Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Wrap Party!!!

So for those of you Facebooker's, you saw my post when I was "wrapped".  I lost two inches and posted my before and after pics.  Even if it was a "placebo" (for you non-believers), I felt better about myself after it.

Sooo, who wants to join me for a wrap party?!  I'll provide healthy snacks and water (b/c you are supposed to drink LOTS of it) and we can get our wrap on.  Message me at Alikat717@aol.com if you want to come!

Here are my before and after pics:

Before Wrap

After wrap
You can see I don't look much smaller, but it does tighten you up.  I loved it and am ready for more....so who's in with me?

Monday, July 16, 2012

Cali Part Deux....

Ok, so back to the story....

Ah yes, the photoshoot on the way home from Sam's birthday celebration!  So I decided to take advantage of these two awesome photographers, and I put them on the other side of the lens in their intoxicated state.  I had "scoped" out our location, and knew exactly where I wanted to put them.  First stop, the headless toy soldiers....

Toy Soldier Sam

Toy Soldier Keith
From there, we went to meet Mr. Viking (whom I had posed with earlier that day, but Keith has those photos and I don't know how to convert them to put on here...sorry guys!):

Sam likes the sword....

Vogue shot?  Giggles shot?  Who knows....

I thought our next stop was going to be the vineyards, but we stumbled upon some Chinese lions that I felt were necessary to our photoshoot.  Did I mention that my husband acts like a little kid when he's drinking?  As you will soon see, these lions/dragons are on what I think are someone's front porch, and I had to keep reminding Keith to be quiet for this shot, as he continued yelling some non-sense (that wasn't important or made sense, so I can't even recall what he was talking about)...

I think Keith's mad at me for making him be quiet?
Now, on to the vineyards.  Who goes to wine country without having photo shoots in the vineyards?  Not these guys! I wanted one on each side of the vines, but they like each other so much, it was hard to separate them:

Sam's Vogue shot...Keith, that is not a serious face!

Why are you always grabbing the wood? :P
The serious one...love you guys, lol!


After I finally got them to move deeper into the vineyard, it was time for the jump shots.  You guys have NO idea how hard it is for two giggly boys to jump at the same time!  The first jump shot I said, "Alright, jump on three.  One. Two. Three!"  This is the result:

Keith, excellent work.  Sam totally missed the que!
So after missing the que to jump, Sam requests that I count to 5, but they will jump on 3 and I will snap the photo on 5.  Here is how that turns out:

Too slow, boys.
Sam's next idea is to count to 6 this time, it's the best version we got....but these boys can't jump:

I give up...
The vineyards were very close to our hotel, and our hotel offered yet more photography greatness.  This time, a windmill was our backdrop.  We quickly realized that you couldn't really get in the windmill, but that was going to stop my ninja hubby:

His mission was to get inside the windmill

I think he's using the windmill to hold himself up...maybe?

Maybe the windmill isn't a great photo opp

Cheeeeeeese!  He came down with spider webs and dirt all over him.




The main office is right behind the windmill.  Little did we know that someone was actually working in there! 
hello Mr. Kronborg desk man

You see, the night before Sam left his hotel key in his room while we all went to see Prometheus.  Long story short, no one was working in the office at 3AM when we got back to the hotel.  So Sam calls the emergency number in the event that no one is at the front desk, and the dude that answered ended up giving him a crap story about programming Sam's room key from his home.  Yeah right!  Sam ended up with a master key to the hotel!  Can you guess what happens when a drunk birthday boy has a master key? 




Once we got to the car, we headed to Jack in the Box for some late night munchies.  We took Sam's car, and I was driving (obviously!).  Sam tried to give Keith the front seat but Keith denied.  It went something like this:

Sam: Keith, take the front seat.
Keith:  No
Sam:  Why not?
Keith:  B/c.  You are the owner of the vehicle.

Gotta love drunken reasoning!  There was some confidential discussions amongst our "Triangle of Trust" on this journey, but we finally made it to our destination and back home again.

We headed back to our room to dine, where Sam enjoyed a single bite of his Sourdough Jack before he started falling asleep in the lazy boy.  We walked Sam back to his room, all said our "I love you" and "Goodnight" and "Happy Birthday!" and ended our crazy Friday in Solvang.

Stay tuned for Part Tres of this crazy fun Cali adventure!!!  ;0)

xoxo,
Ali