Salty Mommy

david took this picture down at the bay and we had jesse the dog with us. he was going crazy through the ice and we played fetch!! i had to be careful because jesse is crazy and he tried to eat my hand. i am working on teaching him to be nice when i go for the stick..otherwise i might miss my fingers when he has eaten them. i had fun despite the fear of losing my finger!!

my to do list is getting longer and longer. i need to get busy but i would rather just read. i am reading the bookseller of kabul and i really am enjoying it. it is very interesting and i feel like i am learning a lot about different cultures. i love to read!! i owe big thanks to my friend amanda for helping me rediscover the joy of reading!! miss you manduh!

A date afternoon...this is going to be fun. melissa mae

I love food network! Right now we are watching chocolate! melissa mae

It was so cool to wake up to snow.

oh man i am so out of shape! i have gone to aerobics twice and this morning was day 2 i am such a wimp! so now i am going to work and try to stay inside because it is so cold outside. it is 16 degrees outside and the wind is super cold! so friends i am staying warm in my house...we have revival at church this week so i will have to go out for that. i am sad though cause i wanted to go to michaels and get some stuff with my christmas gift cards...it will have to wait!! off to shower and get clean i dont want to be the stinky kid.

i miss this guy.

Test for mobile Blogging. melissa mae

ok so friends i am sorry to say i have been slacking. i dont know why i havent updated...maybe because i am lazy! some of the fun things i have been doing include hanging out with girlfriends - getting tea lattes and going shopping but coming home empty handed. eating good food...my sister and i made tacos for our dado! yummy! enjoying my family. driving a lot! CA = lots of traffic and lots of freeways. what else? oh yes...reading. so far for 2007 i have read 5 books for fun. and i love to read. last year i had a goal to read 100 books but i read 50 and i have changed my goal to 50 books a year. That way i give myself some freedom to enjoy other hobbies and not become a crazy bookie!! but i do love to read.

So something i noticed...most hot spots in ca have parking meters. Also dog parks and skate parks are funny places. And i cringe when any one falls but especially when little kids fall. Last but not least little girls in pink helmets rock. (the above post i sent via text message while david was taking some pictures of an event at a sakte park. i had fun watching.)

so our friends jeff & karen got married on saturday (yes i do know its wednesday) the wedding was beautiful! it was at the refuge church in huntington beach...and the pastor had a great message and the vows were beautiful. it is so nice to go to a wedding and hear the vows and be reminded of my vows with my husband. then the rest of the week i have worked and just hanging out.

so today was an up early day ready to go to work by 6:30AM!! I probably shouldnt have stayed up til 1:30AM!! So I am sitting in Tony's office organizing orders and getting ready to start my day! I already had some oatmeal for breakfast and i even packed my lunch! We have the rehearsal dinner for Jeff & Karen's Wedding, we have to be at the church by 5pm...hooray for traffic.

hello friends. life is good. california is great and i am having fun. i am enjoying taking walks with my mom and her dog ginger. i got to eat del taco with my sister today! they have some good cherry coke. we went down to the beach yesterday! i have been reading a few good books. the no 1 ladies detective agency is the new set i am reading. so far i like the first one.

sorry for the lack of words just havent felt like writing. these are pictures of zion & nevaeh we went to visit them in oceanside and we visited with their parents too! it was awesome!

so what have i done since arriving in CA? -driven on the 405 a few times -cerritos mall -del amo mall -2nd street -crossed the vincent thomas bridge a few times -watched too much tv -sat around barnes and noble -claim jumper for lunch - i love sliders -driven a lot -had david pump gas (man its nice in NJ to have someone else pump your gas) -got a carne asada taco from hole mole what else do i have planned?? hmmm lets see read a few books, go to work and learn something new, go to the beach, go to church, in n out, del taco, red robin, jacuzzi, scrapbook stores, downtown disney, see a movie...JEFF'S WEDDING. and im sure there is more...but for now I am going to watch some more TV or maybe read.

oh my this day has snuck up on me. i am so excited today is christmas eve i just looked up santa on the santa tracker and he is in nigeria! this time tomorrow christmas morning will be long gone and david and i will be on our way to philly to get on a plane bound for CA. HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

so i have had a great week. i had a bunch of great customers at Art & Soul last week. I have one more kiln load to unload it fired last night. I finished wrapping all of my gifts for my family in CA and I mailed them out priority today. I delivered a bunch of pottery today! I have some more gifts to wrap but not too much! And I even delivered 250 ornaments to the Lower Township School day Care. Life is good! What do I have left to do? Well lots of cleaning so when we get back from California our house will be nice and clean. I have to get ready for the Children's Christmas Party tomorrow at church and I have to relax and read some of my book. I am looking forward to Christmas and to this Sunday at church. We are doing the last Superhero of Faith - Jesus! It has been a lot of fun to do the dramas each week.

yesterday was my first trip to storybook land ! it was a lot of fun! We rode a few rides and i felt sick after the spinning turtles. and then at 5pm Santa came out of his house rooftop and turned on the lights in the whole place. The only part that is disturbing to me are all of the nursery rhymes are pretty scary! i dont think kids realize this yet, but in the Alice in Wonderland walk through Alice looked like a zombie! We went on a ferris wheel type ride with buckets shaped like hot air balloons and all of us girls sang rudolph and the operator let us go around an extra time and thanked us for the lovely song. That was the best part!!

ok here is another update to check out something cool David is doing. "KIEVLOVE PROJECT" It isnt that I am not doing anything cool. Lets see yesterday I worked and went shopping with Grandmom, Mary & Aunt Dee. I love target! Today i worked and then went to help Grandmom decorate. Tonight I am a stage hand in the musical Godspell at Cumberland Playhouse. (david is playing drums) And before the play I get to go out to dinner with Big Dave! David has to go early to practice. Plans for the weekend? Well I am working tommorrow 11-5 and then going to see Godspell...Sunday I might go to AC Moore they are having a MIDNIGHT MADNESS SALE!! But i probably shouldn't go because I should be buying Christmas presents!! But maybe i will find something there!