it is a wedding

Wedding Bells rang yesterday for a very dear friend of mine. Congratulations!!

Cheers to Jenna and Tyler! May the years together be many!

it is californos...again :-)

Check out more videos @ http://www.youtube.com/californos1988

And Check out their website @ http://www.californos.com

it is a holiday

An Ode to Holidays

Oh Holiday Oh Holiday

How We Love Thee

So Much Food

And Everyone is in a Good Mood

Oh Holiday Oh Holiday

How We Love Thee

So Much Laughter

And Lots of Gas After

We Spend Hours in the Kitchen

And There's a Lot of Spoon Lickin'

The Wine is Freely Flowing

While the Food Seems to be Growing

The Board Games, The Card Games,

The Family, The Friends

The Cleaning, The Cleaning, The Cleaning!

Oh Holiday oh Holiday

How We Love Thee!

it is a dinner party

OH what incredible fun we had last night! The food! And the WINE! It was a night of friends and fun and food and drink and laughter and more laughter. My friend Cher was in her element, I tell you what. She shows up complete with Chef coat and we were off and cooking. She is the master of the salad, I swear no one makes salads like this girl and she out did herself. And the cheesecake, smothered in pears and caramel sauce, Oh heaven take me now. I was in charge of the soup and main dish. A white bean recipe that has been a favorite of mine was used for the soup, insanely simple and stunningly delicious and filling. The main course I snagged from Proud Italian Cook, if you haven't checked her blog out you must, http://prouditaliancook.blogspot.com She has some of the best ideas out there and the recipes always turn out wonderfully. I mixed up a delicious batch of her Stuffed Acorn Squash. YUM! Savory rice and applewood chicken sausage combined with season spinach and cranberries all served up in the cute little bowl of a squash. I will definitely be making this again. Now the wine that was so expertly chosen by the palate of Mr Smith. Oh my mouth has never been so happy! Enjoy the photos from the evening. ;-) Chi mange bein, vive bein!

it is my hippity hoppity little heart

Oh my silly little heart. It jumped. I don't know why it decided to at the exact moment that it did, but it did. It was nice to be happy, genuinely happy for a couple of weeks. The stresses that filled my brain were that of a school girl. Enjoyable silly schoolgirl crushes. Oh but I've told my heart to come back, and it has, begrudgingly but it has. I know why my heart decided to jump, the boy was worth jumping for. But having known this boy for a while and knowing he wouldn't reciprocate the leap made it a very stupid idea for my heart. Hearts do not, sometimes unfortunately, talk to the brain before they go off running one direction or another. And sometimes it takes a little while for the brain to catch up to the heart and to tell it what's what. Oh but the fun the heart can have off on it's own. You see my little heart wants someone to catch it. That is really the best way I can describe. It wants someone to think it is worth taking a jump for, someone that my heart can jump for too. It want's to be caught, and it wants to catch. But right now my little heart has to realize that it needs to be quiet, it needs to take a nap. It is like when you break a bone, at some point on your road to recovery you will forget that you still hurt. You will use your broken limb without thinking only to discover how much bloody pain you are actually in. That is what my little heart did. It saw someone worth catching and it jumped. Poor silly little heart. But then it remembered how much it hurt. And now we are back inside our little glass cage watching the world warily, it won't stay in there forever, but for now it needs to sleep, to mend, to repair.

it is Californos!

Here are some videos of Californos Monday night, So much fun :-)

We are going again in a couple of weeks if anybody wishes to join. More videos @ http://www.youtube.com/user/Californos1988

it is late and I've had some wine

Today I had the chance to take a nap. I know, wonderful. As I was falling asleep I started to think about how amazing my life is. How things move and change. How I grow and evolve. Then tonight as I was driving home with sone friends one said to me well I don't know you well enough to answer said question and I thought what is there to know? I'm so boring. And I have thought this before people are often saying to me, I'm still just getting to know you. After I've known them for years. And I consider myself a very boring person with a very amazing life. Interesting huh? Maybe it's just the wine talking. ;-)


-- Posted From My iPhone so please excuse the typos!

its been a wee bit

I've been trying to write a blog for a while now but the words just aren't flowing. But I would like you all to know that I am happy. Woke up this morning with a smile and it hasn't gone away all day. It's nice to feel a happy peace in my soul.

Ciao!