Turning 30

On September 25th I turned the BIG 30!!! I was out at WCN but still got tons of texts and a few calls wishing me happy birthday. Angie was with the girls and also did a small video of them singing to me. That was so sweet of her to think of. Its so cute and a video I will treasure always. Here is my bday cake that I got at WCN. I chose to name him Bobo and some of you that have known me since Chelsey was born will know why. Of course since it was given to me by my SunSet family they added our logo on it :)

I want to say how thankful I am for all my Family and friends. They truly made my day special. I would not be the person I am w/o all of you in my life. Thanks so Much everyone and Happy Birthday to Me!

My darling girls singing to me :)

West Coast Nationals

Last Thursday we drove out to Parker, Az for our annual West Coast Nationals Truck Run. Our club SunSet puts it on. Our founder Bob has been doing these truck runs for over 30 yrs. West Coast was retired for 10 yrs and then brought back last year. We worked the event last year as well as this year. Its such a fun experiance to work the events and see it from a different point of view. All the ins and outs that we have to go through. The women usually work in the office taking care of Registration and such. I spent most of my time in there helping Tina (Bob's wife). The other part of my job is taking pics since I am the historian for our chapter. Included in the truck run is just the fun of camping and hanging out with other people and clubs. But Saturday we do a truck/car show. Then that night is party night, with contests of all sorts, and Live DJ from Ro. Sunday is clean up time and Trophies.

I also got to spend my birthday out here. Since I couldn't be with my family back in Utah, what better way than to spend it with my SunSet family. The whole weekend I was given treates, happy birthday wishes, flowers, and Our Antelope Valley chapter (Kasey and Kiel) bought me an ice cream cake. It was so nice to have people show how much I mean to them and how much I am loved. I know not everyone understands this lifestyle, But Justin and I couldn't be happier in it. Being apart of SunSet has been so great, and these guys are truly a family. So here is WCN!

My Birthday Party

On the 18th Justin threw a party here at the house to celebrate my 30th birthday. We were going to be out at West Coast for my actual bday and I wanted to celebrate with my friends that weren't going. It was so much fun. The evening started with my closest friends coming over for pizza. Then as the night continued the rest of my friends, like the car club came and celebrated. I got a few gifts from my friends that I absolutely enjoyed. Alki gave me some 80's bracelets, and a gift card to Sally's. He knows where I like to shop...ha ha. Kris and Aj gave me a great bookmark of the Twilight wolfpack, and a gift card to Barnes n' Noble. Angie got me a book from the Twilight set :) I was so happy to add it to my collection. Spazz brought me a bottle of Vodka knowing thats my favorite thing when I do drink. It was awesome. He shocked me when he came by saying "Here is your Effen Vodka" I told him gez if you didn't want to get me anything you didn't have to. "He replied with, No thats what its called..ha ha". I just laughed and thought it was funny! I loved all my gifts thanks guys!

For some reason after eating pizza with my friends, my camera got set aside so these are all the pictures I took. I will have to see what I get out of my friends. But I enjoyed every minute of my party! Thank you to all who came and helped celebrate it with me. Its will be one I never forget!!



My closest set of friends out here in California. This is my California family.


Got to love Amy ♥ Look how short she is to me, and I'm not that tall either.


Alki came to the party entering into the living room, then came around the corner of the kitchen and I got attacked by Silly string.

I took it like a champ!

One of my dearest and closest friends. Angie licking her fingers from having some of Justin's yummy pizza.

Justin and Alki chatting probably about car stuff.

Kevin hiding behind Amy. Two of my closest friends. Love these two so much

So in the middle of this pic I guess I was saying something. But I love Kris in it. Again another guy that doesn't like to have pictures taken of him.

Mike put your tongue back in your mouth..ha ha. I can't seem to get a serious picture out of him.

The faces of my Girls

So the other day I went to use my camera and these pictures was on there..Looks like my kids got ahold of the camera. I had fun going through and figuring out which pic belonged to who. Can you?

♥ Friends ♥

Saturday after getting my heart breaking news I decided to still attend Los's 40th birthday party. I was so glad I did. My friends and Sunset family made it so that I was able to enjoy the night and not think about my dad too much. I love my friends. They are always there for me, and we always have such a great time. I know some people may not understand the whole car club thing..but to us its our family out here in California. The guys are like Uncles to the girls. I know that they will be well looked after as they grow up. They are also like Big, and little brothers to me. Los's party was a success. He had so much fun, and so did everyone else. Here is some pics of me with some of my favorite people that was there. I didn't want to bother everybody by making them take a pic with me..ha ha

Happy 40th Birthday Los! You've been an awesome Pres. and even a better friend. Looking forward to many more great memories with you!

