My bucket list

These days with the movie "Bucket List" out it has seemed to spark the idea of creating a bucket list of things that you want to do in your lifetime. I never have had a bucket list, well until a few months ago. When I first found out about Club 33 I decided it had to be on my Bucket List. So there my Bucket List was with one entry. Last weekend though having complete my one item on my Bucket List and having a lot of fun doing so I decided that I need to add more to the list. What to add though?? Let me know what you think I should put on my Bucket List. I'll update it here and let you know as I complete things.

Bucket List

Club 33 - Complete

The best thing about Kindergarten

First off, what is the right way to spell Kindergarten or Kindergarden? That should be the first thing they teach you. On our way to school this morning we had our morning conversation about general stuff. Cody looks for tractors, buses, and motorcycles and Taylor informs me that when we get to school I'm not to give her kisses on the lips because it will mess up her lipstick (which is really just glitter clear chap stick). Today though Taylor was telling me how excited she was that very soon she was going to be starting Kindergarten. I asked her what she was most excited about and her response was "In Kindergarten I'll get my own desk and the top comes up on the desk so I can store my work inside of it"

Oh the joys of a child. The most exciting thing is a desk with a top that raises up. It's the little things in life.

Club 33 Recap

We got to the park at about 10:00 a.m. and met in the front of the park so we could get our tickets. Then our group, there were 12 of us went into the park and headed straight for the club entrance which is seriously just a door in the middle of some shops. Passing by it you would think it was a fake door and just for decoration. We rang the bell and they came on the speaker and asked for our parties name. They don't even come to answer the door unless you are "on the list". So they got our name, saw we were on the list and told us it would be about 10 minutes so to please wait outside and they would come get us when they had the place all set up. We hung outside the door and while standing there a bunch of people kept stopping and asking if we were going into the club. They were all curious as to how we got to go in and telling us how cool it was and for us and how they have always wanted to go into the Club. We even had a few Disney workers stop by and tell us they were jealous, they work for Disneyland and have never got to even see what the Club looks like on the inside. That is so strange to me that people that actually work for the company are not allowed to see inside.
After a few more minutes they came to the door opened it a teeny crack and asked again for our name and to verify that all 12 of us were there. Once this was confirmed they opened the door just enough for us to walk into the Club. When you walk in there is a tiny lobby and a staircase that leads to the dining upstairs. We took the stairs up and they led us to our table.
OMG!! Absolutely BEAUTIFUL the place was gorgeous. We sat down and they confirmed our orders for lunch and then informed us of the salad/seafood bar and the dessert bar. We went and got some food to start with, cold cuts, shrimp, crab, salads, soups, dried fruit, bread with vinegar and oil. It was yummy!! Then after a bit they brought our entrees, Jeremy got some roasted chicken with mac and cheese croquet. I got some type of steak, the best I've ever had, and potato truffle, which I later found out costs $1,800 a pound, WTH! $1,800 a pound for mashed potatoes. LOL!! They were delicious though!!!! Then to wrap it up we visited the dessert bar which had the best desserts ever, tiramisu, lemon stuff, raspberry stuff, chocolate stuff, pecan praline stuff, apricot stuff, mousse stuff, and yummy thin slices of chocolate rolled into cute tube looking things. I ate so much!!!!
We hung out in the Club for a little bit longer and watched the people outside at Disneyland walking around the park from the windows in the Club. After the Club we stayed at Disneyland and rode tons of rides. We also went over to California Adventure since the tickets we got from the Club were the park hopper ones.
We ended up staying at Disneyland until closing time, Midnight!!!! Whew, I was exhausted as heck on Sunday!!! But it was a day I will never ever forget!!!!

Jeremy and I waiting outside the Club

The Whole Group waiting for lunch to arrive

The most wonderful dessert buffet

The staircase leading up to the Club

The toilet, I couldn't resist

4th of July

What's a few weeks later, right? I still have to post something since this is my first Holiday since the new blog was created.

To my surprise Cody was not afraid of the fireworks one bit. He loved watching them and setting them off. Taylor, in true diva fashion liked doing the fireworks too but did so with style as she always had to pose when she was doing the fireworks.

Statistics is no fun

Well all the things I've heard about statistics is true...it's hard and no fun. I'm in my last week of round 1 of Statistics and not only is my GPA shot I'm starting to wonder if I will even get the C required for my work to pay for the class. This class is by far the toughest one ever and being online without an instructor to guide me through the work has proven quite challenging. Thankfully, I found a person on my train ride home who has a Master's in Statistics so she has been tutoring me every night. I only found her Monday so this week's work will reflect my new found help and I'm hoping that it will result in something good. After tomorrow only 5 weeks of Statistics to go. Yeah!!!

Club 33 @ Disneyland

Tomorrow is the big day I've been waiting for. A group of friends, Jeremy, and I are going to Club 33 at Disneyland. Club 33 is an exclusive members only place hidden within Disneyland where club members can go eat and have a drink. It's also the only place within the entire park that serves alcohol. To give you a quick background the Club has a 14 year waiting list and it practically takes an act of God to get in so I'm gosh darn excited I'm getting a chance. I found out about this place a few months ago and ever since I first heard about it I put it on my bucket list of things to do. Never in a million years though did I actually think I would get to go. Here is a link that gives more details about the Club.

http://disneylandclub33.com/

Cherry picking fun

A few weeks ago we took the kids for a morning of picking cherries at one of the farms here. Is that what they are called, cherry farms? Anyways back to the cherry picking. The kids had so much fun picking the cherries after they got the hang of it. At first they weren't quite sure what to do or look for. But after a few trees watch out the two of them could spot a cherry bunch a mile away. Cody was not too fond of the cherries but Taylor was picking and eating at the same time.

Re-decorating the house

Actually I'm not even sure that re-decorate is the right word I should be using as we have yet to decorate our house since we moved in two years ago.
After we begun painting the family room a little bit ago I got the bug to start getting the kids rooms all nice and cute. My bug was further rushed when I found the perfect bed for Cody at a price I couldn't pass up. This led to the painting of Cody's room which then of course brought on Taylor's desire to get her "new" room. Their rooms are now painted, except for the finishing touches. I'm very happy with the colors and have tons of ideas to make the perfect rooms for them. Taylor's is going to be a pink, black, and white modern girly girl retreat while Cody is getting a grown up boys sports room.

Snow deprived son

Last night as I was reading Cody his bedtime story it hit me that my little stud is deprived of one element of weather, snow. This relevation was brought on as we were reading his book about big trucks. As Cody turned each page we would tell me what kind of truck it was and what the truck was doing. When we came upon the snow plow Cody looked at the page and then looked at me and in his most proud voice said, "Mommy, that's a big truck moving marshmallows"

I really tried

So I really tried to make this blogging stuff work. And I must admit without patting myself too hard on the back. I did good for a few weeks. But then something happened and I got behind and the further I got behind the worse it seemed to get. It's not that life has been boring and nothing to write about, it's not that I'm ignoring it because it wasn't fun. I guess really the bottom line is that I'm just super busy. Then that begs to ask the question if I'm too busy should I just stop blogging all together. I can't really though I don't like to quit anything. So here goes attempt number 2 at blogging. Let the fun begin. And prepare to be bombarded with random thoughts from my head since I haven't talked to you all in almost a month. :-)