Hi!! Long time no blogging!
I've decided that I want to continue sharing our life through our blog, but I also want to know who is keeping tabs on our life! So, I will be making our blog private very soon!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Going Private Soon!!
Posted by James & Dawn at 12:56 PM 9 comments
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Wear Sunscreen
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
My First Earthquake
Magnitude 5.8 - local magnitude (ML)
Time Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 11:42:15 AM (PDT)Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 18:42:15 (UTC)
Distance from Chino Hills, CA - 3 km (2 miles) SW (235 degrees)Diamond Bar, CA - 8 km (5 miles) SE (127 degrees)Yorba Linda, CA - 9 km (5 miles) NNE (23 degrees)Pomona, CA - 11 km (7 miles) S (178 degrees)Los Angeles Civic Center, CA - 47 km (29 miles) ESE (103 degrees)
Coordinates 33 deg. 57.5 min. N (33.959N), 117 deg. 45.1 min. W (117.752W)
Depth 12.3 km (7.6 miles)
Location Quality Good
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
The White Party
The party was great! Everyone looked amazing, the White Party was a great idea.
James and Me with Nicole and Dennis.
Tiffany had her house decorated so well. I loved the two white leather sofa's and coffee tables in the middle of the yard! It made a great lounge area, what a great idea!
The girls! These are some great ladies. We have so much fun together! Playing bunco, shopping, girls night, hanging out at the beach, whatever! They are a blast!
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Monday, July 14, 2008
Just Peachy
The tree had so much fruit growing that I guess it just couldn't support the weight. I am so sad about it, there were going to be so many peaches. I was going to be the queen of peaches this summer, pies, cobbler, I was even going to try canning! They weren't quite ripe yet so I hadn't even been able to try one!
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Friday, July 11, 2008
The Maxi Dress
I bought one yesterday to wear to a concert in our neighborhood and I think I'm going back to get another. I just love it. Not only do you look super cute while being casual yet semi classy looking, its so comfortable. I felt funny in it at first, expecting that my husband was going to ask why I was wearing a mumu, but then I just feel in love and he actually liked it too!
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Grand Opening Party
Hollywood style with a Red Carpet, "the List" and everything!
Doesnt' the place look amazing! I'm so proud of James!
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Today is a Gift
20 Years ago – I was nine and my sister would have been a brand new baby. I was so glad to finally have a sister! And I guess it would have been the summer before starting 4th grade. I actually don’t remember very much about being 9.
10 Years ago – was one of the most fun summers ever. I had a great job at a law office and was living with a best friend down town Boise. James was fighting wild fires in Nevada with our friend Amber. I spent every other weekend making the road trip to Nevada to hang out with James and Amber during the summer. It was so fun, plenty of time by the pool and lots of bbq’s and softball games. In the fall I was still in school at BSU trying to decide majors – exercise science or business. Funny how things don’t really change, 10 years ago I was working at a law office and James was gone a lot. Here we are 10 years later and I work at a law office and James is gone a lot! Very similar, but still so different.
5 Years ago – honestly it’s kind of a blur. I think because it was the worst time of my life I just blocked it out and blurred it all together. I could write a book about how miserable I was. Of course there were some good things (I’m sure) but I’m just being honest. It was a time full of failed relationships and heartache, being so broke I honestly did not have two pennies to rub together, and a job that was physically and emotionally draining. And it did manage to get worse before it got better – but it did get better.
3 Years ago – on the edge of something better. The worse times continued at the beginning of 2005. I found myself single for the first time in my entire life, and living all alone. I did have a great apartment though! I bought myself my first piece of furniture, a tv entertainment table. It was a pretty basic piece of furniture, I had to assemble it myself, and I had never felt so alone in my life. I knew I could have called my Dad to put it together in 20 minutes, but I had to do it myself. I was ready to do things for myself by myself. It took me the entire afternoon, a bucket of tears, and a blood blister, but I did finally put it together. It was always a little whobbly in the back, but it worked! Just like I put that table together I managed to get my life together as well. I made some great new friends, went on plenty of dates (both good and bad), learned how to have fun, learned what really matters in life, and bought my first house!
1Year ago – James and I were happily planning our wedding, (a lot happened two years ago) a fun pre-wedding trip to San Diego, and great honeymoon in Maui. In the mix of all of that we decided to move too! We had a great wedding and honeymoon. As soon as we got back from Maui we put one of our houses on the market and started looking for jobs and houses in San Diego.
This year – So far this year I really feel like this is the life I was supposed to have. James and I both have amazing jobs. We have the cutest house, in the nicest neighborhood, in the nicest town in all of San Diego. The ocean is just two houses away and it brings such a feeling of calmness in our life. There is an energy here that is almost tangible. The ocean is so full of life and it really does add an element of positive energy when it’s so close. It’s really hard to describe.
Yesterday – After work I did a few chores around the house. James had to work late so I invited my niece Brooke over to make dinner and watch a movie together, keep me company. We watched Fool’s Gold. It was pretty cute.