Los the Birthday boy and also our Sunset I.E. President! Ha ha he was taking a pic with his camera too.


Some of the Sunset men. Buddah, Kevin, Spazz, and Green-Go


Christen and I. She is becoming a great friend. We were both going around and making people take pics with us. We were pretty camera Happy!


Los's Pinata that Tiffany got him.

So I'm the shortest here, Tiffany is trying to squench down to be my height..ha ha. Then you had Julio who is over 6ft. It was pretty funny!

One of my top favorite sunset boys is Spazz! He is such a good friend and awesome guy. He loves the girls and gave each of them a Mp3 that he had but wasn't using.

Reesa and I, spazz sneaked in..how funny!

My luv and Green-Go chillin'

The Birthday Boy, Me and Limpy. My Sunset Boys!

Julio is our council President this year and I'm just starting to get to know him.

A good group of friends, makes for good times! Me, Los, Christen, Julio, Marie, and Reesa

Ha ha...Jesse..one of my fav sunset boys

Kool-Aid is in another club, but a good friend.

Donny aka Timberlake is another one of my boys. It took awhile to get to know him. But I would have to say he's one of my favs now.

Los after we sang Happy Birthday to him and smeared his cupcake in his face! Cute Huh!

My Love of my life :)

Christen, Limpy and I giggling and enjoying the party.

Brandon aka Green-Go is one of our newest sunset members. I've only known him a couple months but feel like I've known him forever. He's like a little brother, he's awesome and also helps me out alot with the girls. All 3 love to give him a hard time especially Isabella. But he takes it knowing they do it out of love. I'm glad he joined our sunset family

My Dad

Saturday was going along just fine, I was curling my hair and getting ready to go to a friends bday party. When my mom called me and delivered some very hard news. My father on Thursday had a massive heart attack. If a friend hadn't made him go get help then I would not have a father with me today. God and an Guardian Angel was watching over him. As most of you know my father is serving time in a federal prison camp. Well we have 5 more months until he gets out and is able to be with us again. When this happened..wow how close to have him back and yet how close we almost lost him. His friend in there urged him to go see medics because of a Chest pain/pressure he was feeling. As he was walking with his friend up there, he doubled over and almost didn't make it when the guards came rushing out. They got him in, got an ambulance and he was sent to the Hospital. They found 2 arteries almost all the way shot, fixed them and he is doing much better. The Dr did tell him that he has no idea how he made it. It was really bad, especially since getting him to the Dr took 1.5 hrs. They also explained that before he was even put in he suffered a heart attack. That was over 5 yrs ago, and yet had no idea he had. I love my dad so much and can't think of what I would of done if it had been the worst case scenario. I know he has done some bad things in his life but that is why he is trying to make things better and take the consequences for his actions. The only thing that made me mad is that there seems to be no inmate rights to at least notify the family of such things happening to the inmate. When he was released Saturday and got back to the camp he then called the family to let us know he had went through that. Otherwise we would of never known. I wonder if worse case scenario when would they have notified us? Really makes me wonder??

Another thought that came to mind was the fact with everything that my father has done..this just goes to show it will bite you in the butt more than one way. The guilt, and stress that he put on himself has created such terrible health. It makes me see that making sure I try to do whats right in my life is very important. I'm very glad though that he is alright and can't wait tell Feburary when we will get to see him again. For him to be a dad, a brother, and a grandpa to his family again. I love you dad so much and glad that you were blessed enough to have someone watching over you.

Reality

Ok so a couple posts ago I posted on my frustration on my weight loss. As I began to research more and more about my thyroid disease I discovered so much that I didn't know. For those who don't know, I was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism at the age of 5. But they had actually started seeing my symptoms at the age of 3. From there on I saw a Dr every 6 months up at Primary Childrens until I was 18. Now I see a specialist where I live. But since I got this at such a young age I did not know everything about it and what it all entails. As I have discovered more and more its seems like everything I don't like about me..my own flaws are because of this... Go figure. I have dry skin, my feet can be so DRY! I hate it! I get cold easily, and even if I don't seem cold, my skin to touch is freezing. The weight issue of course, and the lack of energy. Sometimes I seem lethargic. All these come from my thyroid problem.. Crazy! But its been very interesting to discover so much and find what I can take or eat to help. Alot of the research still shows that by eating and excersizing a certain way will just maintain my weight..which is frustrating. But what can you do. I'm going to continue to walk and do whatever else I can. Take the tips that I have been given as far as food and work with that. But I think mostly I need to work on my attitude and feelings toward myself and come to accept that I may never lose this weight. To look for all the positive things about me. I know I have always delt with insecurity issues but I'm going to try and improve on that.