Birthday Magic

Sniffle, snort, achoo...I have a cold. Am I going to work tomorrow? You betcha. Cuz I have a corner office and people will see my green face and red nose, turn and walk the other way. It's a peaceful space when I have contagious cooties. I do feel a pulse of healing joy in my world of germs...a promotion, I hear?...fantastic, terrific, stupendous news! Congrats Mom! Boy, Dad will be living the life of luxury now with his sugar-momma, right? heeheehahaahhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, whew, ha. On a cold Sunday afternoon, Jan, 14th, the world of magic and wizardom were present at Via Paraiso park in Monterey. Finn celebrated his 7th birthday in style and festivity (and a Wizard theme) with about 56 friends, and thier siblings and parents (well, it only seemed like that many). We had several craft "stations" set-up for the kids including a “Spells and Potions” (the favorite) with lots of bath beads, water tints, dissolving crystals, and the basic chemistry of vinegar and baking soda (to make things bubble)- just a variety of ingredients for a magical concoction; a “Decorate a wand” station, and “Magic bookmarks & coloring pages”. Lots of munchies, sandwiches and wizard hat cupcakes. As you can see from the "cause and effect" photos below, Finn had a very unique way of eating his. It was spontaneous (I have no idea why) but once he got the laughing approval of his wizard buddies, there was no stopping him (I didn't even try, mostly because the dads were teasing Jim about being a poor influence on his eating habits). Finn soon realized that having icing in your eyelashes isn't quite the fun he thought it would be. Anyway, we had a great time and Finn was very, very, very happy (that’s all that really counts right?!). The bonus was a friend’s husband made a Starbuck’s run to get a large dispenser of coffee for the chilled parents. Hurray for Don! We had a frost last week that damaged and/or killed about 1/3 of my garden plants. Poor things are not used to sustained below-freezing weather for several days (neither am I anymore). Lots to “redo” this Spring, but I’m looking forward to the work. We are looking at plane tickets for Florida now and I just ordered a free Disney vacation CD to get us into the spirit. We can’t wait! After the trip we are likely going to get a puppy (oh boy). I think you all know that my dog of almost 15 years died on Halloween. That’s one more thing to take care of in Spring…dog-in-a-box (ugh!). We also have one mouse casualty from Finn’s new Christmas pets (currently a cryogenic rodent). He would be easy for your new fluffball Slice to catch (like a mousesicle). Well on that morbid note, I better douse my innards with NyQuil and say goodnight for now. Love to all. Carrie

posted by My Fab Family 8:32 PM    

Congrats all around

Congrats on the promotion - that's great news! First things first... to post a picture, look for this icon: right above where you type out your blog post. Click on that and then add your picture. Let me know if you don't see that icon (it's to the right of the spell-check icon). It's 12:55 am on Sunday morning and Mark is still at the studio recording round 2 of guitars for his record. I think there will be 4 or 5 rounds altogether. Then they'll record vocals followed by mixing. So far I am blown away by the quality of the recording. The guy he hooked up with to engineer the record is extremely talented and Mark has a solid vision of what he wants the end product to be, so it's a perfect recipe for success. In other news... we adopted a beautiful kitty last weekend. His name is "Slice" (of the pies). He's awesome and seems to be grateful for a good home. He had it pretty rough for quite some time. All he does is sit next to me on my desk all day long sleeping and purring... how cool is that!?!?! On the business side of things, we're close to launching an online store. It should be live in about a week. We decided to take our collective experience and launch our very own web business. We've done enough time making money for other people! :-) We'll be selling high end percussion instruments; bongos, congas, tambourines, etc. Once it's live, I'll tell ya'll the web address. One last thing before I hit the hay... congrats to Paul for being invited to DanceBreak 2007! Check out his website to find out just how cool that invitation is... Peace... Kristin P.S. Happy Birthday Paul!

posted by Kristin 9:51 PM    

Happy New Year 2007

posted by My Fab Family 12:28 PM