The 70s Are Back

This past Saturday, Cameron, Matt, Lynde and I celebrated the 30th Birthdays of some of our skydiving friends. The theme of the party was the 70s since the 3 birthday kids were born in 1978. Earlier in the week the four of us headed to a shop called PreVues in downtown Sac to find our outfits. Here are some pictures from the party that night. Enjoy!

Cameron and I in What Lynde termed "Authentic 70s" I had to make a few alterations to the dress before the party, as the halter was meant for someone with very large Breasts. Don't you just love Cameron's wig?!

Matt & Lynde in what Lynde termed "Costume 70s". Great wigs too!

Lynde & Myself

Our Friend Ryan had on almost the same jacket as Cameron. He got his from his girlfriend's father! Candy informed me that her mom gave it to her still in the plastic cover.

Love Always,

Sarah

Changes

Just as the weather is changing, I decided it was time for a change of my own. Cameron recently mentioned that he was curious what I would look like with brown hair. I’ve never been one to be afraid of taking chances with my hair, as I can always change it back or it will grow back, so I agreed that I would give brown a try. I also was tired of how long my hair had grown in anticipation of the wedding, so on a recent weekend I made the trek up to Chico to see Martin and make some changes to my hair. What do you think?

Before: Blonde and long

After: Brown and short


Cameron and everyone else that has seen it, likes it a lot. Initially, I was in shock and did notice how blue my eyes looked. But as time has gone by and even as the color has lightened up, I’ve decided Brown is not for me. I was so worried Cameron would not like it I never stopped to think if I would like it, and it turns out I don’t. I’m just not feeling the brunette in me – it makes me feel old and I’m not ready to be as old as it makes me feel. So I will be returning to blonde the next time I see Martin – which isn’t until Thanksgiving.

Love always,

Sarah

Go Sharks!

Photo Courtest of http://sharks.nhl.com/index.html

Hockey season is officially underway! Last night the Sharks won their season opener against their rival, the Anaheim Ducks 4-1. A great start for new head coach, Todd McLellan, who comes off of a Stanley Cup win last year as an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings. You can see a difference with the Sharks already - they're definitely more aggressive.

Cameron and I were lucky enough to catch parts of the game last night. Unfortunately, we missed Cheechoo's two goals in the second period due to our DVR schedule.

We became Sharks fans while we lived in Fremont. When Cameron was at Synnex, he was lucky enough to win tickets every so often, and we would get to watch the games from the rafters in one of the private suites. After Cameron left Synnex, we didn't go much until playoffs last year. Our friend Pat was fortunate to win tickets through his work and was kind enough to take us to two amazing playoff games. Being able to go to the games on a whim will be one reason we will miss the Bay Area - we'll have to adjust watching games on TV, but it's just not the same as seeing it all live. Guess we'll have to plan to go to a few games over the season on weekends.

Go Sharks!

Love Always,

Sarah

Giant Pumpkins

This weekend did not go as I had planned, but in a very good way. Originally, I was supposed to clean the house. Lately I’ve either been too tired or too busy to maintain its cleanliness that things have been slipping.

But Friday I read about the Elk Grove Harvest Festival and it’s Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off in the SacBee. This piqued my interest and so I thought it would be fun to check it out Saturday morning before going home and dealing with the house. Saturday morning I talked to Cameron about it. We then called Matt & Lynde to see if they wanted to go as well. They were on board, although Lynde had to go to work first. So Matt, Cameron and I headed to Elk Grove Park and wandered around, taking in the weigh-off while waiting for Lynde. I created a slide show of the pics I took. You should see them to the left. Here's the winning pumpkin and it's weight.

We learened that the Giant Pumpkin seeds can cost anywhere from $350 to $1000 each and while we thought there would be tons of them in each pumpkin, there usually are only about 15-20 seeds. There is definitely some money to be made if you master the art of growing giant pumpkins, especially if you have the largest one year. All these Giant Pumpkins were set to be carved and floated along the park river the next day for the Giant Pumpkin Regatta. I would have loved to see this, but I was just too tired after the Saturday we had.

After the festival we were all hungry so we decided to have lunch at the Elk Grove Brewery. We had some delicious chili-cheese-garlic fries, huge beer-battered onion rings and sandwiches or burgers as well as sampled the Diamondback Wheat beer. Everything was great and we will definitely be going back – though not too often as it wasn’t the healthiest meal we’ve had lately.

Before we knew it, it was 4:30 and we were tired. Plain and simple, Cameron and I headed home and crashed. After our long catnap, Cameron did some schoolwork before we headed to Matt & Lynde’s for movie night. We watched I AM LEGEND and Alien Versus Predator 2. We didn’t get home until late and yet Cameron still came home and did more homework.

As for me, no housework got done on Sunday either. Cameron, as usual, was locked up in his office working on schoolwork, minus the door knob. He plans to take the door knob from the spare room and put it on his office door since we do need a way to protect Spaz from the cats at night. So far, all is ok, as the cats are spending the nights curled up on our bed with us rather than wandering the house getting into mischief. Jake is aware that he can simply push the door open, but he only does it when Cameron is in there and he wants attention.

Love Always,
Sarah

Cheap Door knob!

Yesterday I went up to talk to Cameron in his office several times. Each time, I found it harder and harder to turn the knob and enter the room, to the point where I almost slammed by body into the door on accident when the door didn’t open as expected. After Cameron jokingly asked if I was having issues, he admitted the door knob has been sticking.

Now I often say to people when they call and ask what we are up to that Cameron is locked up in his office working or doing homework. This has been ever more the truth since he started his last class. Last night, after getting home from watching Iron Man at Matt & Lynde’s, Cameron went back into the office to do some more homework, while I settled into bed and watched some TV. It was getting late and figuring Cameron had more homework than he had anticipated, I turned the TV and lights off, rolled over and was just about to close my eyes to drift off to dreamland when I heard Cameron call for me. I replied and he asked me to come look at something in the office. This is what I saw as I turned the corner to get there:


The door knob finally gave out completely! Luckily Cameron had a screw driver in the office so he was able to get the knob part off, but he was having issues seeing and figuring out the latch hardware. Once I turned the hall light on for him, he was able to see better and was out in no time. I have to admit I laughed until I cried I found the situation so hilarious. Cameron not so much and I know he’s going to kill me for posting this story on here, but it was just too funny not to share – it wasn’t anything he did, it was just a cheap door knob and he got himself out – I wouldn’t have been able to do that by myself and I probably wouldn’t have had a screwdriver around to get me as far as he did before calling for help.

Love you sweetie!

As for the movie Iron Man, I wasn’t impressed. One, it was a little too much like Transformers at the end, and I think Transformers was a much better movie. Two, I knew who the villain was within the opening sequences so nothing surprised me.

Love always,
Sarah