it was a good day!!

Fine already I'll do it!

Now that 3 people I know say that everyone on their list needs to do this I'll do it already, but I don't tag anyone else to do it! :)

3 Joys
Being able to do whatever I want...when I want.
Spending the Whole Day with my husband!
And this one is pre-mature....but welcoming my new baby into this world (that will be great joy)

3 Fears
Getting a phone call from someone at the Sheriff's saying that Jake is in the hospital .... or worse!! (yeah already had them call once and freak me out. You don't call someone at 5:30 in the morning and say is this Mrs. Jenson and then go on to say this is Sargent ______ from Southwest Detention center, I think my heart stoped right there until he went on to say is your husband home yet and asking for him to call them when he gets home)
I would agree with Sara and say looking up after washing your face and seeing some scary guy in the mirror! Creepy!! (that goes for anyone attacking me actually)
Losing a child that is in my care whether it is my own or someone else's and having to tell that person (and I don't just mean losing them in a store or somewhere, but also them losing their life)

3 Obsessions
My husband would say that one of them is reading.....(hey I can't help it if it's a really good book and I don't want to put it down to make dinner, get fast food)
If you can have an obsession with being lazy then that's me.
Not having my dogs lick me.....I HATE that!!

3 Random Facts
10 years ago I HATED to read (I would even watch the movie to do a book report) Now it's one of my obsessions!
I used to not be able to snap and can now do it, but with my pinkie finger!
I like to examine the bugs/spiders in my house Before I kill them!! (if they are outside I'll leave them be)

Rockin and Rollin!!

5.8 earthquake right outside of chino hills and here in Temecula it was fun! We were shaking for a while. Not just seconds but mintues. After it was over me and my co-worker Chris look at each other and say that was cool and Rena looks at us and say you guys are sick!! I don't know i guess i'm just a sick person. Even if i was in the middle of it and i didn't get hurt i think i would still think it was cool. Especially if things acutally fell off the walls. Now i think i would start to get worried and acutally duck down if things fell of walls, but i would still say cool afterwards. I know i'm WEIRD!!

I have a little pooch!

So as people have pointed out I'm getting a little fat....I mean a little pooch! (I keep forgetting to take a picture of this little growth i'm having so i finally had a co-worker take a pic on my phone. As you can see my lovely desk in the background!) So i've noticed the pooch for quite some weeks now even though everyone else said i wasn't showing. I'm glad people finally think i'm starting to show. I loved the Young Woman comments that they said i finally look normal. They said i was concaved before. I wasn't concaved! Now the picture looks like i'm arching my back but that is just the shape of my back and i always stand that way. Jake said i wouldn't be showing as much if i didn't arch my back like i do, but i can't help it! My body is just weird.

So even though it's early for this to be happening i can already notice that my belly button is starting to stick out more. I have a weird belly button already and it doesn't suprise me that it's doing this. My belly button is a inny outy kind of deal. I know it sounds weird and it looks weird too, but hey it makes me different! So i'm afraid i'm going to have a Huge belly button later on when the baby pushes it all out. I always said i would put a bandaid over it so it doens't poke out so much (cuz i dont' like that look) but i don't want to wear a bandaid on my belly for 5 months! Anyway. Other woes of being pregnant so far have been some headaches which i never get grrrrr, stretching and moving around of my internal organs which is quite uncomfortable so far, my siatic nerve on both sides acting up (thank goodness it's gone away mostly, cuz that hurts), back pain (already) and i'm still really tired which i thought would start to go away a little more then it has. (i'm falling asleep at work still) Ok so i'll stop complaining now. When i complain to my co-workers all the say is JUST WAIT. I really don't want to just wait cuz i don't want it getting worse. Alas thats life being pregnant right!!

So Happy!

So there is another house for sale right near us and i'm the happiest women alive now. It's the people that we have wanted to move out since we got there. The kids just leave trash everywhere. All over the streets and in people's yards it's just not right. They are also always outside which is fine, but they are always in the street blocking it and won't move out of the way very quickly. So if i were buying a home and drove down our neiborhood i'd keep driving.
I know what your thinking well they won't move out too quickly cuz they have to sell their house first right . . . Wrong! They are renters so i'm sure the owners gave them a notice so they can fix up the house to sell it. And i'm sure it needs a lot of fixing seeing how they trash the outside! So in hopefully either 30 days or 60 days depending on the notice we should have a clean street.
I'm also looking forward to the kids not ringing my doorbell all the time and asking for weird stuff. Yeah they don't ask for thinks like sugar and flour it things like lightblubs and duct tape (for their baby. . . still wondering what they were going to do to the baby with duct tape??) and cation tape and wood . . . and then there's normal things like a rake or hammer. We let them borrow stuff when we first moved in, but they either didn't bring it back (like glue) or they didn't treat it very nice so we just started saying no to everthing they wanted to borrow.
Jake says it's not so great cuz they will be another house on our street for sale and empty, but i think that might be a great thing.
So now we will have the house to the right of us empty and for sale, the house across the street and one over to the left empty and for sale and now hopefully soon the house across the street one over to the right empty and for sale! It might start to look like we are the problem though! Hopefully not!

