Greet Each Day With A Smile.

I have just acquired some cute pictures of my nieces and I have decided to share them with you! The baby is Madelyne and the older is Eleni. Mommy is Bethany and daddy is Seth. I love them so much!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE!

So, Joe never reads my blog - he makes fun of it actually - but I thought I would post a GINORMOUS Happy Birthday to Joe on here.

Kind of reminds of Monkey... Actually, this is what Monkey looked like!!!!

So to my favorite man in the whole wide world - HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I'm so glad you were born! Love you muchos!

Monkey No Mas.

Today is a sad day... Monkey has passed from this wonderful world. He had been running on his wheel for the past three days (after not running on it for about a year) and this morning Joe made a joke that Monkey gave himself a heart attack while on the wheel. I ran in there and I thought he was just sleeping - he likes to bury himself in the bedding - but he wasn't breathing. He was already gone...

Monkey touched many lives in his three years of existence... He was so friendly, always poked his head out of his house to say hi, and always bit me when I reached inside his cage. But in his last few months, he was more friendly and wanted to be held - He loved Melissa and Teaghan holding him - and just the other day he let me hold him without biting my fingers.

I remember when I first bought him - he was half the size he was today - and he was such a lovable baby. Then he went through his teenage years - Always talking back at me, not eating his vegetables, and not exercising to stay in shape. I was so happy when he got over himself...

I will always remember the sweet Monkey he always was...

He hated his ball... But Kitty was always "watching" over him.

Teaghan & Brittnee...

Joe and I invited Teaghan and Brittnee up for the weekend - I'd like to think we all had a fantastic time together (I hope the girls enjoyed themselves as much as we enjoyed them).

We started the weekend with renting some movies - Brittnee chose Hannah Montana - I'm so proud of Joe for watching the entire movie! And we picked Madagacar, Escape to Africa - Funny movie! We watched Hannah Montana and ate ice cream!

The next day, we went downtown to watch some festivities going on... There was a Palio event - where different organizations in Chico build horse models and race them around the City parking lot - They had real horses there that did a dance routine as well... We walked to the City Plaza where different groups could purchase a square and show off there chalk artistry. Here are some pictures of the best ones we saw.

This one looks yummy!

The artistry work on this one was phenomenol... I wish I could've seen the final product!

We next went mini-golfing. Teaghan made TWO hole in ones and I made one as well!!!! The other two were inferior to our golf performance.

Aren't they cute???

We went swimming at One-Mile after that - The golf course was totally in the sun so we had to cool off somewhere! The water was actually very cold. Everyone was brave enough to jump in all the way except for me! I was not going to freeze to death!

We went bowling after that - I think the girls had fun, but Brittnee had some trouble throwing the ball straight down the middle of the lane. We helped her and she definitely improved during two games.

Last, but not least, that day we made personal pan pizzas! We rolled our own crust out, we decorated them the way we each wanted and then we PIGGED OUT!!!!!!!

Kitty decided she wanted to be in on the fun!

The finished products!!!!!

Joe had to work on Sunday, so I spent the morning playing board games with the girls and we ended our fantastic weekend by meeting Doug in Yuba City for the hand-off.

We were so happy to have the chance to spend quality time with the girls. Thank you to Doug and Kristin for sharing their children with us!!!!!!!!!

It's Official...

I'm promoted to.... Drum Roll Please... OPERATIONS MANAGER of New Beginnings!

As you can see, I'm very excited about this new title. With it comes some perks...

1. Authority to run the front office/desk
2. Help in making some minor procedure/process decisions
3. Support in some minor business decisions
4. Support with hiring

AND THE DOOSY...

5. A car!!! Yes, that's right ladies and gentlemen... New Beginnings is going to lease a new Honda Accord for me. I took the car instead of a cash raise. Who wouldn't?!?!?!?

So, everyone may now call me Ms. Operations Manager from now on... I've deserved it!

Thank you.