Starwars and Rockstars...

This year Jacob had it in his head that he wanted the whole family to go as a Star Wars group. I told him that I couldn't because I'm not a geek so we comprimised and the boys went Starwars and Lizzy and I went as Rock Stars (much cooler). Here we are proudly showing our "Fists of Rock". I went a litte 80's retro by sporting some neon orange fishnet gloves and stockings to match to wig. Jake was Han Solo ( I made his vest and hand-sewed a red ribbon stripe onto the sides of his pants) , Ryan was a Storm Trooper (and wears his costume every day!) and I made Trevor's costume in like, 30 min with as little sewing as I could get away with so he was a generic Jedi. :) Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

The Mamma Test...

This is one of those stupid e-mail forwards that I never read but I thought it was so dang funny (and short enough) that I had to post it so you could have a good laugh.

THE MAMA TEST
I was out walking with my 4-year-old daughter. She picked up something off of the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that. 'Why?' my daughter asked.'Because it's been on the ground; you don't know where it's been, it's dirty, and probably has germs,' I replied. At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked, 'Mama, how do you know all this stuff? You are so smart.' I was thinking quickly. 'All moms know this stuff. It's on the Mama Test. You have to know it, or they don'tlet you be a Mama.' We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information. 'Oh.....I get it!' she beamed, 'So if you don't pass the test you have to be the dad.''Exactly,' I replied with a big smile on my face.

All Natural!!

Yup...No more spending a ton of money on bleach jobs anymore! My amazing friend, Dena did my hair on Friday. I'm going back to my roots...get it?!..roots! Ha ha (wipe tear).

CALI TRIP...finally!

So we hopped in the car and headed back home to good 'ol California for a little sunshine. The drive went well and we had a blast visiting with old friends and family. Then we spent our last 4 days there camping in Mission Bay, San Diego with Jacob's family. It was such a wonderful vacation!

While traveling down to Cali with my sister, Melissa and her gang in tow, we ran into my step-sista, Jenafer and her hubby, Dave at In 'n Out! How Random!

Water Park in Corona with Violet & Melonie after meeting up with Dottie at Violet's house.

Visiting Jacob's Grandparents. :)

Got to see Memory too!

Girl's night at my sister, Crystal's house! I even got to see my beloved Aunt Edith and Uncle James. I love listening to her stories.

We even got to meet up with Dave and Wendy for dinner!

Me and my bros. I didn't get to see John :( I should have made him come to girl's night with his wifey. Mission Bay, San Diego. Tomseth Family Reunion. :)

MY NEW POT RACK!!

My amazing husband made me the best gift EVER for our upcoming anniversary on the 25th of this month. He made me a beautiful, modern POT RACK!!!! It looks SO amazing in my kitchen. The wood and the black metal match the kitchen perfectly. He even put lights in it to make it just over the top! I am so glad that he got that welder earlier this year! And he did all of this in less than 3 days! I'm telling you, when he gets started on a project, there is no stopping him. Now all I need is a new set of pretty pots! :) Here are some pics of it along with all the other amazing projects that Jacob has done to make our house a home. The Concrete Floors!

This is the truest to color that I'm gonna get with my camera...

The Beams that Jacob put in the basement...

The awesome faux Granite table that Jacob made for me ...

Jacob hit the BIG 3-0!!!!

Yup, Jacob is finally 30! He said that he actually really felt this birthday. He had a hard time wrapping his head around the fact that he is no longer in his 20's. :) I got him a GPS system, made him a cake and threw him a suprise B-Day party with a ton of our closest friends. The party was a TON of fun. We had a Luau theme. I made pulled pork sandwiches, roasted potatoes, corn on the cob, watermellon, pineapple, ect. Of course, no Luau is complete without a proper "Roast"...comedy central style, that is! A bunch of our friends prepared "Roast" speeches to give to the old geezer. We were dying laughing. Then we had a special preformance from one of Jacob's closest friends, Rich. I asked him to sing "Brett, you've got it going on" from Fight of the Concohrds (You Tube it!!)...you know, to make him feel better about turning 30. :) Except, of course he changed the name from Brett to Jacob. It was hillarious! He's from Australia so his accent made it even better! (Flight of the Concohrds are from New Zeland) Rich even went the extra mile and sang a second 'Flight of the Conchords' song about how "Jacob and I met". The song was called "The most beautiful girl". SO funny! Then we had an "Explination of the Cake" and all dug into it. (Explination can be found on http://www.whitmansugarmammas.blogspot.com/) I had even made a poster listing random facts, headlines and cost of living from WAY back in 1979 and posted it on the fence. :) Jacob loves random trivia. :) After that, we all headed down to the basement to watch the hillarious video that my friend, Phil helped me put together. It was basically a "Dateline Special Report" of Jacob's life...with some fiction added in. :) What a fun night. Thank you to everyone who came and a HUGE thank you to everyone that helped out! Happy Birthday honey! I love you more than anything!