Nicknames

So I have started calling my children Zerg and Zork both used interchangeably. The question I keep getting is why? and where did these names come from? Do you remember the evil emperor Zerg from Toy Story? That is Kaylie....no explanation necessary....except when she's being sweet and adorable which really does still happen! (in glimpses). And why do I call sweet innocent Ashley these names? Because she grins huge every time I say them so maybe she just likes the ZZ sound? Who knows? I'm not very good at nicknames if you couldn't already tell but I come by it honestly! My sister calls her little boy doodoo.....Where did that come from? No, not from poop, but from dude! But if you didn't know....what would you think???

The End

Here's my cute husband who cheered me on the whole time! Okay so he went back to bed after dropping us off but at least he was at the finish line! I love you Jeff!

San Francisco (cont.)

Do you notice that I don't even stop eating for the interview? I'm pretty sure I'm completely retarded! And do you see that cute Asian girl next to us smiling with the black and green tank top? Yeah, she's the one who gave them the answers they were looking for!

You look happy, how do you feel Julie? "Happy." Wow, great response!

Man, that bagel must have been good! I'm flaunting it in front of the camera the entire time! Grinning to the camera, but really I must have been thinking, "when can I eat this last bite?!?"

Me and Leslie :)

I love my sister!! She is so much fun and it's just too bad not everyone has a cool sister like her!

Happy Halloween

Kaylie as Tinkerbell
The beautiful fairies!
Ashley as the cute little Pumpkin
Lauren and Ashley
Us Girls!

Jeff's cool pumpkin!

All worn out!

Kaylie's new BFF "Victor Dracula"

For Halloween Kaylie was Tinkerbell and Ashley was a pumpkin. Kaylie had a blast wearing her costume all week! She got to go to two Halloween parties and ended up with the Flu Tuesday night. However, she was well enough to go trunk-or-treating Wednesday. We actually carved our pumpkins this year! Well we did Kaylie's and Jeff's. He did this cool skull pumpkin, he drew it first and then carved it. I could never do that! We saw some really cute costumes this year and maybe next year Jeff and I will actually dress up! (Doubt it).

San Francisco!!

So this post is overdue but here it is. We had a lot of fun on our trip to San Francisco. We went to Alcatraz and to the Body Worlds II exhibit, which was amazing, and of course the Nike Women's Run Like a Girl marathon! Leslie and I ran the half marathon and more pictures will be coming but we forgot our camera so Leslie still has to email them to me:) Our goal was to run the whole time and to finish around 2:15 which wasn't too far off from our official time of 2h 18m 21s. There were a lot of hills and it was actually easiest to run up them. The hard parts of the run for me were the flat parts. There were 23,000 people signed up to run this race so it was extremely crowded. We started at Union Square and ran down along the piers through Presidio and ended up at the ocean. The last curve as we came down the coast was soooo pretty. The beach was practically empty and the waves were rolling in and I loved it! Of course it helped to know that we were almost done. They had something to hand out at most of the

mile markers but the best was the Ghiradelli Chocolate mile. I didn't eat them right away but they were very good after the race. The run was for Leukemia and they raised over 18.5 million dollars! It was fun running in a mostly all girls race. The only annoying part about it was how congested and hard to get started it was for the first 3 miles! After we were done some news channel asked if they could interview us and some other girl that was standing by us. I don't think they liked our answers! Of course they did ask us what the "hardest part of the run was." I was thinking about it and didn't know what to say, and Leslie said, "the most annoying part was the first 3 miles because we couldn't get going." The news lady just stared at us. I think she was looking for "the hill at mile 9" or something like that. Then she said, well you look happy, how do you feel? And we said, "happy". She just stared at us again and then turned to the girl next to us who gushed about what a wonderful race this was and what a great opportunity to be able to run for such a good cause and thanks for all the volunteers along the way.....I don't think they aired our part! We weren't exactly camera material. I had no idea what to say or do. I was like a deer in the headlights. Leslie and I had a good laugh afterwords. I missed my kids terribly and probably won't leave them again for a while! I almost forgot about the finish line surprise! As we crossed the finish line we were handed a little blue Tiffany's box, yes that's right we got Tiffany's necklaces. SWEET!

Jeff and I on Alcatraz Island

I caught me a Deer !!!

Well the hunt is over. After only the first four days the group was done. Tuesday night after being bit by an inmate and having to be treated for that I finally made it up to the mountains. The next morning was the season opening. That morning Doug Attwood (a Deputy that works with me) shot a deer at about 100 yards on the run. The rest of the day we didn't see a lot of movement. Next day in the morning my Sergeant got a 4x5 just down the road from camp. It was a good number of points but a very small deer. Later that night another Deputy got a small two point over by the lower pond. The next morning nothing much was moving, that evening every one else was out hunting and I was left to watch camp and wait for the rest of the group to show up. It was just about sun down and I decided that I would just go up the mountain to see if I could push something down a draw to my Sergeant who was now hunting with his two daughters. My buddy Dean Larsen left the keys to his dirt bike so I could use it if I wanted. I took the bike and headed up the mountain. As I summited the hill to the top of the draw I came around the corner and found a buck staring right at me. I froze to see if he was going to bolt or hang around. After about two minutes of him staring at me he took about three bounds around the corner and stopped and looked back. I cut the engine to the bike and slowly got off, removed my muzzle loader off my shoulder, cocked the hammer and crouched down to see if he was still there. He was still there but all I could see was his neck and head. I finally decided that I had to shoot for his neck or I wouldn't get a better shot. I squoze the trigger and he dropped immediately. He was a good size deer with nice brow tines. He was the biggest deer we got through the entire hunt. It was a blast to be out there and to have the chance to camp with my friends.

Kaylie's favorite things...

Her favorite things (Translation)

1. Old MacDonald's (to get a hamburger and of course we sing the song!)
2. Sprinklers (Pringles potato chips)
3. Baby Enema from Costco (The name is really EMMA, she can say it now)
4. Nummy nums (M & M's)
5. ABCD123TL14, 15 Z... (Duh the alphabet! And no I didn't teach it to her, obviously Jeff did!)
6. Costco (COSTCO, who doesn't like that store?!?)
7. Playing with the Magzits (Refridgerator MAGNETS, Of course!)
8. Shoes (A girl after my own heart! We went to Target to get her some warm clothes today and she was doing a cheer about shoes in front of all the shoes and stripped down to try on every pair she could grab. Who needs clothes when you have shoes! I finally gave in and just bought her a pair so we could get to the WHOLE REASON WE WENT SHOPPING...WARM CLOTHES because it's FREEZING outside!)
9. Scooby Doo (Because Ethan and Adam like it)
10. Mom's bed ("Jules I can sleep in your bed because dad's not coming home tonight so there is plenty of room for me") WHATEVER!!!! BEEN THERE DONE THAT!
11. Hannah Montana's song Everybody makes mistakes, Everybody has some steaks (Everybody makes mistakes, Everybody has those DAYS, I promised her I'd get her a CD, does Hannah Montana really have a CD or is it just a tv show?)