Do you ever...

Just not feel like blogging? Not know what to say or talk about? Well, I'm having one of those weeks. I have had no desire to sit here behind this computer and try to come up with something to say. I have even been slacking on my blog stalking reading. I have a lot of things I should be doing on the computer, but I just don't feel like doing any of them. Anyone else have weeks like this? Am I the only one? 

Anyway, I've been spending my days working out and getting ready for my mom to be here next week. She gets here Tuesday and will be here until October 1, that's almost a WHOLE month! I am beyond excited! I haven't seen her (or any of my family) in almost a year! I don't have much planned for us except for to just hang out and enjoy our time together. A few things I do have planned; go to the beach, have a bbq and have a Mom/MIL girls day. What are some of your favorite things to do with your moms? 

Missing Missouri

I don't know what's wrong with me right now, but I'm feeling a bit lonely. I'm thinking it's probably because it's been almost a year since I've been back to Missouri to see my family and friends. It's not that I don't have friends and family here in California, it's just different. I was born and raised in Missouri and have a very close family and close group of friends (some of whom I've known since kindergarten). Thankfully, my momma will be here two weeks from tomorrow for almost a WHOLE month. I can't wait to spend some quality time with my mommie dearest. I think it's just what I need to get back to feeling like me again. Until then, I will just look through old pictures and reminisce... 

My grandpa and me at the Mailes family reunion 2008

My grandma and me at my bridal shower 2009

My Aunt Shelly, cousin Staci, her son Jacob and me at my bridal shower 2009

My dad and me at my grandparents 2009

My beautiful cousins Michelle, Lesley and me at the Seneca Park during my last MO visit 2011

One of my best friends Art and me when he flew my mom out for a surprise visit January 2011

My beautiful best friend and roommate for life Tresh and me during my last MO visit 2011

And of course my beautiful mommy and me at my wedding September 2009

 

These are just a few of the MANY people that I'm missing terribly right now and cannot wait until I see them again!!! 

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Bitzer Festivities Day 2

I have a massive headache today, so for the most part I'm going to let the pictures do the talking. I think the pictures pretty much speak for themselves anyway. Now, I don't want you think that all we do is sit around drinking, because that's just not true. We drink and play ping pong, we drink and bbq, we drink and play pool, etc... See, we do actually do things besides just sit around and drink. Friday was spent doing all of these things and more!

Yes, I did change my outfit three times. No, I am not ashamed! Friday, was such a great day! One I won't be forgetting any time soon.

And on a totally unrelated note... If you don't already follow my girl Justyn over at Thoughts by a... Petite Brunette, head on over and check out her post today to see just how awesome our blamily is! 

Good to Know

Randy & Christina (brother-in-law and sister-in-law) flew in Wednesday night for some family fun times. We've already seen them three times this year, which is more than we usually see them in the whole year. I'm loving these cheap flights they are getting through Allegiant! 

Thursday morning, Christina and I headed off for a little girl time and the guys hung out at the parents and played ping pong. We got back to the house around 1, had some lunch and drank some hard cider. Our plan for that afternoon was to go to Lagunitas for their weekday 3 P.M. tasting tour. It was such a blast! They don't just give you a couple one ounce pours, they go all out with 5 four ounce pours! All that for free!!!! The percentages range from 6.2% to 9.8%. Needless to say, we were all feeling good after the FREE tasting tour. During the tour, Christina kept saying "good to know", so it kind of became a running joke for the weekend. Randy started making fun of her, so it turned into "well, it is good to know. I'm just sayin..." After the tour, we headed down to the patio for some live music and more tasting. We met a couple vacationing from New York on the tour and they came to sit with us on the patio. We all had a blast! 

After Lagunitas, (we may have stayed there until almost 8 P.M.) we headed back to our house for a little Rock Band session. Christina and I like to do crazy makeup and dress up a little fun to play rock band. Might as well really feel like a rockstar, right?! 

What a great way to start off our fun-filled weekend! 

To be continued...

Weekend Update

Today, I'm linking up for weekend update. What an easy way to share the weekend and to find new blogs. 

 

Friday:  

Jeremy and his dad are suckers for finding what they call a good deal on trucks. I seriously could not tell you how many trucks have come and gone in the 4 years I've lived in California. Jeremy is always researching all different kinds of trucks; Ford, Dodge, Chevy, Tundra, gas, diesel, etc. They buy something and say "this truck is the ticket" and then it turns out not to be the ticket. Jeremy has flown to Montana to pick up a truck and drive it back here, they've had trucks shipped here from Florida, New York, Wisconsin. It's an obsession! So... they found the new "ticket" in Southern California and Jeremy was nominated to fly down Saturday to pick it up. Needless to say, our Friday was very low-key since he had to get up at 4:30 AM to get ready to go to the airport. 

Saturday:

Since Jeremy was gone for most of the day, I called my friend Lacey to see if she wanted to go to Target and of course she did. Neither one of us really needed anything, but who doesn't love going to Target for no reason. It took all my willpower to steer clear of the clothes, accessories and shoes. While walking through the food aisles, I realized that wine & bread are in the same aisle. This really excited me and I said (rather loudly), "Wine & bread in the same aisle?!? Jesus was here!!!". Lacey and I laughed so hard for about 5 minutes. 

     Jeremy's mom had knee surgery on Friday, so Saturday evening I cooked dinner for my in-laws. Jeremy finally made it back with the truck around 7 and we had leftovers for dinner and relaxed on the couch. 

