Weekend Review

Friday night a few ladies and I went to an Art & Wine night at a local shop. We got to enjoy the nice weather, eat some yummy food, listen to some great live music, look at some art, drink some wine and spend the evening together. Good times!

Saturday morning my sister and I headed to Modesto to attend our friend's daughter's first birthday. I can't believe a year has gone by already!! The way my friend and I met was in sorority in college and she invited a lot of other girls from sorority to the birthday party so it was nice to see everyone. The birthday girl was adorable eating her cake.

Birthday Girl enjoying her HUGE Cup Cake

Sorority Sisters and a few legacies

After the party we headed to San Francisco to celebrate another friend's birthday. We went out to sushi and ended up at a bar down the street. Mr. Pickle and I ended up leaving early because I wasn't feeling good, but I am glad we could make it to help the birthday girl celebrate turning 29.

Birthday Girl

Some of the ladies

Some of the men

As usual, Sunday was spent running errands, cleaning house and doing laundry!

Love Me Some Frosting

I love birthday parties or any party for that matter. Why do I love parties so much?? Well, obviously there is the celebration, the catching up with friends, the ability to let loose and have some fun, but most of all....there's cake. I love cake!! You don't think I gained weight eating fruits and veggies do you? My favorite part of the cake has got to be the overly sweet frosting. I know some people who hate the frosting and just like the actual cake, I think those people are WEIRD.

Anywho, I get to celebrate one of my dear friend's daughter's first birthday on Saturday. I am super excited, but then it dawned on me, what do I get a one year old for her birthday? Any ideas?? This is a new area for me (buying presents for babies for their birthdays). Do I buy the birthday girl something or her parent's something? I'm confused. Please enlighten me!!!! Pic from Google Images

Another Weekend Review

This past weekend was a little up and down. I wasn't feeling great on Friday so I stayed in bed all day, especially since I had a girls day planned on Saturday.

Saturday morning after picking up a couch from a friend's house (thanks for the couch D!) and cleaning the house, some ladies and I went to get our piggies pretty. We brought some champagne and snacks and made a relaxing afternoon out of it.

Afterwards we headed to my house for a homemade dinner and good conversation. It is so much fun when we all get together. It amazes me how much we have all grown. Our conversation turned from boys and sorority parties to husbands, babies and other grown up stuff. We had a blast!

Sunday morning I rested for a bit before I headed over to my friend's house to get fitted for my bridesmaid dress. Her mother-in-law to be is a great seamstress and offered to do our alterations for free to save us money. We all love the dresses. Next activity on the list is the Bachelorette Party in a few weekends. Can't wait.

Sunday afternoon was spent relaxing as a fam :)

St Patty's Day - 2011

A group of us met up for some green beer and good times for St. Patty's day. Only fail, neither of the bars we went to had green beer. We did have a good time though!

The boys were too cool to have their pics taken, but I did sneak this one of my sister's boyfriend!

Last Weekend Review

Hello blog land!!! Nice to be back. I was sick with a stomach virus last week and was absent from blog land for the whole week!! I am so glad I am feeling better.

Several of you asked how my old man neighbor's corn beef and cabbage party was and I plan on getting to that in a few minutes, but just wanted to say sorry for not responding.

I had Friday off of work and although I got a lot done on the computer and around the house, I didn't really get out too much. It was kind of nice to lay around all morning since it was POURING all day. In the afternoon I noticed my laptop was acting up, so I headed to the Apple store and was able to get my computer seen and fixed in an hour. I was pretty happy about that since the store was pretty busy. Afterwards I hung out at Barnes & Nobles since I had a class in the area a few hours later. I collected some books on sewing and browsed through them before I had to leave for my class. I am such a nerd that I enjoy spending time at the bookstore and/or library. All those books with so much knowledge!

Friday night my 'class' I was waiting to attend was actually a work out class, but not your typical work out class, it was a pole dancing class. I got a deal for my friend and I on Groupon and we decided to try it out. Holy heck was it hard. We were sore for a few days. I have a whole new found respect for pole dancers (professional or not). If you can work the pole, you are more in shape than I, because it was a work out! I came home and was watching my chick shows since Mr. Pickle was out of town for the night and it started hailing/snowing. I couldn't believe it. It stuck for a few hours too, which never happens in our area. All the neighbors were looking out their windows and taking pictures.

