More Pictures

I am obviously not working much today...

Zebras and another african animal that I can't remember the name of :o)

Rocks along the coast

Danny before I yelled at him for letting the kids hike so close to the waves.

Ruins of a fort by the coast

Above mentioned waves.

Kiato being eaten by a lion.

More pretty flowers

Ceasar - nothing but air.

Lions & Tigers & Bears OH MY!

Lazy lions

San Francisco zoo

We took the kids from the youth group to the San Francisco Zoo this weekend. We had a great time! Below are a few pictures of our adventures!

Happy Feet!

Fun at the petting zoo. Jeni, Naomi & Brittney

Early morning flowers. They had us up at 6 a.m.

The boys -Cesar, O'Sae, Kato, Brandon, Brian, Luke, Nate & Danny

The Kiddo's at the Golden Gate Bridge

Found my cousin at the Zoo!

Golden Gate Bridge

Hiking up the coast

Pam & Jeni at the ocean

Mr. Polar bear - "What are you lookin' at?"

The bull

Our loco boys

Fishies in the rain forest exhibit

Did you know they are pink because they eat shrimp?

Golden Gate in the fog.

I do not like Red Bull

I Do not like red bull

I went for a walk in Capitol Park yesterday at lunch and ran into a team of marketing people. Their product for the day was Red Bull. A friend of mine is shamelessly addicted to these things. I’d only had it once a long time ago so I thought hey – Why not? Seeing how it was free and all. I, being the ever calorie counting girl that I am, chose the sugar free variation of the drink. I have to say that it’s just about the worst tasting thing I’ve come across yet. It was comparable to gritty, fizzy cough syrup. Yuck! Not on my top ten list of favorite things to drink. I don’t know how you do it Michael!

In other news I recently joined the 21st century and purchased a small MP3! I know I know. Everyone has either an iPod or a MP3 player. I guess I’m just not a gadget/technology girl. I didn’t get a DVD player until 2002, never owned a disc man, I use my cell phone *gasp!* until it breaks. I doubt I’ll ever own an iPhone until they cost less than $75. I’m actually pretty excited about my purchase. I’ve been going to the gym after work for the last few weeks and it’s been nice to be able to plug the head phones in and tune everyone else out. There’s nothing more annoying than working out on the elliptical machine and having Joe blow try to start a conversation.

The biggest Loser

Our bible study started a “Biggest Loser” competition about 3 weeks ago. For those of you who don’t know the concept behind “The Biggest Loser” it’s basically a weight loss motivation program. You take a group of people and you compete to see who loses the most weight in the designated time period. The results are calculated based on the percentage of your body weight you lose. Each person puts in $20 and at the end the winner takes the cash. So far I’m winning! I didn’t think I had any chance at all. I only have a total of 13 lbs to lose. So far I’ve lost 5.5. Hopefully I can keep it up and don’t totally blow it with all the Mexican food I’m going to eat when I go to Denver next week.

I have a couple of prayer request for everyone to keep in mind. #1 there is a lady in our office whose mother was recently made aware of a brain aneurysm. She is scheduled for surgery in the next 3 weeks. #2 there is a lady in my office who found out she has a brain tumor. She is having surgery next week.

Go green!!!

Well -I haven’t updated my blog in a while. It’s not because I’ve been super busy it’s because I’ve been super L-A-Z-Y! I went from insanely busy in my work life to catching up with all my friends who thought I moved back to Colorado to just wanting to do nothing. That’s exactly what I did this weekend. I can say that Saturday I only left the house to go to praise team practice and to the store. Sunday it was only for church and to the store. On both Saturday and Sunday I managed to fall asleep while trying to read my new book “Maisie Dobbs”. I’m not sure if it was because I’ve been so tired or because the book is slow. It’s very well written – it’s just not the most exciting book I’ve ever read. However, I am determined to finish it here soon so I can move on to the next on my list. I hope to read before the end of the month War of the Worlds and Emma. I also purchased Property Management for Dummies for reference material. My next will probably be California Real Estate License for Dummies (not actually sure if that’s a book or not but it sounds good).

Birthdays!

I want to say happy Birthday to my brother in law Steve. He’ll be thirty-something on July 15 and Josiah will be 3 on July 20th. I’m looking forward to going home for the weekend to see Mr. Jo. I plan to spoil him even more rotten than he already is!

They were delicious!!!

Busy Busy busy busy tired busy busy busy sick busy busy

Did I mention I was busy? Well I have been! Over the last 3 weeks I’ve done little besides work and sleep. I managed to finish two huge projects, one requiring most of the work after hours, survived an audit, filling in for out of town coworkers and the stomach flu. Boy am I glad June is almost over!

I suppose I shouldn’t complain about work because in a way I did ask for it. Well, sort of. I was causally praying and said “God, I really need to pay off my laptop. Do you think you could help me out with that?” I of course was thinking more along the lines of Uncle Tim wining the power ball and sending me a nice fat check but no. God made me work for it. Sheesh!! I guess I should be more specific next time in the direction of my prayer ;o)

Even though I’m exhausted and an unexpected 6 lbs lighter (due to the bout with the stomach flu) I am doing well. I was able to go visit my good friends in Stockton last night for the first time in quite a while. I heard several of them say “We saw you more when you lived in Denver.” Which made me feel quite guilty. Hopefully I’ll be able to balance my time a little bit better now that the worst is over at work.

This weekend looks to be relaxing. We have our youth bible study tonight at one of our family’s homes. We’re doing a camp out in the backyard. Can you believe that most of these kids have NEVER been camping? City folk?! I’m tellin’ ya! My job tonight is to teach them the ever important skill of s’more making. Hopefully they will retain this highly important part of childhood development and pass it along to other deprived children living in the Sacramento area. Saturday I have a date with Janelle to do nothing. It’ll probably consist of lying around and reading magazines while her children run wild. Either that or I’ll get roped in to helping her pack (they are moving into their new apartment in a week or so). Either way I’m not working and that’s the most important thing!