San Clemente Days 2 & 3

Getting ready to surf and, "shreddin' the gnar"

Wy is ready to catch some waves, too.

Nice and pasty

Nice warm day at Doheny Beach

Surfin' brothers

D helped out at Wy's waterpolo practice.

(Side note: he shaved his head earlier today)

D and Wy. Wy is the youngest on his team by at least 3 years. He does a great job keeping up with the 11 and 12 yr olds

The Weekend

(Scroll down to the previous post as I posted back to back)

Anthropologie is for shopping not goofing around

My big and little bugs

K is ready for Easter

Huntin' for eggs in our courtyard

Getting some help from the lil pup

My mini-me

The 14 Hour Drive

45 minutes away from our house- beautiful snow!

Somewhere after Oregon and the beginning of California.

Mt. Shasta... in CA

Bogey investigates snow for the very first time.

Verdict: loves it!

Weed, California

Mt. Shasta from Weed, Ca

Lake Shasta

Uhh not sure where but it's California

5 more hours to go!

Sleepy dog

Sunset near Sacramento, CA

Nights Are Going to Be Lonely

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This past Saturday I co-hosted a baby shower for a neighbor of mine. She's expecting a girl in about 4 weeks. Besides the shower, these five hand-made onesies were my gift to her. (Which is why I couldn't post these sooner.) All pictures are not of the final product because I was in a time crunch to finish them. The last onesie has a back to it- two smaller flowers on the butt. In the future (way in the future) I'm thinking of starting an Etsy store and this would be one of the items that I would sell*. Having two nieces automatically makes it easy to come up with girly designs but I hope to branch out to boys as well. 

My other big project for the baby shower was this bad boy: 

I'm actually really sad that both projects are done because they were so much fun to work on! I'd love to sell the flower tree on Etsy, too, but it probably wouldn't ship well since the flowers are somewhat fragile.

Sooo... what to do with all this free time? 

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*If you are interested in purchasing one let me know and we can work something out.

Death Comes in Threes

At least this post isn't about people dying. But it's about dying nonetheless.

Most of you know that D and I are having quite the week. Short version- our only car died on Monday which caused a lot of stress and panic. (By me) We figured out that it was our alternator and saved ourselves at least $275 by installing it ourselves on Tuesday.

Then our laptop power cord died... after we installed the alternator. No power cord- no laptop. The car was working so I was at peace with waiting for a newly ordered cord to ship to us.

Today the power cord arrives. The laptop has power!

And, also, the car died....again. While D and another coastie were working on the car the SAR* alarm went off. Just my luck.

While I'm hogging sleeping in my comfy bed tonight our car must spend hers on base. Alone. Behind a secured gate. (At least she'll have a great view, right?) Depressing music will play in the background as she tells the wandering deer stories about the good-old-days.She'll shed a little oil tear when she flashes back to earlier in the day when the little pup had his head out the window, tongue flapping in the breeze as I enjoyed my new ipod playlist.

Start workin', girly!

Soooo... in an attempt to relax and be calm here are some lovely pictures that I took while taking dinner to D last night.

Now I'm off to attempt to melt my worries away in the tub and then finish my onesie project.**

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*S.A.R.: Search and Rescue

**Onesie project: a post about this will come after Saturday.