sparkling cider

My heart is a drum machine

brothers rhinehart @ seattle showbox sodo

I miss Kelsea.

My little sissy has moved to Oregon and I want her back! She hasn't even been gone a full week and I miss her like crazy

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Vegas was a blast. I have to coolest family in the world.
I mean, my 94 year old great-grandmother crawled into a Hummer limo with us and outlasted my cousins and I (past 3am!) 2 out of 3 nights. Beat that.


Here are some pictures (and I stress the word 'some') because I didn't take pictures of everything. Definitely didn't have my camera with me the night Malyssa and I danced our socks off at "Gold Diggers". That's probably a good thing. Right, M? :)

We are so close to being home I can taste it.

This road trip has been a blast! The navi says 38 minutes left-the sights are getting familiar...can't wait to curl up next to Erik in our own bed and put on the new episode of Dexter! :)

Favorite memories on the road:
Mount Shasta
Dad's toast at dinner last night (not even going to repeat it here!)
the Amorath at Hyatt Sacramento
Korean pop music randomly coming up on the iPod
Just "being" with mom, dad, and Erik.

Stop. and Go.

Currently blogging from mom's iPad as we drive through California's Central Valley.

I almost puked in Barstow at "Brownie's Gas and Liquor" today. If I have to use one more moldy bathroom with grafitti carved into the toilet seat...it's not going to be pretty. I'm serious. My dad chooses the nastiest looking places to stop for gas. I think he thinks it's funny. If you know my dad, you know what I mean.

What should have been an 8 hour drive today is turning out to be more like 12. Traffic was absolutely horrible!! And that's coming from someone who lived in Southern CA for 7 years.

Mom lived there for years-fighting the freeway traffic several mornings on her way to work. She told us the funniest story today about the day she decided she'd had enough:

After sitting in stop and go traffic for what seemed like an eternity, pulled her 1966 Baby Blue VW bug into the shoulder and stepped on the gas. The other six lanes of traffic crept along at nearly a standstill while mom soared past them at 60 mph. What a brilliant idea! Now she would definitely make it to work on time! (It's safe to say that the Beach Boys were probably blasting out of the radio too.) She was riding high, so proud of her brilliant plan, when suddenly, she spotted something up ahead in the distance. As she got closer she realized it was a police officer parked in the shoulder just WAITING for her! She had no choice but to pull her little baby blue bug up behind the patrol car, put it into park and wait for him to write her a ticket. Even her expert flirting skills and like, Valley Girl looks couldn't get her off the hook this time. Lol

Back home soon! We had a wonderful time in Vegas-can't wait to share the pictures of the great time we had with our family.

Ciao bellas! Hope you had a fantastic holiday weekend!

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A woman I used to work for (and also a very talented photographer) was once telling me about an assignment she was doing in which she took pictures for ten minutes straight in the same setting. The other day I did this out by my car and it was tons of fun! I ended up with photos a lot of photos I liked (and a lot that were really lame haha.)



This post is fitting because we are in the car (and will be in the car) all day today/tomorrow
But not this car. A much bigger, much more glamourous car.
Diddy...I mean, MOM style

Going to Vegas baby!
Big Money...Big Money...

Since Kelsea has a big, bad, commercialistic (is that a word?) job, she can't join us for Thanksgiving this year. I'm pretty bummed about it. Totally angry at her. Fuming. But she needs this job to support her QVC Porcelein doll collection so I understand. Hahahaha
Last week we had a pre-Thanksgiving dinner in her honor! Love her soooo much.



Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Wish us luck in the snow and ice! And to some of you-see you in Vegas! :)

*Update*

E made it home! After getting stuck in a few ditches, running stop signs and sliding down a hill, the man of the house is home!!! When I showed him the traffic map I posted earlier he said, "Oh no. That's not even close to accurate. That should be all black, the entire bridge was a parking lot, that part wasn't even moving..." etc. Glad he's finally back!

Stop and Slide Traffic

Poor Erik has been trying to get home from campus for 2 & 1/2 hours now. He let me drive his Tahoe to work which means he's stuck out there in my manual 06 Accord! (I do have seat heaters though, so you don't have to feel too sorry for him).

Last time we talked he was halfway here! Keep on truckin' Erik!!!

Meanwhile, I'm cozy and warm back at the house with a fresh pot of chili on the stove and a mug of hot chocolate. I stepped outside to document the snowfall. Just in case you haven't seen snow fall before.