Please Pray!!!!

My friend Michelle's husband passed away on December 27th. He was only 45 years old. She and her two children are going to need alot of love & strength to get through this horrible time. I remember losing my dad to cancer when I was 18, I cannot imagine losing him when I was their age. Please pray for them!!! Thank You!!!!

Happy Holidays!!!

It's been a while since I've posted on here. I've been busy going to holiday parties, working, and preparing for Christmas. I probably won't post again until after the holidays.....

Here's wishing you and yours a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

3CMGs Holiday Party

Every year, my girlfriends and I host a holiday party for our recipe group (3CMGs stands for 3 Course Meal Girls). For Christmas we invite our mom's to attend. This year we invited Trisha's dad (he's been hinting for the past 2 years that he would like to come to a 3CMG event). We had a great time! here are some pics from the party:







As always we take lots and lots of pictures!!!!! If you attend one of these events,you'd better expect to be photographed several hundred times lol!
We take pics of what food we serve, do funny photo shoots, and more! I can't post a picture of the appetizer I made (yet) because I'm making it for Christmas and want it to be a surprise (my sister reads my blog). But it was a HUGE hit!!!! Even Liana's son loved it and he's a bit picky!

Trisha's dad got all emotional when we gave out the gifts (the mom's received an ornament that had the picture we all took by the tree and said Christmas 2008 3CMGs, and Trisha's dad received a frame certificate that made him an honorary 3 course meal guy)...it was sooo cute!

"takin' it back to the old school"

A bunch of friends from high school decided we should plan our own reunion. It's been 17 years since we graduated from high school. We planned the event on facebook, and leading up to the reunion we all scanned in old high school pictures and posted them on the event site. We went to two different places in Santana Row. Here are some pics from the night:

Pumpkin Carving.....

Since the pumpkin patch we normally go to didn't have very many, we bought just one pumpkin. We went to my friend Mindy's house to carve pumpkins. The kids did a great job and had a lot of fun carving pumpkins and unfortunately for Mindy, throwing pumpkin guts all over her table!!!! At least they helped clean up afterwards...its' the least they could do right? LOL!










Christian did a great job on his pumpkin. Usually I help him with it, but this year he did it all by himself!


And just in case you didn't know who's pumpkin it is, Christian carved ILS on the back which means
I LOVE SKATEBOARDING!!!!

Ghost House

It wouldn't be Halloween without a visit to the "GHOST HOUSE". We've been going for years, in fact I used to go when I was a little girl so it's fun to carry on the tradition with my son. My girlfriend mindy and I took the kids and of course had to get a carmel apple!!!! That's one of the best parts about going to the ghost house! The kids had fun playing games, and Christian and Mindy's oldest son figured out how to win at the treasure chest game so they kept getting back in line to win more prizes LoL!















Christian enjoying his carmel apple!

My Weekend....

While my husband was in Vegas for an r/c boat race, my son and I decided to take a vacation of our own. Not very far, just to my mom's house in Pleasanton for the weekend. I love spending time with my mom. We always have a good time together and it's relaxing to just do whatever we want, no plans just have fun! We went to the Danville Fall Festival for a little while on Saturday. I didn't buy anything, but we saw this beautiful GLASS PUMPKIN PATCH.....I would love to have bought one but thought, I don't really have anywhere to put it when fall is over and it would probably get broken so I'll just take a picture:





I've always wanted to have one of these cartoon caricatures done of my son, and there was a guy there drawing them for only $5!!!! It turned out really cute and I had it matted & framed to hang in his room!!!



We went to Richards Craft Store and got a bunch of deals (everything was 25% off in the store on Saturday!!!) And of course after running around and shopping, I had to take my son to the skate park for a while. When we were there, this older guy was skateboarding which at first I thought what is this old guy hanging out with a bunch of kids? But he was actually a really good skater. My mom & I got to talking with him and found out he's been skating for 35 years, and his son (Nate Schierholtz)plays for the SF Giants!



He was really cool, and you could tell he is a really proud dad! He gave us some autographed baseball cards which was very nice!

The rest of the weekend we just relaxed, ate out a couple times, went through old family photos and went to the book store in Downtown mainstreet. I didn't really take a lot of pictures, just enjoyed spending time with my mom and my son. It was a great weekend!!!!

Spooky Halloween Brownies

I saw the recipe for these on another website or blog (unfortunately I can't recall where I saw it, I saved the picture and recipe onto a word document instead of the link). Anyways here are mine (I had a little trouble with the eyes and mouth because I used the decorater black frosting that comes in a can with the different tips and it called for piping the eyes which would've probably worked better. I'll try that on the next batch.