i love walking on the beach

i got to go walk on the beach with one of the people that can make me laugh no matter what my mood is because i know that trouble is usually around the corner with him! aaron and i went just down the street from my house after church and walked up and down solana beach area... as we were walking back he says he wanted to climb the cliff... i told him i wanted to take a picture of him climbing under the sign that says to stay back from the unstable cliff walls. the first attempt he went and figured out the wall and his shoes were too wet. the second attempt was me trying and i do mean to say it was a sorry attempt at trying to boost him up...i boosted him a whole whopping foot off the ground and grunted "are you up yet?" yeah, not even close! the third attempt was the successful one where he climbed up my body first on my leg next on my shoulder! the moral of this story, when its a dumb idea, nicomi will succeed or help others along the way! as i sat down below snapping pictures i thought to myself, what if this wall decided that right now was the time to fall and I just helped him get up there, not to mention the fact that i am down below this rock... when he jumped down, i gave an inward sigh of relief! we both said that we wished we could have gotten a picture of the two of us trying to climb that wall! we walked down to the tide pools and i saw 4 very large anenomes, i have to say that i sat and stared at the inside of 2 of them... i have never seen such an amazing teal (the color of gangrine) as i saw in the center of these amazing creatures that we mean humans like to poke. the variations of the color were beautiful and something that i am glad that i got to see in my life. I am amazed by the simple things in this life and thankful for these glimpses of things that take my breath away!

Christmas Day!!!

other people have white christmas but usually we have such mild weather people often go to the beach on christmas day. this year it rained and the wind was blowing so hard that the rain was coming in sideways. i was coming home from annies and daves and as i was dropping over the hill the clouds took my breath away. i had to take pictures of it and it doesn't do it justice!

Merry Christmas!

this is my first christmas tree that was all mine! i got to decorate it just like i wanted to and didn't have to fight with other peoples inferior taste! lol! it was one of those trees that was all matchy matchy and makes me laugh to think about... the colors matched my apartment it was funny because gone are the days of the much beloved 2 foot blow up christmas tree that doubled as the bat for christmas tree beachball baseball... nope this took hours to decorate not the 30 seconds and 6 puffs of air to blow up... i loved those days and miss the fun of winding up and swinging with all your might the tree and trying to bounce the ball off the wall into the corner between the couch and the window or into the kitchen so you could safely make it around the bases back to home before you got tagged out! Hard to do in a small small living room, but the laughs were endless! As i sat there thinking about my favorite christmas stories this was definitely on the top of the list, but my other favorite part of christmas was growing up and delivering to a family the 12 days of christmas. the picking of the family, figuring out what to give for each day, writing out the message in a way that nobody could figure out who wrote it, making the small gifts, the stratagy of how to park and where to run from and to, figuring out how to outsmart the family that was also stratagizing on how to catch whoever was dropping off the gifts, laughing as we peeled off and replaying the action in each of our roles, piling into the car with my whole family and enduring joel's gift of gas trapped in the back of the car with him, singing carols and bringing the final gift and laughing with the family about how close they came to catching us, leaving with a sense of making someone else's christmas a little better because they knew that they were thought of and very loved by someone else and knowing that they basically became grafted into the morris family tree whether they liked it or not! I LOVED this part of christmas! what are some of your favorite christmas stories?

another one down!

So I think that my days of overwhelming amounts of weddings is finally at an end!!! one of my last single friends got married to the man of her dreams on december 20th. it was one of the most beautiful weddings i have ever been to (annies and her's tie) it was well thought out and very organized! the only draw back was the fact that while we do live in southern california the wedding was outside... WE FROZE OUR BUTTS OFF! the invitation did tell you very clearly to bring your jackets but you can't keep the lower half warm!!! they did however have the heating lamps and fire pit. but the best part of the night was that they had hot chocolate! it was delicious! i have to say that the older i get and the more single i am weddings do get a little harder to attend, a purely selfish thing i know, so as i was sitting with my dear friend karen she told me that she was only going to do her own and as a side note mine... which she quickly took back... i totally laughed because i felt the same! we sat in the corner and giggled when the bride walked up and asked what was soooo funny... how can you tell your dearest friend that weddings suck when you are her guest at her wedding? as we were sitting watching the video of them growing up jaime leaned over and said "one word comi... elope!" great so the day that I have dreamed of all my life, cuz yes i am that kind of girl, is the dreaded day that should just be skated over with two people running away to say their vows before people that don't care... sad! but i do want to keep it very very small if that day should ever happen so that nobody feels like they are exhausted from having to attend! but jaime i am so happy that I got to see you and your hubby tie the knot, and to know that another one bit the dust!

so umm i'm bossy!

today was a fine example of just how truly bossy i am! i got to go christmas tree shopping with my dear friends annie and charlotte we walked into the garden center at target and started to look for the perfect tree. my idea of a perfect christmas shopping for a tree is to just look for the freshest needles and pick up and go. annie walks up and starts looking and says i love the color of that tree to which i said, "no that is dry look at a different one, like this one!" so we start to unravel the twine holding it together when this other family walks up and starts to help pull the string. annie shakes it out and its the perfect shape. she walks over to pay when the man and his two sons start talking and the dad says do you want to look here or do you want to go over to home depot? to which i respond, "they are the same here as over there you might as well just pick one here." so the older son starts to pick at trees and he starts to unwrap this tree, instantly i say to him you don't want that tree because its too dry. I pointed out the needles and he still starts to look at it. i point out a different tree and say that is the tree you want! the dad says yeah the top of that tree was ugly. so the kid grabs the tree i said for them to look at and start to unwrap it. next thing i know i am standing back with the dad saying that it was a great tree! SOOOO BOSSY. oh does it stop there NOPE... another set of ladies come in and start to look at trees (one had stopped to admire charlotte) they were behind me looking at this tree and i say really loudly that they didn't want that tree it wasn't good because the shape was all off and they wouldn't be happy! they sure did put down the tree and start looking at other ones! the man looked at me and said i will meet you here the same time next year christmas lady! so the lesson here i have no shame and will boss a virtual stranger if i feel like i am right!

so you know when you move out of the family home and you are on your own for a few years and you come home for a visit and all of a sudden your room is now the family workout room... this happened to me recently, only it happened in the form of my little niece rach... she came to nana and papa'a house to spend some time for the weekend and my dad said to rach that comi's room was now rachael's room! so of course my niece had to call me and tell me that she now was the person who possessed the spare room in my parents house! my nephew is also in on it and says that its his room too... today my mom calls and we decide that it would be a good idea for me to go down and wait in the room and when rachael came in i would ask her what she was doing in my bedroom... i don't think that she knew what to do with me asking and it took her a little while, then she started in and said it was her room. but in the end i did get on tape her saying it was mine... only to be taken away again! i tell you i get NO respect!

just a rant

i don't like rats, mice or anything that has to be killed in a trap.

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