Surprise!

I really can not believe that I have kept this a secret for a whole month! Well almost a secret...I'm sure I've told most of you...but I kept it a secret from Molly which of course was of utmost importance. Matt and I decided to have a Drive in Movie Surprise party for Molly's 15th b-day. It really was a blast. I have been planning and crafting for a month now! Thank goodness my neighbor/friend Melanie let me take over her house for the past week so I could craft it up without getting caught...and because I was working on it she "volunteered" to help me out. Thanks Mel! Matt lucked out and really didn't have to help much at all because of football.

So here's how it went down. We told Molly we were too busy to have a party this year. She threw a couple of fits. We took her out to dinner with some friends for her actual b-day, gave her some books, a gift card and a butterfinger. She wasn't too impressed and was still feeling a little sour that she couldn't have a party. In the meantime every night last week Melanie and I stayed up way too late painting, cutting, glittering...

Friday night Molly went to the football game. She was planning on spending the night with a friend. Her friend "left her necklace at our house" so they had to stop by and get it. When they did. Surprise! Melanie's husband was a trooper and was my husband for a day. He, along with my brother, hooked up all the lights, hung up the "movie screen", set up the sound system, and hung the decorations. It only took 5 hours and it was only 100 degrees outside.

Here are the pics...the lighting stinks on most of them. I should have started taking pictures earlier in the day. Bummer.

You can't see the screen very well but it looked amazing. I got a big white sheet and two small black sheets to cover the garage.

The Concession Stand

Candy Table

Popcorn Boxes that took FOREVER to cut out!

I got this awning idea from Kara's party blog...super easy and super cute!

Popcorn Cupcakes. Delish.

Wil wearing Molly's new party sweater she got from a friend. Pretty rad huh?

Charles and Melanie

Party Planners at your service

One downside to a surprise party is you might show up in your p.j.s

The boy in the blue is Molly's One True Love. His name is Bryce.

Look at all the ghosts that came to our party.

I loved planning the party so much I'm looking for an excuse to plan another one. I was thinking Halloween since I did that last year I have a lot of stuff already...hmmm...we shall see.

The end.

Birthday Time

We look Molly and a couple of her friends to Road House for her b-day dinner. She really hasn't mastered the art of posing yet. She has a lot to learn. At least she didn't hide her face like usual.

Weekend-Ness

As mentioned previously I have a lack of blogging motivation right now. This post will not contain my usual whit and charm.

Last week my gma was in town from Corvallis. We took her on all sorts of adventures. On Saturday we loaded her up in the car with lots of food, a teenager named Molly and her friend Sheralyn and drove to Jed Smith and the Beach. Our good friends the Halls were lucky enough-or crazy enough-to come along as well.

Who wouldn't want Sher for a BFF?

The End.

Just Call Me Pam

Hello Blog.
I seem to have been neglecting a lot of things these days...my blog being one of them. I have been working for a few months now and I'm still figuring out how in the world I'm going to work full time and finish my bedroom, paint my door, update my kitchen, bake a pie, make a quilt, plant a garden, and learn to sew a dress. Not to mention the easy things on my to do list such as: paint my hideous toe nails, make some bread, update my picture albums. Easy right? How can I be a Molly Mormon and work at the same time? It doesn't add up. Luckily my boss isnt Micheal Scott and I don't wear keds with my work skirts but still...office life is an adjustment.

Camping with Daddio and Fam

Reader beware: This post contains 10,000 pictures proceed at your own risk.
Last weekend my Dad and Rhonda invited us to go camping at the coast with them for a few days. Every year my dad goes fishing for 2 weeks in Gold Beach, they never invited us anywhere, so we jumped on the opportunity. My dad is a vacation alone kind of guy, so the kids usually end up left out. He hauled his huge house on wheels over to the coast a few days before us....since kids (including grown ups that are still thought of as "kids") are not allowed in the hotel bus he kindly set up some tents for us. It was a blast. We only got to stay there for 2 nights but it was great. We got to hang out with my aunt and uncle, eat a ton of food, read a lot of magazines, go on a lot of walks and just enjoy being with each other. There is really nothing to do at Gold Beach if you've never been there. Our "camp ground" was basically an R.V. park..no trees...no woods...no resemblance of camping except for our tent, so us ladies had to entertain ourselves while the boys were a fishin.

How many pictures can Wil try to ruin in one trip? How many times can my dad tell Wil to "stop being a dumb a** in one trip? One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

Six. I guess six is the limit.

My dad took Matt out on the ocean. It's only his second or third time fishing...he's never been out on the ocean before...he was pretty excited. He didn't even get sea sick...all my worrying for nothing.

They came home with 40 Black Snapper and 15 Crabs...my dad had caught some Salmon and Perch earlier so the next night we had a huge fish fry. It was pretty fun I must admit. I even tried all the fish...and I am not a fishy kind of gal...but it was good. Unfortunately I was up sick all night.

My cute dad...looking just like my dad looks in all my memories. He got to teach Matt a lot of stuff about fishing. Matt thought it was pretty cool.

Wil and Matt tried to fish off the Jetty...didn't turn out too good. We moved about 5 times for all sorts of reasons other than they just weren't that great of fishermen! Oh well...we can't be good at everything.

Matt looks a little scurd of the ocean to me

Fishing Fan Club

What happens when you listen to the ocean, drinking diet caffeine free coke after diet caffeine free coke, for 3 hours? You have to find a rock and hope the 500 people fishing next to you don't mind getting their feet a little wet.

Molly and Wil enjoying the quiet

Will telling Matt about his "new technique" that was going to catch a fish for sure. Matt busy listening to Wil's incessant talking...hooks a fish and then loses it.

Oh! What's this? Wil caught a fish 2 seconds later...he was SURE it was due to his new technique.

He is so excited he's almost falling off the rock into the deep and roaring ocean.

This is a day to celebrate. My dad let the boys clean the fish when they got back to camp. We were supposed to have fish tacos from our little buddy...we could maybe have a fish tacoette. I think all the meat came off with the skin. Ooops.

They even let me give it a try for half a second...then I caught some rocks and seaweed and all of a sudden it was time to go home.

Black Snapper, Perch, Salmon, Fish Tacos, Crab, Ribs...what more could a man ask for?

That's my aunt Betty and Rhonda. They didn't want their picture taken. Rhonda pretended to be MJ.

The end.

Happy 3 Years

Matt and I celebrated our THIRD anniversary in July. Time flies. Although these three years have not gone according to my handy dandy this is how your life is going to go book, it has all been really great. Matt really is an amazing guy and I'm lucky he puts up with me as well as he does! I can be a doozie. We decided to go cheap this year and just spend the day together instead of buying each other gifts...blame it on the economy :) thats a nice excuse for anything these days(too bad we are too poor to feel the effects of it...I still like to claim it though...we aren't poor because neither one of us can get through school and get a real job...we are poor because of the economy...there problems solved! ;) Anyways we had a great day!

Matt made me waffles with peanut butter...delish

We drove over the mountains and through the woods to get to the beach and it was

FREEZING...it was 100+ when we left our house that morning.

But I gave Matt a smooch and we felt all better...we decided to head back to Jedediah camp ground and swim in the river.

80 degrees...much better...sun tan here I come

Big Redwoods...I LOVE that campground. It's the only place we camped growing up so when I thinking of camping I think of this...

Matt was a gem and took me to Mexican, even though he doesn't really love it!

Happy day my sweets! Love you forever.