Winchester Mystery House!!

So in San Jose there is this Crazy house they call the Winchester mystery house. This is her story

In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House.

Sarah Winchester built a home that is an architectural marvel. Unlike most homes of its era, this 160-room Victorian mansion had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. From rambling roofs and exquisite hand inlaid parquet floors to the gold and silver chandeliers and Tiffany art glass windows, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy, and expense poured into each and every detail.


Here are some amazing facts....
Number of rooms: 160

Cost: $5,500,000

Date of Construction: 1884 - September 5, 1922 (38 continuous years!)

Number of stories: Prior to 1906 Earthquake - 7; presently 4

Number of acres: Originally 161.919; presently 4

Number of basements: 2

Heating: Steam, forced air, fireplaces

Number of windows: Frames 1,257; panes approx. 10,000

Number of doors: Doorways 467, doors approx. 950 not including cabinet doors.

Number of fireplaces: 47 (gas, wood, or coal burning)

Number of chimneys: Presently 17 with evidence of 2 others

Number of cars at her death: 2 (a 1917 Pierce Arrow Limousine & a 1916 4 cyl. Buick truck)

Number of bedrooms: Approx. 40

Number of kitchens: 5 or 6

Number of staircases: 40, total of stair steps - 367

Number of skylights: Approx. 52

Number of gallons of paint required to paint entire home: Over 20,000

Number of ballrooms: 2 (one nearly complete, and one under construction)

Blueprints available: No, Mrs. Winchester never had a master set of blueprints, but did sketch out individual rooms on paper and even tablecloths!


So last week got to go see this house. It is as crazy as it sounds. Here are some pictures...



The house is amazing


Stairs that go down then right back up


Stairs to no where



Mini Stairs



Crazy staircase

In all it was a fun Journey!!

Random Nights Out

These are the lucky nights they let me out to play. :)



Ice Skating with the girls!!











Katie and I will my new hair color.


Kings and Jazz games. Our seat were on the eighth row!!!






Poker with starburst!!!




Meteor Shower was super cool and super cold!!

Black Friday

Black Friday has got to be one of my favorite days of the year. We opened today with well over one hundred fifty people in front of our store. Here are some pictures from it. I love back friday!!!!

Thanksgiving wrapped up in a nut shell

Happy holidays to all. I was able to go to a friends house and have dinner. It was fun and super good. I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. Here are some pictures from dinner.




This is me resting after eating so much.



We played a game that had my name in it.




We took a lot of random pictures.






Max my pal and I




This is Jason..we ate with his family





My roomies and I




More random pictures.

My six habits/facts

Ok, this is for you Brookie....I'm supposed to list 6 habits/facts about myself and then tag 5 other people to do it so here goes...

1-At least once a week I sleep the opposite direction on my bed. Like my head at the foot of my bed instead. I have to make it exciting. I hate going to bed because I think it is a waste time. I sometimes want to think about things when I am laying in bed. However when my head hits the pillow I am asleep. Always.

2-I have about twenty nicknames. I love every single on of them. Lets list them.... Theens, theena, theena beena, theener, george, aj, nina, screamer, beamer, mentor, tina, a-tina, sunshine, pal, skeena, Georgina, tall stuff, stinky, sister, georgio! Okay so that is twenty. I am sure there could be more. I am still called every single one of these by certain people. I love to give nicknames too.



3-My pinky fingers are so different from eachother. One is short and fat and the other is tall and skinny. It is interesting. I attached a picture.....

4-I take my camera every where I go. I take at least one picture every day. I am sad at the end of the day if I dont take a picture. Chances I will make up for it by taking a picture in my room of nothing. Hence the finger picture.

5-I have a bad habit of ordering food I know I wont like. I always think I might change my mind. Nope I never change my mind. I just start picking things off. I should just stick to chicken. I know I like it.

6-I have a habit of growing my finger nails out really long and cutting them until they bleed. I love the feeling of them being so short. It makes my fingers feel so free and wonderful.

