Tuesday, April 14, 2009

104/365 april 14

hubby totally woke up and looked outside and said WTF!!! I couldn't believe it 3 inches of snow in April. some places got 6 and some places received NONE. My work had nothing I was like hey who pissed off mother nature on the north side anyhow??



not a happy camper this morning

103/365 april 13


Went out after work and met up with a few friends. Most had yummy margaritas but I opted out since I wasn't feeling great and afterwards we needed to go rubber stamping and my stampin up demo's house.

Did have some good nachos but probably could have made a meal out of the chips before hand.

Its good to see friends and laugh and talk.

102/365 April 12 Easter

where did the candy go??? Every year mom makes up baskets for her 3 grand kids one of which is my son that is 18. they look forward to this and my dad thinks everyone is to old but mom loves to do it. hey you are never to old for Santa Claus or the Easter bunny right??

well I was going to grab a picture of the basket but my son being ever so neat filed it all away in the places we keep sweets in this house. lol

so you get an empty basket.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

101/365 april 11

Today my dad, brother Paul, hubby and I drove to Palouse falls. Its about 2 hours away from home. You have to drive through cow pastures and farm land most of which is wheat and grasses. Its this enormous waterfall that comes from the Palouse river. Its unusual in that most of what you see on the drive is flat lands and some rolling hills you wouldn't expect to find a river in the middle of this. this land was originally carved out millions of years ago by several ice flows that broke loose in Missoula Montana and then flooded the area. The soil is rich from the basalt rock that lies beneath it and over time has broken down. Perfect farm land.




In previous years we have hiked around to the top of the waterfall but we decided not to do this time. It was a bit windy as well. But we did find a trail to the bottom of the waterfall and will come back this summer when the water is a bit lower and easier to get to the falls and do that. We did have a little fun at the top of one of the ridges as well. Those signs cracked us up.

it was a great day for an outing and having my brother and dad there made it better.

Friday, April 10, 2009

100/365 april 10


cooking the eggs for Easter and deviled eggs. mom is cooking dinner but I always get this job. Which of course my husband HATES. he is not a fan of eggs. Hates the smell more then anything. And every time I cook them (because everyone else in the family loves my deviled eggs) he says isn't it someone Else's turn to cook them.

LOOK AT THAT its the 100th day of the 365 challenge and still going strong


SUNSHINE I am giddy with the happiness that we had sun today. and no Michelle and Kimberly this is before the mojito

99/365 April 9


we had some major road construction start this week and because of it I have to go about 4 miles out of my way to get to where I am going. hmmm this will last many many months. But because of that I traveled a road I don't go on much and caught this great sunset today. it would have been better about 3 min before but couldn't get to a good spot to pull over.


well this is blurry crud hate that little camera. Not only never really happy with the pictures or is it I am just spoiled by the other camera. Anyhow not only never really happy with the pictures but can never see if they are blurry. but look back to the land of the living. YEAHH no headache.

98/365 April 8

a little bit of spring yeah. check out the helicopters (maple leaf pods) they are EVERYWHERE I will have a million trees by summer. ugh. lots of clean up. poor tulips are just now starting to come up with the greens

still not up to a face shot I am lucky I got this one in. lol

97/365 April 7


nice plate full of spring time cupcakes I made over the weekend. well this is how they looked when I left when I came home there were 4 less. the only one home was my dear sweet dog. Yep he ate all of them. Surprisingly he didn't get sick. He is just lucky I still felt like crude to really give him thunder

96/365 April 6


I sooooo felt like crud today. It was all I could do to get to work. it started yesterday and just got worse. And of course it was one of my busy weeks lots of meetings and stuff so when I got home I crashed for a couple of hours and then soaked in a nice HOT BUBBLY tub. did it help? meh only a little but quiet was very nice.


my naked picture. TheONLY one you will ever see.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

95/365 April 5


spent a little time in the flower beds today. Got the front one under the window done. Above is before and below is after



Darn maple trees everyone of them in Spokane is trying to reproduce in my yard.


No face picture since my sinus flared up I look horrid. but look at those dirty hands even in gloves they got filthy. nothing like a little dirt under the fingernails to show you spring has arrived.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

94/365 april 4

Errand day. One of which included taking Duncan to get groomed. Doesn't look like the same dog does it??


Not sure which I prefer either I really do like him both ways. but at least now no worries about dingle berries. He really hates baths but the groomer said he was a perfect angel.

it was sunny today would have been good for working in the yard but to many other things to do maybe tomorrow check out the shades. Roxy shades I found while out hiking. I think I like them.

yeah caught up. gesh a vacation can really cut into your time. But that's OK I will take a vacation over work any day

93/365 april 3


helped my mom put together a boatload of baskets for some of the kids at the air base. A friend had her make the baskets out of fabric then we loaded them up with candy and little prizes. my fingers were numb with all that ribbon curling.

92/365 april 2


Surprise we woke up to 3 inches of snow. Of course it melted off but still it wasn't a very good surprise. back to work and another long week.

a pretty good hair day I had today and it held up till late too surprising

91/365 april 1

April fools day. A cold and dreary day especially after coming back from the warmth of Vegas. The spring run off is starting to pick up. Mother nature played a little joke on us. She let it snow. Ok now enough is enough time for some real spring weather


specks of snow on me as it was just beginning to snow.

90/365 March 31

our mini trip is over. It was good to get away together. Sad to go home to the cold weather too. the coldest its been was 67 and the warmest it has been at home is 37 not fun. oh well.

89/365 march 30

Did some hotel sight seeing today. gesh choosing a photo is tough. Some days you don't like what you have and some days you like to much. The butterfly is from the Bellagio hotel in Vegas, as well as the picture of me today.


beautiful tulips in bloom in the garden. I thought of michelle

Friday, April 3, 2009

88/365 March 29

On our visit to Vegas we rented a car and headed to the valley of fire. the red rocks were awesome. we hiked around for about 4 hours. It was the highlight of Dave's trip.

well I just had to add a second photo for the 365. On our way back from the valley of fire we got a call from Dave's niece and she was in Vegas for the day. It was an awesome surprise so we met up with her at Mandalay bay and had a few drinks and lots of talk together. She was with some friends of hers and they wanted to try the minus 5 below bar. Everything was made from Ice including the glasses that held our apple martinis. Truly a fun experience made hundred times better because of her visit.


well not a self portrait again but I adore this photo of my husband and myself.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

87/365 march 28


One really good reason to go to Vegas. to see Bette Midler. I have always wanted to see her It was an awesome show. Well except for the 6 foot amazon woman that couldn't stop playing with her hair in front of us.


We tried to bring in a small point and shoot to get a picture of the stage but they took it from us. Should have just brought the big one and this would have turned out better. oh well.

86/365 march 27


The reason for me being absent for a few days was a trip to Vegas for hubby and I. It was a nice distraction from reality. I have been there a few times but could never find this sign. Finally went a few blocks past Mandalay Bay and there it was.


watching the sun go down from our hotel room and kicking off the shoes for a few minutes. we must have walked 20 miles today.

85/365 march 26


Here we are landing in Vegas for our little mini vacation. thought the lights were cool all smeared like that. Hard to get a decent shot when you are landing. lol


No face photo spaced it. but this is our hotel room view at the treasure island. we had the top floor. Not the view of the strip but still a great view.