Fast Forward 37 years!!! Yikes....

Happy Birthday Kerri

If Kerri thinks time has gone by fast with her kids, she should be in my shoes!!!! We all went out to dinner last night to celebrate Kerri's 37th birthday. I dont know where the years have gone, but I must say she DOES NOT look 37!!! And just cause I'm her mommy, doesnt mean it isnt true....cause I look 37! hahaha!!! Ok, seriously folks.... Here are a few shots from last night. We went to a local Japanese restaurant, JMK Nippon.

Here is our offical time of birth shot.....5:33 pm

Our Chef, the food was great.

Sushi....no, i didnt eat it.

Kerri's happy birthday song in japanese, Mitch liked it!

The Birthday....fruit? A perfect diet dessert!!! One last shot of mom & daughter in front of the falls.

Tattoomania....can you take it?!?!?!?!

Well I didnt realize what a tattoo adventure this trip was going to be!!! They were everywhere! The trip started out with a visit to Kat Von D's new shop, High Voltage. I must admit, i was a little disapointed when we first walked in and didnt see anyone from Kat's show, LA Ink.....then Kim walked in. So we took a few pics and went along our way. Still exciting.

Me & Kim

After Kat's shop, we headed to Dana Point to Leeayn's tattoo shop, Raygun. Her guy, Ryan I think, took at look at my old tat that was looking a little shabby and proceeded to draw me a new one. He had done great work on Leeayn, so I was comfortable with his work. I was a bit nervous, but after the outlining was done, it went really well. Here's a few shots from the day.

You can see the old tattoo under his outline work.

Hard at work.


Lookin a little ugly!


Wholly cow, he did a great job!!


I just love my ladybug.

After we got back to the hotel, our valet, who was a retired Marine (didnt look like a Marine) asked us what we had been up to and we told him about our tat adventures...he proceeded to tell us about his!!! Of course he had to take us into the back room so he could take his shirt off! He was fun and a cutie. He had some symbols on his right arm, which he called the "good arm", they meant Mother, Father, Brother & sister. Then his other arm was the evil arm and then his Grimreaper on his back.

E-VIL arm

The severed head represents his sisters old abusive boyfriend, which he went and "took care of things", as he said after the boyfriend hit her one night.

Here is the tat on my BFF Hillary's back....aka "Squishie" .
Her and her sister designed this tattoo. Note the center is a lady bug, which you will see more of on us gals with Tats.

This is Lizzie from my beauty shop....i just think it's a cool Tat.

Since I've totally gone off in space here.....here is a real Tat of Hollyann's that she got while visiting us last fall, and Kerri's...uhm, not so real tat!! She is such a Bears fan tho, if she got a real one, it would be a Chicago Bears one I'm sure of it!!! The next three are holly's too, the last being my fav.

This is my high school friend, Kirby's tattoo, it's in honor of his son.
More to come......

California Dreamin...

Stick a fork in it....Summer is done!!!!

Wow, what a great Mother/Daughter trip Kerri and I had. It's always great fun to get together with our friends out there....never a dull moment!!! Here we are with Holly as we first enter the park.

We were getting on the Pooh ride, Kerri was going to sit alone in the front to get some pics, when a man and his little girl jumped on with her.....we dubbed them "her new family" lol Of course we had to laugh at her.....and you can see her response.

Of course then we had to find her another family, one that had the same sports preferences!!!

Wow, it's the great pumpkin!!!Leeayn and I at Club 33....we were such good girls.
Me and Minnie
The infamous skyline of LA

Hollywood here we come!!
Kat Von D's shop from LA Ink....High Voltage with tattoo artist, Kim. She's such a doll.
Castle pic






Illinois!!!!!!!

(ya had to be there)