UGH!!!!!!

I can't believe it! It's horrifying really. 6 more days and it's all over, my 20's are coming to an end. Unfortunately, I do not adapt well to change, and this whole getting old, thing is not cool. We all should just stay the age we are and live forever (hmmm a bit irrational... maybe). My brother-in-law, Tim told me that everyone has a 30 year warranty on their body. After the 30 years is up, that's when everything starts to fall apart. Ummm, yeah, turning 30 does not sound fun at all....
Okay, I think I'm done freaking out for the moment, but don't be surprise if you here more crying and "ughs" this week.

~ Chrsiti

Mr. & Mrs. Terry Flemming 9/19/08

Alyssa & Terry

Mr. & Mrs. Terry Flemming

"House of Billy"

Last night Dean & I went to see Billy Idol at the House of Blues in L.A., they actually dubbed themselves "House of Billy" for his tour. The show was amazing, Billy was the only band playing so we got to be entertained by him for a whole 2 1/2 hours. It was great! Of course we snuck in a camera and we able to get some good pix.

August 20, 2008

To my wonderful husband:
Thank you for the best 3 years of my life and thank you for being so absolutely wonderful to me!!
Happy Anniversary, I love you!!
~ Christi

A New Arrival!

Introducing Haley Marie Prentice. She was born today, 08/08/08 to the proud parents, Cassie and Larry. This morning at about 3:30 am my sisters' water broke and at 5:35 am Haley was born. She was 6 lbs, 13 oz and 19 1/4".

Big Sister Riley Sue with her Little Sister Haley Marie

Home Sweet Home

Well we just got home today from vacation. We had such a great time. Our friend Brad who has job that gives him the opportunity to rack up airline miles and hotel rewards was able to buy (with his airline miles) all three of us (Dean, Brad and myself) airline tickets to New York and Chicago, he was also able to pay for both hotels with his rewards points. We were in New York from July 26th - August 2nd and Chicago from August 2nd to the 6th.
I will write more and post pictures of our adventures later this weekend, right now I'm beat and need to go to bed.

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Okay so I can no longer drive and talk with my phone up to my ear anymore, but I can still put on my make-up, paint my finger nails and toe nails, eat, change my clothes, read a book, flip through a Crate and Barrel catalogue, take pictures, wrap a present and sign the card, apply lotion &/or sunblock, balance my checkbook and put my hair up while driving, right???

Mr. & Mrs. Trent Berglin 6/21/08

~ Here comes the bride ~

~ Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Trent Berglin ~

~ The newlyweds ~

Mr. & Mrs. Cory Lapworth 6/14/08

~ Here comes the bride ~

~ Joined in wedLOCK ~

~ The newlyweds ~

Upcoming Wedding Bells

The last of my single girlfriends are getting hitched. Two friends in

one month, just one week apart from each other, another friend, Alyssa in September, and my sister in April of '09. Recently at one of the Bridal Showers we were asked to give advice to the Bride. Yikes! Advice? Okay so I've been married for almost 3 years, I do not think that qualifies me to be giving advice. Here's all I was able to come up with.

~ Remember to set time aside for your girlfriends, and do not be a pain when your hubby wants to set time aside for his guy friends. True, you and your husband will become incredibly close, best friends even, but there will always be certain things in a girls life that only her girlfriends will understand, and the same thing goes for the men too. ~

Darshelle's big day when she will become Mrs. Cory Lapworth is this coming Saturday, June 14th. I am so very excited for these two. They met 8 years ago when they were both working at Stater Bros. in LM. Now they've been dating for almost 7 years, Cory is now a cop and Darshelle is a teacher, and we've all been anxiously anticipating for them to tie the knot. Now it's right around the corner and I wish nothing but happiness for Cory and Darshelle, they truly deserve it! Congratulations you guys!!

Adrienne and Trent will be getting hitched on the following Saturday, June 21st. These two first met years ago at what used to be the Liquid Lounge in HB. What started off as a great friendship soon turned into more. Now after dating for 6 years their big day is also right around the corner. How exciting! I wish these two nothing but happiness as well and since Adrienne has a bit of Greek in her - Na Zisete! - (long life to you). Congratulations you two!!

