April Fool's WEEK!!!!

A Week fool of April Full's!!! ERRR A Week FULL of April FOOL'S!

Being from California all I can do is sit back and laugh at those poor, gullible people in New York:
Check out the article HERE

Rediculous....

ok, this is a little too stupid. It's right up there with UGG boots and mini skirts in the middle of a snowy winter:

DUMB!

Need I say Anything At All?
This stupid idea brought to you by Thrillist.com & by Thingstobuy

Parking Coo

Dont' you feel this way sometimes?
Click on the linke below and print this out for all those people who piss you off.

http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com/give.html

Happy Friday!

March Madness

Ok, so in lieu of posting things about my life that have been happening for the past month, I keep finding these cool things that EVERYONE would be interested in, and not just those of you who are interested in the monotony of my every day life. In an Ode to March Madness starting this week, I have linked below to a different kind of madness, namely that of the muppets! Can you guess who I picked to take it all home?

Is it possible?

OK SOMEONE TRY THIS AND LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS AND HOW LONG IT TAKES YOU:

HA-LARIOUS!

Ok You gotta Watch this!

Valentines Note Cards

Just found this on another Daily Candy email! I LOVE this! What a great idea. I love that they are in a basic typewriter font and their sayings are so cute!

Erin T. want to make some for me ;) Even better- this would be a great give-a-way for your site!!

The Toilet

I was just reading Daily Candy this morning and saw this come across in one of their emails.

This is a Toilet Noise Maker, that Makes the sound of a toilet flushing for 25 seconds. Basically they say that if you are making some unmentionable noises you can block them out by pressing the button so the simulated sound of a flushing toilet is heard by those outside the bathroom door.

On the other hand what would people think if they heard two flushes instead of one?

Just shy of thirty

Erin T is 29 next year so she's got one more year before we get throw her an over the hill bash and the last year that she gets a normal birthday party. This year we took to the city for some kick'n food at beetlenut. If you know me you know I hate greens but I will scarf a whole plate of string beans from beetlenut ther ain't nothin greater! We ate so much and even tried (the over rated) punch bowl - next time we'll stick with our own drinks... Never the less we had a blast.
That weekend Aaron and his brothers and dad headed up to Reno to celebrate James' 21st birthday though they ALL lost their money, forfeited their hotel room, and came home the same say they left. I wouldn't exactly say they had fun, but a good time bonding on the 3 hour ride up and back.
Super fun... But I can't wait until next year when we get to celebrate the big 3-0... Rumor is we may be celebrating in the big apple!!!!

Click Here to see More Pictures from our Night Out!
Muah Muah - kristin

A Christmas tradition Kip. style

Every Christmas season mike and jos throw a homemade gift white elephant party. Since they started this 8 years ago the gifts have gotten more and more creative. Last year Aaron and I decided what we would do for this years gift and for once we rembered what we were going to do when the time came around. Aaron and I love watching 30 rock on NBC, there's this guy in there that wears a hat that has an ever changing phrase on it so Aaron made his own version of that hat, it ended up being one of the most sought after gifts. Mine didn't do too bad either. I made a version of my late grandmother's half aprons, one I even sewed panties in to ha ha ha ha!
Jos made a movie poster from the Halloween Broke Back Mountain picture that Aaron and Paul took , to say the least it was hilarious!!!
Here's a look at some of the gifts - I ended up with the beer bong made by erin .

Click Here To View The Pictures!

Benefit Beauty Bash!

Back in the fall, I entered my first facebook contest. It was for Benefit cosmetics. Well believe it or not, I won! The prize was a private party for me and 8 of my friends at the Benefit store in Berkeley. So I rounded up the troops from Nor Cal and So Cal and we all marched in for a fabulous time this weekend!

