Happy Birthday, Rachel (Again)

We all had a great day celebrating at Disneyland! Love you!

Happy Birthday, Rachel!!!!

We love you and can't wait to spend the day with you at Disneyland!!!!!

P.S. I hope you had a nice anniversary. I was rooting for Miami for Kevin, too bad they lost.

Sneaking The Blackberry And The Sweet Tea

I saw Sydney sneaking the Blackberry Curve and the Sweet Tea. She stopped drinking and then began a one sided phone call on the Blackberry. Next, she noticed the camera and the familar smile came out. LOL (P.S. I cleaned the Pearl lens after these shots)

Wow!

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Comment of the day brought to you from David: "Can you find out what kind of a deal you can get on new laptops?"

3 Kids, A Dog, Toys, Books, Sing-A-Longs & Their First Ice Cream Push-Ups

They Are Still Birkenstocks...

This morning I on put on a brown suede pair of Arizona style Birkenstocks. I carefully selected this pair since I was wearing brown shorts and wanted to make sure I matched. About an hour later Sydney was playing with my feet and shoes and I didn't notice the switch.....Right foot had been replaced with a black leather Milano style (backstrap) Birkenstock.

On two separate trips out I proceeded to go to Starbucks, Costco, Michaels (twice) and the grocery store. It wasn't until a few minutes ago that I noticed. You want to talk about embarrassing? That is embarrassing.

P.S. My ankles looks either a bit swollen or deformed also, I wonder how many people (like me) saw and took a picture.

Sydney's Christmas List

Gaining Too Much Weight

I think it's all the vegetables I've been eating. I blame Jane.

I'm A Little Teapot

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New Collection: Dropped Items

First up? Diapers on Madre Street and Strawberries on the ground at Costco

Great Morning At Disneyland!

You know, some trips are just better than others. We had a great day today at Disneyland! Love the picture of Sydney and David (although I wish David didn't look annoyed, he wasn't). So many good ones that this time I have to share several:

I'll Take Dasani

Replacement Pearl

A couple of weeks ago Ash was updating my phone and realized that it was in really bad shape. This is the phone that had fallen into the 400 degree oven and been dropped numerous times. A couple of hours later he had a replacement phone (his old Pearl) configured. Love the new phone! Love the fact that the pearl is smooth, Love the fact that it doesn't look embarrasing, Love that the screen is clear! Thanks, Ash!

We Hadn't Even Done Her Hair Yet

But I couldn't resist taking a picture!

I Am Such The Farmer

Pic 1: My first experience with a farm/ranch. This is my first steer, "Wado" before his unfortunate and unexpected demise. It's a sad story that I'll tell later.

Pic 2: My "real" farm/ranch. It consists of tomatoes, basil and scallions.

Pic 3: My "tree" farm in Farmville.

Pic 4: My crops and farm animals in Farmville (before the remodel)

For Joshua

The waiters at the Chili's in Sky Harbor airport like to get "cute" with their name badges. This one made us think of Joshua.

The Kids-Summer 2009

Best Fish Tacos

A few weeks ago, Dad found this great fish taco place in Monrovia. It is located on Foothill just east of Myrtle and it's called "Baja Mar Fish Taco". Wednesday and Sunday their fish tacos are 99 cents! They also have these fabulous roasted chilies that are on the side. They are so fricken good! Spicy, roasted and sprinkled with salt and pepper-they are to die for.

So if you are in the market for some fish tacos-try this place! Today I had a potato taco (also on 99 cent special) and it was also excellent. (I love potato tacos but rarely find places that have them).

Starbucks' New Message

"We don't just want to make your drink. We want to make your day. It's not just coffee. It's Starbucks"

Love this message!!!!! From, "The Way I See It", to great people watching, to great conversing with family and friends, to the best fricken Chai Tea in the world, Starbucks rocks.

I don't think my poor team is going to hear the end of the new Starbucks cup message. This is the message I want our customers to get too (Just about tech support, not coffee) There is no better way to approach customer satisfaction. Delight your customers, make their day by your service. LOVE IT!

There are only two things I don't like about Starbucks. (1) Liberal Agenda (2) Banned Cameras (although I just ignore that rule) and somehow I get past item 1.

And rest assured: It's better than QT, better than McDonalds, better than Christmas in a cup at Coffee Bean, better than Dutch Brothers, better than Dunkin Donuts.

P.S. Not really happy about the fact that this cup caters to coffee drinkers (yeah, yeah, I know it's called Starbucks Coffee) but don't sell the greatest drink in the world short.

Reading Materials At The Beauty Salon

I got a pedicure today and when I was waiting to be called I noticed that Hans has expanded from their normal reading materials (People, US, Star, Vogue) to the Hardy Boys novels. I will tell you what, I love a good mystery and given the choice whether to read about Octomom, Jon and Kate or the Danger on Vampire Trail, I just may choose the Hardy Boys. Fortunately, I had my Blackberry so I just decided to read email and check Facebook.