FAO Schwarz FAILS

The last time I had been at FAO Schwarz was when I was about 20. The last time I was there I remember how much fun it was. I remember they had SO many things for you to do. They had the big piano keyboard on the floor that you could jump on to play music. They had cool rock things you could go through, a sand thing to sift through and find fossils, downstairs when you walked in they had a bar where you could order shakes and stuff, it was really cool! I thought it would be fun to take Ryan there and let him play for a while. So we get to Cesar’s and walk all the way down to the toy store, and boy has it changed! It still has the big huge horse in the front, but the third story is completely closed off. All of the cool stuff is GONE! They had the first floor full of candy and big stuffed animals and a few random things here and there. The second floor they had completely taken out the cool piano keyboard, but they did add a few arcade games. But other than that the toys were quite sub-par. I was really disappointed. Ryan did find a few things to play with and on, but it wasn't what I was expecting at all. FAO Schwarz must be suffering with this economy just like everyone else I guess. It just really sucks =[

After we left we were right by the place where they do the Atlantis show so we decided to go watch it. It's this mechanical show that comes on every hour, it's just outside where the Cheesecake Factory is. Nothing spectacular but it's kind of neat. Ryan wasn't quite sure what to think of it. He kept asking to go watch 'the movie' again. lol.

CaPtiVaTeD!

Right behind where the show is, they have a big circular aquarium. The fish in it are HUGE! We sat and looked at fish for quite a while. Ryan seemed to really enjoy watching the fish. A big one, that was almost his size would come swimming by, and he would be looking right below or above it, and all of a sudden it would come in his view and he would jump back and get the funniest look on his face like ‘wow!’.

On our way out we saw there was ice cream so I went to check out how much they were. Our poor tourists, I almost feel bad for them. The little gelato shop wanted $8.50 for this teeeeny tiny cup of ice cream. The cup wasn’t bigger than 4 oz. then the most expensive one was almost $20 for a cup that was about 12 or 14oz. I said forget it, we couldn’t have even shared a cheap one and gotten enough for the 3 of us. So we decided to stop somewhere on the way home that we knew was going to not kill our wallet, and that we would definitely enjoy…

Wedding Ring!!!

So Bobby and I went to the mall this weekend, and the objective was to get an iPhone. That didn't work out too well because no one had any and so we ended up browsing. We found a ring that both of us really liked for Bobby. It's tungsten and scratch resistant and has a nice subtle diamond in the middle. We kept looking at the ones with lots of diamonds in them but... none really seemed right. I saw this one but didn't think Bobby would like it so I didn't say anything or point it out to him, and then he did the unthinkable... He pointed to the other end of the case and said 'what about those ones over there?'. I was shocked! So he tried a few of them and found this one. We had to get it ordered and it came in yesterday.

And just for fun here are my rings...

Father's Day 2009

Father's Day 2009 was a great day!

It started off perfectly by taking a swim in the pool. Ryan has been doing so incredibly well with swimming. We spent a couple hours in the pool and taught more swimming to Ryan. He loves swimming underwater now. Above water we are still working on but overall he's doing amazing!!!

After that we were off to Bobby's dad's for some awesome ribs and chicken. We hung out there for a couple of hours, and Ryan showed off his awesome sword fighting skills to Grandpa. It was a battle of epic proportion let me tell you. In the end, I think Ryan won that battle. ;-) I got a cute picture of Ryan playing in the chairs at Grandpa's house...

After we left we went to go feed the ducks at Sunset Park. We had such a fun time! Anthony and Krystina came and brought Izaya. It was really nice and relaxing. Ryan loved feeding the ducks, especially loved giving them FULL pieces of bread! haha. Bobby and Anthony played some catch, and let the boys join them while Krystina and I just sat on the sidelines and watched. I got some really great pictures while we were out there. The weather couldn't have been more perfect, it was absolutely beautiful outside.

Yea, I have mad photo skillz I know ;-)

Surgery

Bella got fixed last thursday... my poor baby =[ I had to get her fixed because I'm living with Bobby until the house paperwork gets all cleared up, and his mom's dog goes nuts around her. We don't want her having puppies and it's also much better for her health to be spayed. So Bobby took her down. He sent me a text saying she was a fatty because she weighed in at 11.4 lbs. lol. I have to take her off of the puppy food... it's just that she likes it! haha. I went to pick her up when I got off of work and she is always sooooo excited to see me when I haven't seen her all day. They brought her out to me and she just looked at me. She didn't have her tail wagging or anything. They put her in my arms and she was just a big lump of dead weight. I was so upset to see her like that, it was definitely a first. I took her home and on the way she sat on my lap in the car and her eyes just wouldn't stay open. She was falling asleep sitting up.

<~~~ Poooooooor baby =[

So we get home, I put her on our bed and she just laid there. She didn't move, she didn't want to drink water, she didn't want to eat, she didn't want ANYTHING. Just wanted to sleep. So she slept the rest of the day, all night, and the next morning she was a little groggy but awake at least.

Now she's pretty much back to normal. I have to take her in on Sunday to get the stitches out and right now she has an ace bandage wrapped around her to keep her from licking. I felt mean giving her a cone =[ but she hasn't bothered with it. She ran around the night before last trying to scratch it off, it must be healing because she has been trying to itch it by dragging herself across the floor... it's pretty funny. She's been so good throughout all of this. I have the best doggie ever.

