I *heart* a good giveaway!

http://bringingupsalamanders.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-litha-giveaway.html

Clickity on over and visit Nydia.... she has a fantastic Litha give-away going on...and I have to tell you I have several of her little creations and they are most awesome!

sooo? whatcha waiting for.... go! now! :)

Don'tcha just love this time of year.....

Who doesn't adore springtime?

Don'tcha just love...

...peepers...

...budding trees...

...sprouting garden babies...

...forget-me-nots in bloom...

...daffydills...

...frolicking critters...

...excited robins playing in the rain showers...

...OPEN PATIO HAPPY HOURS...

...a brand new package of sidewalk chalk...

well...
don'tcha?
...and more open patio happy hours!

Artsy Fartsy and stuff...

More Cali pics for ya...

Disclaimer: I by no means consider myself a photographer...

I just take pics of crap I like...

maybe you will like it too.

This my friends is my totem.

They hang near me all the time.

I love 'em!

...and I so should have listen to this one...

I have several other pics...but none turned out as fabulous

as I had hoped...but,

what he was telling me was...

"Whatever you do Eva - make sure you follow the speed limit."

$200 later - I have learned I "will" listen for now on!

What smog?

Can you believe this is someone's back yard?
I would live off of fresh squeezed OJ,
Lemon bars and marguritas!
...and with just a short drive to the Mexican border...
I would probably be tequila'd most of the time!
Del Mar Sunset....
How is this for a happy hour?
You didn't think I would go to Cali and not hit at least one happy hour did ya?

...where's the rum?

My text pic to Shaney....I kinda missed him! :p

Oh my...how did that get in there?

Ok, I missed Shane, but I can still enjoy the beachy eye candy!

... natures paisley...

Sunset at Balboa Park

... pretty pink flower....in December...

Ok Mommie Dearest, that part of Cali I kinda like

and may even consider paradise!

Don't you love times with your sisters...

when you are all growed up...

and you can still laugh your ass off?

My Little model....

You didn't think you were going to get through a post without my boy, did ya? Is that the entrance to Wonderland?

ouchies!

Sheldon had pricklies the rest of the day!

Nothing worse them a baby skellie with pricklies - makes 'em less cuddleable!

Dr. Suess trees against the most blue sky....

I wish I was a writer...I am sure a poem or something

was just waiting to be written here!

Isn't this the happiest tree you ever saw?

I always hug trees anyway....

but this one really hugged back...and blew kisses!

pricklies...

and more pricklies...

It's a shame these are so huggy resistant....

they were beautiful!

oh crap...how did he get in here again?

Alright Mr. Happy Tree...

Since I am bloggy challenged...

I will let you smile at my peeps one more time...

This tree was the most amazing tree...

and yes...we hugged....and played...

and I could have hung out here all afternoon...

...flower in a fountain...

...the faces of Balboa Park....

Ok, that's all for now....

Wish I knew how to load music...I was listening some pretty good tunes while loading these. I have more...Sheldon at the beach.... I know, always Sheldon... *laughs* I am such a proud mommy! Until next time my beautiful bloggy friends!

**MEGA-HUGS**

California Dreaming...

Well hello there my fine bloggy friends!

How's life been treatin'ya?

Busy, busy, busy here...

Ok, lazy, lazy, lazy here... *laughs*

(But I have a kick ass farm on farmville!)

Been a terrible procrastinator with these pics from Cali...

..but finally... here we go....

Love this shot...love California's beaches....

....makes a statement I suppose...
*laughs* and so does this...
Seriously... and they deliver the shit to your door?
I certainly didn't have it this easy when I a hippy!

Grandma and baby Sheldon on the beach.

What a stud!

Sheldon playing Baywatch...

Grandma in the background there.

Beautiful picture from the top...

or almost the top of Palomar Mountain

...seriously breath taking!

...and here my New England friends is a California snow man!

*laughs* and this is Anna driving in the front seat with mom...

along the mountain roads...

very high...

with no ledges on the sides...

Marybeth, mom and I had fun watching her freak out around the turns.

(Yes, we are evil)

Wish this picture turned out better...

It was another killer mountain road we took with

no railings and over looking the ledge and ocean.

Truely, amazingly beautiful!

We couldn't go to the top -

figures we decide to go to California during the only week it rained all year in Cali.

There was a rock slide and

apparently half the mountain colapsed into the ocean...

...with the road!

My baby playing around...poor little guy wishes he had hair!

Grandma having fun with Sheldon...

He loves his Grammy!

Here is smelly elephant seal beach.

Smelly, but very cool to watch!

How could anyone in their right mind club anything

with eye like these?

This is Wayne B. Fiske

By far the coolest Hearst Castle Tour guy ever.

He told a stories about all the old Hollywood legends who

visited the castle back in the day.
Can you guess which Hollywood legend he is imitating here?

hahaha... Can you believe this is the picture I took before

he realized I was taking a picture?

He posed for the one above, but this was just his demeanor

in this shot. He was the coolest dude!

My beautiful sisters outside Los Angeles.

Sheldon loved this plaque...

He giggled the whole time home in the car.

ahhh....children!

Sheldon, Anna, Marybeth and Mommie Dearest

with a bust of James Dean

Isn't this shot freaky?

(Like that video email that went around a while back

where you are driving along on a calm mountainside road

and then BAM a ghost or something pops out and screams really loud

and scares the shit out of you?)

Grammy helping Sheldon Check out the Hollywood mountainside.

(Note: this is where some Asian guy with a camera asked he he could take pictures of Sheldon

...so if you see Sheldon in anime cartoons - I sooo want a cut of the profit!)

Sheldon observing....

That ends today pictures...we have more to download tomorrow..

Or whenever - you know me.

You have to see Sheldon with the California surfers!

**hugs from me and Sheldon**

My Wicked Weekend...

*laughs*

as if any weekend in my life is less or more wicked then the next...

This is a small look into my Wicked Tea Party weekend...

We kept things low key and quiet...

I know....so NOT me...

but I need it...

so this is my "low key" weekend...

*evil kackle*

Me and Lil'sis the night before the official dress up night...

...got boobage?

This is Anna - middle sister...

poor thing was sick all weekend...

so we set her up for the picture as she slept.

(shush! at least we didn't draw onher....we so could have!)

Hotel room crafts!

Love it!

Have gun....will travel!

It's amazing the shit you can create with some glue sticks, a gun and some glitter!

(let me clarify...glue "gun")

see... *laughs* gimmi a kitchen staff apron, chess set

and some card board...

oh the glorious things you can make!

The perfect makin's of a hotel weekend Tea Party!


*sings*
I'm mister heat miser
I'm Mr.Sun
I'm mister heat blister
I'm mister one hunderd and one!

Ryan doing the doo...
A small snack before the party....
...this is where the blood came from for my last post...
the blood ended up not being "hotel travel friendly"
so I had to alter the costume slightly and be boring and
"normal" - I loath "normal"!
...but it worked Iguess...

Roxy getting ready...

Roxy the White Queen

OFF WITH HER HEAD!

The sisters....

(boring) Queen of hearts

Alice and the Mad Hattress

Thanks Mom - everyone loved the dress!

You rock - as always!

I love having my own personal seamstress!

Definitely a fun weekend!

After the Wicked Festival we went to NY to see Chicago

on Broadway....whatta weekend!

I highly recommend a long weekend in a hotel with lotsa liquer,

a glue gun and fantastic friends and family!

Good for the soul!