Dad's Birthday Weekend Adventures!

This last weekend I had FRI, SAT, ANNNND SUN off! Yay! So I got to go home and spend some time with my family and friends from home!! :)

The first night I was back I went to a yummy dinner at P.F. Changs with some lovely friends and then we hung out and chit chatted. I love how we pick right back up where we left off, like we saw each other yesterday even if it has been a while!

Saturday morning when we got up we sat around the kitchen table trying to decide what to do, and Dad decided he wanted to go to the San Jose Flea Market. It was his birthday weekend so we couldn't really argue, although I may or may not have pushed for other activities.

There was a sign at the flea market to get massages... or cupping?? GROSS.

We ate a lot of food while we were there! First up: Mexican Food for lunch!

Dad had a birthday Milkshake

We also had Dip n' Dots! (not pictured, but also consumed: a corn dog, fortune cookies, and I'm sure there is more that I can't remember.)

Nice Bike! Take it off any sweet jumps?

Then we came home and my mom made an AMAZING home cooked meal, then we feasted on this delish ice cream cake/pie that she made for my Dad's Birthday!

Then after dinner we gave my dad his gifts and headed to see Alice in Wonderland in 3-d! It was interesting, but I wouldn't bring kids to it.

Then on Sunday we got up BRIGHT and EARLY because we were going Indoor Skydiving!! My Dad had a box of donuts waiting on the kitchen table when we got up, so that made the Bright and Early part a bit easier :)

We went to a place called iFLY!
The boys checking it out. We were all kinda leery at first!

Me, Josh, Clay, and my Dad: Ready for action!

Acting like they aren't scared for what is to come...

Buckle up!

CHEESE!

Here are a few of the professional pictures that they took of us:

Clay

Dad

Me

It ended up not being scary at all, but more of a rush, and it was also nice knowing you weren't going to splat onto the ground haha. Basically you just fall into this crazy wind tunnel that is blowing winds of 100+MPH and the instructor is spinning you and stuff, and he took us up to the top on our second flight! So fun!

Here is a video that Josh put together from the DVD they gave us with our Family Package. Don't mind Josh looking like he is going to cry/flaring his nostrils. You can just fast forward to me! haha

After the flying was done I had SO many knots in my hair!!

Windblown haha!

After we were finished indoor skydiving we headed over to Ardenwood Farms to walk around...

There was a pretty old house, that had the country's first in the ground pool in it's backyard!

Farm Farm Farm

There were baby sheep!

And mean peacocks that were showing their feathers and making scary noises!

Joshy and I!

After the farm we headed out to get some pizza for lunch and then Josh and I made the trip back home. It was such a great weekend and I had so much fun with my family and friends :)

-Katie

Happy 50th Birthday Dad!!!

Today is my Dad's 50th Birthday!!

Although I'm not able to go home today, Josh and I went home over the weekend and we all had a lot of fun!! :) Here are some random pictures from the last year or so, and I will recap this weekend tomorrow!

Dad at the fair with a massive corn dog! haha

At Northstar riding the gondola!

At Clay's Trap meet!

And freezing our butts off in SF!

Happy Birthday to the Best Dad Ever!!

Love, Katie

iPhone Foto Friday

I don't even know how to introduce this one... but take a good hard look at the girl in the center of the picture (she has her back to us)... can you guess what she is wearing?

In case you can't quite figure it out let me help you out here... it is a BEANIE with a SCARF attached to it that hangs down and at the end there are built in GLOVES. What is even worse is that on the front side there was a bunny face sewn on to it so that the scarf/glove portion looked like bunny ears!!!

It greatly saddens me that in 2010 people are still leaving their homes wearing things of this nature... buuuutttt, I appreciate them for giving me something to laugh at while I am at work! hahaha

-Katie

Oh Pioneer Woman, you make the kitchen complete...

I love me some potatoes, and I really love me some of Pioneer Woman's Crash Hot Potatoes!

She has so many great recipes and fun stories, if you haven't checked out her blog/site I seriously recommend it!! I mean how could you pass up potatoes that look as freaking delish as those?!!

Have any of you tried out her recipes before? Any favorites I should check out?

-Katie

Weekend!

This weekend I had to work, which was fine. We had a good time at the store and saw some random customers, have no fear - I will share on Friday haha.

On Saturday Josh had a hockey game and I was tired from work so we decided to have a date night and went out to our favorite Chinese restaurant! It was delicious, and nice to get out of the house and have some time together :)

On Sunday Josh and I went to dinner and the movies with a few girls from work. We kept it simple and classy and went to In n Out burger - DELISH!

And saw Valentine's Day. It was a cute movie, but kinda long.
Hope everyone else had a great weekend! :)

-Katie

iPhone Foto Friday

At my work we get a variety of customers, but one thing remains constant - many of them shop with their dogs (which I personally think is stupid - your dog does not need to go to the mall with you, but whatever).

Anyways, recently a customer came in with this pooch and when Janell and I realized it had PAINTED TOE NAILS we knew we had to get a picture. So she pretended to be playing with the dog while I crouched down behind the counter and got a picture of it and its nails haha.

The only problem was the little dog kept moving, so Janell had to somewhat hold it in place, but in the end we got the picture so it was all worth it!

I have never seen something like this, and I hope I never see it again! haha

-Katie

Gym Freak of The Week

Today I have had to create a new sector in the Gym Freak realm, which is the gym dress code freak. Reason being is that the girl under review today didn't do anything overly freakish, she just should have looked in a mirror before she left the house...

Exhibit A:

Here is my advice, and you can take it or leave it, but if you are going to wear super tight stretchy pants and a super tight stretchy long shirt with a thong that is obviously squeezing into your booty, please look in the mirror before you leave the house.

Because quite honestly I don't want to look at the outline of your thong digging into your body as I briefly walk by, so I'm going to guess that the lady on the treadmill behind you ins't too excited about looking at it for her 45 min workout.

Just a thought...

-Katie