Reunited!

Yesterday, I had some of my closest friends Ailey, Katie, Jennie, Emily and Lisa over for the Seahawks game. We didn't really watch the game because we were so busy chatting and catching up. It was soooo fun getting everyone together finally after all these years!

After school I kinda went my own separate way for what reason I really couldn't tell you. Like I had said before I lost touch with Lisa after she transferred high schools but for the rest of them I tried to make at least a yearly phone call to see how everyone was doing. I would for sure talk to Ailey every couple months or see her when she would be home visiting, so she would always update me with what was happening with the rest of them. They were always on my mind because they were my best friends growing up and I missed them dearly and hoped they were all doing well.

We had a great time yesterday, eating, drinking (well not me but the rest of them), and reminiscing. They all played with LJ and the rest of them got to meet Lisa's little boy Sergio. He really took a liking to Emily! He was sooo cute. Must be the blonde hair!

I'm so glad we all got together. I'm happy Ailey's back home for good! I love all of them so much and I hope we all can hang out more often!

I love HEAT!

First off I want to wish my brother...HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Lando's repeating his 25th birthday this year and even though we aren't seeing eye to eye these days I still love him and want him to have a great birthday! Love you Lil Bro hope you enjoyed your day!

So this is exciting news for me! It'll probably be weird to you guys that I'm blogging about this but that should just let ya'll know how important and excited I was about it!



In our tiny house there is no heat. When I was younger we had baseboard heaters then my parents stopped using them for some reason. We then had a kerosene heater which was nice. Even though I burned the crap out of my hand when I was 5! I was trying to walk backwards, tripped and placed my hand to catch myself right on the top of the heater! OUCH! So from the time I was 5 till about 2 years ago we always had a kerosene heater warming the house.


After my parents left and the house was ours we got rid of the kerosene heater because I hated the smell and hated that we had to go buy kerosene like once a week! We bought portable electric heaters but as you can imagine our electric bill went up during the winters.



So when I got pregnant we started talking about what we were gonna do about the heat. I wanted something that would heat the whole house (not like it's that big) but not cost and arm and a leg. So we decided on a Pellet Stove. Dante will research something till you want to pull your hair out! I'm not even joking he drives me crazy! He'll find the one he wants or he thinks he wants online then go look at it in the stores. And he'll go to multiple stores...talk to the people about it. The process takes months for us to get new appliances in this household. Research, research, research. Then he'll compare pricing. I don't mind that part but when I'm pretty much sold on something I'll just go buy it. Not him he'll wait and wait to see if it'll appear on Craigslist. Thank the lord we got lucky and just so happened the one he wanted was on Craigslist. We had to drive all the way up North, I believe it was Camano Island but the guy had purchased it for his home while he was remodeling but then decided to install the stoves that are inserted in the walls. He said he only lit it like 4 times so basically it was brand new.



So mind you we bought this thing in March it is now Oct! Dante finally put it in today! It is wonderful! I've had it on since he finished and my house is now nice and toasty! I LOVE IT! I even took a picture to share with all of you!

Here's a pic I took this morning of Dante and his boys!

Reunited!!! and Rockin the New Do!

I love reconnecting with old friends! Thanks to Myspace, Facebook, and blogging I've found and reconnected with lots of people!

This last Thursday I met up with my friend Lisa. I literally haven't seen her for over 10 years. We went to school together through Jr. High and our Sophomore year of high school. Played sports together and actually were really close at one time. We lost touch after she transferred high schools our Jr year. She would pop up in my mind from time to time and I was always wondering what she was up to.

So LJ and I made a trip up to her home in Shoreline to visit her and her son Sergio. It was sooo much fun hanging out with her and catching up after all these years! We reminisced on all the good times we had back in the day. I got to meet her 2 1/2 year old son Sergio and she got to meet LJ. It's crazy how much we've both grown up, the lives we now have with our families, yet we both agreed that we were pretty much the same. It was like we hadn't missed a beat. We had such a good day and I hope that we hang out again soon.

Sergio, Lisa, & LJ

I finally took a pic of my new hair do!

Me rockin my Kate Gosselin hair do!