Year of A Million Dreams!

This year, Disneyland is having a promotion called "the Year of A Million Dreams". There is a "Dream Squad" who wander about the park choosing people at random to receive various prizes. Sammie was chosen by the prize patrol to take a ride through Storybook Land with a very special guest, Cinderella's Fairy Godmother. ( Sammie just calls her "godmother") We both got to ride all by ourselves with the Godmother who was so much fun! She was in character the entire time talking about the fairies she knows and their houses in Storybook Land. Sammie loved it! The dream squad made big fuss over her and it was quite a memorable experience for the two of us! The funny thing is that she woke up that day and said to me, "Mommy, I want to go to Disneyland today and wear my Tinkerbell dress". I had already planned to take her to Disneyland, I just hadn't told her yet so for her to come up with that on her own was quite funny! Our Dream Team girl, Kelly, took us on a tour of the petting zoo as well. She stayed with us for an hour talking and getting to know us. Kelly told me that each dream team member is only allowed to choose 1 family a day for the special character ride so we were it! What a great day at the Happiest Place on Earth!

Balboa Bars are Yummy!

Happy Mother's Day!
So I am just a little behind on posting these pics but couldn't resist.
We went to the beach on Mother's Day. We had a great time. Sammie had an even better time.
She loved the ocean and picked up every shell that she could find to put in her blue bucket.
This was her first time since last year and she could enjoy it more now that she is 3. Brad took her down to the water. It was very cold and she didn't want to touch it at first. She got her courage and walked along the shore when suddenly a big wave came up and she fell down into the shallow water and sand. She got sand in her hair, and water in her mouth. She came running over to me and said, " Mommy, I drinked the beach!". I just cracked up! She is so funny!
We walked over to Balboa Island and got ice cream. Sammie ate every bit of her Balboa bar. She even shared some with the pigeons. (See pics above)She spotted the carousel and so she rode that a few times. The weather was great. Nice and breezy.
Sammie and Brad got me a starbucks card and a brighton necklace, bracelet and earrings set. I have been wanting this set for a long time so I was so excited!

It's been 1 month

Yikes.... It has been a whole month since I last posted.. Where does time go?? Does anyone read my blog anyway? If you do, please let me know and I'll try to be better about updating this more often! If not, then I guess I am doing it for my own fun and so I can better recall all I do in my days since I don't seem to remember much lately!

Let's see... I sure keep busy. I went to the Discovery Science Center today with my friend Donna and our kids. It was fun. The Sesame Street Exhibit is very cute! We enjoyed shopping with play food, and seeing how our bodies work. The dinosaurs were also very neat! Sammie found a triceratops to ride. It was a good way to spend such a hot day.

The next pic is of Sammie at Disneyland... I am still learning how to insert pictures so I was practicing. We haven't been to Disneyland in a month. We were going to go today but it is tooo HOT! The science center was a much better choice so we could be inside!

I went scrapbooking on Saturday at the Red Bee for National Scrapbook day. I didn't get a lot of pages done but sure had fun. I only did 2 layouts but I really like them. ( I will share a pic) On Sunday I demonstrated at the store on things to do with chipboard. It was fun too. I am going to try to go scrapbooking again this weekend if I can. Sammie has a birthday party in the afternoon so maybe after that.

I was sick a few weeks ago right when we got home from Vegas. That was bad... I had a bad stomach flu and was sick for several days. I missed 2 days of work and I am still trying to catch up on everything I neglected while I was sick. bummer!

I did the walk for Autism and had a nice time. It was a hot day but good for me to walk and have some fun with Christine, her mother in law Janet, and the kids. I was proud of myself when I finished. We raised lots of money for Autism research. We had a nice lunch afterwards at Red Robin and snuck in a visit to Scrappin Good Times. Tee hee hee,... I LOVE buying scrappy stuff! It makes me so happy!

I guess this is going to be a long post to make up for lost time.. Echo tagged me with 7 random things about myself.. so here they are

1. I laugh at my own jokes.. I am silly and giggly and I think the same things are funny all the time ( like putting balls over my eyes) and I laugh about it when not many others do. ( lol right now)

2. I can hang a spoon on my nose. Any kind of spoon. My dad can do it too!

3. I am named after my dad's mom Ida, and my mom's grandma Rae ( Illyse Rae)

4. I am knock-kneed.

5. I was a cheerleader in high-school when Brad played baseball/basketball and we didn't know each other. ( we went to different schools but were at the games at the same time)

6. My first car was a Plymouth Champ and my 2nd car was a brand new RED Fiero. I can drive a stick shift.

7. I absolutely REFUSE to eat vegetables because I dont like the texture.. yes, weird I know but eeeeewwwww.

How's that for random???