Special Exhibit

December 30, 2012

Paul, myself and the parents headed up to the Reagan Library to spend the day. We looked through the main presidency portion, grabbed lunch and then headed to the special Disney exhibit! There were tons of memorabilia: sketches, posters, replicas of how his home office was set up, tons of other Disney items. 

Costumes from many of the princess and super hero movies along with Pirates and Alice in Wonderland. 

Portions of original rides, vehicles from rides and movies along with recreations of sets. 

Disney artists sketches for Mr & Mrs Reagan, Mickey ears and a staff name tag. 

It was a beautiful day.

Street Food Cinema

A great way to spend a Saturday night in the Summer. 

Food trucks, music, and a movie.

Twentywonder (July)

An evening of music, food trucks, lucha libre, and roller derby!

Tic-Tac-Toe with Steve-O

Celebrate

In celebration of Paul's birthday we hit up a Kings game. 

Sadly the Kings lost 2-1. We had a fun evening hanging out together and even running in to the Prices for a few moments before the game began. 

Mountbocce!

Josh, Bowden and Lucy 

took on 

The Hutch and me 

in round after round of Bocceball. 

The end results were less than desirable for the non-mountain folk. 

Encampment

Please read the whole story here.... BUMMER-FREE ZONE

In the afternoon of the Saturday we were in Idyllwild the Mr. and I accompanied Mr. Tate into the woods (on camp property) to check out the potential abandoned camp of a hobo. 

Josh pulling the tent out of the shrubbery.

I enjoyed the scenery

...and documented what the boys found.

Click on the link above for all the details of our outing. 

art in the streets @ moca

We heart U2

Flashback (way back) to 6.17.11

A last minute thought and some very cheap tickets off the internet landed us at U2 playing Angels Stadium. Our seats were awesomely close to the stage and we had a great view. 

Set List

1. Even Better Then The Real Thing

2. I Will Follow

3. Get On Your Boots

4. Magnificent (Bishop Tutu mix)

5. Mysterious Ways

6. Elevation

7. Until The End Of The World

8. Happy Birthday (to band manager Paul McGuinness)

9. All I Want Is You

10. Stay (Faraway, So Close)

11. Beautiful Day (Cmdr. Mark Kelly intro and dedication to U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords)

12. Pride (In The Name Of Love)

13. Miss Sarajevo

14. Zooropa

15. City Of Blinding Lights

16. Vertigo

17. Crazy Tonight Remix

18. Sunday Bloody Sunday

19. Scarlet

20. Walk On

21. One

22. Where The Streets Have No Name

Encore

23. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

24. With Or Without You

25. Moment Of Surrender

The Theatre

A good friend of ours, Mr. Ryan Agadoni was gracing the stage with his presence this past Spring (April to be exact) and so we decided to get "dressed up" and head over to Biola to catch a performance of The Odd Couple. We enjoyed the production, muchly. Ryan did a swell job and so did the rest of the cast. I enjoyed the intimate atmosphere of Theatre 21 as I have never been inside before.

Here are the very few photos we have from the night.

211-210

Last Friday we met up with Ric & Jeri at Camelot for a mini golf throw-down!

 The competition was fierce.

Round 1: P-53, C-44, R-52, J-56

Round 2: P-56, C-57, R-45, J-58

Really it was just a couple of holes that had a certain shot not been missed it would have been a totally different ball game. AND C, R and J all had INSANE, INCREDIBLE, AWESOME shots where we all stood there and thought "did that just happen"!

Nearing the end of our evening we came across a little bunny that R decided he needed to chase, the bunny didn't run away really... just circled the tree with R. Quite amusing from my vantage point.

There shall be a re-match!

Santaized

Black Friday was quite a bit different this year. While I was glad we were able to be inside Walmart for a few hours as it was very chilly last night but I am so not a fan of how it went down. After we enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving meal with family it was time to head down to SD. There was some traffic coming down that was unexpected.

First up we headed for Old Navy, trying to get a video game. We were unsuccessful but lucky for us they handed out the cards at midnight so we were able to jet over to Walmart once we knew that Old Navy was not going to hook us up. The parking lot was jammed up as they were open all day on Thanksgiving and began some sales at midnight. We were slightly freaked out once in the store looking around at giant and mini lines everywhere.

Finally we found where the line we needed was and were told that the tickets had already been passed out and there were none left. I was bummed but thought I would ask someone else in line and an employee before we stepped out of line. Upon approaching a manager type employee at the front of our mini line and was told in a hushed tone to get back in line and she would be with us in a minute. SWEET! Lucky for us the instructions were for everyone who received a ticket to stay in line, if you left the line for ANY reason you forfeited the item. Bummer for those who stepped out of line but we were able to score a ticket. The store only had 40 in stock, which I think is crazy for a door buster on Black Friday.

So at just after midnight I was handed my ticket for the item and told to stay in line until 2am at that time we would be issued wristbands. Paul went around to try and find the smaller items (DVDs and video games for people on our list) while I hung out in the dog/cat food aisle for a couple hours. After the wristbands were given out we were allowed to roam about the store gathering other items, napping or snagging a bite to eat.

