San Diego Beach

Joel was the only one brave enough to go all the way into the water. He took the boogie board and rode some waves!




Here's one ball...


Wow! Two balls!


San Castle. A little while later an old couple were walking by on the beach and the woman just walked right through the castle, knocking down some towers! The man pointed with his cane, showing her she had just messed it up and she just shrugged! The man, still leaning heavily on his cane, nicely walked around.




Warming up on the hot sand








Heavenly breakfast! Trader Joe's whole wheat waffle mix with fresh peaches and whipped cream! Delicious!!!

Yummy dinner

Yum! Here we are outside eating a very good dinner. Joel bbq'd chicken drumsticks and we also had corn, pasta with herb sauce and honeydew. I had thought to roll Laura's high chair outside, but Joel put her little chair in the regualr chair and it was the perfect booster! After dinner we went to the Halloween store to get the wig for my costume. Joel will be Woody and Laura is going to be so cute!
I had to take this picture of Laura in this very cute outfit! She posed for the first shot, but started running towards me in the second. What a cutie!

Feed the ducks, tuppence a bag

Here we are in San Diego! We took a walk to feed the ducks and then the geese started to come! Joel had to scoop up Laura because he was a little worried. Deanne got matching shorts for Laura and Elizabeth to wear. Laura had a fun time imiatating Elizabeth. If she climbed a tree, Laura wanted to as well. What a fun trip!

Tragic Demise

Here we are in San Diego Aug 20-22 visiting Deanne, Gokhan, Elizabeth and Rosie. Rosie was on summer vacation from my mom's 1st grade class spending the summer with Elizabeth. Laura loved to pet her and wanted to pick her up and squeeze her, but we had to say, No, only soft touching. Sadly, when Rosie came back to my parent's home last weekend the oxygen change was too great for her heart to handle all at once. My dad showed Gokhan and De how to massage her heart, but all to no avail. Bart and Gokhan dug a hole where Elizabeth placed the box. That night at dinner we all said something nice about Rosie.
Good bye Rosie!

Date night!

Laura spent monday at Nommy and Papa's house monday night. After Joel and I got home from work we went to Olive Garden for dinner. After we ate Joel said Let's go see what's playing at the movies. To our delight Eclipse was starting in 10 minutes! We got our tickets and enjoyed the movie!
We had a fun night just the two of us, but we did miss our sweetie!

New favorite website

Thank you Anelieze for directing me to my new favorite website: www.smittenkitchen.com
Wow. Not only are the photos of the food beautiful and delicious, but her writing is so witty!
I will definitely be trying out some of her recipes! Perhaps the strawberry-rubarb pie (see photo above)

"Ouch!" said Joel

Joel went with some friends on a motorcycle ride last night. When they were on the off ramp of the fwy, he lifted his visor and then something hit his eye. He thought perhaps it was a rock, but when it started swelling, he went to the hospital. The dr. there said it might have been a bee, and since he is allergic, that might be one reason it was so swollen. This morning when I woke up I wondered, why does Joel look so grumpy? The I realized not all of the swelling had gone down, so his eye was still puffy.

Today was our first Sunday in Nursery, (we just got called last week to be the Nursery leaders) and Joel had to leave halfway through to go to his follow-up appt with the dr. It's looking much better this afternoon, now he is just kind of squinty. I have to keep reminding myself to look at his good eye otherwise I keep trying to figure out why he's glaring at me! It's good that tomorrow is his day off, he can relax a bit!