Camping!

(please hold while I laugh hysterically at Tori Spelling trying to sing)

Is anyone still out there? I'm telling you, this has been another rough month. And on top of everything else, (including the governor cutting my salary to the whopping sum of $6.55 per hour) our office has blocked ALL BLOGS. Seriously. That's just mean.

Needless to say, I can't post from work and I can't keep up on your lives from work either. :( And when I'm at home - I'm rarely on the computer. But I will catch up! I miss you guys!

There is a lot of suckiness happening around here. Everything is clouded by the fact that Chance is sick...and while he was getting better and seemed fairly normal, he's taken a turn for the worse this week. He's not wanting to eat (which means he's eating lots of treats and people food).

But, prior to that, Mark and I planned to go on a family camping trip and we decided to take Chance with us. We went to Bodega Bay (ocean!). But we were silly because we forgot to bring coats. um, hi! ocean! water! wind! cold! So we had to stop in a small city on the way and buy sweatshirts at the outlet mall. (mine is super cute though!)

The road trip was fun. Mark and I always have fun when we go places because we laugh and talk and joke a lot. We took a couple breaks and got Taco Bell (Chance had a taco). We got to camp late and set everything up. When we were done setting up the rest of our group showed up. (almost everyone was already there when we got there, except two cousins and their wives and one baby).

The days consisted of lots of walks on the beach (Chance loved running from the tide with me and collecting sand dollars....though he did try to eat the first one.) And there was lots of food. (which Chance got to share with everyone). Mark is always a great cook, particularly when we're camping.

We had a great time. Chance was a little confused about the tent, but he caught on quick....especially when he got to wander away from his bed and sleep with us on our sleeping bag bed (he kept me snuggly warm!) and when he got to eat graham crackers around the camp fire with us.

the only downside was the horrible sunburn we came home with. Mark has a super redneck and I look like spiderman. woohoo!

Um, Weekend Wrap Up?

Like how I'm doing my weekend wrap up on the day before the weekend? Yeah, sorry about that. We've all been a little on edge around here.


Last weekend we spent some time on the coast, camping. (and freezing) We didn't get out there until after 9 p.m. and we set up camp and Mark made burgers for dinner. (That is the major plus of camping - Mark takes care of EVERYTHING) The rest of our group (Marks two cousins and their wives plus one baby) got there after 10:30.

We did a lot of eating. And sleeping. And napping. And reading. And talking trash. It was great fun.

We did sneak away from camp at one point to see the water.

and we visited a cove and ate some lunch (oh and I totally fell down. woohoo!)


We had a really good weekend. The only regret was that we didn't get the marshmallows out of B's truck before he left.

So, I had to resort to this:

YUM!

The One Where She Doesn't Cry

Yesterday at book club my coworker R brought her darling little girl Aubrie. Now, Aubrie just happens to be the CUTEST baby EVER. And she was all giggly and smiley. She also made a really cute face when she heard her first fire engine siren too (R & I had our hands over her ears) She stiffened up and got wide eyed looking around.

When it was time to heat up her bottle, I went inside the diner to get a cup of hot water to heat it in. And I took Aubrie with me. I thought for sure she'd cry because she couldn't see mom. But she didn't! I was shocked.
I was like Sally Field, "They like me, they really like me!"

Book club went really well too. We had 9 grown up ladies there. :P We didn't talk much about the book other than to say OMG WE LOVED IT. (except one person who just couldn't get into it) But it was nice to get together and chat and enjoy sitting outside in the fresh air. Not to mention eating copious amounts of chocolate cake.

This weekend we're off to the coast for camping where it will be 40-60 degrees (eek!) I'm really sad that 40-60 degrees doesn't sound that cold to some of you (my condolences) Enjoy your weekend!