Purple Haired Rocker and the Comic Con

Purple Rocker




Michelle finally had her wish come true. Her purple hair is getting lots of stares. She has wanted purple hair since Arielle had her bangs dyed purple four years ago. I've been walking around the house singing "Purple People Eater" and I get evil grins from Michelle, who LOVES her hair.

It is fading a bit. We'll have to touch it up soon. Rashauna, our fav hair girl, gave us an extra jar of rocking purple to brighten it up.

Comic Con

Isabelle and I have had the house to ourselves for five days. We've been playing A LOT and she's taking after her sister. She loves her music too.



Doug, Arielle and Michelle have been off to Comic Con at the San Diego Convention Center. Ian, Michelle's best friend, joined them for four days. They came home with all sorts of goodies and saw tons of movie and television stars like Bruce Campbell ("Burn Notice"), Sigourney Weaver, the "Psych" cast, Robert Downey Jr., and sooo many more. The Comic Con website is on the other side of this click

Arielle and her friends dressed as Alice In Wonderland characters. She was the Cheshire Cat. I'll have pictures later. John, Arielle's friend, took a bunch of pictures and I'm hoping he'll send them soon so I can post them here.

Here is John with Isabelle and Michelle. John had a few very nice costumes. This freaked out Isabelle a bit.



Michelle went as a Gothic Court Jester



Battlestar Gallactica

I'm a huge sci-fi fan. I remember standing in line at the South Bay Theaters (Redondo Beach, CA) that went 1 1/2 times around the building to watch "Star Wars." My mother and I sat in the front row - the only seats left. Soda Pop (Larry) had to sit somewhere else. We left happy but with neckaches.

My father and I used to watch "Star Trek" together on TV - the original. And when "Battlestar Gallactica" came on TV, I was instantly hooked and I had a mad crush on Richard Hatch. When the new "Battlestar" came out a few years ago and Richard Hatch was in it (as a different character, but still) I was delirious. Doug came home from Comic Con on Sunday with a present. It's sooooooo cool. It's already framed and in my office.

Happy 4th!!

Our neighbors threw a block party for 4th of July since Oceanside couldn't afford fireworks this year. It was lots of fun with a parade and a bike decorating contest and races. Michelle won the bike decorating prize. Here she is with Doug's USS Klakring Flag flying behind her. She was quite a site cycling down the street.





Michelle, the budding entrepreneur, decided we needed a bake sale. I jumped right on that and made chocolate chip cookies, lemon bars, cupcakes with meringue butter cream (my fav), croissants, peanut butter cookies, iced tea and pink lemonade. Arielle made her yummy brownies and Michelle made sugar cookies dusted with red sugar.



Doug had carpet out on the front lawn with our backyard awning. He put Isabelle's toys and our camping chairs on the carpet and it was always full of people. Neighbors and friends dropped by and stayed a bit.



After the bake sale was put away, Isabelle enjoyed a cupcake.



Doug BBQ'd his marinated chicken and we ate out on the front lawn with our awesome next door neighbors - Jason and Jodi.

It's the first time in 11 years that we spent the 4th at home. It was tons of fun.

Fried Snickers and a Ribbon

Us girls went off to the county fair today to see Arielle's entry in Computer Graphic Art - Poster category. We couldn't find it at first which scared us a bit because only those that place are displayed. We finally found it with a pretty blue first place ribbon on it. Yeah for Arielle!!! Click to make bigger.



She uploaded the original onto my hard drive so I could share it with you all.



The fair was unbelievably crowded. Here is the line to the bus to get to the fair. It's only about 1/3rd of the line. We waited 1 1/2 hours to get on the bus.



It was $2 Tuesday - which means that everyone got in for two bucks and every food booth had $2 tastes of their food. Just about all of the food was fried - white castle burgers, oreos, snickers, frog legs. The one that made my heart constrict was the deep fried Krispy Kreme chicken sandwich consisting of two original donuts sandwiching a breaded chicken patty (then they deep fry it). We shared a deep fried snickers and deep fried s'more. The s'more was pretty good. I wasn't brave enough for the frog legs or the Krispy Kreme sandwich.

Our fried goodies and a huge lemonade that we kept refilling. It was HOT!



Michelle won a big dragon throwing darts at balloons and Isabelle chewed on a BBQ'd corn cob for a few hours. It even made it home. It was a great day.

Arielle's Graduation

I tried to freeze time, but I couldn't. My little girl graduated high school.

Rod and Kristy flew in from Bremerton this morning. It's so great to see them!!

The day couldn't have been smoother. Doug took Michelle and Dakota (neighbor's son) to school and let me sleep in until 8:00am. That put Isabelle and I in a great mood. We cleaned up a bit and had breakfast. Isabelle and I got dressed for the big day, dropped off Arielle for her senior breakfast and rehearsal, and then went to pick up Rod and Kristy from the airport while Doug went shopping and picked up the kids from school.

I pulled up to the terminal just as they walked out the door. Everything was going so smoothly, I was just waiting for something to happen. Well...exiting the airport we saw a Honda and a Lexxus collide right in front of us. I sat there in my Jeep, gritting my teeth, praying to the Graduation Fairies to make it all go away. They did! After the two drivers talked and then laughed, they both drove away. Yahoo! We were back on track and flew home after a brief trip to Trader Joes for cat food - so Charlie would allow us to cross the threshold without some scars - and a much needed nicotine fix for Kristy.

We swung by the Pier, grabbed Arielle, bought lunch (authentic Mexican of couse) and went home.

We only had a short break before Doug had to take off to save us seats at the ampitheater and Arielle had to report in.

The rest of us joined them an hour later to a great view. Her graduation slide show.

After graduation - I was good by the way, no hysterical sobbing - we walked to the end of the pier and ate dinner at Ruby's.

I'm so very proud of my baby girl. Graduating with honors and with two art scholarships. She's going to do great at UAT.



Arielle accepting one of her scholarships a few days ago.

It's 11:00pm and eveyone but me is happily passed out. I'll be joining them all soon.

She's growing up

Tomorrow is Arielle's last day of high school. It's so hard to believe.


Here we are together when she's 18 months old. I miss the snuggling.



With her Daddy at the zoo.



Hanging out with Poombah.



Hugging Michelle on Halloween.



Dirt biking it in San Diego.



A snowball fight in Tehachapi.



Saber Princess



Senior picture.

I'm so excited for her. She's heading off to UAT in September and starting a new adventure, but at the same time I want her to stay forever.

And ever.