Reading

She's busy reading.

And really, that's all I want to be doing right now too...finishing The Count of Monte Cristo.

It's so good (thanks Denise for leaving it here this summer).

Conference Weekend

Conference weekend makes me happy & crazy all at the same time.

Aim higher

Internet goes out
Relaxing at home/no lesson prep

Warm fuzzies

Loud/stir crazy kids
Walk by ocean between sessions

Change of heart

Internet goes out some more
Lots of family time...and some friend time

Testimony of The Book of Mormon

Overall...mostly happy.

Feed the Birds

Apparently we like feeding birds lately.

Justin found these huge pine cones on a walk with Owen & Drew yesterday.

So 2 things of peanut butter and lots of bird seed later...we have some lovely tree decor.

In "The Friend"

Owen's in the October Friend!

Bottom right corner...standing in front of our friend Aaron I.

This was our last Primary activity in Jacksonville before we moved here.

If you want an autographed copy of your magazine that can be arranged :)

Rules

At least we didn't use any foul language.

I knowingly broke the skate park rules...
but what else was I supposed to do
when we walked by and it was totally empty?

Feed some birds?

Okay.


But apparently that's not allowed either.

Drew's New Look

A bathroom break during apple picking at Gizdich Farms.

Soccer Legs

lets pretend this is a clear picture

Monday - Justin game
Tuesday - Justin game/Owen practice
Wednesday - Justin game
Thursday - Owen practice
Friday - What? No soccer?
Saturday - Owen game

Owen to Justin: I saw your butt-head in your soccer game.

I thought Justin's soccer season was done, but...play-offs! They lost tonight so now it's officially over. I'm not happy they lost but I'm happy to not have another crazy soccer week like this one.

Indian Summer

Another very cute Grosgrain giveaway.

I think I love this one even more than the last.

Owen, Bartholomew, and Sal

One of my favorite gifts for newborn Owen was the book of his same name (that I didn't know existed) from Justin's aunt Jeane Ann.

She continued the book tradition for Drew & Sally.

But for Drew we couldn't find a book whose main character had his same name. So he got one of Jeane Ann's favorites...Bartholomew and the Oobleck. We like the book and really like that we don't have a son named Bartholomew. Now if I could get a batch of oobleck to turn out! Shouldn't be that hard with 2 ingredients.

I extra love Sally's book...I had never read this one either. I love that the girl goes by Sal and I really love the illustrations (and pretty much all of Robert McCloskey's).

But back to Drew...does anyone know of any children's book that has a main character named Drew? Or even a supporting character? Nancy Drew doesn't count.

Picture of the Week

9/12

Goes to Justin!

Doesn't it give you the impression that Owen helped the Golden Sharks to their first victory?

He got the "best team player" acknowledgement at the end of the game...as in he let the rest of the team do the work :)

Had fun, though!

This week...
Justin was gone Mon-Fri doing Arabic interpreting at Fort Erwin in Barstow.
I stayed up too late.
Ate too much.
Went through old pictures and found this:

May 2007 - Owen inspecting a washed up puffer fish on Cape Lookout in NC

Do you know what this means???

That this little puffer could be what started Owen's little obsession (see here) and we had no idea!

I don't think we even knew this was a puffer at the time.

A life changing discovery.

Oh and Sally is now in nursery! Weird that Sally and Drew are in there together. Drew is so over nursery. He's been in there forever. Sally did awesome. Yay!

A Girl

Drew: I wish I had a remote controller to turn me into a girl.

Me: Why do you want to be a girl?

Drew: So I could paint my toenails.

Culture for the Week

The Monterey Museum of Art
featuring art from children's books.

I just barely read Babar for the first time in my life this week.
And I love him.

All this plus some bonding w/the older women of our ward.

I am now just a little bit smarter.

Is that a word...smarter?

Compare and Contrast

9/3
You would think we forced Owen to play soccer by these pictures.

But he asked out of the blue when it was time to play again.

And after we signed him up he asked almost daily
when his coach was going to call about the 1st practice.

1st practice came and this is what we got.

Then this morning he woke up saying how much fun soccer was.

Hmmm....

I'll just let him think he had fun and not show him these pictures.


Justin had a good soccer season w/his Marine DLI team.

His pictures above are from the final game.

They scored a goal at literally the last second.

8/31

We love soccer!

I think. :)

Slumber Party

We got to have Felicity over while she waited for her new brother to be born.

She & Sally enjoyed some Bakugan and Pokemon in the bathroom.

Don't be too jealous of our sexy linoleum...it's a rental!

The Prop of the Day:

The Boogie Board.

Drew was there but he was busy using the beach
and Sally as his urinal.

Pre-pee:

8/28 - Marina State Beach

This is the opening scene for Baywatch Kids.

A Big Flower

I want to win this one bad.

Teacher's Pet Cardi, Simple Tee, and Poppy Skirt Giveaway on Grosgrain Fabulous

Donuts for Dinner

All that fresh produce I got yesterday and we had donuts for dinner.

That's healthy, right?

If you want to be healthy like us, here's the recipe.

They were good.

Chef Walk

K this is probably one of my most favorite things I've done here...The Chef Walk at Earthbound Farms.

A local chef and an Earthbound Farmer walked us through their local fields and herb gardens and we got to load up on pretty much whatever we wanted (above w/onions...below w/lettuce).

w/Danna (who is due tomorrow might I add)

Baskets full!

Herbs, lemons, snapdragons, spinach, lettuce (4 kinds), yellow squash, onions, zucchini, patty pan squash, kale, beet greens...

Then we got a little cooking demo by Brandon Miller (local chef...just left Stokes (where we had our last anniversary dinner) who is now at Mundaka (Spanish restaurant that I want to try...next anniversary?))
He and the host (Mark from EB Farms) thought they were comedians.

The dish we got to try was so good (warm summer squash w/almonds).

I thought we were cool to take a picture with someone who has famous chef friends. He has worked under Michael Chiarello (and confirmed he's not the nicest person to work with...I just saw that not nice side of Mr. Chiarello on Top Chef Masters). And he's friends w/Mario Batali.

Anyway, we're excited to go again at next month's where we'll get tomatoes! You know I love tomatoes.