Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to my Pretty Mexican Mama !!

An old Family Favorite

This song cracks me up! My sister Jamie learned how to play it YEARS ago, and we've been singing it at every family function, right after Jake... I mean Jon does his Adam Sandler Hanukkah song! You just have to love weird family traditions!

Chicago

I have a strange attraction to "Big City Life"...I think it's from all of those movies that I watch, but really, I love the idea of living in a big city. Last week I went and saw my new Favorite Big City, Chicago!!

This is one of those dinner cruises that you could take and go up the river into the city. We went on a speed boat tour which I thought was pretty fun. The tour guide was a 20 something with almost a sense of humor... but just enough boring to cancel out anything funny.

Gorgeous huh??!!! We were out on a boat when the sun set behind the city and you saw the city light up. It was a romantic night that I got to spend...with my coworkers!! Ha, love you all who were there, but the Brenton was needed!



This is a shot from our boat tour as we left the Navy Pier. The Navy Pier is a combination of Fisherman's Wharf + Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (for you California Readers)




I think I pretty much had a "Big City" experience.

• Walking almost everywhere I went...check
• Crazy people watching....check
• Almost dying in a cab....check
• Being asked to jump in some drunk guys limo...check
• Movie starring hot men...check check!!!!

This was the scene just the street up from my hotel! A dozen or so old fashion cars, and a guy holding a camera! They were filming a movie...My Cab driver was less than happy, but when I found out it was a JOHNNY DEPP film, I quickly forgave any inconvenience and extra $2 that I had to pay the cabby for the time. No I didn't see Johnny, but two co-workers stayed up until about 2am and stood about 30 feet away from the hot stud! I also heard that my other favorite leading man, Christian Bale is in this movie! Two hot babes in the city with me...

My Crazy Family

My family likes to think of themselves as two things. 1. Funny and 2.Creative.....so when we get together someone goes around with a camera and takes random pictures of every one's face. (We are missing 3 in here) So help me, there are plenty of blackmail pictures out there to haunt us for the rest of our lives!!

P.S.....There is still one more brother to get married, and whoever that future lady is...I just want to you take a long good look at your future in-laws and really think about this!

(In case anyone was questioning, this contains 2 sisters, 3 brothers, two sister in laws, two brother in laws and a billion grand kids & one mother of the crazy bunch. We are missing one sister, her husband and baby girl..way to show family love Sartains!)

Stars in the Salt Lake

In the Salt Lake Airport on Friday I saw:



Don't recognize her??? How about this.....




That's right it's Jesse Spano!!! Making her way through Salt Lake...and yes I made eye contact with her...and no, no one else seemed to recognize her!!

Pilates

So I went to my Pilates class tonight, and when I leave there I wonder how did anyone get the idea to torture your body in such a way that it will actually make you skinny?? Tonight we used one of those big rubber balls that are all the rage in the work out scene. Who said, "Okay so push-ups are good, now lets get an over sized kickball, lay on our stomachs and do push-ups!" and then who was the guy that said, "That is a great idea!!" ???? Anyway, I guess it works because those muscles that are meant to stay dormant....are now hurting, so hooray for weird movement to work out my "Core"
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And an update for those to know if my arm was butchered once again from the Red Cross the answer is....NO!! I know it's a good thing! And it really helps the fact that I didn't even get to the part where they poke my arm with a huge needle. They pricked my finger and that is as far as I could go...my blasted iron is low yet again. It's a mystery with that iron of mine. The red cross has rejected me more then the boys in high school! Okay well I will work on that iron and give it another try in a few weeks. Brenton on the other hand did great. He donated for the second time! He's a giver, and he's saving someones life. I on the other hand just sat there and ate the cookies and juice provided!