Thank you!!

Look how great, Joslyn just go these great cushions in the mail!! She loves them, she is at that age she crawling on everything..Thank you Grandma Olsen and Aunt Vickie, they are perfect!!!




NOTE: OOHHH my crazy hair, she just got out of the bath....

Our Chunk

Joslyn just has her 10 month check-up!! She is 20lbs and growing fast. The exciting thing about her chunkiness is she is ready to get a in front facing car seat...YEAH!!

Tag You're It!!!

I've been Tagged!!! A: The rules of the game are posted at the beginning. B: Each player answers the questions about themselves. C: At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

10 years ago: I would have been married almost 3 years, working as a manager at Nordstrom, thinking 469.00 was a lot of money for a mortgage :) No kids, 1 dog and Boomer wishing we lived in California!!


5 things on my to-do list today: Shower, sweep and plant new flowers outside, clean, go to Costco, watch a movie with my husband before we both fall asleep, laundry...oooohhhh that was 6, I could go on forever!!


Snacks I enjoy: grapes, wheat thins, salami and string cheese and of course chocolate anything, slim fast shake!!


Things I would do if I were suddenly made a billionaire: I would buy a huge amount of land for Boomer to build a 9 course golf course and build me a dream house, white picket fence dream house..with a huge YARD with play area for the kids and maybe, just maybe we could get a dog and horse for Morgan :)YES, Darren and Amy would be living on the other end of our golf course in there dream house, that we bought for them...So, this would be built on the border of Utah and Idaho..... (notice this is mine, NOT Boomer's billions, he would be living in Costa Rica, I would buy him a shack in Costa Rica to go on surf trips), A beach house in Oceanside, Pay off cars, Pay off all the Families Mortgages, Charity and Investments, and money for kids!! OOOHHHH, who wants to give me the Billion dollars :)


3 of my bad habits: I am perfect (hee-hee) too many to list!! Eating to many Junior Mints would be one....stressing out....indecisive


Jobs I have had: Vanity, Goldenwest Credit Union, Nordstrom, Kennecott, Independent Contractor


Things people don't know about me:
*I only can get through a day with frozen Junior Mints in my freezer..instead of counting to ten I go to my freezer and eat a handful of Junior Mints and relax.
*I've tried surfing, but felt like I was in a washing machine...ya, not so much fun, maybe one day!!
*I clean a laundry mat at night



I am Tagging: Michelle Petersen, Chantelle, Jennie, Emily, Aimee

An Amazing Site!!!

We kept hearing this bombing sound and just figured Camp Pendelton was practicing there bombing as usually, but it sounded really close. I went down to the beach and saw that there were four old ships re-enacting a war, you could hear the cannons going off and then see the smoke coming from the cannon, it was pretty amazing. These ships come to the Harbor about three months. They do these re-enactments every time they come, but it is 50 dollars to go out to sea with them and they usually do it further out in the ocean so, you can't see them. So, it was really exciting they did it so close to shore. The girls and I have taken a tour of the ships in the past, it was really a fun experience. The crew are all dressed in the era of the ship. I did some research for you that like research on all four ships, the make, when and such, it was pretty neat!!





You can see the smoke from the cannon on the ship to the left....






Lady Washington heading back to the Harbor...

Here are some of the sites of the ships....
www.ladywashington.org/
www.privateerlynx.com/begin/history.html


Lynx
Lynx is an interpretation of an actual privateer named Lynx built by Thomas Kemp in 1812 in Fell's Point, Maryland. She was among the first ships to defend American freedom by evading the British naval fleet then blockading American ports and serving in the important privateering efforts.


Hawaiian Chieftain
The topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain is a replica of a typical European merchant trader of the turn of the nineteenth century. Her hull shape and rigging are similar to those of Spanish explorer's ships used in the expeditions of the late 18th century along the Washington, Oregon, and California coasts. Built of steel in Hawaii in 1988 and originally designed for cargo trade among the Hawaiian Islands, her design was influenced by the early colonial passenger and coastal packets that carried on coastal trade along the Atlantic coastal cities and towns.


Lady Washington
The new Lady Washington is a full-scale reproduction of the original Lady Washington. Built in the British Colony of Massachusetts in the 1750’s, the original vessel carried freight between colonial ports until the American Revolutionary War, when she became an American privateer. In 1787, after the war, she was given a major refit to prepare her for a unprecedented trading voyage around Cape Horn. In 1788, she became the first American vessel to make landfall on the west coast of North America.



