Sweet, sweet Jazzy

As mentioned in the post by Brooke, Jazzy made a visit to the Portland area. I guess this was her first big trip and we were glad to have her!!! Kevin was even excited!! Here she is on her first visit to Aunt Martha and Uncle Kevin's house. Very thrilled by it as you can see.

We went back to Mom's hotel and visited in the lobby before going out to dinner. This was also very exciting for her.

She got a new outfit from her Aunt Martha she can't wait show off! (Zachary, I think that she is hoping you don't end up with something like this! Beware when you come to visit!)

But really this is why she loves her Auntie! What a great sedative she is. You can tell because Jazzy is sleeping in all the pictures!!! Honestly, she was awake for part of the trip!!!

But this is the reason that Jazzy was able to sleep so well. She knew her cousin Mookie was on the job. Making sure that is was safe for her to sleep.

Can't wait to see Jazzy again when Kevin and I go up to Seattle for his company Super Bowl party. Maybe I will get some pictures of Jazzy with her eyes open?!?

Jazzy meets Martha/Kevin

I was in Portland for a showcase college tournament and had the priviledge of being with Martha & Kevin for Sat. and Sun. They did a big favor of watching Jazzy while I was coaching and we had a great time getting together for lunches and dinners. I only have one photo, so Martha will have to upload hers that she took.

Thanks for watching her and it was great to see you guys!!

A special visitor

Zachary had a special visitor today.


Uncle Kyle and Auntie Teri came to watch Z at his gym class. We all had fun jumping around on the play mats. Then we went to dinner at Taco Cabana. We were even able to take a group picture.

It's Swim Time!

Zachary started his swim lessons again today. He was a bit hesitant at first, but quickly warmed up to the idea. It wasn't hard to warm up since the water was a steamy 90 degrees. Mommy took pictures because she had another fertility surgery. We are having so much fun with Z, we decided that he needs sibling.


Here is a video as well. Samantha was sitting outside the pool area, so the conversations you are hearing are from the other observers.

So needless to say we have been a little bit behind on posting to nakedturkey. We didn't technically get any pics of the "turkeys" that we had during thanksgiving. And yes we had turkeys, multiple turkeys thanks to the kind people at Kroger that give free turkeys to everybody that is a card member. We ended up eating two of them then and another two at Christmas. Terri and I also had to work non-stop throughout the holidays, this is of course one of the wonderful bonuses with working in retail.

Now that the holidays have passed I get to have multiple vacations over the course of the next month or so. I will be heading out to NC next Friday, and may be taking a trip down to San Antonio before I leave for NC. I hope that everybody had a fantastic time during their holidays, and I'm anticipating seeing everyone early on in the new year. Terri and I will also be heading out to Seattle for our visit of Brooke, Rich, and Jazzy in February. We are also looking to do a little snowboarding and use some of the 6 weeks of paid time off that I have accrued. Miss all of you and love you lots...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Here's to a Happy New Year to all!! With much prosperity, health and love!
Ours started out the same ole way. Kevin snoring the New Year away.

For Martha though, the day ended right...

the bottom of the champagne bottle is clearly in sight!!

The week in review.....

Kevin and Martha learned how to use public transportation this week. Due to the snow comet that hit (see earlier post), we sunny Californians didn't feel safe driving. So we took the Max train into downtown where Kevin was able to walk to work. Martha had to take a bus to her office, and on Monday, she had to walk up the hill in the snow because the bus couldn't get up it since there were two buses broken down at the bottom. Tuesday she had to wait almost half an hour for the bus to even come. Wednesday, Kevin brought her home some snow boots!! Yay!!

Monday I took a few pictures of my cubicle it all it's Christmas finery. And do you know that I didn't get a single hippo for Christmas?!? Had to buy them all myself!! Probably a good thing I didn't get any more. Some day I will take a picture of the awesome Swatch hippo watch I found a few months ago!! So me!!

That's the lyrics for the song that are on the poster. Just in case anyone wanted to sing to me!

This hippo head is actually attached to a body, it hung so nicely over my cubicle wall though. Alas, it is on loan and will have to be returned when I take the decorations down...

On Monday, when I took these pictures, I was one of about 9 people that came in to an office that is usually filled with about 85 - 90 people. Got in about 8:45 and then got a ride home with someone who was brave enough to drive. We left about two and when I got home, I discovered that the lights were out!! The went out sometime Monday morning and were out until sometime Tuesday morning. So we took the mattress off the guest bed and slept in front of the fireplace. Here is an exciting picture of it below......

Okay, I took one with the flash on too, but it doesn't look like the lights are out in that one!!! Kevin said that it was the best night's sleep he's had in a long time!! We somehow managed to have hot water on Tuesday morning so I took a shower, but I got out of the shower and could see my breath it was so darned cold!! That's just wrong!! Plus I had to dry my hair by the heat of the fire. So I had a REALLY bad hair day!! Had several people tell me that my hair was...flat.

So, somehow we muddled through and made it to Christmas. We just had a couple of small gifts for each other as we both were going to have Friday off and planned to hit the after Christmas sales.

I got a Life Is Good shirt and some socks!! Mookie checked it out and approved. It has a dog on it so it's all good!!

As it turned out, both of us ended up having to work on Friday what with missing so much work and other people not being able to make it in. So we hit the mall on Friday night and then went out again on Saturday morning. I made quite a haul!!! Have been doing laundry ever since we got home Saturday to get all the stuff clean.

Back to work tomorrow, and then we are expecting Kevin's nephew Chris, and his wife Ashley to come up from Redding, CA on Wednesday to celebrate New Years!! I hope that they are able to get over the mountain passes and all the snow to get up here. Once they get here, there should be no problem. Believe it or not, almost all of our snow has now melted away........