today

so normally our days include this:



but today was different.

today, we got a little crazy.

oh, wait this was yesterday. this is nova's "costume" that she wore to dinner. don't ask, because niether dan nor i have a clue where this came from. on the way home from picking dan up from the the train station, she was talking about a costume and a surprise and how it was going to be "breef-taking" (breath-taking) and it was. panties on the head and all, it was breathtaking, and literally brief-taking. :)


but alas, i digress. that was yesterday, and this post is about TODAY.
TODAY, we went and got ourselves one of these babies.


'cause everyone knows that with a library card in your pocket, you just look this good.


believe it peeps. we are taking california by storm. library cards today, who knows what tomorrow will bring. we will try to calm it down, but, with a library card, we may be on a roll, and it may be hard to stop us.

internet!!!

we are here and have internet! here are some pics for the g-ma's who have been dying:

nova and her best friend sam.

my sisters i left in utah.

best women ever.

my daughters i left in utah---the yw threw me a going away party. seriously, i bawled all night. i love these girls more than i ever thought possible. this is the cheesiest smile pic :) love it.

pic by our old address sign right before we left.

we are here in california and we have internet!

it was a whirl wind of a week but we feel settled minus hanging stuff on the wall.

so much has happened that i have no idea where to start. so instead of the details, i will give a top 10 things of what i have learned in the last week.

1. if your license plate says california on it, you don't signal.

2. leaves actually DO change color in california----yay! (and they are really pretty!)

3. i never thought i would enter a walmart worse than the one in harrisville utah. i was wrong. mountain view wins the game of worst. walmart. ever. i need to find an alternative place to purchase for my business.

4. i should have paid more attention in spanish in ms. pugina's spanish class.....(or listened more intently while she repeatedly showed us E.T. in spanish.) at any rate, i am the only one who speaks english to my child in my apartment complex. i need to buy a dora dvd immediately to be a part of the "in crowd".....because "vamos nova!" isn't going to fool them much longer.

5. nova can live in a swimming pool and has a white bum to prove it.

6. johnny appleseed day can will live on no matter where we live. (see above pic that i can't move.)

7. we have too much stuff. why do we have so much stuff?

8. i can successfully drive on a busy 5 lane free way and live to tell the tale....but barely....see number one

9. don't store real gourds and pumpkins for the following year. its gross.

(ok, a disclaimer here: i didn't realize they were real. i know that sounds dumb, but i thought they were fake, in the real-est of ways. i bought them last year, and then put them away with my fall decor. i opened my fall box this week and..............lets just say, they looked different and SMELLED different than they did when i put them in there 12 months ago. luckily they were bagged good and nothing else was affected. lesson learned.

10. showering with a glass shower door makes me feel wierd. i don't like it and will not be putting that on my list of things i need in a future home.