The Spirit of Dana Point
The Spirit of Dana Point is a traditionally built replica of a 1770s privateer employed during the American Revolution. She is classified as a 118-foot’ topsail schooner, with a sparred length of 118 feet and 5,000 square feet of sail. Designed by Howard Chapelle in the late eighteenth century and built by Dennis Holland in Costa Mesa, California, she was launched in 1983. Her design, known for speed, precedes the Baltimore Clipper, enabling these vessels to be used for smuggling, the slave trade, and privateering.



A ship to the left of the sunset....


The beautiful sunset


It was a really clear night, you could see the islands that are about 100 miles of the coast....

Bid Farwell To The "Top Gun" Cottage....

The city has finally decided after 8+ years of city meetings to get rid of the cottage that was used in "Top Gun"..Charlie's house. It was painted about 6 years ago blue, it was gray in the movie. The city has said they can't destroy the cottage because of it's past, but have to move it to a new location..we will see about that, a hotel has bought the lots....so here is the finally look of the one and only "Top Gun" cottage!! It will be sad to have it out of the neighborhood!!


This is what the cottage looked like before they cut all the tree's down a couple of weeks ago....


Front View...


The porch that Maverick (Tom) and Charlie (Kellie) had drinks...


This is the street that Maverick drove his motorcycle up to get to Charlie's cottage.....

This is what I found on the internet site about the cottage....



Top Gun Cottage (1887)

This sweet Victorian was built for a local developer named Graves. It is the oldest, and last best beachfront cottage in Oceanside. Featured in the movie Top Gun, it has consequently has been known as the Top Gun Cottage. The site is threatened by the huge hotel development proposed by Manchester Resort Hotels and the City of Oceanside. The cottage is on a corner of the property and could easily be integrated into the development and used as an adjunct facility to the hotel. Right now it appears it will be moved off site, out of context, with its use yet to be determined.

Sea World Last Time For 2007

I bravely took the girls by myself to Sea World one last time for 2007, It went pretty well,they were all alive when we left :)...Here are some fun pictures (once again) of the day....

The Girls in the Polar Bear cave.....


There was a reindeer and...


A camel visiting Sea World for Christmas..the camel was very cute!!!


The girls waiting for Shamu show to start...very exciting!!





You all remember last time Rylee was sacred to death about this "PAINT" man at the Sea Lion show, so this time she said, she wanted to go see him and she wasn't scared anymore, she would not stop talking about it till we got to the show.... and of course as soon as the "PAINT" man comes out she starts screaming in horror and wanting to leave. I am at that point not sure how to get Joslyn and all of our stuff out with a screaming child...anyway she ended up hiding behind Morgan, peering out from behind her watching this "PAINT" man...needless to say by the end of the show she had moved up by us and off this poor guys feet and laughing because the "PAINT" man was so funny!! I tell ya....



This is Rylee hiding behind Morgan....








Morgan saw it was time to feed the sea lions, so she begged me to buy some food so SHE could feed them. So, we got the little tiny fish and went over to feed them. Morgan went to pick up the first fish and got grossed out, so she said here Mom, why don't you do the first one and I will do the rest...YEAH, so, as I feed the sea lions the last fish and the girls not wanting to touch them. I told Morgan next time we aren't feeding the animals if she wasn't going to do it... so, Morgan tells me, "Mom, you do so much for us, I thought is would be nice if we let you feed the Sea Lions all the fish, you are such a good Mom and I know you would enjoy it"..whatever, they were to scared to touch the slimy fish...nice try!!!

Jesus Wants Me For A SUNBEAM!!!

Rylee is official a SUNBEAM, she was ready to go to church, Book of Mormon in hand...she has been so excited the last month waiting to be a sunbeam!! She went in today for the first time and loved her teacher and babbled none stop all the way home of things that they did...including her going to time out...she didn't remember why...a little convenient. Her teacher is sooooo amazing everyone just waits for it to be there turn for there child to go to Sunbeams....she is very structured and strict (nicely) she has that class in tip top shape. You move wrong in your chair and she gives the "that is not acceptable" look and they sit straight up with there arms folded!! It is great. She is very loving and wonderful with the kids!!