gift for my boss

my boss resigned and i came up with the book idea below for her gift (along with maroon 5 concert tickets!).  i bought some craft papers and asked everyone to write a little note to her and put it in envelopes that i handmade for each person (i try to personalize the envelope to the person that was writing the note - our ceo  loves disneyland, so i made a disney envelope).  she loved it and i loved making it.

originally there was a fake picture in the opening, but i couldn't shrink our group picture to that size, so when i took out the fake picture and saw that the background was black, i was like aha!  

everyone made funny poses

miss emma boo

new doggy toy?

easter 2013

3rd annual easter egg hunt at our house.  :)  i was so glad that the rain held off.

children's fairyland

couple of weeks ago i took my parents, lianne, and pierce to children's fairyland in oakland.  did you know that fairyland was the first united states theme park created to cater to families with young children?  never knew it existed until i saw it on living social for a great deal.  we were there over 3 hours and i think everyone had a good time.  we ended the day with a trip to where else - mcdonald's!

on the jolly train

watching the puppet show

easter wreath

saw this wreath on pinterest and thought it was so cute!  materials: 12" foam wreath, ribbon to cover the wreath, glue gun, and about 20-22 peeps.  you can do whatever color peeps you want, but since i love the color yellow, i decided to do all of it yellow.

she.is.beautiful 5k/10k

gillie and i did the she.is.beautiful run in santa cruz on sunday (3/17).  i did the 10k and gillie did the 5k.  the course was fine until i hit the 5k turnaround.  tons of people!  had to weave around people, which wasn't a big deal if i wasn't going for time, but i was.  when aaron saw me a little before mile 6, he thought to himself "man, not sure if she's gonna make it."  hehe, i was running pretty hard.  weather was great and run was fun.  i would definitely do this race again.  afterwards we met up with some friends and had a delicious breakfast at zachary's in santa cruz.

before the race - brrr!



finished!

gillie, virgie, reese, heather

vironica and ronnie

ron, aaron, me

maroon 5

maroon 5 - i'm just gonna say that adam is very pleasant to look at.  :)  and no, i did not win these tickets.  i'm a forever fan.

this is as close to adam as we will ever get

woo hoo!  start of the show

i love how they did the background - let you see them much closer

the stage is an M

cool lights

love this picture

the end - can't wait until the next tour!