Our Furry Bundle of Joy

Gizmo turned 3! It is hard to believe that he has been with us for so long, and at the same time I can't remember what it was like before we had him.

Baby Gizmo 2008

Teenage Gizmo 2009

2yr old Gizmo

2011 - 3yr old Gizmo

Time Warp

March 29, 2011

E and I went skiing up at Mountain High, SO MUCH FUN!

Here are some shots of E skiing

Skiing with Me

(just kidding, well sort of)

For real this time.

Always gotta take some self-portraits!

I demand a repeat next year.... of course open to anyone else who wants to come along as well!

Boxy

--Gmo loves boxes --

 It does not matter what size, shape or style. When he sees a box he has an urge that he just needs to get in it.

Shoe boxes

Cutlery boxes

Packing boxes

Milk boxes (from Price Club), Blender boxes, Mailing boxes

Boxes for soda -- Which worked much better when he was a teenage kitten (top photo) than a grown monster cat (bottom photo)

He currently has a Baileys box he enjoys sitting in while staring out the front screen door to watch all the neighborhood kids, cats and dogs. And did I mention MOVING BOXES?

And now back to more Askew programming

Sorry we have been off the grid with our blog...

The last day of Askew invasion had us hanging out at the Discovery Science Center and the out for Mexican food.

HollyWeird Day

And on the 3rd day of Askew Invasion we hit up Hollywood. Walked around, saw the Hollywood sign, looked at some stars on the ground, visited El Capitain, did the wax museum and ate some grub.

Balboa Beach

On day 2 of Askew everyone headed to the beach for some swimming, kite flying, footballing, soccer kicking wave riding fun! After conquering the beach we all piled into the vans/cars and picked up MORE people and headed to dinner at Chick-Fil-A. It was great to see almost all of the Sousa's and share a meal with them!

Celebration!

March 21, 2011 @ John's Incredible Pizza

What a great night it was.

Loved getting to celebrate Abby & Drew's birthdays with the whole gang. 

 FOOD, GAMES, FUN, LAUGHTER, FRIENDS, GOOD TIMES

PETA: A Response

Please click over to Reproductively Challenged to see what the top dogs in PETA are saying in response to all of our emails to them about the: win a vasectomy contest.

OUTRAGE!!!!

Please click over to my infertility blog to see why I am outraged about PETAs new campaign!

CLICK HERE

E turns Three

Earlier this month I headed over to the Henning house to celebrate

E's birthday!

 A delightful kick back event with food, friends and of course... cake.

Happy Birthday E!

Wine & Cupcakes

Back in February we went to a wine bar in celebration of Ruel's birthday.

It was a fun location with drinks, food, a band and great desserts!

Yum-o

The Hutchins Siblings having some drinks and conversating

Happy Birthday Ruel



And the Oscar goes to.....

This year unlike last we managed to see all of the films nominated for Best Picture. We have each ranked our favorites. Our top choice is not necessarily who we think will win but who we would choose to win.

Paul's Picks

The Social Network

True Grit

Kings Speech

127 Hours

Inception

Black Swan

The Fighter

Toy Story 3

The Kids Are All Right

Winters Bone

Cyndi's Picks

The Social Network

Kings Speech

127 Hours

Inception

Toy Story 3

True Grit

The Fighter

Black Swan

Winters Bone

The Kids Are All Right



Who we think will be crowned at the Oscars

Best Picture - Kings Speech

Actor - Colin Firth

Supporting Actor - Christian Bale

Actress - Natalie Portman

Supporting Actress - Hailee Steinfeld

Day in LA and the OC

A week ago Monday I enjoyed a day out with Morgan. First stop was a taping of the Dr. Phil show up in LA. We had some time to waste so we goofed around on the roof of the parking structure taking photos.

After the taping it was back to the apartment to hang out (take a nap). Then over to The Block for dinner and a movie. We enjoyed both our selections at Dave & Busters. I had the Chicken Parm Sandwich, a new choice for me and it was delicious with some sweet potato on the side. I did take half home for lunch the following day. Of course our movie of choice had to be an Adam Sandler flick. Sadly it was then time to take Morgan back to her place as she had to work the following day.

My Valentine

A First

Yesterday I made my first smoothie at home using my very own blender!

 7oz. OJ, strawberries, apple, banana and pineapple

Epic Sale of 2011

Please read about our most recent Yard Sale in February HERE!

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!

Slackers

I am bummed that we haven't posted anything since 2011 began, I will try to give the "Readers Digest" version of what we have been up to the first month of the new year.

Sickness -

Paul got sick before 2010 ended and it has lasted weeks and weeks! He even had antibiotics but it didn't get rid of it. I was able to defend against it for about 2 1/2 weeks before I came down with ick. We are feeling much better although there is a lingering cough.

Family -

My mom continues to mend from her fall and has been cleared to go back to work in a week. She still has to do physical therapy to help the healing process along but so far looks like no surgery!

My grandma took a downward turn and got an infection in her leg, normally the Drs would do surgery to remove the hardware she has but they said she wouldn't survive the surgery. They put her on antibiotics and hoped for the best, she will probably have to be on antibiotics for the rest of her life.

A cousin of mine announced she is having a baby, the first in our part of the family in 20+ years

Family bday dinner for Christie

Friends -

Had dinner out with KJ, Tif and Erin

Hung with BZ a few times

Multiple friends have gotten pregnant

Celebrated Morgans 31st bday with dinner and a movie

Fundraising -

Picked up cans at 2 Monster Jam events

Gathered many, many items for the upcoming Yard Sale (thanks so so much family and friends!)

Outtings -

Saw the Cold War Kids at Jimmy Kimmel

Competed in Trivia Night at Stadium Tavern with the Prices

We went to Dave & Busters just to hang out and play some games together

Certainly we saw a few movies

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I am sure there was much more that we did but this is all I can think of right now. Hopefully we will get back to blogging regularly. Hope the new year is treating all of you wonderfully.