after a MUCH needed vacation i am finally back at work. so many things have happened in the past week or so. i turned 30, yes its official i am freaking old now...

here are some pictures from our thanksgiving. will write more later super busy here are work.

it wasn't the end of the world but it wasn't easy. there are some people who are teachers and i am not one of those persons. for the first 45 minutes i had it under control, by the last 45 minutes i lost complete control of the kids and it was pretty much worthless. they stopped listening, stopped caring. i guess you are a little more enthusiastic about sports when you are older, or maybe just a bigger attention span. anyways, i am glad its over it was good experience but now i realize coaching is not for me. i am good at helping out but i am no teacher. never was i able to be taught, nor can i teach. i just do, if i can't do it i figure out how to do it on my own.

letting them talk me into helping coach cameron's basketball team. tonight i just got a call from the head coach, he can't make it to practice tomorrow and needs me to run it... hmm, this shall be interesting as i have never run a practice before in my life. yes i have been in MANY practices, while in high school i played varsity ball for 3 years at ayala high school. lets see that was almost 12 years ago lets see if i can channel coach gregory... well wish me luck cause i seriously have no idea what i am doing.

saturday was cameron's birthday party. very fun! the bounce house arrived about 12:30, the thing was massive. not only was it a bounce house but it included a slide as well, yes us adults were gonna have some serious fun once this party was over. the kids started showing up around 1, damn there were a lot of kids :P

about 2:30 the reptile guy showed up. we were a little worried because we hadn't heard from him we were told he needed an hour to set up and would be there at 1:30. there was no need to worry he setup with all of his reptiles and bugs with a few surprises. he took each reptile out and let the kids pet or hold them. its amazing how the kids aren't afraid of these things where the adults were freaking out. ok, just jared, haha...

afterwards cameron opened up his presents where he got pretty much everything under the sun. including after we added it all up $120. sunday night he went to target where he bought even MORE presents for himself. the weekend was a lot of fun although sunday came WAY to fast this morning. 5 more days and i will be turning the big 30, scary but i do have the whole week afterwards to recover :)

here are the pics from the weekend, enjoy!

today is cameron's 8th birthday. happy birthday buddy! i love you so much. i hope that you are having a wonderful day.

i'll post pictures tomorrow night of his party, he has invited his whole class over to the house where we are going to have a bounce house and a reptile show. should make for an interesting afternoon.

email.server.crashed.again

night.is.ruined

update: the night was not completely wasted. me being so talented and what not got the server back up and running and was able to make it to cameron's practice on time. yes i so rock, i know :)

i did finally book our big bear cabin! we will be in big bear the week before christmas, woohoo! hopefully there will be some snow BUT hopefully it won't be so bad that i have to put chains on the car. that is one thing i do NOT want to have to do. last year we took some skiing lessons. this year i think the kids and heather want to try snowboarding so hopefully we will get a chance to do that.

in other news... both cameron and vicky started basketball. actually all three kids started basketball but joey doesn't start his league until december. cameron and vicky both have practice at the same time at different parks. i took cameron to practice last week and got volunteered to be the assistant coach. yes i said that correctly, i did not volunteer but got volunteered. i don't mind helping out at all especially with basketball because its something i actually know :) but the problem is, at this level, its very demanding of time. they want to practice 3 times a week for an hour and half EACH practice. should make for an interesting week, tonight is the second practice where we will find out the schedule. i am sure its gonna be something like this... tues 6:30pm - 8pm, thurs 6:30pm - 8pm and sat 7:30am -9am. yes i am lucky like that!

heather bought me willy wonka today!! so awesome... she rocks!

the only thing worse than being sick is having to go to the doctor. i have had this sore throat for almost 2 weeks. after reading everything i possibly could on sore throats i figured it was time to make my way to the doctor to get some antibiotics since my immune system sux and is not doing its job.

yesterday i had to take joey to the doctor which ended up being a complete waste of about 2.5 hours. well it turns out today was no different. i waited in the waiting room for about 35 minutes even tho i had an "appointment". while waiting there i did get to brush up on my spanish since the lady next to me would NOT get off her cell phone and talked as loud as she could! i swear i think the people working construction outside could follow along in the conversation. finally they called my name just to put me in a room where i could wait ANOTHER 35 minutes for the stupid doctor to come in and tell me there was nothing he could do. i mean the dude literally shrugged his shoulders and said sorry, i could give you antibiotics but its not going to help. basically told me to get lots of rest, eat well and take a multi vitamin. um, ok, thanks doc you paid how much for you education to tell me something i should do everyday whether or not i am sick? so now i am back at work, still sick...

the weekends just go by WAY to fast. this past weekend was pretty exciting. friday night we went to the clippers home opener where the clippers annihilated the hawks 92-77. afterwards had a few people back to the house and drank way to much...

saturday i went to work for a little bit while heather and joey went to joey's soccer game. he played exceptionally well! the rest of saturday was spent on the couch very relaxing!

sunday we went to see the speaker junkies perform at:

Remix Magazine and partners presented three FREE days of technology master classes, panels, demos and clinics about music production and performance for electronic and urban-music producers, engineers, musicians and DJs. The Remix Hotel offers exposure to and training on the hottest products available for the production and performance markets.

it was awesome the kids got to play on the keyboards and turntables. we also saw DJ AM (nicole richie's fiance) and bunny from rabbit in the moon. unfortunetly right before the speaker junkies went on joey fell and hit right below his eye on a chair. he's fine, just has a major black eye**. afterwards we all went to dinner and then home to watch our regular sunday evening shows. as usual monday morning came around WAY to fast now i am stuck in meetings all day.

i posted a bunch of pictures, check em out.

**when heather took joey to school this morning the teacher kinda freaked out and couldn't believe we didn't take him to the doctor. she told heather that he could have broken something and his eye could either fall out or drop down a little bit? heather freaking out called me and told me that we needed to take him to the doctor. i left work and picked him up where we spent the next 2 hours waiting for the doctor to say, oh he's fine. he's just gonna be black and blue for a couple of weeks. here joey, want a lollipop? thank god nothing was wrong but what a complete waste of time!