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Ian is such a fantastic little boy. He LOVES I mean LOVES the PBS Kids show ZOOM http://pbskids.org/zoom/. He watches it everyday. He likes to do science experiments. ALL DAY LONG!!! He loves to make Rube Goldberg Machines. He is obsessed with tape (He loves duct tape, masking tape & scotch tape), cups (paper, plastic & Styrofoam) paperclips, rubber bands, balloons, aluminum foil, ect. Anything that can be used to make an experiment. We have made a million trips to the '99cent only' store. We had to make it clear that water experiments could ONLY be done outside. I almost killed him one day when I caught him trying to pour milk into the vacuum cleaner attachment!! I am so lucky to be able to be a stay@home mom and see all of the wonderful new things Ian has been doing..
I have become a real gardener. Armstrong Garden Centers and The Home Depot have become my new favorite stores. I have planted 30+ rose bushes, hundreds and hundreds of bulbs, and dozens and dozens of perennials and annuals. I have never worked so hard in my life!!! I have dug so many holes. It is so tiring. But I love it. My yard is way tooo big. I should not have had so many planters put in.. My bulbs are starting to pop up. :) I am so excited! I am so proud of my new garden. I still have so much more to do in the front. My grandmother would have been so proud...
What we did in January 2005...
1/1/05 - 1/1/05
Saturday - Michael drove to Arizona with Alan to see the Tampa Bay Buccaneers play football on Sunday. Our dear friend Paul Kelly now works for the Buccaneers. :) They also stayed at the Ritz with the team. :) We worked in the yard.
1/2/05 - 1/8/2005
Sunday . Football game. Michael got to work on the side lines assisting the coaches with the audio equipment. They drove back
Monday .
Tuesday - Ian went to Pre-School. After school I got a haircut and we went to lunch...
Wednesday -Michael flew to NJ for work. We drove down to San Diego. My wonderful mother made us a fantastic dinner.
Thursday- 5am my brother drove me the airport and I flew to NEW YORK!!! 6PM Brian Greenspan picked me up at the airport. On the way to pick up Michael at the hotel Greenspan almost got us killed. He got into a fight with another NY driver, he got out of his car and started cussing out the guy! It was so f**king scary I thought he was going to get us killed. It was so NY .. We went to the old record store Greenspan used to work @ Record Runner. Then we went to a Thai restaurant and then to a wonderful French bakery. Later we went to the movies. We saw 'Aviator' . We really enjoyed it.
Friday- We work up a bit late and had to switch what we were doing both mornings. We went to Union Square. We went to a great store called ABC. We had lunch at a place called '"Chat and Chew'. We went back to the hotel (Waldorf Astoria) and we each had a massage. Then we went downstairs and had wonderful Afternoon Tea. We walked to Saint Patrick's Cathedral and to the New York Library. Then we had a drink and some appetizers before we saw a Broadway show RENT. I was not crazy about it!! We went to a late dinner (11pm). It started snowing on our way back to the hotel.
Saturday - We went to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. I really enjoyed Ellis Island. Poor Mike had a small hole in his shoe. Of course it was raining. at one point he squeezed out over a 1/2 cup of water from each sock. Poor baby. At 4pm we went to the Museum of Radio and Television. Brian met us there. After that we went to 'White Castle'. Mike and Brian pigged out!!! Right after that we went to a Birthday party dinner for one of Brian's good friends. It was at a Vegetarian restaurant. There were 12 people there. I had a great time. I met others who liked Japan/David Sylvian! We had a great evening..
1/9/05 - 1/15/2005
Sunday . Flew home. Ian stayed with my mom while we are gone. He had a great time with Grandma and with his cousins.
Monday - Bunco. I WON. I WON! I had never won the big prize before. Yea Yea Yea. It was a big silver serving set.
Tuesday - Ian went to Pre-School.
Wednesday - Bunco (Moms Club). I won - I won AGAIN!!!! O my!!!! TWO TIMES!!! $$$
Thursday - Ian went to Pre-School. We brought snack today. He made Butterfly Bites' . We have made these around the house about a million times. After school we had a quick nap. Then we picked up Tristan after school and he stayed the night...Lisa and David went to NY over the weekend for their TEN year anniversary. The boys had a great time. They played in the yard, fought over who got to water the plants, played baseball and soccer. They play so nicely together. Tristan is four they have the same birthday. :)
Friday - The boys played. We took Tristan to school, after nap picked him up and then dropped him up with his grandmother at his house. She watched him over the weekend.
