Piccadilly Palare

Last night Jason invited me to go see "Sweet and Tender Hooligans" with him at The House of Blues! It is a Smiths/Morrissey cover band and they are amazing! Just like being with the real man! I've seen them one other time but tonight was really good. Everyone dresses "Rock-a-Billy" for these shows now, so I thought I'd get in the spirit and I did my best with what I had....I even tried to pull off the red lips.....yikes.




All I had was my camera phone...sorry....


Am I too old for this pose?

This made me very nostalgic for "the good ole' days" when jason and I used to go to concerts and shows. For those of you who dont know Jason, (who doesn't?) he was Adams best friend in High School but I came and took over that position when Adam left HB for school and mish. I got mad at Jason last night because someone called and he was like, "I'm with Marissa, you know Adam's sister". I told him I think I have earned the right to be known as my own entity by now! Anyways, Jason has been my morrissey cohort for 20 years (yikes!) so I thought I'd post some pics of us!

I think i was like 14 here! Our first concert together!

Partners in crime always.

I think I pull off the blond here quite nicely...

So three things I learned last night...
1. Oh how I love my jason
2. I need to go see more live shows
3. I should never wear red lipstick

We went to the park next to my mom's house for the Egg Hunt
since no one has a backyard.... :( But it was still tons of fun!


On your marks......get set........GO!!!!

Hurrying to find them before the sun goes down!



Three Lovely Ladies!

Easter Dinner/Brunch!

the set up .... and delish brunch!

Two tables full of fabulous family! :)

Baca and Benny Boy

Our Masterpieces!

As always, decorating eggs is a good time....
And no one even spilled on their Easter Clothes!

The Easter Fashion Show

My little Shell-Belle

My little man

Mini-Me Avalon

I loved my dress so I'm posting it :)

oh that Benny boy....

Kimmy wanted to take London on a date night to Disneyland so we got to babysit my little man-cub. Oh, how I love this boy....

Rawrrr....

Look at those chompers! (and sweet drool necklace...)

Such cuties!

Papa's Funeral

Last weekend we headed to Green River Utah to say goodbye to our beloved Papa. He is an amazing man who brought joy and love to many peoples lives! We were joined by family and friends from all over to celebrate this amazing mans life and as always we had a great time together! After the funeral we played some basketball, hung out at pat and kathy's danced and shared some great memories....thanks for being the head of such an amazing family Papa! :)

oh that girl....

So, i was in the car with cashel tonight and I was drinking a Pepsi because I was having major migraine issues today. Anyways, this is our convo...

Cashel: "why are you drinking a Pepsi?"
Me: "it's cause I have a headache!"
"oh, so pepsi is your medicine?"
"that's right!"
"Well why do you drink coke? Coke does not make you skinny."
"You saying I'm fat?"
"Well, a little..."
"who told you coke makes you fat?"
"oh, my head just thought of it"

I guess I need to hide my vices a little better....or lose 20 pounds so my 4 year old will lay off me....

The actual Birthday!!!

Sorry this one is slow...I was trying to post it for like an hour last night but blog wouldn't let me post pics...anyways...this is Avalon's actual birthday on Tuesday March 4th! She had a great day and then that night Rico, I and the kids took her to her fav, Souplantation! They had all their special creations and opened her family gifts!

11 and I'm giving her pills to stop her from aging any more...
(gotta love how kobe's finger is in there)

The famous candygram...like I said to my siblings...DON'T start this tradition...I don't know how mom did it for 7 kids for 30+ years! She is amazing!

Pig-out time!!!

They mainly come here for noodles in ranch which I make for dinner sometimes for like $2.37 but for some reason it's better tasting at a restaurant, go figure....

The second...Family Party!

We celebrated Avalon's Birthday with my family on Thursday night! Avalon requested Mimi's Chicken Divan and it was sooo good! I made a Jack Sparrow cake for her which was sweet if i do say so myself... She got Guitar Hero for her bday so we spent the rest of the night playing that and High School Musical "Sing it"! Some good times right there... Thank you all who came and celebrated with us!