My 40th Birthday!

California Snow!

This is the closest us "Central Valley" folks of California gets to having snow during the Winter months. I woke up this morning around 630am and it was completely White outside. Cars, Lawn, Roof Tops of our home, and even the Mail Box has frost on its little metal roof. It was so crispy outside but it was so nice and refreshing for a change~

Annual Christmas Cookie Day!

Today is going to be such a fun day! It's our Annual Christmas Cookie Baking Day with my wonderful friend Ruth. We have both ovens workin hard and we bake, bake, bake all day long. Of course we cant forget the glass or two of wine along with watching our favorite Christmas movie of all time, Love Actually. Im also going to bring along another favoirte Christmas movie with my favoirte gal SJP. Family Stone is such a great movie. Well, I better get my items together and get to the grocery store for the last minute details. Pics to come...

Hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday! The sun is out in the Central Valley and its going to be a GREAT day!

~Cheers

Year's biggest Full Moon is tonight!

I'm so excited to see this wonderful ball of light in the sky. If the fog just stays away long enough for me to take a peek is all I'm asking for. Tonight, The full moon will be the biggest one of the year. The moon's average distance from us is about 238,855 miles. Friday night it will be just 221,560 miles away. It will be 14 percent bigger in our sky and 30 percent brighter than some other full moons during the year, according to NASA.

So get yourself a glass of wine and head out to take a peek.

~Cheers!

Oprah, Sex and the City, & Wine

Just a pic of my television for your viewing pleasure...

And, a glass of Chardonnay...

Need I say more? Ahhh, total bliss~

12 days since the Sun paid a visit!

Ahh, the sun decided to break through the fog today and I just had to take a pic. In fact, I went out barefoot and closed my eyes and let the sun hit my face. Its been 12 days since us "Central Valley Mercedian's" have seen the sun. What a difference the sunlight makes. Our neighbors all decided to yardwork at the same time. LOL

~Oh what a beautiful mornin, Oh what a beautiful day~

Merced stopped by St. Mary's

The tears told the story. Our season was suddenly over. On a very cold, clear night in Merced, California our Merced High Bears were going to walk on that football field and give Merced what we've been wanting for a long time. A Sac-Joaquin Section Division I Playoff WIN!

For the second straight year, Stockton St. Mary's came into Stadium '76 and walked away with a win in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs.

The final score: St. Mary's 35, Merced 24.

This one really hurt. The Merced defense came up with big turnovers with an interception and a recovery in the first half. However, the penalties continued to plague our guys, including six false start penalties in the first half alone!! We're 42-7 the last Four years! That's hard to do. It's hard to get to this game. I don't think people realize how hard it is to get to the section finals and no matter what, WE are very proud of our guys and the coaches. It's so sad because most of these boys have played with each other since they were 9 years old. It's amazing because they all treat each other like brothers.

~To the Merced Bears Football teams, We are VERY proud of your hard work~