Today – This morning I discovered my washing machine is broken. I had a ton of laundry to do and needed to do all of it today. So like a real big city career girl, I took all of my laundry to the cleaners for the wash and fold service. I could definitely get used to that! I just walk in, drop it off and go back today after 5pm and it will all be clean and folded! Now, instead of having to go to the laundry mat, or a friend’s to do laundry tonight I can go to the gym and workout. I need to find a handy man who can fix my washer, it’s out of James’ area of expertise. Or I can keep doing the drop off service!!
Tomorrow – The grand opening of the new Harney Sushi is tomorrow. I’m so excited! James really needs the break too. I’ve got our nephew housesitting for use tomorrow night and we are staying in the honeymoon suite in Oceanside. I can’t wait. I took the afternoon off work so I could go lay by the pool for a few hours before getting ready for the party.
I do feel really fortunate to be able to write about having my laundry done for me, and going to grand opening parties, and staying in nice hotels. And not to say I deserve it, but my 20’s were terrible! While all of my friends were out partying and playing I was working my butt off. While they were all getting married and making families I was working my butt off. So I do feel like it’s about time! I worked so hard to get where I am and you never know what can happen, good or bad, so I’m just trying to enjoy life to the fullest right now! You know the saying, the Past is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a Gift, that's why we call it the Present!
I tag Rachelle, Kelly, Nickelle!!
Posted by James & Dawn at 1:44 PM 2 comments
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
My favorite things about James' job
This is one of the 'during' photos. I'll post the 'after' shots this weekend at the opening.
Think
Here is another view of that same little beach house,
(the big building in the background is the building James is working in).
Still don't know where you've seen that little house before?!?!?
Let me give you a hint.......
Is that Maverick?
That's right! It's the beach house from Top Gun!
How cool is that? When I was a little girl drooling over Maverick and Ice Man I never would have imagined that I'd be standing in front of Charlie's house, and walking on the same beach where the infamous volleyball scene was filmed! And now my husband is working one block away!
Here's a few more pic's of Oceanside. It's really pretty there, but they have some problems, hopefully adding a few upscale restaurants and condo's will help. There's a beautiful pier that I wanted to go walk on, but when I got asked if I was "working" I knew it was time to go back to my quiet Solana Beach! So I did not make it out on the Pier, no way am I going by myself! Hopefully James and I will be able to go together this weekend.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
a VIP invite
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Just an update
Tax season came to an end and so did my job. I wish I could say I was surprised, but for about the past month at my last job I just had this feeling that I should start looking for a new job. It's weird, but I didn't pay any attention because my job was paying a lot of money (a lot more than I felt I was worth! our little secret!!) so I just ignored it. I had noticed it had gone from crazy busy, to insane slow. But finally it did come to an end. And I got an even better job! So I am very excited about that, and the best part is it isn't for a CPA firm, so no more tax seasons!!! YEAH!!
James is managing the opening of a brand new Harney Sushi restuarant in Oceanside, CA and has been working like crazy. He's been working seven days a week for very long hours to make sure that everything is ready for the VIP opening on June 27th. Between our work schedules we hardly see each other anymore. So I decided that for the grand opening we are really going to celebrate. I reserved the Honeymoon Suite at the nicest hotel in Oceanside for us and I am so excited about it! The room is amazing, overlooking the ocean, so it will be a fun weekend for us to relax!
James has always been very artistic, and recently he had some one take an interest in his art. We are getting all of his pieces ready for an exhibit in a gallery. I've always loved his artwork, and he thought I was saying it was great because I'm his wife. So it was amazing for him to have someone not related tell him it was great. I can't wait for his first piece to sell! I know it won't take long!
Our niece Brooke graduated from high school this last week. It is wierd for me to have nieces and nephews the same age as my sister, but it's fun to be the cool young aunt too! James' parents come to town for the graduation and stayed with us. We had everyone over for a bbq on Fathers' Day. I feel really lucky to have such great in-laws.
We've just been so busy lately, too busy to take any pictures. And really we haven't been doing anything but working lately. My new job is pretty demanding, it feels like a real grown-up job! And James' job has turned into a real career with amazing opportunities along with long hours. We have both decided that we are just going work as hard as possible during our 30's, we're hoping to retire in our 40's! That's the goal! Laugh all you want! We are going to make it happen!
Posted by James & Dawn at 10:39 AM 4 comments
Monday, May 12, 2008
Darcy comes for a visit
We normally get some pretty amazing sunsets. But the fog rolled in every night right before sunset, so it just looked cloudy. But we still had fun at the beach watching the ocean waves.
We all took a long walk on the beach.
I had so much fun hanging out with my sister again. James had fun too, and was a great sport about watching chic flic's every night!
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Joy of Art Party
It was so fun seeing everyone finish their squares, you can hardly tell which is the original and which one we recreated!
Once everyone is finished put together the finished product.
The art party was a huge success, I am already picking another print for our next party!
Posted by James & Dawn at 5:12 PM 4 comments