It's very strange to think that we are all grown up and married. I would of sworn that it was just yesterday that we were all just a bunch of annoying kids. (Cheesy cliche coming) Time sure does fly when you're having fun!! =)

~ Christi

Dogs Day Out

Dean and I love to take Petey and Joey out to Dog Beach in Huntington. It's a great opportunity for the dogs to just run free and mingle with other dogs. Here's a few of the pictures that I took of my boys.



~Christi

Personalities in Pictures

I will follow in Kristy's footsteps and create a personality pic of my own. Although, I shared this with my friend Kendall from work and she did one too, but she added a few more pictures to hers. Something about there being 4 rows and 3 columns not being even enough for her, so in her need for balance she did 4 rows and 4 columns. I decided to do the same

Follow the concept below and create your own! It's fun!!

The concept:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

The Questions :
1. What is your first name? Christi

2. What is your last name? Angelus

3. Where do you live? Huntington Beach

4. What is your favorite food? Steak and Potatoes

5. What high school did you go to? La Mirada High School

6. What is your favorite color? Blue

7. Who is your celebrity crush? Matt Damon

8. Favorite drink? Water

9. Dream vacation? Greece - Island of Santorini

10. Favorite dessert? Cherry Cheesecake

11. What you want to be when you grow up? Housewife

12. What is your favorite car? Ford Falcon

13. What do you love most in life? Dean

14. One Word to describe you? Daydreamer

15. What is your favorite past time? Shopping

16. Your flickr name. cangleus


Here's Dean's:

The Questions :
1. What is your first name? Costantino

2. What is your last name? Angelus

3. Where do you live? Huntington Beach

4. What is your favorite food? Whale Blubber

5. What high school did you go to? La Mirada High School

6. What is your favorite color? Black

7. Who is your celebrity crush? Yvonne De Carlo

8. Favorite drink? Greyhound

9. Dream vacation? Fresno

10. Favorite dessert? Drumstick Ice Cream

11. What you want to be when you grow up? Firetruck

12. What is your favorite car? Ric Ocasek

13. What do you love most in life? Hockey Fights

14. One Word to describe you. Lifesize

15. What is your favorite past time? Cat Juggling

16. Your flickr name. dean_angelus

~ Christi

The Big 4 0!

Last week Dean turned 40. Of course now Dean's favorite thing to say is that he's 40 years old and he has a wife that is in her 20's. Well he'll only get to say that for about 4 more months. On the actual day of his birthday, which was Thursday, May 22nd, we went out to dinner at a Mexican Restaurant in Orange called Moreno's. Great place, good food and a wonderful atmosphere. They have this great dinning area outside on their big patio that's is surrounded by trees and covered with vines. Its beautiful. Unfortunately it was rainy out so we weren't able to be seated outside. We had a lot of fun there. When the waiters came out to sing Happy Birthday to Dean they brought out a sombrero for Dean to wear and they gave him some birthday flan.

The real bash was on Saturday, May 24th. My mom was extremely kind and allowed me to use her home for the party. I had hired a casino company, we had 2 Blackjack tables, 1 Poker table, and 1 Craps table, so my mom pretty much had to take all of her furniture out of the house to make room. The slide below is the fun-filled night with Dean's family and friends helping him turn 40.

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~ Christi

It's not supposed to be this difficult!

Now, I'm not too sure if this is too personal for blogging, but it's all that's ever on my mind these days.
So, for about 2 years now, Dean and I have been trying to get pregnant. So far, no such luck. I'm actually starting to believe that people were right when they told me I was jinxing myself by already having my children's names picked out and by buying cute little onesie before I'm even prego.
Back in January I finally got frustrated enough and had my doc check me out to see what they heck was going on. Well apparently my hormones are all jacked up (thanks to birth control I'm sure). It's been 3 months now that my doc has been attempting to get my hormones balanced with Clomid and Progesterone. On top of taking Clomid (which by they way makes me super irritable and emotional) I frequently go in for ultrasounds. Unfortunately the ultrasounds have not brought good news yet. The Cloimd doesn't appear to be helping me. I'm not sure what the next step is but I'm sure my doc will just up the dosage of the Clomid. I've read stories where women have tried for like 6 years to get pregnant! My goodness! 6 years! I'm not so sure my emotions would ever be able to handle that. I'm already about to wimp out.
One moment I'm determined to do anything and everything possible to get pregnant no matter how long it takes. But then the very next moment I start to wonder. I know God said to go forth and populate the earth. Well isn't it possible that maybe the earth is now populated beyond what he meant? Like we took it a little too far. So maybe some people aren't supposed to get pregnant. Maybe the whole infertility thing is to slow down production. But then on the other hand if this were to be true, why wouldn't he choose the people who are unfit to be parents to carry that out? Oh I could go on all day, back and forth.
Well I must end here, I'm off to yet another ultrasound.

