Celebrating 30 Years

I finally hit the big 30 yesterday. Wanted to thank everyone for making it so special and for giving me shout outs throughout the day and espically to...

• Mikey - for decorating the bathroom and filling it up with 30 balloons, taking me to the Olive Garden and getting me Mamma Mia, a book and Prince of Persia (video game).
• Karen & Gavinator - for being the first to call and wish me Happy Birthday.
• Nick (Pickle) - for calling me twice in the same day to wish me a great day
• Work Friends - for giving me a Game Stop gift certificate (do they know me or what) and someone even folded up a $5.00 bill (see pic below). I thought that was pretty cool.
• My Boss - for singing a solo that was so loud the entire office heard it. Not too mention she danced a jig. It was hilarious.
• Ayzha & Tiago - for singing the "you live in a zoo" version of Happy Birthday to me.
• Jilly Bean & Sarah - for leaving me birthday messages.
• Mom & Dad - for paying for my ticket to get to Jilly Bean's wedding.
• Angela, Gager, & Kyah - for singing to me and giving me birthday love.
• Huntskys and Jordache - for playing video games with me on my birthday.
• Randawg & Little Trippy - for telling me Happy Birthday.
• Shimm Doctor, Randitty, & Kelli - for emailing birthday wishes to me.
• Brian & Jenny - for calling me and telling me how hot I still am.
• The Bowens - for singing the loudest and most energetic birthday song I have ever heard in my life.
• Angie - for getting me huge pics of my favorite kids. I complained that the pics I got were mini sized so Angie took care of it. Check out the top of my fridge in the pics below and then compare with the bottom of my fridge.
• Ben - for being the last to call at 11:15 pm to tell me Happy Birthday. I guess he has an excuse because he decided to steal my day for his anniversary.

Top of the fridge sexy people.

My little buddies.

Hard to see, but it is the $5.00 bill awesomely folded.

Anniversary Video

Put together a little video of the awesome day I spent with the love of my life. More still pictures are posted below. Thanks for a day of too much perfection Mikey.

6-Year Anniversary

Mike and I celebrated six years of marriage yesterday. Mike had our whole day planned out so first we drove to San Simeon on the coast to check out Hearst Castle. The sky was clear, the sun was shining and it was absolutely gorgeous. William Randolph Hearst built a castle that was very heavily influenced by Eurepean architecture. The tour was phenomenal. Then, we took a scenic drive to the beach. Later, we saw a Bubble Gum Alley in San Luis Obispo. That's right, an entire alley filled with chewing gum on the walls. And finally, we ate dinner at a place called Apple Valley.

One of the pools. It was 10 feet deep all over and had 24-karat gold tiles lining the walls and bottom of the pool. There was a tennis court on top of it.

Our favorite part of the tour...the Neptune Pool. Here the marble statues are depticting the birth of Venus the Goddess of Love.

Another view of the Neptune Pool.

The Dining Room. Every candleholder is pure silver.

One of the guest houses.

The entrance to the main house or La Casa Grande as Hearst called it.

Statues and fountains were all over the castle grounds.

The ocean view from the castle.

Mike in the Bubble Gum Alley. This is only one tiny section of the alley.

Dagger

Bought a dagger today. Since Jill and Nick got shotguns I figured I needed a weapon of my own. Not quite as impressive as a gun but it will do. I had the choice between some Lord of the Rings ones or this King Arthur one I chose. Do you love it!!

Christmas Lights

I absolutely love my calling. I get to be one of the leaders for the 10-11 year old Faith in God girls. They are way hilarious. And we only do 2 activities a month. Nice.

Tonight, we walked around Christmas Tree lane so I told the moms to bundle their girls up. The moms thought I was crazy because they said it was sooo cold even though it was 50 degrees out. Silly Californians. Thought I'd share some highlights of the evening.

We found Santa on Christmas Tree lane!! Santa!! Santa!! We decided to sit on Old Saint Nick's lap. And of course, I made them take a funny pic. It was like a party outside this place. There were buses, cars and people crawling all over the place.

Nice and cozy right before we left.

The normal Santa shot.

Willy Wonka

Mike and I found this sweet candy store. When we walked in, we were amazed. They had every kind of candy you can imagine. And in the back of the store, they have the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory playing nonstop. When we went to investigate more, we found autographed pictures of all the kids in the movie all grown up. We also found a bubblegum dresser where you have to open the drawers to pull out the gum that is separated by flavor.

We went there because I had to buy candy for a Primary class I taught and bribed to behave. Works every time! I ended up getting suckers for those little suckers! But the suckers were cool because they were shaped like feeet.
Mike and I holding our goods. I have a Wonka Bar (disappointed that I didn't find a golden ticket though) and Mike has a piece of bubble gum the size of a yard stick.

Fresno Metropolitan Museum

Mike and I called up my good friend Kayann and headed to the Grand Reopening of the Fresno Metripolitan Art & Science Museum. It was awesome because it was free and it featured a feathered dinosaur exhibit. Unfortunately, they did not allow us to take pictures inside. I was even asked by a security guard to put my camera away. And he seemed to follow me around knowing I wanted to pull it out and take a sneaky shot.

Sweet sign outside about the dino display.

Posing by a statue outside.

Here's the illegal photo I took inside the very green stairwell.

Mike and Kayann checking out the brochures.