A little about me:)

I was tagged by thatgirl so here goes nothing:

1) LAST MOVIE U SAW IN A THEATRE?
Indiana Jones The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

2) WHAT BOOK ARE U READING?
Taking a break from reading for the rest of June

3) FAVOURITE BOARD GAME?
Trivia Pursuit

4) FAVOURITE MAGAZINE?
Real Simple

5) FAVOURITE SMELLS?
Fresh Vanilla, Cinnamon, clean laundry, pasole, my husband


6) FAVOURITE SOUNDS?
Disneyland's background noise...

7) WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD?
loosing a loved one

8) WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN U WAKE?
Ugh, I'll sleep in and put my hair in a ponytail.

9) FAVOURITE FAST FOOD PLACE?
Panera

10) FUTURE CHILDS NAME?
Tess and Tucker ;)

11) FINISH THIS STATEMENT—’IF I HAD A LOT OF MONEY I’D......
invest it after buying a house.

12) DO U DRIVE FAST?
depends.

13) DO U SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL?
yup, two. One that snores even!

14) STORMS–COOL OR SCARY?
cool as long as they don't ruin my commute.

15) WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?
Toyota Paseo

16) FAVOURITE DRINK?
Rum

17) FINISH THIS STATEMENT-IF I HAD THE TIME I WOULD…
Volunteer more

18) DO YOU EAT THE STEMS ON BROCCOLI?
don't eat the stuff

19) IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY OTHER COLOUR, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CHOICE?
I'll never dye my hair

20) NAME ALL THE DIFFERENT CITIES/TOWNS U HAVE LIVED IN?
San Fernando, Palmdale, Santa Clarita

21) FAVOURITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
UCLA FOOTBALL!!!

22) ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
Love her quick and easy dinner recipes, if I don't use them exactly, they always inspire what I cook.

23) WHATS UNDER YOUR BED?
Tucker's fort (i.e. all his toys that he "hides)

24) WOULD U LIKE TO BE BORN AS YOURSELF AGAIN??
No, I wanna come back as Tess...she's got it made!

25) MORNING PERSON OR NIGHT OWL?
Night owl

26) OVER EASY OR SUNNY SIDE UP?
Neither - with chorizo!

27) FAVOURITE PLACE TO RELAX?
bed with my two pups

28) FAVOURITE PIE?
Banana Cream Pie

29) FAVOURITE ICE CREAM FLAVOUR?
Classic - Mint and Chip

30) OF ALL THE PEOPLE U HAVE TAGGED, WHO IS THE MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND FIRST?
No idea!

1. Amber @ Simply-Mine
2. D @ GimmySkinny
3. Laura @ Blonde Ambition
4. Alyssa @ 2007's Journey

Really?

What is cuter than this:

To lazy to put the whole ball in her mouth apparently.

Peter Pan

Sorry for the blogging slump. I have just be overly tired the last few days. I'm back in the swing of things again though. Just needed a few days of sleep.

Anyways, back to my weekend.

Sunday we decided to watch the Laker game some place fun. So we headed out to the ESPN Zone on Downtown Disney. We left early because we heard that there was a "soft opening" for the new ride at Disney's California Adventure.

When we got to Downtown Disney we found that there was a car show going on! Mr. Bumblebee was fairly excited to say the least. Give him a V8 and some chrome and the boy is good. However, the cars were a let down for our style. It was mostly stock cars and we prefer the hot-rod selection.

Here are a few that caught our eyes though:

We got to the ESPN Zone and it was just nuts. I don't know what the hell we expected but we watched the game until it got rowdy and decided to walk around the park, I was feeling a churro anyways.

We actually headed to Fantasyland (a place we usually avoid like the plague) because Mr. Bumblebee couldn't remember anything about the Peter Pan ride (one of my favorites!). Took some fun pictures there:

Then came the time that I was told they might be letting guests onto the new ride. We headed over there and were DENIED! So sad. Oh well, looks cool from the outside.

So we went home after that and called it a night. Glad we didn't stick around the ESPN Zone since the Lakers lost and I didn't want to be harassed further by the "other" fans.

Fun day overall.

Lazy Day

Saturday we slept in. I don't think we got up before 11am which is really late for us. It was so nice! The dogs even slept in but they weren't tired for long. Eventually they were ready to get out and have some fun.

Our local dog park has been closed for a month. So we decided to try a new dog park. We headed out to the Laguna Hills dog park.

On my grading of dog parks, this particular one gets an C.

It was right on the 133 and the traffic is heavy and scary. There is no parking lot so we had to park on this huge street. Imagine my horror to unload my pups on that huge street please. If they got away from me for one second (which they never would, but you never know), they would have been history. I was so uptight about the whole thing. You also have to pay for the meter parking on the scary street. There are two parks but the small dog park was TINY. So we had to put them in the big dog park. The park butts up right to a hill and my dogs wanted to climb it the whole time. So most of my time was spent chasing them from the hill. No sitting areas, no shade. The major plus was the great grass.

So while I worried about them the whole time we were there, they had a blast.

Friday = Happy Hour!

It was a long work week for me. One of my favorite coworkers (they are all my favorite) is getting married next month and leaving us for good to finish up school. I am going to miss her so much. S's fiance was out on his bachelor party so we were all meeting up at the local El Torito for Happy Hour with her.

Confession: I h.a.t.e. El Torito. I really just hate texican. Can't stand the stuff. But I made an exception to have happy hour there since it was close by and the longest, it went till 8pm!

Good looking group for a bunch of ladies who just spent the past 9 hours with children under 4 huh?

Since Mr. Bumblebee works down the street from me (literally) we met up and went together. V also brought her hubby and they hit it off big time! They are such a fun couple, I can see us hanging out a lot more often.

