Baby Gift for Renee's Baby Girl

Here are some pictures of the baby clothes and gifts I got for the baby. I thought you might have some fun seeing them posted.

I took the little rattle and tied it onto the bag with the brown bow which was a part of the gift bag.

Here is the pantset and the blanket is below

It Is Almost Like A Song

Salsa and Chips

It is finally Friday night. Another week of hurrying here and there is in the "history books", as my father use to say.

We went out for Mexican food with the boys tonight. They like rice and beans. I had a fajita salad. I don't remember what Dave had exactly... I think a chicken enchilada. The boys have never been to California but the eat Mexican food like they were raised there.

Riley went to kindergarten round up today. He was asked to do a few things so they could tell where he was in development such as writing his name. He can write the letters but he is working on putting the word all together.

I went to SPU (Seattle Pacific University) today for a meeting. It is a Christian college in the area. The officers to the consortium met and went over our new brochure and website we have one of the students put together (because none of us on the consortium know how to do it and we needed to do it for free or for little money). Take a look at what we have for the GPSHEC at this point. I know many of you do this for a living so it may not seem like too much... it is a start. That is what we met about... what changes we need to make on it. We needed to have something for employers to find or go to read about what we offer.

The boys are playing with their trains and Dave is playing his guitar while I write this post. He is playing "It Is Almost Like A Song" and a few other tunes. He was making up a song for both Riley and Brady with their names in it. They will be getting ready for bed and heading there soon after I get off the computer.

Have a great weekend. HUGS Goodnight.

Shopping For The Baby Shower

Winnie the Pooh

Yesterday I spent most of my day at the Sea Tac Airport at a Job Fair. We don't have any jobs to hire people for but we have the training for people to learn to get a better paying job. I had the Aviation instructor with me too. He is a very energic guy of 62. He has such a lively personality that it is fun just to be around him. After talking almost for 4 hours straight, I was beat. So, I went back to the college to deal with my emails, then I went shopping for Renee's baby shower gift. Her baby shower is this Saturday. Tonight I have the boys again and during most of Saturday. So, I needed to go shopping tonight whether I had it in me or not.

Lindsey had mentioned that she was going to go shopping too tonight for Renee's gift and was going to Target. Renee has a registry there. So I decided to go to a Target too. I shopped around and then got the idea in my head to do my own thing. I just had to figure out what that was going to be. So I started to pick out outfits that I liked... pink, purple, green... pretty soon I had a big stack of clothes. I know that Renee loves the color green, so I decided to get the outfit in green. That seemed right to me because Renee isn't a "girly" girl. So all the pink clothes I put away. Then the purple.

Some of the green clothes that I liked really well has Winnie the Pooh on it. So I decided to make that a theme. I won't tell you yet what I got because she might read this post.

Next, of course, was picking out the card and paper. That was even a chore because I really didn't like anything. I tried my best to keep to the colors of my theme.

OK so now I have more things bought than I should have got. I will have to decide what to give etc. Or hang on to some things for when the baby arrives. Do you guys do this? I was exhausted.

TGIF! Have a great day!

Oh Sunny Day

Hooray, it was finally sunny yesterday and it looked like spring finally. I thought it would never happen. It seems that April has chased the bad weather from March away. Did you know that our March here was the coldest since the 40's?

I went to a Career Fair in Seattle yesterday. Today I am at the airport at another Career Fair. I am trying to take things nice and slow. That way I will not feel to tired hopefully at the end of the week.

I decided on the way home that Kari and I should find out how to Instant Message. So I went on Yahoo and joined the Messenger there. So did she, so now we can do that. We spent sometime working on what was there to use and just played. I discovered that I could use the IM on my blackberry as well. I am really getting connected now. I think Darylynn is there... she has probably thought I knew about these things. Now we are catching up with the rest of the world.

Today is an anniversary in which I feel a mixture of grief and thankfulness all at the same time. It will be 16 years today that my sister, Krista, died from a car accident at the age of 20 in LA. She would have been 21 on June 6th 1992. She left behind a daughter, Brittany, that was only 18 months at the time. On May 30th this year, Brittany graduates from high school. That is one reason I am heading to California in a month. I am thankful that I had her as a sister and that I got to know her. I know that I will see her again. She will probably be one of the first ones I see when I pass through the doors of heaven. So in that I am happy that our sisterhood and love never dies. Time heals the pain of loss but I will always remember her. She never feels like she is too far away away from me.

Well, on a higher note (taking a deep breath in), I wish for all of you a wonderful Thursday. Make it a good one ;-)

What A Difference A Day Makes

OK, you all saw the hail on the road on Monday. If not, refer to my post a couple of days ago and you will see how it was. That was then and now things have changed. Today it is sunny and warm. Plus the good news is it is getting warmer. We will be in the high 50s today. (To those of you in Cali, that is like the high 70s in comparison) I don't know what to wear. When that happens you go to layering your clothes.

Kari told me yesterday she was expecting. Before you all get excited, it was an April Fools joke.

All I could do is look at her as I took in the words. She quickly let me know it was an April Fools joke. I let her live; she's not dead.

Have a good day. HUGS