.. a birthday list ..

alright this post is a shout out for my littlest brother on his day of birth. 

This little guy, tender, was born August 13th 1994 at 11:21pm. I know cause I was 10 and I got to stay up late to answer the phone when my dad called to say he had arrived! 

{J* with M* my other brother, j* is the cutie on the left}

I have always had a special connection with j*. shortly after he was born my mom herniated another disc and couldn't carry him well, so after i walked home from school i got to babysit. then later in life when he was about 6 i was his mom for about 6 months while my mom recovered from a back fusion. we often had sister brother dates in which we did what he wanted every weekend. it was a blast.. so for you on your 17th birthday here is a list of 17 things i love about you..

1. your willingness to help, you will help with just about anything

2. you love and watch friends with me.. classic

3. you are pretty funny most times

4. you do awesome at shooting (he is on a trap shooting team and he pretty much rocks)

5. your irish jig!

6. you love movies as much as i do

7. we shared a bedroom for many years and it was always fun to wake you up at night and talk

8. loved our sister brother dates, they were always fun

9. the fact that you are so shy about girls, it is kind of hilarious

10. that we are going on a brother sister trip to new york in October, it is going to be so much fun.

11. that you ran your truck into a tree stump and you qualify that as not an accident..

12. that you love my puppies

13. that you ask my advice, and kind of listen.

14. the fact that as a child you only wore cowboy boots, and i mean always

15. the random pictures you leave on my phone, classic

 {didn't know they would come back to haunt you huh?!}

16. that you love art, sort of. that you try to appreciate it, and support mine all the way

17. that you are my little brother!

 Happy Birthday Little Brother! Have a Wonderfully splendid day!

.. as ships go sailing ..

alright, so as you read this this handsome stud muffin

 and i will be walking around puerto rico getting ready to board this

 and go sailing for a week. i have to admit i am a tad nervous about it and the fact that we are leaving jet home, i have bad separation anxiety. i know he will be good, my brother is watching him, i just worry. so the next fun blog post will be cruise pictures! yay!

so have a great week and we will see you august 15!

.. welcome to the NYC ..

last weekend i flew to NYC to hang out with a very dear friend of mine. we have been besties for years, like since high school and we have known each other for probably about 12 years. her husband got a job with a swiss bank and is attending training in NYC until the middle of august, after which they will be moving to san francisco. so i promised her that i would come out and see her in new york and of course visit often in san fran cause i love that city. so i went. cody stayed home with jet, it was a all aloner trip. i got in friday night and stayed until sunday morning. it was so much fun, and so hot i serious thought i would die. we spent friday night eating at the shake shack and then chatting at home, since i haven't seen her in a few months. then saturday, after out dose of cartoons - thanks z* for letting me watch with you, we left. we walked around mid town, had lunch, got a cupcake from sprinkles. if you haven't had one from there you should, delish! we walked to central park to eat the cupcakes and watched a street performer. then we trekked through times square, took a subway to wall street. we walked around and saw the NYSE 

the place where george washington was inaugurated as the president, and the famous Merrill lynch bull, and then had dinner. after dinner we stopped by the world trade center to just check it out and then started back. 

this is one of the buildings, and the little building at the bottom, kind of grey in color is the memorial museum.

at the subway station we split. my friend n* and i went shopping and her hubby and z* went home. it was fun to just go with her. after a hour or so of shopping we went home and showered and then z* happened. the whole weekend she had a thing with my phone. looking at pictures of jet mostly. she discovered the camera, i didn't really care but it was quite funny to pick it up and find about 40 pictures of z* on there. she is too cute. 

it was a blast and i loved every minute of it, even the blisters that covered the bottoms of my feet making getting home and adventure.