Creative Friends

I wanted to share how creative our friends are. So for our Dex the Halls holiday party we had a Dexter inspired gift exchange! Everyone was so creative and brought awesome gifts! I only have a few pictures of what was brought...but I thought this would give a good enough idea of how awesome our friends are! If you don't watch the show you will probably think that we are all very weird but if you do watch Dexter, I think you might be jealous of how neat this stuff is!

Our neighbors and friends brought to the party a cheese and bread kill room! They were even sneaky and took some pictures from Facebook and put them in the kill room! How cute is this?!
"Murderita" Margarita mix!
An enlarged blood slide! Brian won this and I think he should put it up in his new office at work!
A Masuka shirt and badge!
The ice truck killer hand in an evidence bag! I love this! It got stolen from me but I ended up with an awesome apron! This hand is so neat it is hallow and fits on the top of the tree perfectly...I might have to borrow it for next years party!
This ornament was also inspired by the ice truck killer season! This was a hostess gift from our good friend Nicole! I absolutely love it!!!!
Yes, I had Brian pose for this picture! This is the amazing apron I won during the game! I can't wait for summer so I can wear this out back barbecuing!!!

Thank you to all of our amazing friends! You all are so awesome and creative! I can't wait for next years party!!!!

Dex the Halls

This year for our holiday party we decided to host one that was Dexter themed! We are both huge fans of the show and thought it would be awesome. So we had Dex the Halls this year!

Here is just a few things we did for the party!

Gingerbread man kill room.
Dexter victim melting snowman cookies!

Our dining room was turned into a kill room!

There was so much more neat things about the night. My favorite part was Dexter inspired gift exchange! I will post some pictures of that soon.

Everyone was so creative and brought some amazing things!

Thank you to all of our friends for a great party!

Thankful

We've been so busy lately with me teaching Kindergarten and Brian working and traveling! We both had Thanksgiving week off! We started re-doing our bedroom and got to spend time with family and friends! We are so thankful for having such wonderful people in our lives, for getting to spend Thanksgiving with good friends, and for taking some time out of our busy schedules that week to enjoy ourselves, friends, and do something for ourselves (working on our house projects!)

Happy Thanksgiving and Holidays!!!!

My Friends Wedding!!!

On September 24th one of my best friends got married. Both Nicole and Chris were in our wedding and it was such an honor for us to be there for them! We all had such a wonderful time and are beyond happy for the newlyweds!!! All I have at the moment is this picture of me and the bride after the rehearsal dinner! As soon as I get my hands on more I'll share some!

Summer

On July 1st I said that tomorrow summer is over. I got a lot of negative stares from that...but I was right...this summer flew by way to fast. Brian and I had a lot planned, mostly house projects that we wanted to start and complete, and with summer officially over we're disappointed in how short it was and how little we've accomplished.

We did enjoy our summer, we had a fantastic backyard party in July and we went on a, just about 2 week, trip to the east coast.

We first visited my best friend Mallory in Virginia. We mostly just spent time with each other, talked, went to the movies, talked, saw Virginia Beach's boardwalk type area, talked, and visited Williamsburg.

After visiting Mallory we flew down to Florida and meet my family for a week long Disney World Vacation! We enjoyed visiting the four theme parks and spending time with the family especially my nephews.

Just a few of the animals from the Animal Kingdom Park.

We enjoyed the rain and how cute the nephews looked in their little ponchos.

The guys and me at Epcot's World Showcase, Germany.
Their castle is SO much prettier than ours!
Singing in the rain! At Hollywood Studios.

Happy One Year!

It's hard to believe that a year has already passed by! It feels just like yesterday was our wedding!

On our anniversary we had lunch at Strawberry Farms, our wedding site! We walked around and reminisced about our wedding.

After a homemade dinner, similar to our reception dinner we had cake!
We had a very small piece of our wedding cake's top layer from last year...Not very good...kind of dry...old tasting....followed by a nice slice of cake from our anniversary cake! Thank you, Great Dane Bakery!
We also celebrated by going away on a little 4 day trip to Phoenix, Arizona. Brian wine and dined me at "A Different Point of View"...Which did have an AMAZING view. We were there for sunset!

