St. Patty's Party

My co-worker, Josh, had a St. Patrick's Day party at his (and his wife's) house in Chico that we were invited to yesterday. It was a potluck dinner where they were providing the corned beef and traditional sides and the rest of us freeloaders were supposed to bring a side dish, or dessert, to share. I made some mini spinach, artichoke and bacon tarts. Thankfully there were a few other co-workers there that I knew, but most of the peeps seemed to either be Josh's college friends or friends of the wife. Ironically, the table we ended up sitting at was where Josh's parents and their friends came and sat so we ended up hanging out the whole evening with our kind of people - old. It was really fun, we talked about cars, vacations, and beer. And the food wasn't too bad either! The corned beef was an excellent cut from Chico Locker and Sausage and instead of roasted potatoes, Lenette (the Mrs.) made mashed red potatoes which were delicious. And of course there was cabbage and steamed carrots. If you were one of the lucky ones who could enjoy bread, there was a variety of choices from Great Harvest, plus a whole side table full of tasty looking desserts.

And the best part? It wasn't my house to clean up afterwards! Good fun and I hope Josh does it again next year so we can hang out with his folks again!

Back in school

Day 2 of my Environmental Planning Law class in Sacramento. At least I didn't get lost again this morning coming here!

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MacCrafter

Today was my big boss' birthday and to celebrate I made a special cake topper for her;

I made a color copy of an old photo of us when we did disco karaoke for a co-worker's retirement party, cut her out and mounted it on a coffee stir straw.

Classy. My new nickname is MacCrafter because I'm the crafty version of MacGyver - just give me a stir stick and a glue stick and I'll make you a cake topper. It was good for quite a few laughs, but really, how do you top that for the next birthday?

Rockin' to Jesus

Enjoying another Christian concert at Arco Arena with Kari!

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New bling

I was supposed to be buying birthday gifts, but couldn't pass these little sparklies up for myself!

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Happy Anniversary

Today is our 5 year wedding anniversary, the traditional "wood" anniversary. In honor of such, I gifted the boy with a wooden pencil holder complete with Dale Jr. pens and Kyle Busch pencils.

In return, the boy gifted me with a shopping spree at the Roseville Galleria earlier in the week that included a new dress, some skirts, shoes and a smorgasbord of gluten free goodies from Whole Foods. Not a bad trade off. That allowed Chris to spend today how he really wanted to...

...passed out and broken down. He's had to keep his right hand bandaged from his disco roller skating smack down last night. But maybe after a few days on the down-low he'll be back in action again!

Disco nights

Tonight was a friend's 30th birthday party and she was throwing a disco themed skate party at Cal Skate to which the Canadian and I were invited. Well you can't go to a disco skate party without looking the part so Chris and I donned on our finest outfits (based on our historical research!);

Thankfully, there were other people there that we knew like Kari & Steve and their daughter Jessica as well and Rick & Joanne, our realtors when we bought our house.

I had sweet pleather pants and a sequin top complete with mirror ball necklace and super nature afro. I've never seen so many headbands in one place at one time! It had been a looooong time since either Chris or I had roller skated and unfortunately the lack of practice proved too much for the Canadian who took a spill within seconds of stepping on the rink.He landed hard on his tailbone and awkwardly on his right wrist which then became so painful he couldn't even move it and caused him to make the hard decision to go home and ice it on a bag of frozen hashbrowns.

 I however, remained upright the entire time and managed nothing worse than some shin splints by the end of the two-hour session. I got dropped off at home just in time to check on the little invalid and empathize with the fact that 10 seconds of bad roller skating has now crushed all dreams of working in the garage this weekend and possibly jeopardized his upcoming trials event. But really, when you think about it, it was all worth it to rock that sweet outfit out in public, right?!?