Caroline's 3rd Birthday Party (two weeks late)!

I am so behind on this blogging thing, lol, I look at this post that I started oh maybe two weeks ago and I don't really know why I put the first picture on here, but there must of been a good reason, perhaps it was part of a weekend recap, oh I do not know.  Pretty much every night when I get home from work it is the same routine, I open up blogger and then I realize I am too damn tired to blog so I close it up and fall asleep by 8:30pm, so here we are two weeks past little Miss Caroline's birthday party and I am finally posting her party pics, sorry girlfriend.

This was a pic of paddling practice, I must of been proud of our workout, but again, I cannot remember why I put it on here weeks ago.

Mari and her new puppy Chloe, at least I think that is the pups name still, I know they were thinking of changing it.

I was feeling really tired and frumpy two weeks ago and decided I needed some pampering and needed to spruce things up, so I got a mani/pedi.  I treated myself to the gel manicure, it turned out nice but it was kind of pricey and boy howdy do my toes look a lot better (two weeks later and after a ton of yard work at the Sheriff's estate, there is dirt under the gel and I lost a nail, so much for trying to be less frumpy and more girly).

And now to the widely anticipated 3rd birthday pictures, here they are!  It was a really nice day out and perfect for riding bikes, scooters and playing outside.  

Love this picture of Mari, she is so stinkin' cute.

This is Super Dad four maybe five weeks post surgery, not sure if his doctors would be pleased seeing him hula hooping, I think he might of just had his staples removed but we are glad to see him feeling so well.

We also went to the end of our street that overlooks the wetlands and let the kids throw rocks, seriously it was a good thing they had their helmets on, there were a few near misses of rocks to the head.

And we do this for fun with the kids, lol!

Super Mom made this beautiful banner for Caroline's Birthday, I seriously cannot get over how great it turned out.  It was hard to get good pictures of the whole thing but take my word it was amazing!

I would have a scared look on my face if I had seven missing or loose teeth.

The Sheriff getting into the party spirit.

And a quick recap on flipagram of the day, such a blast, it was a bummer that Cole was sick that day and could not make it.

If you are reading this via email, I do not think the video's work, you will have to go to my actual blog site to watch.  erin-recgirl.blogspot.com

Weekend Round-up!

I feel like a broken record when I start off another blog post with  "another great weekend", but seriously it is true, we have been having the best weekends that I have no other way to describe them.  This weekend started off with a little race prep, my friend April who I paddle with at DOCC and I decided to do a OC-2 race a few weeks ago and yesterday was race day in Redondo Beach.  I had all of my gadgets charged (GoPro and Garmin) and ready for the big day.

The Sheriff and I had a date night alone on Friday night, we went to the Irvine Spectrum and had dinner at Tender Greens, mmmm mmmm, I love that place and got a little something sweet at Coldstone's.

It almost looks like I am two fisting it, except for the nail polish.

Below are a bunch of pictures from race day, April and I had a great time and we did pretty good, the race was about five miles.  This was my very first OC-2 race and I had no idea what to expect, so I was just out there paddling along, I am already thinking of ways I can improve for the next race. 

The Sheriff came along too and boy howdy I was glad he did.  Originally he was supposed to work but  Thursday night he remembered he was on vacation starting on Friday (hence the random date night minus Mr. Pie), and had he been working he and I were going to trade vehicles so I could take his truck because the boat does much better on the truck than on my car.  So bright and early Sunday morning April and I showed up at his house, loaded the canoe and headed to the race.  The Sheriff being the awesome guy he is made sure that we had everything we needed, helped us down to the dock to launch the canoe, helped other people along the way, took pictures, helped us bring the canoe up after the race and on and on.  He did so much for us and I cannot thank him enough.  After the race we headed home, it was a little chilly and we were tired, so we left about 2pm, got home showered and met up again and we had another date night.  Woohoo two dates in one weekend, we went out for sushi, mmm mmm, was it good.  We go to a place called "Good Choice" and it is really a great choice.   After that we went back to his place and watched a little bit of the Olympics before I passed out on his couch by 8pm, yep, I am a fun date.  

Today we took the pups to the park, they love it there and have so much fun.  I try to take a few pics each time we go just to have so some day when they are gone we can look back at them, plus Milo has come so far in accepting Gracie and learning how to play with her instead of trying to eat her.  