Sunday:

It was a gorgeous 85 and sunny day, so we decided to head to Sonoma for lunch at The Red Grape, a nice walk around the square and some wine and cheese tasting. It was a perfect afternoon. Sunday evening, we played cards with Jeremy's parents. 

It was a nice, relaxing weekend. But... I'm looking forward to some party rocking with Randy & Christina (brother-in-law and sister-in-law) this weekend. They will be here Wednesday night - Sunday afternoon and we have some fun stuff planned. I am so excited!!! 

Hope everyone had a great weekend!  

You no do that!

I had never been to California until I met Jeremy. Then, after 3 months of dating and an engagement (yes, we got engaged quickly and yes, I will tell you that story soon) we made the trip to California so I could meet his parents. His parents AND his grandmother, uncle and aunt visiting from Minnesota and his brother and his girlfriend visiting from Arizona. Since his grandma was in one guest bedroom and his uncle and aunt in the other, his parents got a hotel room for Jeremy, Randy, Christina and me. Never meeting people and staying in the same room with them should be nerve wracking, but it wasn't at all. We all got along so well. On our first night, I won his brother over by suggesting that we drink before going out drinking.

We spent most of the time here with his whole family, but one day just the four of us kids (as Jeremy's mom calls us) headed to San Francisco for the day. It was a super fun day! At one point during the day, we were walking along (I'm not sure what street we were on) and as we started walking across the street we saw a guy on a bicycle flying toward a little old Asian lady that was coming out of Trader Joe's. This long, gray haired guy with a peace sign earring rode right into the ladies little basket she was pushing and her groceries spilled out everywhere!!! He just kept on going, didn't even stop to look back at her. So she starts screaming, "You no do that! You come back here now!" over and over. After he made it a little way down the road, he suddenly turned around and started coming back toward the lady. We thought he had realized what he had done and was coming back to help, but NO he just kept on flying right by her again in the direction he had first came from. She continued screaming at him as he rode by again and he just put his hands up like "what?". We were all shocked and couldn't believe what had just happened. We kept wondering if we were being filmed for an episode of Candid Camera or What Would You Do. I felt and still feel sorry for the lady, but we all can't help but still say, "You no do that! You come back here now!". 

Blast from the Past

One of my lifelong friends posted a couple of OLD embarrassing pictures on facebook today, so I figured I might as well embarrass myself even more and share them with the wonderful land of blog. And since I'm already embarrassing myself, I figured I would throw in a few extra pictures. 

My cousin Adam and me at my grandparents house. I have no idea what we were doing, but it doesn't look like we were happy about our picture being taken. 

Me beating up on Adam. Adam and I are 8 months apart and grew up very close to each other. I used to beat up on him until he got bigger than me and my uncle told him to hit me back if I hit him. Then he would get in trouble, because I would cry because he hit me. Yep, I was a little brat! 

  Yes, this is MY dad giving me champagne on New Years Eve. 

Mom, dad and me

  My cousins and me with our grandparents

My cousins and me helping my dad blow out his candles

And here are the two lovely pictures my friend, Adrienne, posted on my facebook wall. 

  I'm in the front row, 3rd from the left. This was our Daisy Kindergarten picture. We had a local Daisy skating party where all the surrounding towns Daisy troops got together. I was skating along and somehow fell down (I was only 5 or 6, my skating skills weren't that good) and a fat kid used my arm as a speed bump. Apparently, I screamed bloody murder!! A trip to the ER, found that my arm was broken. 

I'm on the far right in the front row. Check out that rockin hair! I guess if I ever want my hair to have body, I just need a short cut with an awesome perm. 

Don't you just love looking at old pictures? I might just spend my day going through old photo albums! 

Happy Thursday!

Weekend in Pictures

Is it really Monday again? This weekend went by WAY too fast, but it always does when Randy and Christina are here. The weekend was full of yummy food, ping pong, boating in the bay, shopping and rock band. 

I seriously have the best in-laws in the world. Christina and I were talking on the phone today about how we are all more like best friends than in-laws. I know a lot of people cringe when they think about having to hang out with their in-laws, I am so glad I'm not one of those people. I just wish we could all live closer or at least see each other more than a couple of times a year. Since we don't see each other very often, we have to cram in tons of fun times into just a few days. 

Some examples of our interesting conversations: 

Randy: "Just pretend you're a guy"

Me: "Ok, I have a penis"

Randy (using Christina's legs as bongos): "This would sound a lot cooler if your legs were bongos. Let's get you some bongo legs"

Randy (telling Fasha (father-in-law) while driving): Stop! 

Me: "Collaborate and Listen"

Randy: "Ice is back with my brand new invention"

Me: "Something grabs a hold of me tightly"

This goes on with us rapping the whole first verse of Ice Ice Baby 

 Sisters-in-law by marriage, best friends by choice

S'mores

My mom captioned this "We just saw a naked ugly guy"

Classy

The Bitzer kids as my MIL calls us

This is the life

Mmmm.... coconut beer

The only thing better than driving over the Golden Gate Bridge is going under it on a boat

I have no idea what they are doing

Candlestick Park

We couldn't decide if this was the Nina, the Pinta or the Santa Maria

Heading to Corte Madera for some shopping

 Cosmos anyone???

We go all out for Rock Band

Apparently rockstars dress like elves???

Rockstar kitty! 

Skinny jeans, a v-neck and a fedora. Can you say hipster?

Rock on!!!

Don't all rockstars wear glasses? 

What, this isn't normal? 

Refueling after a long night

I'm super sad Ran and Christina are gone again, but I'm looking forward to our third annual Bitzer Summer Fun Bash in Arizona!!!