Everyone was warned that they needed to be back in line by 5am or the item would be given to another individual. I did a few laps around the store and hooked up the caffeine before walking back by the area we were lined up in. People were already back in line at 3am! I couldn't believe it we had till 5am. The problem was that there was a blue vs. pink issue and I surely wasn't going to end up with pink after coming that far. I scooped up some magazines and dog beds to cushion my bum then parked myself back in line. 5am rolled around and score got exactly what we were waiting for (glad to be able to help friends out)!

During this time Paul headed down to Target (the other end of the mall) and had to brave the cold cold night (poor Bubba). He was able to score a few more items on our lists and come 530am we were on our way back to Old Navy to pick up some jeans for my mom. Doing all that we could do at that hour it was time to grab some ZZZZZs.

Alarm went off at noon. Grubbed and headed back out with my mom in tow to the mall. Got some more amazing deals and called it a night at 8pm. Now snuggling on the couch relaxing watching the tele.

Fair Fun

Back in July the Mr. and I hit up the OC Fair. We enjoyed some of the shows, live bands, dueling pianos and just took in the atmosphere.

Food Faire

1 word : AMAZING

this lil guy was hungry

a fun day at the fair



Service

Paul and I spent this past weekend in Idyllwild. I love this place.

Paul and I spent Saturday sanding and staining some of the building on the right.
The new building, look how tiny Paul is!
Chief Thunderbird couldn't make it for the devotion, so his cousin Chief WindedBuffalo came.
Spending time with friends is lovely.

Time for S'mores

Paul and I enjoyed meeting Miles for the first time.

Sand Storm

On Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY, Paul and I got up stupid early because I wanted to go out and be a part of the first episode of BL10. We headed to Venice Beach for the taping and a workout with Jillian Michaels. I also took the opportunity to fill out another application to be on the show. I was stoked when I noticed other contestants from past seasons showing up. I tried to grab a photo with all of them as well as Dr. H.
Ali looking adorable as always!
Jillian looking cold as always. I love her sense of humor. I did not love the pushups or mountain climbers in the sand when the wind was creating a sand storm! Also I would like to mention that jumping jacks in the sand can be quite difficult.

Past contestants went up on stage to help Jill with the warm-up.
Three potential contestants for season 10 did a 500 step-up challenge, the first 2 that finished were immediately taken in the limo to the ranch. We all completed this challenge along side them. And for your information I BEAT all three of the potential contestants at the step-ups!
Paul doing his step-ups
Ali counting down & congratulating the winner on finishing.

Successful

Since 2003 we have been Black Friday shoppers, although we did miss one year due to being out of state. Our first year was spent outside of a Best Buy, the following years were Circuit City. With Circuit City having gone out of business this past year we looked the ads over and decided since Paul needed new jeans from Old Navy and we really wanted to get Lego Rock band it would be the best place to begin our holiday shopping at. The thing that was great about this year was we didn't have to sit outside till 5am!

We got to ON about 12:30am, there was less than a dozen people in front of us we were kinda surprised. Across the street at Best Buy the line wrapped around the building, parking lot and out on to the sidewalk along the street. Paul got settled in line and I headed to grab the gift card we forgot at home, some blankets and coffee. Then we sat and waited, talked, flipped through the ads and listened to the crazies next to us. At 2:30 the employees handed out wristbands for those who would receive the free video game. Paul and I both wanted to try on some jeans so this was not a run in grab what we came for and leave, because of this the line in the store to pay became longer than the line outside. The Mr. and I waited for over 1 1/2 hours to make our purchases.

Since it was nearing 5am by this time we made a plan and headed to Target, as we were parking they opened the doors. We went to the back of the line and waited our turn to be let inside. It was quite packed in there! Target apparently doesn't think that handing out tickets for big items before letting hundreds of people in the store is a valid idea.

Next up was Best Buy which was easy to get in since they already opened doors the hour before we arrived. After comparing styles, makers, and prices we picked out a laptop for my mom. Then it was time to stand in line again. While waiting our turn to check out we came to the conclusion that we needed SLEEP!

Back to my moms for us and to bed! The pair of us woke up for lunch, then it was time for Round 2 at the mall! The three of us walked the entire mall, hitting any store we needed something in. Around 830pm it was time to call it a day. Back to the house to relax and pack up all the treasures we found.

Paul and I made sure to follow one another home to make sure neither of us was to tired to drive.

It was another successful Black Friday!
NOW on to Cyber Monday.

TGIF

Bubba, TK and I headed out to Santa Monica after traffic quieted down a bit from the Friday evening commute. Lovin the new wheel.

The goofy sisters...
Some people went a lil camera happy.
I love my BUBBA.

The three of us had a great time walking, looking around and hanging out.

We did have some excitement as just a couple blocks away there was reports of shots fired, 2 people were hit and the gunman is still on the loose last we heard. While we were crossing Ocean from the Pier towards 3rd street we saw at least a dozen cop cars rush past us on the street. Earthquake yesterday, shooting today welcome back to Cali TK.

Go Doyers!

Friday night Bubba, TK and I headed up to Dodger Stadium. We got our Dodger Dogs and headed to our seats to watch the Dodgers take on the Rockies
Tommy in his very own section

TK was a bit torn as to who she should be rooting for...

What would an outing be without a fantabulous photo shoot

T-n-C

Bubba and the C

After the game it was a 70s fireworks extravaganza

Good Times!