Feel'n old

This post has nothing to do with age or aching bones. Maybe just maturity in interests. I've noticed recently that my tastes in magazines is changing. I've always enjoyed my decorating magazines & have recently gotten into a particular crafting magazine. I receive Southern Living because I am a consultant. I'm not as excited to get my Cosmo's & other girly magazines in the mail as I used to be. I still read them but not as quickly as my "grown-up" magazines. I still enjoy a good rag mag here & there. I mainly get those for trips for amusement purposes. I'm thinking Cosmo may become one of those amusement on trips magazines. Here's the real kicker... I got super excited over a subscription invitation for the Martha Stewart magazine. I don't care much for the lady. Her voice & way of talking drives me nuts, but I have her show on almost daily. Mainly as noise but if something sounds interesting I will pay attention. I've frequently "borrowed" some ideas from her.

Lets play a little game called "catch up"

I know, I know... it's been a couple, maybe going on a few weeks since I last wrote to you all - my loyal dedicated fans. LOL Things have been busy around here. Tonight is the first night that I have had a few quiet hours to myself. I'm working on a project for the Pilot so I figured it was a good time to catch up on here. Princess didn't take an afternoon nap so she was out by 6:40pm & Tootie, strangely enough, followed shortly after her. The dogs even went to bed early! I know I should be there, too, but I have a few things I need to get moving on. So, what have we been up to you ask??! Lets see...

My parents arrived on March 15th & stayed a week. That was the night I had my O' Wives get together & we all met Jimmy Fallon. I haven't written since then. Tootie participated in 4 different egg hunts through out the week. My MOMS club had one. The Easter bunny was there & Tootie wanted absolutely nothing to do with him. He climbed my leg saying "no mommy, no mommy" over & over. Not going to force it on the child. Then we had a squadron get together. We got him to give the Easter bunny a high five. He saw Princess sitting on the bunny's lap & she didn't get scared, so the bunny must be o.k. While we were there the bunny came to the house & hid a few eggs. At 2 he has a pretty good egg collecting system down. Put the basket down & fill your arms full of eggs. Place them in the basket & go get more. On Easter Sunday we went down to the in-laws for the day. We all went to Hotel Del for brunch & the last egg hunt. It was a pretty good day although the Santa Ana winds kicked my allergies into full gear.

Oh! We also went to Disneyland. That was a blast. Tons of rides Tootie could ride on & even Princess rode a few. We'll be going back!

Since then I have torn the garage apart... well my half, to purge & organize. Having 2 little helpers has slowed the process down but I think I am doing pretty good. Once I get that all put back together I can move onto my scrapbooks & the garden.

Every Tuesday certain museums down at Balboa Park are free. I took Tootie to the train museum. Trains are his latest obsession. The museum isn't the largest place but we some how managed to spend over 2 hours looking around. It was pretty neat! Balboa Park in general was pretty cool. We'll definitely need to explore it some more.

We finally have a park close by. Can't walk to it, but it's a 2 minute drive. It's been there for a couple years now, but it's been all fenced up. Something with permit issues. Anyways, it's pretty nice. There is a little rock fountain area that the kids can run threw & 2 separate play areas for the kids (under 5 & over 5). Of course Tootie enjoyed playing more in the older kids area. There is a slide that is about 10' up in the area. That was his favorite. He liked to fly down it. He wouldn't land so gracefully but he'd get up & say "I ok" & go some more. He's such a hoot.

I had a wonderful birthday this year. The Pilot got me an iPod Touch & some beautiful flowers. A couple of the girls from the squadron that live up here & I went out for a dance class & then dinner. It was really a great night. This past weekend SIL & her daughter drove down & we all met up at the in-laws. We had a yummy birthday dinner of chicken curry & cheese cake for dessert. Saturday we (SIL, niece & me) drove up to California Adventure. Afterwards we went to dinner.

Well that's about all of it in a nutshell. I need to get back to work on this project & then go to bed.

More pictures from last night...

Just checked my e-mail & there were a few more from last night in there waiting for me to open up!

I still have to brag about my pretty cupcakes in the other blog, but I need to head to bead for some beauty rest. We're taking the kids to Disneyland.

This is how we (California) Roll & Jimmy Fallon

Yesterday we had our monthly squadron OW/SC meeting. Eight of us met up at the Yard House at the Irvine Spectrum for dinner and then a comedy show. The Temecula crowd (3 of us) drove the farthest. Just over an hour. We cut through base to hop on the 5 because there just is no easy way for us to get to that highway. We picked up another wife along the way. Dinner was good. We didn't have to wait too long for a table. The girls introduced me to a new drink (well new for me) called Cider Beer. It was pretty good & easy to drink. It bubbled & tasted almost like champagne. Very interesting. I went bold for dinner. I ordered the California Roll. It's crab sushi. My extent of sushi tasting has been limited to some sort of shrimp roll at the local Japanese steak house. I will not try the fish sushi or anything that has not been cooked. It came out in 1 HUGE roll. It was very tasty. I couldn't eat the whole thing myself, but I am glad I ordered it because it hit the spot. Another wife & I split that & a brownie dessert topped with mint chocolate chip ice cream.I took a picture of the California Roll.

The green stuff is avocado. The top layer is the crab & the bottom layer is white rice. The brown stuff on the plate is soy sauce. Not sure what the red dots are/were, but they were spicy!

Afterwards we all hopped across the way to see a comedy show. The headliner was Owen Benjamin. There were 2 other comedians who opened the show. I can't remember their names. Tells you how big of an impression they left on me. I think their jokes I think would have been better suited for a much younger audience. They got a few laughs, just none really from us. I thought they were actually kinda annoying & I was hoping the whole show wasn't going to be like that. Owen Benjamin was great. He's an amazing piano/keyboard player, too. There was a surprise guest that knocked us all off our feet... Jimmy Fallon!!! They both performed separately & then did a duet together that was absolutely hilarious. Afterwards we were all waiting for everyone in the group to go & get out of the bathroom. We convinced the CO's wife to go up to the security desk & ask if we could meet Jimmy. I walked up with her & it turned out the guy sitting there was the owner. We explained who we were & why were there & asked if we could meet him & possibly get our picture taken with Jimmy. The guy was totally nice & humored us. After the place cleared out we were taken back into the show room. Jimmy was really nice. He shook each of our hands & asked us all our names. He posed for a few pictures & signed some of our receipts. I'm waiting to get pictures from others, but I will leave you all with this one. This was the icing on a great night.