We were each given a service of our choice- eyelash tinting, eyebrow tinting or eye brow waxing/threading. I was a bit overzealous and went for both the eye lash tinting (I now have eye lashed that you can see!!!! I don't really have to wear mascara! woo hoo!) and eyebrow tinting (yay! no more eyebrow pencils!!!). We then got a full makeover along with enjoying wine (haha heather!!) and hors d' ouerves (spelling?). We had such a blast! (see pictures by clicking here)

Afterwards we headed out to dinner at a cute little american bistro called Venus and then on to a Dance Club in Walnut Creek called Vice.

Heather and Shauna took off after dinner to get home as heather was a little under the weather ;), but didn't end up getting home so quickly because they ran out of gas about a mile from my house!!! After numerous calls to only a handful of people they knew in the area, they finally tracked down Aaron, who came out and "saved them". Quite a night and one that we all remember for a very long time!

Muah Muah, Kristin

Here we come a caroling among the boys so tone def?

The boys performed their annual caroling, mostly intoxicated, but I need not say anymore as this video will do it more than justice....

Merry Christmas ... A little late

Here are some pictures from our Christmas!

Muah Muah -kristin

And a little video of some family singing....

Reconnecting with Friends!

A few weeks back our great friend growing up came back to town for a quick visit. Christine moved to Mexico to help out in an orphanage about 4 years ago. The result was her meeting the love of her life, a native Mexican- Antonio, and getting married to him. They now pastor a start up church in southern Mexico, about 10 hours from Cabo San Lucas. Christine and Antonio also had a baby girl about 18 months ago named Katherine and Christine is pregnant with baby #2, due early to mid March. We were so excited to get to host the Torre's once again, play with little Katherine who is just a hoot, and learn that they will be staying up here starting this month through April so Christine can have the baby here! SWEET!!!! We just love this family, and can't wait for more time with them!

Muah, Muah- Kristin

The Best News of the Month

So my best friend got engaged this past weekend. It's been almost six years of waiting for the most important question to come up in Erin's life... Nate asked and Erin said YES!!!!! We are so so so excited...that makes four weddings for us for 2010 and we couldn't be happier. Congrats to our friends and family- Erin and Nate, Kaitlin and Paul, Amanda and Bill and Kris ad Derek!!!!

Muah, Muah- Kristin

A Full New Home!

After Thanksgiving day, Aaron and I headed up to the Temecula Area to visit some of the girls from APU. Sara had brought Isabella down from Canada, and the day we arrived, so did her husband Matt. We had such a good time with everyone! Matt and Aaron took off one day, to hang at a local brewery (Aaron is brewing his own beer, and take a great interest in how other places do all that stuff) and Shauna, Sara, Isabella and I took to a little pre-Christmas shopping! Spending time with each other was so wonderful, and continues to remind of us of why we are all friends, and have stayed friends almost 5 years after college graduation.

The other reason we took a detour up to the Temecula area was becuse Shauna had just bought a new house!!! How exciting!! She has worked so hard these past 5 years and it has finally paid off. She is now the owner of a beautiful two story- four bedroom- two & a half bath- home, and has it fully outfitted!!! What a joy it was to get to share in the new step of her life, and her totally blessed home!

Muah, Muah- Kristin

The night before it's back to work

broken promises again ...I am sorry. I really do have enough content to get us through 2 solid weeks and hopefully this coming week I will be able to schedule all of those for you. Keep staying tuned I will get them up...I promise...

Posting!!!

Well no pictures, because my wednesday was consumed with wrapping and today was consumed with cooking (yes I cooked!!! and it tasted good!!). So by writing this, I have A. Kept my promise and B. promise to write another on Saturday, definitely.

Merry Christmas!!!!

What... You Don't Believe Me?

I know I know. I promised you many many blogs. And I will renew my promise on Wednesday. From Wednesday night through Dec. 31st (that's an estimate), there will be a new blog up every day- I promise!

This time of year, things are so hectic...ok the past three months have been so hectic, I am sorry I am being a bad blogger!!!! I have lots of pictures and lots to share with you, so STAY TUNED!