We came home around 9pm and got a call from my parents. They were visiting my sister in Long Beach and wanted to meet up with us for dessert. Hell Ya! We met up with them at BJs on 2nd Street (favorite place to hang out in Long Beach) and heavily enjoyed a Pazookie.

Headed home after that and came home to surprisingly sleepy puppies. I expected them to be so full of energy since we were gone almost all day long but they were very needy and sleepy. I wonder what they were up to all day long...

Another Busy Weekend

It was a very busy weekend again for the Bumblebees.

Friday I didn't work so when Mr. Bumblebee got home we decided to head to Disneyland for the night. Called my parents up to just brag to them about going and they said they were on their way too! Score! So we met up with them. Fairly normal night at the park but we got to see them testing the new monorail. Pretty cool looking.

Saturday was getting a lot of stuff done. We had to-do-lists and were determined to get them done. We were pretty successful. We met up with Bumblebee IL's to see Bumblebee SIL's Boyfriend play in the regionals. They won! Sunday we had a couple's shower for some cousins on Mr. Bumblebee's side of the family. It was a nice family reunion. It seems that for the past 3 years we've had one of these to go to on the first weekend of June. It is so weird that last year it was us. Time flies.

My two ring bearers were there. They've grown up so much in a year. Makes me so sad.

The new couple is moving to AZ after the wedding so there were a lot of practical easy-to-travel gifts.

Bumblebee SIL kept the whole thing very entertaining for us. She's a crack up.

I loved her AYSO soccer pose with the margarita in the other hand.

The only bad part of the entire weekend was not nearly enough time with the kids. Look at these faces:

P.S. I got a new haircut if anyone noticed, trying out bangs...any thoughts?

Puppy Toys

Tess loves her toys. She lives for her toys. From time to time, I get a trash bag and I throw away the toys that have worn their welcome. This is her time to freak the F out! She wigs! She gets all panic and starts grabbing toys and running under the bed. I buy her so many new toys that the girl has no reason to worry about a toy shortage. She just gets so darn attached.

I flipped out when I was at Muttropolis the other week and saw this cute little Mickey Mouse dog toy. I'm a Disney fan, but I didn't initially think of how morbid it is, the idea of seeing a limp Mickey hanging from my dog's mouth or seeing her shake Mickey violently. Now that we have him, he is her favorite at the moment. She drags him everywhere. One day I came home to see Mickey floating face down in her water bowl. It's just wrong.

Hot Spot Info

Well, after our little encounter with Hot spots, I decided to post some gathered information for people. Seriously, you never know when you are going to need it.

Hot spots develop over a few hours. They are unpredictable at first but once you get to know the causes, it can help predict their occurrences.

They are just areas where your dog continuely itches until they've created an open sore. The spot is inflammed and they itch it like crazy.




If you dog has a history of ear infections, allergies, heavy coats, or flea infestations, it is likely you will at one point deal with this problem although all dogs are susceptible to hot spots.




As any skin disorder, you are going to want to treat the sore and prevent another occurrence.




When you first notice a hot spot developing, trim all hair around the sore and wash it with warm water mixed with a very mild soap. Then make an appointment with the doctor in case you need some antibiotics.




The itching can be severe. It is hard to watch. Use whatever means necessary to keep the dog from itching that particular spot. From an E-collar, to socks, or even an ace bandage. We tried almost all of those.




To ease the itching until you can see a vet, use cold compresses, witch hazel, a children's benadryl, anti itch sprays (didn't work for us), sometimes an oatmeal bath is necessary.




For us with Tessa, the cold compresses and children's allergy medicine did the trick.






It looked 60% better the next day. 3 full days later and you couldn't even tell she had it.

It was horrible to watch her agonize over the itching though, I hate watching her suffer.

But she's on allergy meds now and doing great...hope you never need this information, but if you do I hope you find it helpful.

Hand Soap Rec.

I'm so picky when it comes to any skin care products. My skin is uber sensitive and the smallest change can sometimes lead into weeks of itchy hell. I can not do any fragrances usually so sadly that leaves Bath and Body Works as a dream never to be a reality for me...or does it?

This past Christmas I got a gift card to B&BW. I figured I'd be buying a lot of candles with it. When I went into the store I found C.O. Bigelow's line on the wall. I read their product and decided to give it a try. There are no additional fragrances and no artificial colorants. It's also important on me that it was not tested on animals and it wasn't! We tried out the Lemon scent and that night we went back and bought three more bottles of the stuff. My skin doesn't react to it at all and it smells so good. I love shopping there too instead of using plain old Dove everywhere else.

The hand soap retails for 12 bucks at B&BW which isn't bad for some amazing stuff. Try it out!

Memorial Day Weekend

Well, finals are over. I lived through them and suprisingly well I might add.

For the weekend, we were pretty mello. We have a lot going on in the next few months and so we wanted a break. We did head down to San Diego to visit some friends that we haven't seen in a while. It was really nice to chat and visit with them.

As soon as we got back I started to feel sick. I woke up Monday with a full blown cold. Yuck.

On Saturday we did go shopping a little bit. I needed an apron, not just because I'm Suzie-homemaker, but because I kept spilling and staining my clothes.

So Mr. Bumblebee found me this cute little number:

It is cute and works well. I decided to try it out by making one of Mr. Bumblebee's favorites, Snickerdoodles. I didn't have a recipe for them so I just used Martha Stewart's recipe. They are good but not great. Still looking for an amazing recipe. Mr. Bumblebee likes them chewy and these weren't chewy enough for him.

This is how the men like to celebrate a four day weekend....kills me how cute they are!