Happy Birthday To Me!

Its my birthday shout hoorah! Yeah or birthdays! We started out the celebrations last night with cupcakes, ice cream, pin the tail on the donkey, sticky men, roses, and...a pinata!

Birthday bunting! It turned out sooo cute. I made it for S-D's b-day and we're leaving it up for birthday week (her b-day celebrations were on Monday, yeah for January babies)!

B-Day cuppy cakes :)

G-G finding the donkey's tail. Ha, haaa...I currently have 4 sticky men stuck to my ceiling! They're these cool little toys that have sticky feet and hand and "climb" down the wall after you throw them on the wall. Guess they REALLY liked the asbestos-free, popcorn ceiling!

Birthday flowers! Thanks Jose Ole :)

Barby in action!

Plus I came across this site. Its a list of all the FREE stuff and discounts you can get on your birthday. Try it! I've already been signed up for many ice cream and frozen yogurt sites...mmmm....check it out! And birthday celebration Day #2 begins tonight!

I Love Little Brothers....

Okay, so technically its Sept. 20th, but the 26 min. over will have to go unnoticed while I give a shout out to my little baby brother today....

H A P P Y 20th B I R T H D A Y B A K E S ! ! !

That right, my favorite missionary finally left his teenage years behind. He's been out 9 months now, serving a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and is doing fantastic. He actually was suppose to have a baptism today. What better present could you ask for? That just might be a better than those single serving Nutella packets I sent him :) Anyways, hope you had a great one Elder Bakersman. Keep up the good work, I know the Lord appreciates your service...as well as his children that you're serving!

Also, today was National Talk Like a Pirate Day...I hope you all celebrated, maties...we celebrated @ Disneyland, Pirates of the Caribeean style :) I hope ye arrrrren't to sad if ye missed it. Well shiver me timbers, ye can always celerbrate! Arrrrggg!

"I Love You Like a Fat Kid Loves Cake..."

Jamie had a birthday...and we had fun with the cake. A extensive photo documentation can be found below:
(Action shots. Notice the chocolate smeared face intermixed with laugher?)
(A much more delicate try...)
(Mastered!)

Who knew food could be so much fun? Thanks Jamie!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

Ya'at'eeh bi'birthday shima! Its her day! Wish I could spend it with her, but I'll consider myself lucky to have spent the weekend with her. Enjoy your massage!

P.S. Can I please look this good when I'm her age? Love you mom:)

Birthdays...

I'm using today to pay tribute to some of my favorite birthday memories...

• Labyrinth. Growing up this movie would be a "must-see." I made parents search for this movie yearly during my elementary days. We watched it with my girlfriends for every birthday slumber party.

• Sledding. Since my b-day is in Jan. and being close the snowy mountains, sledding in the nearby hills was a b-day favorite. I told my mom that's what I wanted to do. This was accompanied by cheese, crackers, and Hickory Farms beef sticks, yum:) My family was there, including Lyndsay J., Lisa Hess, and Callie Bunderson (those are the only ones I remember!)




• Dodge ball. The year my mother made me invite every single girl in the 6th grade. Apparently I wanted so many people there that only a few girls would be left out, so my mother made me extend the invitation so that all would be included. We went to the CD 3rd Ward building church and played dodge ball (yeah, Adrianne Bradley and I thought we had one mean throw!). I remember getting homemade crotchet butterfly barrettes from Corey Lefler? which I later turned into wall hangings:)




• Betos. One year, the girls threw me a surprise b-day party @ Betos at midnight It won the prize for earliest b-day party ever. Nila had Manny make up some story (which I completely believed) about having to meet up with his friend Peter who was passing through town on his way back to The 915. I was completely surprised and happy to have some of my favorite people (Nila, MALEINA, Emma, Jared, Gary, Emily, Jo, etc.) at one of my favorite late night eating spots.




• Pinatas. This was the b-day I had in Utah right before I moved to Cali to accept a new job. We had cake and ice cream at Nick & Vee's place in Orem (by the Novell house). The highlight was when they brought the pinata out (to celebrate the Mexican in me). We hung it out under the porch and swung away..."here fishy, fishy!" (I think it all started with the palm tree pinata @ age 23...my roomies know my true roots...VIVA LA RAZA!) lol
  

Well, I could go on and on about memorable birthdays, but I will spare you the monotony:) I'm 28 today. It doesn't seem like I've lived very many years, but much has transpired over the years making me grateful for each one. Yes, many years of been better than some, but good or bad, I've been happy just the same. So, here to all those people who have made dailys worthwhile, taught me life long lessons, laughed and cried with me and helped shape me into the person I am today, ahe'hee:)

2008's gonna be great!

The 559

aka FRESNO.

So, our Walnut Creek office decided they didn't have enough people to staff one of their project in Fresno (~4.5 hour drive from Irvine). So, I'll be here for a couple of days (one of which will be my birthday - that should be interesting). The city has already given me a warm welcome, a police escort upon entering to be exact. To bad he had to notice my speed (84 in a 64 zone...is it my fault the Altima wanted to go faster?). Luckliy he had mercy on me and let me off with a "fix it ticket." So, I will be changing my address upon returning to the OC.

Thank goodness for friendly cops. Oh, and I'm still trying to decide what all those smells are....

P.S. Fresno just so happens to be THE place for one-stop Thrift shop, shopping. SERIOUSLY. I found 3 on one block...THREE! And 2 more in the area...I got some GREAT finds. Who'd of thought?