Sunday, December 26, 2010

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve day, Ben & Kimberly came home earlier in the afternoon, just hung out at the house. That evening,we went to a beautiful Christmas Eve service, came home, had dinner and took family pictures, which is a Christmas Eve tradition, but as you can see nobody takes it seriously.
So "Hey, everyone Merry Christmas!"




Kevin and his girlfriend, Candace. Kevin really has a nice smile...he really does!

The newlyweds, Ben & Kimberly.

Both couples, prom pose.

Tom & me, another prom pose.

Me & my kids, Kevin & Kimberly

Kevin & Tom acting tough.





Then we opened presents!





Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from the Verkaik family!


Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The Invasion of the Bird!

Last week records were being made by all the rainfall we received in Southern California. Tom put in over 70 hours in four days! It was insane! The other night, I heard some noise outside the front door, I looked out the peep hole and saw Tom come up the sidewalk. So I opened up the door and a bird flew in the house. I let out a scream and slammed the door on Tom! I grabbed my camera and started to video. I don't know who was more scared, me or the bird!









Monday, December 20, 2010

I'm Gonna Do This! I really am!

Ok. I can't believe it's been almost a year since I've blogged. When I started blogging, I hesitated to start, because I didn't want to do what I just did this past year! Not blog! Well, I'm going to try it again. Can I catch up? We'll see! I'm not going to hold back! Stay tune! See if I remember how to do all this...

Thursday, August 26, 2010

To Be Continued...

I realized it's been almost a year since I blogged & so much has gone in my life (not exciting enough for a reality TV show) but it's been a biggy!! I hope to catch up year's worth of blogs, just for my sake. I could care less what everybody else thinks!!!! Give me time!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

St. Lucia Jan 20 Day 1

Our first day really began the night before. We headed out to LAX on Tuesday, the 19th of January around 7 o’clock. We had a tremendous amount of rain that day but it cleared up in the evening, so it was a good trip to LAX. We had a lot of time since our flight didn’t leave until 11:30 that night. We found a Chilis and had a couple of drinks and chips & salsa. Perfect way to start relaxing!!! The flight was good, but long and we didn’t sleep very real, especially Tom.

We arrived in Miami around 7:30 in the morning. We had a couple hour layover, got a light breakfast and coffee.
We boarded the plane on time, had a good catnap and arrived in St. Lucia at 2:30 in the afternoon. The air was warm and heavy, but not unbearable. We went thru customs and decided to take a helicopter ride to the resort.
The ride was amazing and fast. It was a 15 minute ride to the resort area, by car about two hours!!!.




We took a taxi to the hotel and our vacation finally arrived! We were greeted in a beautiful lobby with champagne and a cool towel to cool us off! We booked a couple of dinner reservations and photo shoot and were shown our room. We got a room with a balcony, which overlooks the pool area and the Caribbean ocean. The room was great and we couldn’t wait to kick it and lay down for a while. We were also given a whole bottle of champagne and some cheese and crackers – it was perfect!
We had to wait for our luggage because it arrived by car from the airport. Soon it was here, we changed our clothes, walked around a little bit. We enjoyed an amazing sunset and ended up going to an English Pub, had a great dinner. I had mahi, mahi, Tom had a pork roast, dessert buffet, we were stuffed and exhausted. We soon fell asleep around 8 o’clock!




I was really looking forward to this week!

Monday, January 18, 2010

St. Lucia - Here We Come!!!




bags are packed
been tanning
got pedicure
nails are done
oh, yah, lost about 30 lbs...

...I'm so ready for St. Lucia!!!!!

Friday, January 8, 2010

Christmas Day 2009

One Christmas Day we had Rog, Glenda, Isaac, my mother-in-law, and our friend, Steve Aranda over for a Christmas Brunch. I made all the food, including Mimosas!! Yumm. It was a very relaxing morning that quickly rolled into the afternoon. Ben came over later on and opened a few presents. We drew names and had to get a gift that started with the first letter of that person's name. So Ben got a "Blaster"!


It was a marshmallow blaster!


Of course, we have to give it a try...




How about taking it outside!



I gave Ben & Kimberly, private dancing lessons at a dance studio, here in Redlands, called, "Shake It Up!"


I also gave Ben a photo book on the night they went to the Laker game.



Later on that evening, we did Rock Band...notice the concentration...



more concentration....


It was a great day! Until next year! Merry Christmas!

It's Been A While... Christmas Eve 2009