Sweet!!!!

I have the most amazing friends!!! Thanks to all of your for your phone calls and emails today, it really was a special birthday because of you! The cookies were delicious (again chocolate chip is one of my favorites!!) and I do not even have words to express how yummy the cake was!!! German Chocolate cake is my absolute favorite, and I had a dear friend make me one from scratch all while dealing with sick kids, you are amazing!!!! I am sending a huge hug to all of you!!!!! Thanks for being such wonderful friends!!!

Change...

So in my never ending battle to figure out what to do with my hair I decided to go into the salon and ask them for their advice. They lady (or at least that was what he called himself) suggested I go back to my "natural color" and I said great! I have been tired of the up keep with highlights and have slowly been going back to my "roots" anyway. Well was I in for a surprise when she took off the towel. I know I have somewhat dark hair but not this dark. To make it worse I spent all my extra $$ to get my hair done and Jeremy has vetoed me going back to get it fixed. Oh well I guess I am stuck for a while, maybe it will grow on me.

And the winner is.......

Congratulations Lisa, just shoot me an email with your address so I can get your scentsy plug-in and bar in the mail. As for everyone else stay tuned for next months drawing.

The Lunch Date Blouse GIVEAWAY!!!!

If you don't already follow grosgrain I am giving it 2 thumbs way up and telling you it is a must to check out!!! This is her first adult give away and it is beautiful. For those of you with little girls her work is amazing you have to check out some of her past giveaways!!!! here's the link...check it out :)The Lunch Date Blouse GIVEAWAY!!!!

January Prize Drawing

Ok, so I am going to try something new this month! I am a sucker for drawings and thought it would be fun to do my first ever Sentsy drawing. This month I will be giving away 1 free Dandy White Plug-In and 1 Black Raspberry Vanilla Sentsy Bar. If you want to enter just leave me a comment by January 15th and I will add your name to the jar. My wonderful assistant Riley will pull a name out Jan. 16th and I will post the winner here Jan. 16th. (If you are not familiar with scentsy's AMAZING products you can check them out at www.scentsy.com/briana or click on the scentsy link on my sidebar) Good luck everyone!!!

Kauai with Cara and Riley

It was so much fun to have my sister here for a few days. Riley was super surprised with his trip to Kauai and we had a blast! If you have not been to Kauai I definitely recommend it. We were able to do some amazing things see some of the most beautiful sites but aside from the dolphin's, Riley (and I would not be being honest if I did not include myself) loved staying up late and listening to Cara and I talk about when we were kids. In fact he was begging and pleading for us to stay up again the following night and talk. It was fun to be able to stay up and just laugh and revisit memories I had not thought about for years, although it provided for some strange dreams.

I took her to the airport last night and have been a little lonely since. I miss her, as I always do when we have to say good bye to our family, but am looking forward to planing our first ever sister reunion in a year or 2 with all of our sisters (well probably just the grown ones).

Here are some pictures, we are all a mess in most of them as we had been snorkeling, but now you know what I REALLY look like :)

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Black Out

Last night the power went out Island wide. As if that was not interesting enough, I had dropped Jeremy off at a gig in Honolulu and took the kids back to church for a baptism. The power went out right before the baptism started. They ended up sending someone home for some lanterns and flashlights and the baptism went on. I have never been to a baptism in the dark and it was one I will remember as I am sure my kids will too. After it was all finished we had to brave the roads to go pick up Jeremy. The phone lines were all jammed and Jeremy could not get a hold of us to let us know the gig got canceledbecause of the black out and he had been waiting outside for us for about 2 hrs. We were listing to the radio on the way home and found out that during the storm (I forgot to mention that it was thundering and Llghtninging, is that a word? haha) 4 major lines in hard to access places had gone down. They were telling us to expect 10-12 hrs of darkness but I think they went on around 4:oo. I am just glad all our Christmas leftovers did not go bad lol.