Preggers!

So I'm not this far along, but it was a fun picture to take. My due date is January 18, 2009. This picture we took to send to my sister Lori on her cell phone, but then when we called she said all text messages were blocked. So much for that idea! Here's to being 9 weeks 2 days along! Only 215 more days to go!

Before and After

We have spent a lot of time trying to remodel our house over the past two years and here's some before and after pic's to prove it. We are very happy with what we have accomplished!

Before After

What our house looks like now. We painted it and put in new plants and put in a bench ....that's just the front yard!

Now the BACKYARD!

Our Yard used to be just bark. EVERYWHERE! So we took out the bark along with so many truck loads of dirt and brought in new good dirt and made what you see below!

Now we have nice plants and grass that we can go out and enjoy! A new fence is the next thing we hope to do back here!

Here is our lovely kitchen when we first moved in. This is Laurie and Ben's handywork. Don't worry they didn't want it that color either, but once they were done painting they didn't want to do it again.

Check out those floors and the cabinets. Lovely don't you think. Now this is what we did with it.

We refaced the cabinets, added an island, painted of course, put in track lighting and a fan. We also put in all new tile. So much better!

Last big thing was our fireplace. Have a look!

We thought at first just to paint and try to make it look nicer.....but after a while we did what you see below.

We ended up doing a lot more, but i don't have the pictures to show. We got new carpet and baseboards, all new interior and exterior doors, molding, painted everyroom, re-did the bathrooms completly, etc etc. I could keep going on, but i won't bore you. It's not only the big things, but also the little things that make a huge difference. We aren't completly done yet, we still have to save up some more do do the rest! We are so proud of our home!

Kendel and Roxy

So we brought the dogs with us to my parents house over the weekend and my nephew Kendel had a blast with them. He would not leave Roxy alone for a second. He always was calling her name or picking her up. At first he was picking her up and trying to throw her. I had to put a stop to that, but he continued to pick her up over and over. Poor Roxy. I bet she was sooooo tired of that little boy by the end of the day. At least we are getting her kid trained. Koda already was kid trained and we were curious how Roxy would do even though we knew she would never bite them, but now we know for sure!

Tornando Watch

I can't believe we had a tornando hit in Riverside County. Knocked over a big truck and overturned some railway cars. CRAZY STUFF. Acutally a couple touched down on. I didn't think we were in Kansas .

Why do i get stuck with the garbage!

So my dogs got into the trash either this morning or last night. All I know is when i walked out there to feed them their was trash everywhere. They shredded it all. Luckily they didn't get a ton of it out of the trash can. There was a beef jerky bag that was all over the yard. I'm sure they licked it clean. I had fun picking that all up before I left for work. I kept telling them they were bad dogs, but they didn't listen much!

Me and the Kids

So here is me with my cute little nephews and niece that live here in CA. I have a lot more elsewhere that i don't see much. I love playing with the ones i do see. They are a blast. I only don't have a picture of Baby Jake and me! (almost all of these were taken with my cell phone)

Pretty Pic's!

So i thought i would display some of the incredible pic's my sister took while in Hawaii. I so wanted to go and was very jealous! Doesn't she take good pictures.

In&Out is crazy!

So i was at my sister’s house last weekend and we deceided to grap some In&Out for lunch. So we drive there and are waiting in the drive-through when all of the sudden everyone starts leaving. Ok this In&Out parking lot was already small and the line for the drive through goes right through it. We had 3 different cars trying to back up almost at the same time. We had one that started to and we were like AHHHH they are going to hit the car, but they didn’t and then it happened again and again. It was so crazy. A truck was going to do it also, but we finally had enough room to move past that truck so we did before they could back up into us. They instead got to scare the people behind us. Crazy ordeal! Remind me not to go to that In & Out again!