Clean Carpets from ChemDry

Well this blog in no way can compete with all the cute pictures of everyones kids but we have been M.I.A. from blogging for so long I thought I should post something so everyone knows were all alive, well and fine :)

Charlie has been working for a carpet cleaning company called Chemdry for..over 6 months now i think! I have been bugging him to come and clean our carpets ever since he started working there and he finally had a chance to come and do it! It was good timing because of flu season (which we are trying to avoid getting) i think it was good to get all the dust and junk up from the carpet. I was good and actually got some action shots of Charlie working hard. He is good and got up all of our traffic marks and mysterious spots. It only took him an hour and me and Johnson were helpers. I also took the opportunity to try to totally rearrange the apartment.



I lied a little bit about Johnson helping, he was actually kind of freaked out but got over it quick enough.




He worked really hard and was a good sport about me taking all the pictures ;)








Great shot of our TV we got for Christmas!! THANK YOU KATHY AND RICH!!!!





Thank you Charlie!!

Christmas time in NY

We ventured to NY on Christmas night to spend a few days with Charlie's family.

His generous parents gave each couple an ipad! We were beyond excited, but we traded it in for a 42' LCD flatscreen HD (is that all of the key words :) TV!!!! We have been using donated box tv's for many o'years now so we were extremely excited.

I took a few of these pictures off of Erin's blog because I am so forgetful about taking any photos anymore...THANKS ERIN!


Whole family, minus Johnson



We did the white elephant present exchange again this year. Charlie and I picked Spam and Sardines as the gag gift, we were pretty excited when Richie went first and chose our gifts because we thought he would appreciate them the most :)
When it was time for Charlie to chose he probably picked the perfect gift which was a subway giftcard (his favorite) and a personal enema to go along with it! HA!

Hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday.

Dana Point Sport Fishing

A group of us has had a groupon to go sport fishing at Dana Point for a while so last Sunday we finally made the reservations and went! Kevin came down to join us and we left the dock around 12:45pm. What they failed to mention on the phone when we were making our reservations was that there was a "Kids Clinic" that would be on our boat. We were a little discouraged at first but we posted up at a spot on the front of the boat and everything turned out fine! The kids turned out to be pretty entertaining until they started to catch more fish then us..

Niki was pretty camera happy in the beginning :) That's why there are some shots where we seemed unprepared..I was happy that she did take the pictures though because everyone else is so bad about recording stuff like this!

We had a good time on the boat, had some good food and drinks BUT due to the fact that we had red tide here last week, it really hurt our fishing. I did catch one fish that was maaaybe 6 inches and looked like a rock fish. Most of what we were catching was mackerel. Kevin did really good and got 5-6. Charlie caught a few, Miguel caught one and i think my cousin caught one too. There wasn't a lot of biting going on. It was a great to cruise around on the boat though! The weather was beautiful and we all got nice tans. After our adventure we topped off fishing with dinner at Joe's Crab Shack (it only seemed appropriate). We all wanted fish but since none of us caught anything worth eating we had to get our fix some where!










And if any of you are still worried about how Johnson is adjusting just look at these pictures..They should put your worries to ease..If anything I SHOULD be the one worried..

5 Years And Eggplant Parmesan

Well on September 29th Charlie and I celebrated 5 years of our relationship. We are both just blown away out how time is flying. And surprised how happy we still are together :)

Kathy recently sent us Grandma Psillo's Eggplant Parm recipe and that has always been one of my favorite dishes so we had to make it as soon as possible. Unfortunately on the actual day of our anniversary I was on a juice fast SO we cooked it the next day instead :) We exchanged some gifts on our anniversary and had a relaxing evening together. I got Charlie the latest surf DVD he had been talking about, surf magazine, and a book on CD. He got me a shakeweight which i was very excited about (corny and tacky but still fun) and a target giftcard. He did good :) The next night we made bruschetta and eggplant parmesan which turned out EXCELLENT! I was so impressed with ourselves. He did most of the cooking though :) i just helped with the preparation.

We started our dinner with a delightful appetizer, bruschetta, this is the first time we have tried to make it but it is soo good! We probably could have eaten just that for dinner..with rojo vino of course :)



Here are some pictures of Charlie frying our eggplant! He is a pretty good chef and although doesn't do it too much, enjoys cooking!





And then our finished product..






I couldn't be more grateful to have him in my life. I appreciate so much of the things he does for me, most of the time he doesn't realize just how good he is. I love you Charles Michael Psillos and can't wait for our next anniversary :)

Also, Thank you Grandma Psillos for the recipe's!!!!!

"Conan" and our trip to LA

My friends are huge fans of the late night show "Conan." He has been around for a while, The Tonight Show and then recently (with much controversy) he started his own show. Although he has been around a while we never watch any of those late night shows, especially since we haven't had cable for about a year ( WHICH BY THE WAY!!! Charlie and I just got! He wanted to watch football..) so we were really out of touch with the TV world. Any who, our friends signed up to try and win tickets and a few months low and behold we won four tickets! We went last Thursday, took the day off of school and Charlie was able to get the day off and headed up to Burbank to watch the live recording of the show! We werent sure what to expect and if it would be a pain to get there but it was actually really easy and well organized. We even hit no LA traffic and got there early!




So Niki and Miguel came up the night before to play sequence and make dinner! It was great fun as usual. Oh yes and I did dye my hair purple, but dont fret it is only semi permanent :)

The next morning we had a lot of fun getting ready. I forgot what it was like getting ready with a girlfriend and not a boy! I love my Charlie but he won't let me do his hair (sometimes) or put make up on him ;)




We only took pictures of going up, none of us thought to take any while we were there, nearby the studio or anything. Plus you couldn't bring out your cell phones on the studios so this is all we got!

Charlie took that picture of me and Niki and said something that obviously sort of pissed me off, something along the lines of "your smiling too hard" and as I started to roll my eyes he shot the picture but he loved it so I kept it.





After we went to the film studio we went to the Chinese Theatre and saw all the kooks dressed up in costumes who hassle the tourist and take pictures with them for money. Probably would have been some great shots but we didn't get any. For dinner we went to Planet Hollywood and paid a fortune for burgers and atmosphere!! It was still fun but THAT was a one time deal for all of us.

Homecoming Greetings

This is a little video snipit of charlie coming home from work and johnson greeting him. Johnson seems to be enjoying his retirement in California. It is hard to tell who is happier to see whom? BTW Charlie's hair is so long..

Some random shots

I have this project in an Earth Science class where we are suppose to take sunset pictures and monitor the movement of the sun...Just a good excuse to take some pretty pictures and walk Johnson on the beach :)









Check ou that tongue!