I love this shot, Milo loves his ball and he is learning to share it.  He looks like he is going to kill her, but it is just the timing of the photo, he was nice to her.

This is a cool shot too, if you look close you can see Gracie's head popping up behind Milo.  I sent this pic to the Sheriff and said "this is a great pic of the pups" and he replied back "yeah, but I look kinda gay".  I seriously cannot stop laughing, I was not expecting that response.  The rest of the day was busy, Mr. Pie wiped out on his bike while we were at the park and he was pretty upset so we left.  We went and had breakfast bagels and bought some girl scout cookies which cheered Mr. Pie up.  After that we went back to his place, started another amazing crock pot dinner and did yard work the rest of the day.  I am very pleased to report that all of our hard work is paying off and one day I hope to share before and after pictures.  Now it is back to work in the morning, boo!

VaLeTiNe'S dAy!

Happy Valentine's Day, I hope everyone had a wonderful day.  I have to say this year there has been so  many cute Valentine things out there that I just cannot get enough of them, hence the over use of instagram and Facebook.

I mean, seriously, how cute.

I bought the Sheriff and Mr. Pie each a card for Vday.  Mr. Pie being a kid, I figured he would think just a card was kind of lame so I found the $5 movie rack and picked Gremlins for him, I hope he likes it.

This is the card I got for Mr. Pie, he loves dogs and I thought it was so cute and I thought all of the other kid cards were kind of lame.

The Sheriff and I had a coffee date this morning, he was running a few mins late because he was enrolling Mr. Pie into school for next year, I laugh at our text conversation….

Yes, creepy Starbucks man is real, he is weird and asked me out on a date a few years ago, I said "NO" and I swear he looks me up and down every time I see him.  CREEPY

Gracie and I went for a walk after the Sheriff went to work, she loved every minute of it.

I ran across this sun visor the other day and I thought how perfect this is, so I bought it.

It was a beautiful day today, Yahoo said it was 73 degrees out, but I think they were lying, it was more like 78, it was sooooo nice.

It was the perfect day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day to you.

XOXO

Maybe a Date?

Last week I was missing the Sheriff, with his work schedule the way it is right now, I really only get to see him on Sunday's.  We had a random coffee date a few weeks ago and he brought Mr. Pie to my work to tryout a Karate class (don't ask, it did not go well) on a Tuesday night while I was working so that did not really count for anything besides a few minutes of conversation.  Then the other day I was getting my coffee fix and they handed me this cute little card for some free drink that I am really not interested in but I really liked the card, so I took it to work with me, doctored it up and sent it to him.  I thought it was so cute and being that my next Friday off is this Friday and this Friday being Valentine's Day, I thought what better way for him to spend his morning than taking me out on a coffee date.  So I sent it to him.  I guess technically I was asking him out on a coffee date, but since it is Valentine's Day it is only right that he takes me and brings me flowers (gerber daisies from Trader Joe's would be just fine), lol.  I am not really a big Vday person and I do not expect gifts (ehh, maybe a card), I just want to spend a little time together before he goes off to fight crime.  And for all of you after reading this think I am kind of bossy, I have no idea what you are talking about.  :)

See, it is cute!

40 Cloves of Garlic

I know I am a total nerd, but whatever, I am in love with my crockpot, well technically it is the Sheriff's crockpot but whatever (I just said whatever twice in one sentence, I need help) I am in love with the thing and this past Sunday I, Erin M. completed my very first crockpot meal all by myself (I cannot believe I am blogging this).  Anywho, it was amazing, oh so easy and I failed to take any selfies of me, the pot and the food, so please do not hold that against me.  All you need is the following…….

I used chicken thighs, cause I do not like chicken breasts and cooked them for 5 hours on low. 

We cooked up some rice and added some broccoli to the crock pot at the very end and enjoyed a really good meal.  The best part about this was dinner was in the pot and cooking by 1pm and that left us with some free time to finish up Mr. Pies bedroom for the most part and get him all moved in.  All we need to do is hang some pictures and get him a bulletin board and I will post some pictures.  It was so cute, he was so excited and helped move all of his clothes, games and toys.