Saturday morning I ran some errands with my mom. Mr. Pickle wasn't feeling well and wasn't feeling up to attending our neighbor's party, but I felt like I had to go so I went and represented for the Pickle family. It was fun getting to know him and some other neighbors. Older people are so darn cute and so friendly. I enjoyed listening to their stories too. I stayed for about 2 hours before heading home, I was so happy I went. Afterwards, Mr. Pickle and I went out to a wonderful dinner at a new (to us) restaurant. Since it was rainy and we were sleepy, we headed home and went to bed early.

Sunday morning we headed out to meet Mr. Pickle's parents and go to Mr. Pickle's great great aunt's house for a visit. His great great aunt is 102 years old and lives on her own. She is so sharp for her age and was very fun to meet. She had all kinds of stories to tell!! On the way home, I fell asleep in the car and went to bed for another 2 hours when we got home. That probably should have been my first sign that I wasn't feeling too hot. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful.

I guess hanging out with the older folks is turning me into an old lady :) haha

We're Invited

While I was on the phone with my sister last night I heard the doorbell ring. Since I wasn't expecting anyone, I was curious to know who it could be.

I answered and it was an older man claiming to be a neighbor. I immediately thought 'oh great he is going to bitch about the dogs or something'. I was wrong, oh so wrong. The old man neighbor proceeded to invite Mr. Pickle and I to a St. Patty's Day party at his house on Saturday afternoon.

He explained he usually throws a party for the neighborhood on/around St. Patty's Day and 4th of July and would love it if we would join him and the rest of the neighbors since we are new to the area (just moved in a few months ago).

How stinkin' cute!!! He even handed out invites.

The extra note says "Come play spin the bottle to see who gets to kiss the Blarney Stone"

Mr. Pickle got home and I immediately told him we have plans to party with the old man up the street. I am tempted to bring my grandpa with us, because I think they would get along great :)

Weekend Review

Better late than never!!

Friday night Mr. Pickle had some friends over so I let them play video games and went upstairs to watch The Proposal. Ryan Reynolds is HOTT!

Saturday morning my sister, her boyfriend and I went to San Francisco to meet us with some family and watch our cousin perform (sing) at Pier 39. The weather was beautiful and their performance was very neat. We had to laugh because my cousin and the other performers (high school age) were allowed a half hour lunch break before they had to be back at their bus and they all ran down to In-N-Out burger. I guess they wanted to stop on the way to San Francisco the previous day but it didn't work out and they were thrilled to find out there was one down the street from Pier 39. I don't know what I would do without In-N-Out!! I don't eat it often, but when I crave it, I HAVE to have it.

Me and My sis at Pier 39


Family



My cousin, me and my sis

So while the kids were performing there were a few guys riding their bikes naked through the streets/sidewalks. The poor kids couldn't help but laugh through part of the song because they weren't expecting anything like that to happen (they are from Oregon). Later on, there was a whole bunch of guys and girls riding their bikes naked, I of course had to snap a few pics but I am sharing the one where the peeps were partially clothed.

Only in SF is this normal

Saturday afternoon my sister and I took my grandpa out to lunch and ran a few errands and then headed to a surprise birthday party for one of our friends. He has never had a surprise party thrown for him and he was definitely surprised. It was a Mexican themed party, so we had yummy Mexican food for dinner and were going to play some games but headed home early.

Ole'


Birthday Boy


Party Animals

Koa (my sister's dog) representing San Francisco

The boys did a practice cook over the weekend, so my sister and I got together to sew and awaited yummy BBQ. The BBQ turned out great (as always) and our sewing project turned out pretty good. I am a perfectionist, so I like everything to be perfect, but for our first time working with a zipper I think we did pretty good. We followed this YouTube video on how to make a zipper pouch.

Yummy BBQ


I don't know why Blogger isn't uploading the pic correctly.

My sister's on top. Mine on bottom.

We were pretty tired from the busy weekend plus losing an hour of sleep due to the time change so we hit the hay pretty early. I think Mr. Pickle fell asleep at 7:00!!