Date Day

So this weekend was really stressful. We got some bad news about the house and it put me in a funk. I already wasn't sleeping well, and after we heard things weren't going well I was a nervous wreck all weekend. So Sunday Bobby decided that I needed a little fun time to get my mind off of everything. It was all a surprise though becasue he knows that I love surprises. So we drive down to the strip, and I keep trying to guess what we're doing in my head. We pulled into the Mirage and I'm thinking 'there's nothing cool at the Mirage, except for the show Love. What on earth are we doing???' and then Bobby tells me we are looking for signs to 'the secret garden' I have no clue what this is so I'm looking and I see a sign that says 'the secret garden and dolphin habitat'. !!!!!!! yayyyy!! I love dolphins! So I get excited and Bobby was so happy at first that I had no idea what the secret garden was, and then he was all bummed because the sign gave away what we were doing. haha. This place was so much fun!!! We had such a great time! They have one dolphin that's only 9 months old, he's so little! We watched them for a while. They were doing some tests on them with a sonogram and one trainer started to play with the other 2 while one was getting the tests done. They are so playful! It was so much fun to watch them interact with the trainer and each other. We saw a few tricks towards the end, but they don't do 'shows' there. It's a teaching center, so they don't believe in making them do shows. But they did a few tricks and exercised with them, which was really cool on its own. The other part they have is a habitat for tigers, lions, and leopards. It's pretty cool. We had so much fun, it was so nice and relaxing. We spent a couple hours there it was really cool he took me to do something that I didn't even know we had here! hehe. After we left, we went to the New York-New York and rode the roller coaster. Ugghhh my tummy gets such butterflies from rollercoasters but it was soooo fun. I had a really goofy look on my face on the picture. But the day was so nice I have the best fiance ever! He takes such good care of me =]

Ground Fighting

So last night I went to class and towards the end we did some ground fighting. I've never done any of this stuff before so when Bobby explained something once and then said 'go' I was like 'umm... what???'. I'm so used to having set forms of this move comes after this move, that him saying 'start here and then somehow get to here, whatever you want inbetween' was beyond me in comprehending what I was supposed to do. Sparring is SO different from this. The goal in sparring is to stay away from someone and you can't hold them, so it's like you just kick them away. Easy peasy... well, ground fighting techniques go against everything I've been trained to do for the past 8 years. So I was paired with Brandy, and she's done some cage fighting, plus she's great at sparring in the first place so I'm like great, just get to be the rag doll for her. haha. So Bobby showed us some stuff and then had us practice and holy crap! It was SO hard! I was breathing all heavy and sweating and yuck. I have absolutely no upper body strength, and when someone is on top of you, you gotta use your arms. So I have Bobby on the side of me saying 'get your arms out' pssshhh, easier said then done. But it honestly was a really cool experience. Just the high you get from trying to get away from someone holding you is almost enjoyable. lol. It sounds weird I'm sure, but it was really cool. When your doing it you don't really think about what your doing, you just do it. Like, I know you aren't supposed to plan out what your going to do when you spar, but once you spar someone and they do the same thing a couple of times you figure them out, so you know what you have to do to get a point. In this, there's no pre planning you gotta just go, or you are gonna fail. I'm so not the type of person to be agressive. Even in sparring, I'm always the one to sit and just react to the other person. I don't have it in me to be the agressor most of the time, and I think that maybe this ground fighting thing might help that a bit. Overall I had a lot of fun and learned some new stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to do more in the future. Although, my arms are BURNING today!! Guess I better get some muscles up there... heh.
♥CP

Hey batter batter....

Saturday, Bobby's demo team performed before the start of the LV 51's Baseball game. They did so amazing! We had so much fun. It was a really great night for a game, the weather was absolutely perfect! A lot of people from the studio came and watched and it was fun to have that karate family feel. Stephanie and Justin came and brought Stephie's parent's. It was nice to meet them. But I was really glad that some of my friends even actually came! Everyone my age is out partying and clubbing on the weekends, so the last place they want to be is at a Baseball game. Lisa and Greg came and brought Ryan, Noah, Thomas, Brandy and Chris and we had a fun time. Ryan kept running back and forth between where we were sitting and Grandma, who was about 8 rows down. He was sure a monkey! Everything went great until the fireworks came. Ryan, is not a fan of loud noises. It just so happened to be right after the tennis ball thing where everyone throws their tennis ball on to the field, and who ever got closest to the shirt won a prize, and Ryan wanted a Tennis ball. He had my hand and was pulling me down to the bottom of the bleachers because he wanted me to go get him a tennis ball... and that's when they turned out the lights. I reached down to grab him and before I could he was already jumping in my arms, as the first set of fireworks had gone off. He stared screaming crying... I felt so bad. So I rushed out to the front where the fireworks were less frightening. We had to stand under the front entrance, he wanted nothing to do with the 'pretties' as he called them. Poor kid. 4th of July is going to be fun this year.... Regardless, we had a great time at the game. Even though the 51's lost.


I think the mascot is an alien...



Ryan playing camera man.

Justin and his cooool 51's hat

Daddy and Ryan playing

Lisa and Greg