Okay those are my six. Now I get to tag five people... Tuna, Erin, Karli, ShaRee, Alena.

My long trip to Utah

So I am in Utah right now. It was a super crazy day getting here. First work. I stayed there way to long. Then I was driving down the street and my car was about to die. I pulled into a parking lot and two guys pushed my car in the stall. You know...something about no gas. Don't really remember. :) My roommate Suzie came and saved me on that one. Then I was going to go get in my other roommates car to go the airport and it was dead. (We decided that since she was flying in a few hours after I left that we would just leave her car there. Since she has spare keys and we weren't sure if we would see each other in the SLC airport) So I got back in my car. I was super late getting to the airport. Lucky though no line. I checked in and went to the security gate. When I got to the gate she initialed my boarding pass and handed it back. When she handed it over to me I saw that the sticker with my bag pickup confirmation said someone else's name and it said Helena Montana. So I asked her if that was right and she said she didn't think so but that she didn't work for the airline. She said I would have to ask the people at the gate. I asked her if I could right back to the counter that I just came from and she said no since I had already checked in. Well I got to my gate and no people behind the counter. We were leaving in about a half hour so I waited and waited. Finally twenty minutes before we leave out comes the lady that helped me check in. I asked her and she said that my information should be on it. She said my bags were headed to Helena. She took my boarding pass and went to see if there was anything she could do. Oh man I was nervous. I hate flying. They had started boarding and still no her. She finally came back. She said she didn't actually see my bag but she think it was moved to the correct plane. So I was ready to board. I handed back over my boarding pass. Nope wouldn't work. They printed a new one. Still no worky. They had to enter the numbers in manually. Oh man. I was so nervous!!!! Good news. My bags made it and so did I. The End.

Halloween 2007

All of us in our costumes








I was Jason off the clock for Halloween.





Here is one from last year just for fun




After work I went to our ward Halloween Party. There was a lot of people there just not much going on. We left and went to Mels dinner for dessert. After we watched 1408!! It was a fun night!!

Dinner with the willey girls and guys

We have the greatest group of people in our office at RC Willey. We are lucky enough to be able to spend a little time out of work together. These are picture from various dinners.

Here we are at Leatherby's


And here is us at Buca Di Beppo


Love these guys!!! Each and everyone of them.

Lodi to see Courtney

Also in October Tami and I were able to go see our friend Courtney in Lodi. I love the outer part of Lodi. It is so pretty and little townish...




Tami and Court in front of where we went for dinner.





Us at dinner!!



Court and I in front of Hots Mexican Restaurant




Wine tasting...NOPE!!!!

The Coast with Amy Oct. 2007

The first of October I was able to go play on the coast with Amy. This was a beautiful adventure. I did so many things I have wanted to do.



First dinner at F.A.T.S. in Old Sac.




Pebble Beach Golf Course



Boardwalk at Santa Cruz



Lunch on the Coast



Name in the sand!!!





Our little friend



The Hostel we slept in



So much fun. I am a fan of the Hostels. We shared a room with two other women.



Montara lighthouse. It was so pretty when the fog came in. I will for sure sleep in more hostles.




Pacifica Beach



Natural Bridges




Half Moon Bay.

I love the Coast!!!!

Southern Cali with Tanya....Sept 2007

Wow I have missed a lot. I am so so so busy right now. I keep thinking life will slow down but probably not.

I have been so lucky to go on a few adventures. First one was to Southern Cali to spend time with Tanya. She was there for training and I got to go see her for the weekend. We had so much fun. It was so nice to get away for the weekend. Here are some pictures from our adventures.




This was our six mile hike we went on in Malibu



This is our SUPER nice hotel room



You better believe that we were the car of the day!!!! Free parking and a close parking spot.



This wave kicked me and Tanyas butt. If you look hard you can see my leg.




We had tons of fun in Disneyland