Thank you Green Guide

So the Green Guide is in the process of moving out of our current office to another NG office in the city. Green Guide is a magazine that is all about being green, low carbon output, all natural cleaning products, etc. In their exit, they had a massive give away with all the products they've gathered over the last year or so. Yay for us, who get lots of free gifts! I rummaged through the stuff, and came up with the following:
Not sure how this hat is green... says it was made in China... yeah, I hear they're pretty green. Perhaps it's made out of recycled paper towels, or something?
Love it. At least the CD cover is green! I may have found the only two items in the entire pile that aren't actually green!

Other notable finds?
~Shampoo made out of dirt (all natural)
~T-shirt that says in HUGE letters "POWER TO THE PLANET"

I've been listening to the Jazz CD all night... it's really great! Here's a little ditty from the CD called "Take the A Train", dedicated to JT who will be taking the A Train tomorrow to visit me!

Halloween at the Bronx Zoo!

New York, New York -- A Surinam horned frog sits on a pumpkin at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo in this undated photo. Zoo animals are given pumpkins around Halloween for physical and mental "behavioral enrichment," according to the society.

Surinam horned frogs are also known as Pac-Man frogs due to their wide mouths. The primarily nocturnal frogs live among the leaf litter in the Amazon rainforests. They are avid feeders, employing a sit-and-wait ambush on their prey.
(Thank you National Geographic)

I love this picture! It's a Halloween present for Shelby... she loves the frogs.

***VIDEO*** Stella Asleep!

Halloween Smash with Heidi, Ash and Ash!

Last night my roommates and I threw a Halloween party! It was VERY fun, LOTS of GREAT people, and we even played charades and watched "Ernest Scared Stupid"! I didn't take very many pics, but here is me and Heidi in our purple Halloween attire... we had a little photo shoot...We had some tasty food at the party too! Here are those easy recipes in case you're interested!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 box Spice cake mix
1 can pumpkin pie filling
1 bag chocolate chips
bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes

Gooey Caramel Popcorn
mix the following in a sauce pan and stir until completely melted
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 bag of marshmallows
pour over 3 bags (or ten cups) of popped popcorn, stir, and enjoy!

Simple Apple Dip
1 pkg cream cheese
1/3 cup brown sugar
stir and serve with 6 sliced apples

Jazz - Another night of culture

Meghan had an extra free ticket to see Jane Monheit tonight at the famous Jazz club Birdland, so I got to go along! SO FUN! (side note, I literally walk past Birdland twice a day on my way to and from work, but I've never been inside until tonight!)Best part, the tickets were some sort of Comp tickets from the law firm that represents Monheit, (Meghan has ALL the connections...) so we were treated like VIP's. Which is funny, cause we totally acted like TOURISTS. We asked a guy who worked there to take our picture in front of the stage, and after he said, "and where are you visiting us from?" Long pause.... "oh, uh, we actually live here, in NYC." Totally embarrassing... yeah, we were the only people who took a picture in front of the stage. Now that I mention it, we were the youngest people in that place by like 20 years!
Here is a pic of Jane! I totally called Shelby on my cell phone and held if up for her to listen. We were sitting only 30 feet away from her! She has a beautiful voice!

My weekend in Sacramento!

Well, I went to Granite Bay this weekend and had a great time- I took Stella home to meet the family and she had a great time too! She was SO good and by the end of the week EVERYONE fell in love with her. Enjoy these pics!
All the driving there and back and all around town wore Stella out! Poopy was pooped!Stella slept in the car this weekend EVERY chance she could get!She was a tired puppy!
Stella LOVED her Grandma and Grandpa! And she was on her best behavior.Me, Mom and Carol had lunch and dinner together on Friday!
The Falls and the parents at Macaroni Grill.What is a trip home without going to the Home Goods Store! (we got Ash the PERFECT Christmas present)
Baby in her crate in my bedroom...
Stella ended up sleeping with me- I couldn't help it! she was so cute and sad! She missed her Daddy! She was a good girl on the trip.The fam at Denny's on Saturday morning.This is the cutest pic of Braden!
Sandi and her mini-me!For some reason Mom's shoes desintigrated on her feet! We had to go payless and get her some new shoes. It was a shoe emergency!
Stella's first pumpkin patch- se kept licking at smooshed pumpkins.
RJ on a giant pumpkin!Sienna copies her brother.Braden hanging out.Posing Connor for the Pinney Family Blog.Stella was so gentle with kids- here she is playing tug with RJ. She LOVES RJ, and always wanted to lick baby Connor.
Stella LOVES to give Jon ear kisses.Stella is scared because of the Piano! My little scaredy girl...
Stella says bye to Grandma!Back in San Diego- Stella was finally able to get back to her routine- Nap eat play nap!

New Wall Art

Lookie what I made. I love them. They are the only thing on my living room wall right now (aside from the green monster dog, but that's actually in the kitchen). The other walls are newly painted BLUE, and we still have a second coat to go before putting up more wall art on those walls. :)

Stella does this all the time now.....

She's peeking out the windowto see her Daddy come home.

New pics of Stella for Mom

Poopy can't WAIT to meet her grandma and grandpa!This is Stella's bunny!
just a TASTE of my baby's huge mouth.
She's such a lover.
Stella's new favorite toy is a little fuzzy bunny- she already killed the squeak in it by loving it too much.I love this pic! Stella en route.

Renaissance Festival 2008!

While in DC this weekend visiting Britt and Joe, we went to the Maryland Renaissance Festival! It was totally fun! There was a general consensus the Festival was a lot like Disneyland... Here we are below- Matt, Joe, Britt, me... and here's what we did!Watched a sword swallower/comedian... crazy stuff! Ate every fried food you can think of including a deep fried snickers...Watched an archery demonstration by William Wallace. Did you know that archers back in medieval times had to practice archery 2 hours a day, and that drawing the bow took 150 pounds of pressure??! Those guys were STRONG!Here we are in front of part of Revel Grove.Don't worry about it... we got front row seats to the Joust!Ever seen A Knight's Tale? This was one of those guys who got the audience cheering for the Knights! His sign said "Hazzah!" and when he raised it we all yelled "Hazzah!"Here's our Knight, Sir William. In this event, he and the other Knight whacked each other in the heads as hard as they could with their wooden stick/sword thing (since real swords are much too dangerous) though watching this looked pretty dangerous too! Their ears must have been ringing!Here is an actual Joust! It was real stuff! They broke off lances into each other and everything! Apparently, it's not super dangerous, people seldom get seriously injured (aside from their ego). These Knights were the real deal!
We rocked out to some celtic drum/bagpipe music. THAT was cool.We thought we should probably get some pics with some people in cool outfits. Here is Joe and Matt with a wizard... the best part about this photo? We had to wait for the wizard to get off his cell phone to take this... and he's holding a glass of beer.Here's Britt and I with a retired Knight!Cheesecake on a stick?? They had just about anything and everything on a stick at the Festival!We also watched a guy blow glass into a beautiful vase! That was cool.Here is Britt and me. The Festival was a blast!