Also, Brian took me for my first time ever horseback riding! I loved this and can't wait to do this again!
The rest of our trip was full of eating, sleeping, and by the pool time!

Supervised Outdoor Time

Okay it's time for me to be crazy cat and dog lady! I love my little babies and decided last weekend that the kids should be able to have some outdoor time. So Saturday morning the whole family spent a good hour or so of our morning out back. It was so nice to enjoy the backyard to watch Sophie and Stewy explore the backyard.

Every now and then everyone would stop exploring and check in on each other. They are sometimes too cute!
Sophie spent the whole time chasing bugs. I have never seen a cat pant before this! She took a long cat nap when we went inside:-)

Jack had a blast having everyone outside. He even sneaked inside and brought out a toy to play with.
I was surprised that Stewy didn't try to jump the wall and join the neighbors cat ( Sophie's Grandma) like the good ol' times. He however decided to sniff and lay around.

I enjoyed watching everyone and having "family time" I think this might become a weekly event in the Geiss household.

Major Hoots!!!!

Okay, so it's catch up time....This spring has been pretty neat. Over Memorial weekend Brian, our friend Allison, Jack the dog, and I, went on a little mini vacation to Palm Spring. Palm Springs was the perfect retreat from the stresses and busy-ness of home.
Allison and I at our favorite Palm Springs Mexican Restaurant.

The following weekend while Brian was away for the week in Florida working. I had the pleasure of joining Allison at KROQ's Weenie Roast!!! This was a blast and I can not wait for next years!

In the frenzy excitement of being in line to enter Verizon Amphitheater I forgot to bring my sunscreen in to the concert with me...So I had to wear my sweater and buy a hat. But it all was worth the hassle thanks to these 3 bands.
Foster The People
Mikel and Airborne Toxic Event...I LOVE YOU!!!!
Neon Trees!!!....When I first saw them walk on stage I thought oh I'm not going to like this...Well I loved them so much I'm seeing them again in July!!!
Allison and I right after the first set ended.... with our nifty new hats!!!

Spring Break!

This past week was spring break for me. Brian took the week off of work also and we had so many ideas of things we could do.

The first idea we had was to get out of town. Anywhere relaxing.

Then Brian lured me into staying home with the thought of putting Bamboo floors in upstairs!

Well that fell through when we found out that the floors we want are on back order....

So we decided to do some fun things here and there and some home projects here and there.

What we really ended up doing was, sleeping in, cleaning, laundry, potato potluck with our amazing neighbors, movie watching, happy hour, family gatherings, and we went to the San Diego Zoo!!!

I have to say that going to the zoo is pretty high up there on my favorite part of break. I loved visiting all of the creatures!!! I'm such a freak and I'm sure people around me thought so when I baby talked to the animals...(I can't help it when they are cute, baby talking to them is just uncontrollable then) So here are some of my favorite creatures we visited.

Giraffs!!!! Not only do they have the best wild animal print ever and are amazingly tall and fun to watch, these guys recently had a baby!.... The baby Giraffe is so new it didn't have a name yet. ( I was disappointed I missed my chance to feed them)


Okay these guys were my absolute favorite!!! I love these big kitties!!! The Lioness pranced around and played for us and the Lion roared for me. I loved it! He was so loud!!!! I am disappointed that I missed him eating his meaty bone, I would have loved to see that! ( I know weird that a vegetarian wants to see a lion ...and other big cats...eat their meaty bone treats.)

Zebras!!! I loved these guys too!
This little Meerkat barked for us!
I just wanted to cuddle with the Koalas.
GRIZLY BEAR! OMG! These guys were soooo neat! Very happy I got to see them.
Oh look at this lovable creature I encountered on the zoo's Skyfarri.
And of course mama hippo and her baby hippo!!! We had the pleasure of watching mom give her baby some swim lessons! I just wanted to hug and baby talk this little big guy so badly. They were too cute!!!!

Of course these guys are just a few of the animals that I loved seeing. There were many more like the elephants, tigers, jaguars, peacocks, and more! ....I am very happy that Brian took me to the zoo!