~ Christi

Christos Anesti!

- Christos Anesti! Alithos Anesti!

Christ has Risen! Indeed He is Risen!

Happy Easter!

The most important Holiday to a Greek Orthodox is Holy Friday (Good Friday) and Pascha (Easter). Greek Easter often falls on a different day then that of American Easter. One reason is because Greek Easter always comes after the Jewish Passover and the other reason is because when determining the date the Greeks follow the Julian Calendar instead of the Gregorian.

This year for Easter we kept it simple. We went to Taps in Brea. It was really nice spending time with the whole Angelus Family. We don't get together too often, so when we do it's always a treat. On the Angelus side of the family Dean and I have 4 niece's, and they are all growing so quickly.

After dinner we went back to Dean's Dad's house. We played the egg cracking game. A traditional game played with the Easter Eggs. In Greek Tradition, the eggs are all dyed a deep red to symbolize the blood of Christ. Then each person takes an egg and challengers attempt to crack each others egg. The breaking of the eggs symbolizes Christ breaking from the tomb.

Julianna at Taps

Elyse & Lauren cracking eggs

Papou showing Katrina and Julianna how to play the egg cracking game

Dean and Tony challenging each other, I think Dean won.

Elyse, Katrina, Lauren and Julianna at Papou's house.

Recent Events

Well I fully intended on posting earlier, but apparently I've turned into somewhat of a slacker. Soooo, here's an update ...

March 3rd we went to the Bad Religion concert at the House of Blues in Anaheim. Bad Religion was great but can I just say, I'm pretty much at the point where I'm done going to the Anaheim H.O.B. Seriously they ALWAYS WAY oversell the shows and it's ALWAYS hotter than a sauna in there. We still had a good time though, thanks to Bad Religion. They really know how to put on a good show. They played a lot of their older stuff and mixed in a few of the new.

Then on March 5 we went to see Bad Religion again at the House of Blues but on Sunset. It was pretty cool, they played mainly their older stuff again but none of the same songs as the previous show. The only songs that were the same were the few new ones. This show was such a better experience. Our friend Kevin has a membership to the Foundation Room and was able to put us on the list for it. It was great. We got to hang out a bit with Greg Hetson (the guitarist) and get autographs for a few other members of the band. We had such a better time then that of the Anaheim show. H.O.B. Sunset is much bigger and has different levels so they can totally get away with selling a ton of tickets and everyone can still see the show and the people that work there are way more kick back and much nicer. I love L.A.! The picture below is from the L.A. show. Then, on March 15th we started St.Patty's Day early, we went to the Roxy in L.A., and saw the Young Dubliners. This show was wonderful. The Young Dubs always put on a great show and the Roxy is always a great place to see a band.

St.Patty's Day. As usual, true to tradition we went to the Harp Inn in Costa Mesa. It's been a long-standing tradition for us to get to the Harp on St.Patty's Day when they open and leave when they close. It's always tons of fun!!
Last but definitely not least Easter. We went to my mom's house for Easter. It was just a small gathering this year, just the immediate fam. It was so much fun though, especially watching Riley hunt for Easter Eggs. This is her 2nd Easter but it's the 1st one where she can actually interact. And of course it was a blessing to have Chase celebrate his 1st Easter. One of his Great-Aunts gave him a stuffed Easter Bunny and we took some pictures of him next to it. You can't really tell in the picture below, but he really is super tiny compared to the bunny.
Welp, there's my update of what we've been up to.

We hope everyone had a wonderful St.Patty's Day and Easter!

~ Christi

Another New Arrival!

Our friends Andrew & Christina just had their second child. Introducing Addison Grace Breymann. She was born on February 25,2008 at 5:28pm. She weighed 7.1lbs and was 21in. long.

Riley Sue's 1st Birthday!

Our niece Riley had her very 1st birthday on February 14th and her very 1st birthday party on February 16th. Here are some pix.
Happy Birthday Ry!