Wacky Fun and Uncontrollable Laughter

June is a birthday month for many in our family, so what better way to celebrate than with hibachi, sushi, drinks and a group of my favorite people.

Some serious Saki action going on here.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD, MELISSA, JASON AND DEVIN!!

Mother's Day 2012

We all had a wonderful Mother's Day in Stillwater, MN. We had brunch at Water Street Inn and went shopping for the afternoon.  Great time spent with family.

 

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOM, Love you so much

Flower Bouquet for Spring

Katie and Dom Kahl moved into their new home in Minnetonka MN. Devin and I were invited over to see the new home and enjoy a wonderful evening grilling food and catching up. I wanted to bring something special to brighten up their new home. I was able to find these beautiful flowers to put in a martini glass and added some lemon to freshen up the look.

HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE!

Dollar Bill Flower Bouquet

My Grandma was celebrating her 75th Birthday and I wanted to put together something unique for her present. This year I gave her money to spend on our girls day out in Minneapolis. I found this great way to make flowers with dollar bills and since spring was finally approaching, a flower bouquet was just perfect!

If you like this idea visit this website for easy instructions on how to recreate these neat little dollar bill flowers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tAKFUkRaDw

A Day to Celebrate Grammy's 75th Birthday

I spent this wonderful sunny Friday with my sister, mom and grandma in Minneapolis for a girls day out. We celebrated my Grandma's 75th birthday!  My grandma and sister had makeovers done at Mac at Nordstrom's in the Mall of America. Thanks Amanda, the girls did such a great job!  We had lunch at Crave in Edina and finished the day with some shopping.

 Just Beautiful Mel

Happy Birthday Grammy

Dollar Bill flower boquet

Murder Mystery Party-Happy Birthday Julie!!!

As many of you probably already know, I love games,competitions and Winning! ....So I was more than excited when I received an invitation to Julie's Birthday celebration and it was a Murder Mystery party.  
We had been assigned our characters, found the most fabulous costume to come to the party in, and were ready to play our characters.  Once we all arrived to the party we began to mingle around in our characters. The first round we were given an envelope and inside was a card with clues necessary to play our characters. During the investigation round it was very important to ask the right questions to the right characters and listen carefully to each clue in order to solve the mystery. The clue cards gave us certain ways to act toward each other and what we could reveal or not reveal in conversation. It was a very fun night, Only 3 of us guessed the correct murderer... Bameril Lacrosse-Chris.

The Abby Manor Masquerade Ball

 Dolly Dee-Julie, Yuna Verz-Raha, Mag Niffie-Erin, Jackie T. Pressen-Chantel, Pepper Keegrip-Danielle, Blondie Fawn-Jackie, Roxie Rich-Kristine, Cha-Cha Merengue-Katie, Pawnie McQueen-Tiffany, Jamie Bond-Cecile

Sherlock Tracy-Shane, Bameril Lacrosse-Chris, Cheque Penne- C.J., Bryan Seafoam-Devin, Mike Robes-Robby, Bill Shananagan-Dom, Luke Fude-Clint, Tele N. Eve-John

Mingling with the other characters of the evening.

 And then the murder happened, sorry Sherlock Tracy but no one liked you anyways....

Cha -Cha Merengue showing the group how to Cha-Cha 

 Thanks to the hosts of the evening. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIE!

Perfect Bliss for a week

Devin and I planned a week away from the freezing state of Minnesota February 11th-18th 2012. When we left the temp. was 10 degrees. Of coarse there were difficulties at the airport as usual for the Faschingbauer family. Our plane was delayed 3 different times due to technical difficulties with the plane, we pulled out and pulled back into the airport 3 times and never did take off. After 3 hours waiting in the airport and $200.00 vouchers we finally took off heading to the beautiful Carlsbad, CA.

When we arrived in our amazing condo looking out over the ocean, we were greeted with a wonderful gift basket full of delicious fruits and snacks for the week from my wonderful Aunt Debbie. The bed also had this cute little kissing bird/towel made up. What a great way to start the vacation.

Carlsbad Inn Beach Resort on the San Diego Coast

 We started out our first day in California-Sunday at the cute little cafe near our condo THE DAILY NEWS. The breakfast was phenomenal, we had more than enough to fill us up.

We spent the day driving up the coast to La Jolla and Coronado. We stopped at a couple of the small towns along the way to check out the shopping and beautiful views. In La Jolla we took a cave tour along the ocean.

           Walking on the boardwalk along the ocean in La Jolla

We had dinner this evening at Fresco's, a quaint Italian restaurant in Carlsbad.

 We were so surprised to get a knock at the door and these beautiful flowers show up. Thank you Aunt Debbie for a Valentines Day surprise.

 We spent the morning on Valentines Day walking through Carlsbad Village, looking in all the little shops and art galleries.

 Devin surprised me with a wine tasting tour up the coast for the day. We took the Carlsbad coaster with a group of fifteen others to all the little wineries along the coast up to San Diego.

 The first winery was a cozy little place about a block away from our condo Witch Creek Winery.

 Our Last stop was in Old Town San Diego, a Mexican themed atmosphere. This was our tour guide along the way, she was so knowledgeable and taught us so much about wine

More pictures to Come from our trip as I am still working on downloading the 800 pictures from our trip :)