All done!

Recovering from his loss

Tim's bolstering his spirits by cleaning his AR15. For the record, I'm
not making any snippy comments.

Close game!!

Our shopping

The downfall of America.

First of all- the child is driving. Second of all- he was going
against the flow of traffic. Lastly of all- it's the day before
thanksgiving! Stores shouldn't allow these kinds of people on such
busy days!!!
As a side note, I'm at costco again.

Spencer sitting

This isn't a shelf at a dog food store: it's all of Spencer's gourmet
food for three days! The worst part is Maggie and Spence won't sleep
in the same room so Tim will sleep with her upstairs as well as
Caesar, and I will be with Spence and Harley in my bed. And, we have
to check on Jewel's three dogs while they are out of town.

All clean!

We used this chemical my dad recommended and it came off easily.
As a side note, the Ukraine is being especially hit hard by the
'california' flu so it's good I'm not going. Good luck Kristy!

There goes our neighborhood

Our fence got Grafitied last night. Seriously- did they think our cute
little fence in Bountiful needed spray painting? Tim takes this as a
sign that we need to move east.

I hate outerspace!!!

I manages to go inside at Griffith Observatory but only for a few
minutes. I hate everything to do with outerspace. Except my memory
foam pillow.

In 'N Out without the wait.

Malibu

Ironic that Tim is at the beach today because hes going skiing tomorrow.

And we are off!

We just enjoyed a fabulous lunch at the Blue Bayou. We even rode a few
rides in Adventure Land. Now we are headed north towards Griffith Park
and then hopefully to the Getty Villa.
The weather is great and we do wish you were all here.

I've kidnapped Tim!

Can you believe it??!!

Fudge when you screw up how much sugar you add.

I should've added twice as much sugar, but since I wasn't looking at the recipe, I didn't realize that until the fudge failed. I then added the sugar and turned it into icecream topping!

charity hair

I don't need any of this crap.

I'm at NPS and couldn't say no to any of this junk. Now I'm waiting
for a price adjustment. And waiting....

Three dogs

I'm jut glad these three muts aren't on my desk sleeping!

Another sad thing

So, to top off my (actually Bret's) dental drama, I started the week
off with a bang.
To begin, it was only 20 degrees last night. That alone is enough to
ruin your day.
After I woke up, I found dog pee in my closet. You get to guess which
dog it was.
Then, Tim walked in our front door, it was only about 6:15 am. Turns
out, my beetle died in my mom's driveway. It kind of shuddered and
shut down. We thought maybe the diesel froze but it still won't start
after thawing in my moms garage (just celebrated my one-year
anniversary with my big Hobart mixer seen in picture).
Then, at about 6:45, I opened a drawer and found that dead mouse in a
trap! I can't tell you where, but I'm sure his twin brother will be
there tomorrow morning.
So, all before 7:00am, I had lots of inconvenient things. So have a
good day!

Harry is off to Vegas

Harry is driving Brets race trailer down to Vegas for supernationals.
Bret will fly down tonight after he makes a stop at Dr. Picketts for a
chipped tooth. We'd like to give a shout out to Dr Pickett for being
an awesome dentist and thank him for coming in on a Sunday- Bret has
to be in Vegas tonight.
Good luck drivers!
ps- if you want to come to Vegas next weekend a bunch of us are going
down. Former F1 champion Michael Schumacher will be there as well -
he's like the Michael Jordan of racing.

Back view

Avalanche Bag System

Tim got to demo the $1,000 avalanche protection system at our
avalanche class today. It costs about $80 to refill it for the next
time. When deployed, it has nearly a 100% survival rating.
You just pull a rip cord to inflate as soon as you feel you are in
danger. It helps keep you on top of the snow.

The price of honesty today.

So, I returned this combo food processor/ blender today to Costco. He
said it's $156.65. I was like, no I think it was like $70. We looked
at the screen and we had bought a cuisineart for $156.65 about a month
ago.
So, he returned it. I walked up to it on the floor and sure enough
it's $70. So, I've spent the last twenty minutes trying to 'buy' back
the right return and return the right one.
Sure, I could've easily had an extra $100 in my picket but I wouldn't
be able sleep with myself. Not to mention, I had to show the costco
guy I really know how much my kitchen appliances cost!
Turns out Kara bought the cuisineart in question at about the same
time I bought the mini one

Pinewood derby

Bret working on Emil's pinewood derby car. He's melting lead to make
it heavier.

Tims muscles

Tim's using his muscles to play Jenga for the first time in his life!
He's been working on his muscles faithfully for about two weeks.

Look who's at Pierce Brother's!