An Early Mid-Life Crisis!!!

Bill has had his mid-life crisis, and he's only 29! We are really excited to let our friends and family know that we brought our 1st new car!!!

October 27, 2008 Bill and I purchased his "DREAM" car. A Dodge Charger R/T. We had this great opportunity at my work (Glenn E Thomas) to buy a new car at a great price, and since bill and i have been talking about getting his car it really did feel like perfect timing. We got the top of the line fully loaded R/T Road and Trek package. I've never been a huge fan of dodge vehicles, but man this car is SWEET!

I think some of our favorite features are: The sunroof, Touch screen Nav/Radio, The rear TV (when kids enter the picture we'll really love this one!!!), The great sound system plus Sirius radio (something bill's been wanting) oh yeah and the 5.7 hemi 8 cyl engine. Let's just say bill has a lead foot now.... good thing he has a "get our of jail" card in his back pocket...

Over all we are just super excited and enjoying our "luxury" car, something that is new to Bill and I. It sure has been a blessing in my life and in bills to have found each other, and being able to enjoy life's little pleassures!!!

Pumpkin Patch

It's that time again! Halloween is like my FAVORITE holiday, for many reasons. One of those reasons being..... Finding the best pumpkin in the Patch.

Bill and I decided that last night we should go out and get us a pumpkin, i mean it's just tradition. So we called up my little sisters to see if they wanted to go with us, and they did.

Elise, Jenny, Bill and I headed over to the pumpkin patch at Goldenwest College. I just love that pumpkin patch. I think I've been going to that one since i was a little girl. Once we got there we just had to take some pictures to document our fun! I took a picture by the height pole, as usual I'm still only 5'5. I was hoping to be a little bit taller, but seeing that i haven't grown since the first year of high School i don't see that happening anytime soon. After that we started looking for the best pumpkin in the bunch.

Now there are a few things to look for when choosing the best one. Bill and I like to have a sizable stem still on the pumpkin, Plus it has to sit right NO wobbling, we also like our pumpkin to be wide enough for a good face and tall enough so the mouth isn't sitting on the bottom of the pumpkin. Finding the right pumpkin is like finding the right partner in life, you have all these perfect ideals of what you want but ultimately when you see it you just know it's the right one for you.

Once we found our pumpkin (which didn't take long) we stopped by the barn animals to look at the little baby goat, he was so cute! i wanted to take him home, but Bill said "not a chance". I think Elise liked the little guy too. As for Jenny she was hitting me up for quarters so she could ride on the little rides they had there. That child will always be a kid at heart, man do i love her!

We hung around there for a little bit just walking around and looking at all the fun stuff they got going on at the pumpkin patch, after about an hour give of take a couple of mins we took our 3 pumpkins up to the counter paid for them and headed back home.

Height Pole

picture on the hay loft me and my sisters

our perfect pumpkin

Mia and Bill

Elise, Jenny, and Mia amidst all the pumpkins


Looking at the barn animals

The baby goat

Jenny on one of the rides

A Productive Saturday...

Saturday i had the day off and thought to myself.... "I'm going to be very productive today! Bill's at work which leaves me to do whatever i want with no cares in the world." If only things would turn out the way you plan.

My Saturday started off great. Got up at a decent hour balanced the checkbook, finished all the laundry (i mean wash, dry, fold AND put away.) Along with the laundry i got the kitchen cleaned yah! Those are my two main jobs in the Hughes household. After working so hard i realized i deserved a break and since my back had been killing me the last couple of nights i ran the idea of getting a massage by Bill and he said GO FOR IT!

Well you didn't have to tell me twice i hung up with bill and immediately called the Spa and book an appointment within the hour. Let me tell you it was nice, could of handled a little more pressure but over all the knots were worked out and i was feeling GREAT. So now that all the house work was done and my back feeling better i hurried off to target to pick up something and then i was headed to the market. If anyone knows Bill and I, you know that he does ALL the cooking. I was feeling so productive and wanted to do something very nice and special for him. So i had a dinner and evening all planned out for when my hard working husband got home.

This is were my oh so productive day took a turn for the worse. So I'm over at target getting cleaning supplies, toilet paper, halloween candy, you know just stuff we need and i check out and head to the car, mind you I'm in my gym clothes i wore to the spa and still have all the oils and lotions all over my body. To my surprise when i try to start the car it DOESN'T start. Yep here i am running around excited with the perfect evening planned out and I'm stuck in the target parking lot trying to get a hold of my husband who is not answering my calls. Now i know he's at work but come on, you think if the wife calls you a couple of times in a 10min period it's probably important.

So giving up on Bill thinking to myself "he'd better be arresting some bad guy or else!" I call my dad and he and my mom are at the other target just leaving. He tells me to hang tight (like i can go anywhere) and he'll drop off my mom at home get the jumper cables and be right over. I guess it didn't really take him that long but if FELT like hours! My dad shows up and we open the hood of my car and the sight we see isn't promising. My battery is totally corroded so Dad and i had to clean it off and after a couple of tries we got my car started! So off we went back to my parents to put my battery on a charger.

Thankfully i have wonderful parents. A dad who helps me out when I'm stranded and a mom who takes her daughter to the market so she can still make a special dinner for that hard working husband. So my mom, brother nick, and i head to the market. We pick up all the ingredients and head over to my house to start the dinner. I made Pot Roast with carrots potatoes and onions, and a healthy salad. My mom and brother both help me get it all peeled and in the roasting pan so that i would be cooked and ready in the 3 hours that Bill would be coming home.

After what started as a productive day then turned into a small nightmare, Bill got home and i greeted him at the door wearing a nice "dressy" outfit with dinner on a candle lit table and a quiet evening staying in together just to enjoy each others company. Over all a day that started Perfectly ended Perfectly.

K9's and Fireworks

Saturday Bill and I took the family (dad, mom, gerry, nick, elise & Jenny) to the 21st Annual Police K9 show in Anaheim. It was a really good time, and i think that my family really really enjoyed it.

At the K9 Show they run through skits to show the audience why police dogs are important and how they are use in the field. A couple of things the dogs are trained for are the following:

Finding Suspects

Finding Drugs

Finding explosive material

Finding Guns

These are just some the of the things these important dogs do. It was actually really neat to see the dogs in action. The dogs don't seem like they are that powerful, but once you let them loose to run after a "suspect" they go full force on dragging them down to their knees. These dogs bite down and don't want to let go. they bite and shake (which always reminds me of sharks) its that type of aggressions that makes these dogs fearful. Let me just say i would rather give up then have the police send in their dogs, because there is no escaping a well trained K9.

After the K9 show was done they had all the Orange County Helicopters fly by, that was pretty cool but i wish they could have landed or done more tricks but it was a small stadium which wouldn't allow that. To end the evening they had a very impressive Fireworks show that lasted a good 20 mins i would say. All and all the evening was a success!

Blah....

Do you ever feel like life is just blah?

I don't know why but sometimes i just feel so blah. It's not that i don't always have something on my plate, i just feel like doing nothing and that nothing is really going on. I don't know if it's the fact that we are in October and the weather STILL hasn't changed or if I'm just getting in one of those moods either way i need to get out of this slump and get going. I have much to do!

-get fitted for my sister's wedding (which is in may so i have time)

-clean the house and get up Halloween decorations

-help lea move and unpack the house

-get ready for mom's birthday (thankfully her gift is wrapped and ready.)

(i'll post pictures of it after sunday)

-get this work project done....(will it ever be done?)

this is just a short list that should be done this coming week but who knows, maybe i'll just push it aside till later!