Saturday - We drove down to SD for Jack's third birthday party. They had a fire-truck and a bounce house. The kids were in heaven. We had a wonderful time seeing all of our San Diego friends.
1/16/05 - 1/22/2005
Sunday . Michael went to pick up Tristan. He stayed the night again. That night I went out with Gina and Angie to see a Cure cover band in LA. I had never seen a Cure cover band before. I was very embarrassed and felt silly about going. I had a nice time out with the girls.
Monday .Tristan did not have school so the boys played all day. I worked in the yard... I got out my favorite childhood toy for the boys to play with PUZZLETOWN!!!! They boys had a good time. (Livejournal).
Tuesday - Ian went to Pre-School. My first bulb came up today. I was so excited. (Livejournal).
Wednesday - We went to playgroup at Teresa's. Ian is so cute. He brought a rubber band and said "Look everyone I brought a rubber band, it can be a circle, a square, a triangle and you can shoot it". He is such a silly boy. The other kids could care less. Silly Ian. After playgroup we met Jena and her two boys and went to the beach and had a picnic. We saw a starfish in the tidepools in Laguna. It was so hot and look it is January! We are so lucky here in California. It was so much fun
Thursday- Ian went to Pre-School. We went to Denny's at night in out PJ's for breakfast for dinner. Ian had a fantastic time.
Friday-/Saturday Michael had to go to Las Vegas for work over the weekend. I was not to happy about it. It was after all birthday weekend. Well he was supposed to be gone all weekend. but he came home Saturday afternoon. I was also supposed to go. and thank GOD I did not go because everyone had to go to a show that night and it was the WORST show ever!!!! CELINE DION. Could you imagine if I had to go and sit through that SHIT!!!! YUCKY I would have rather pulled out a fingernail!!!! :)- So it all worked out. :) Gina came up and brought me many wonderful birthday gifts and we went out to Indian dinner.
1/23/05 - 1/29/2005
Sunday . Worked in the yard most of the day.
Monday . Autumn's Birthday (19) :) We had breakfast @ Mimi's with Lisa and Tristan. They brought me many wonderful birthday gifts. Then went to JC Penny and got our portrait taken together. Four years in a row now. They turned out so darn cute!!! He was such a good boy. We went home and he took a nap and then we met Michael for dinner at the Spaghetti Factory. Michael bought me a really cool birthday gift. A solar garden angel statue. It was a great birthday.
Tuesday - Pajama week at preschool. he also brought a flashlight. Ian loved wearing his JJ's to school.
Wednesday - I had a dentist appointment. Lisa was kind enough to watched Ian. He was only their two hours and he had a allergic reaction to their dog... Poor Ian....
Thursday- Pajama day at school again. He also wore his robe and brought his teddy... Ian had his first birthday party from pre-school right after school. It was at Chuck E Cheese. Home for a quick nap. We picked up Tristan after school at 3:25pm. My step-mother Susan's mother passed away. :( She had lived with my dad and Susan for the last four years.
Friday- Took my car in. Jena and her boys were kind enough to pick us up. Then we went to a tea place in Orange and had the BEST soup on earth. Potato soup, we also had tea and a scone. Then they drove us home and the boys played.
Saturday - Dustin (Mike's Step-brother - Bob's Son) and Candice had a BEAUTIFUL baby girl. Madison Lee. - 9am, I went to the Rose Pruning class at Armstrong Garden Center. It was over two hours long! I also WON the rose I was going to buy that day!!! I am such a lucky girl.....Michael and Ian went to Krispy Kreme and shopping. My dad and Susan came up and we went out to Indian food.
1/30/05 - 1/31/2005
Sunday . I worked in the garden and pruned started to prune the roses. All 40 of them! What have I done? I am in way over my head.
Monday .Our SEVEN Year Wedding Anniversary!!!! - How time flies - can you believe that we will have been dating for 14 years in April! Fun to look back on our wedding day. Sad to think about all of the family that have passed away since then. :( The boys bought me a really beautiful Teapot lamp and a box of See's candy. Yum Yum... At night the three of us went out to dinner in Fullerton.
