10 on 10

today was so busy. i am absolutely pooped!!!

i was up by 6am, which is WAY too early for me.

i still have my dad's bday party pics to post. it was loads of fun. that post will be next.

but now, i have these to post:

when i got up this morning, i realized that i again forgot to get milk. so i ran out before jesse went to work and grabbed a couple gallons.

i have been listening to go country 105 lately. they are giving away rascal flatts concerts tickets to the 25th caller when a RF song comes on. so, being the competitive person that i am, have been calling when i hear the song, but every time it is busy!!! so annoying. i will not give up, though.

i took the kids to see $1 summer movie series at victoria gardens in rancho cucamonga today. we saw "how to train a dragon". it was super good!!

after the movie, we did some school shoe shopping. try saying that 3 times fast. then we ate lunch at johnny rockets. here are the girls.

and here are the boys.

the best part about johnny rockets. the nickel juke box on the wall.

the last stop of the day at victoria gardens was the water fountain. 3 of the 4 kids i had were soaked after some play time in the fountain.

i made homemade chicken fried rice. it was my first time. so yummy. i got the recipe here. i made chicken instead of shrimp and added red bell peppers and mushrooms to it too. you could make your own variation. super easy. some hints to great fried rice: use day old rice and cook every item separately, or else they will all end up tasting the same.

for the heck of it, i decided to make whipped cream from scratch. i had some cream in the fridge that was going to go bad and decided to go for it. it was my first time for this too. at first i forgot to add sugar and it tasted disgusting. after i remembered, it was heavenly. i highly recommend it.

i think i was feeling extra ambitious today or something. i decided to go for a walk outside, by myself (something i havent done in a LONG time). at some point on my walk i decided to try jogging (again, something i havent done in a LONG time) and wouldnt you know it. i made it the whole way to my half way point and back, without stopping! yay me!!

how was your tenth?

some useless information: did you remember that yesterday was 08-09-10?