If you aren’t from around here you’ve probably never visited Lake Tahoe.  It’s one of the most beautiful places to visit. It can be as relaxing or wild as you would like depending on what side of the lake you visit.  I feel lucky to live an hour & a half away from this gorgeous place.

For part of the husbands birthday gift I planned a trip to Tahoe for the weekend.  We ended up staying on the South side of the lake which is a bit on the wild side at times. Lots of casinos. Our hotel had a casino on the bottom floor which is so fun if you’re going with your buddies but super inconvenient if you take a toddler. Hindsight. Having to travel through a smoke filled casino every time we wanted to leave the hotel was a bit of a bummer. Over all, Tahoe can never really be that bad.  It was relaxing but, I failed big time. Before we left I was supposed to buy a bike trunk rack for my car to take our bikes with us. I was so busy I forgot. =( Huge mistake. Our trip would have been a lot funner if we brought our bikes. (we’re super into bike riding right now.)

So here is our mini Tahoe vacay in pictures:

Hitting the road. Loaded up!

We're here!

Bed Jumping.

Beauty.

Beach Babes.

Water babe didn't mind the freezing water.

Mmmm...We ate what we wanted all weekend. So bad and good.

I really liked this mirror in the Hotel.

Playing in the room before bed.

The End.

Cleaning out closets.

My closet. I wish I took a before picture. My bedroom was covered in piles of laundry that wouldn’t fit into my bulging closet. I got rid of 4! Garbage bags of clothes/shoes today. F. O. U. R. I was proud of myself for parting with all those items, some even still had tags! I pretty much got rid of almost everything pre pregnancy I owned. My body is different now. Those clothes would’ve never fit me properly again, no sense in letting them take up space any longer!

Sundays are for playing in the water on a 100 degree day!

Zombie Milo.

Sundays are for a spicy, delicious, spaghetti dinner.

Sundays are for baking cupcakes on the kitchen floor.

Sundays are for snuggling on the floor with the dog before bed.

Happy Sunday.

Happy Friday HOMIES!

This weekend is Father’s Day or is it Fathers Day? I never get that right. Oh wells!  Our weekend pretty much revolves around kick ass Daddios!  Just reminding them that they are great Dads & giving them a pat on the back! Even if your Dad sucks ::ahem:: or you Don’t have a baby or a baby Daddy that is great I’m sure you know a good Dad out there somehwere, send him a note, text, card, or phone call to say “good job, keep it up”. I’m sure it will make his day. Let me tell you, the more messages I got on Mothers Day the more awesome I felt!

In honor of impending Fathers Day:

Last night Mercer, Milo, & I headed to a Mexican restaurant for dinner.  Chips & salsa just sounded rather inviting after a long day.  We were seated right behind a group of three women.  My guess would be that they were in their late 30′s.  They were talking loudly.  I really didn’t have a choice but to listen to nearly all of their conversation. By “choice” I mean after 7 years, my husband & I have nothing to talk about sometimes & I like to listen to strangers conversations.

They talked about quite a few people from their high-school days.  What these people were doing, who they were dating, where they worked, who’s getting divorces & why….It also seemed as though they have a high-school reunion coming up or that had just past that had a message board on FB that they creeped regularly.

These women seemed like they hadn’t seen each other in awhile and were “catching up”. It got to the point where two of them were on their phones pulling up people from high-schools profiles & pictures & status updates & they were discussing it all.  One woman was talking about a good looking guy from high-school & clicking on his pictures he was “tagged” in & then going as far as to look at that persons photos too. But!!! She wasn’t even friends with the guy technically on FB.  Straight up creeper. She lucked out on creeping this guy’s FB page because he probably doesn’t care enough to update his privacy settings.

I was so bothered by their entire conversation.  These women were talking & going on & on about all these people from 20 years ago that they NEVER SEE, & possibly aren’t even friends with on FB.  They had these stories that they’ve pieced together about all these people.  I just thought to myself  ”how strange are these ladies…..“. It made me really uncomfortable for ALL the people they were discussing that had no clue.

It made me never want to update my FB page again.  I try to keep my friends list to people I really am friends with, but a few have slipped in over the years that I did enjoy from high-school even though I’ll probably never hang out with again.  I was just sitting their thinking, “OMG, I wonder if random people from the high-school days sit around & put together a life story for me in their heads from random things they’ve seen on FB”? Fuck, I hope it’s a hella glamorous one that they are all completely jealous of at least.

I can’t believe that I’ve never really thought about it from that aspect, I just always figured, people have a lot better things to do with their time.  Well, apparently they don’t.  It made me re-evaluate my presence on FB, & again go over my privacy settings & make sure they were tightened up.  But, then I thought Oh yeah! You have a blog where you openly talk about everything in your life so SHIT, now they know just how fucking un-glamorous it really is!  You got me, I’m not jet setting around the world, I’m really change blowout shit diapers, gardening, & not really doing much at all besides sitting on my hammock & working on raising a family. How boring I must be.

Oh well.

random footnote: when typing in “gossip” to a certain free image site. 95% of the photos generated are women talking & whispering!