I love Coronado!!!!

Last week the boys and I did our yearly trip down to Coronado. Every year for the last 10 or 12 years we go down to spend time with my folks at their time share on Coronado island across from the beautiful Hotel Del Coronado. We had a wonderful time. On the first day we went to Loews Resort where we have pool use and just soaked up the sun and swam all day. It was such a BEAUTIFUL day!! The boys were in the water the whole time and JoJo is getting better and better at swimming. I wish I could put him in swim lessons. He is such a fish.



On day two we did the treck down to the beach for surf and sand. It was pretty windy and overcast at first, but the sun eventually came out. We went to the tidepools and caught crabs, found some sand dollars, and showed the anemones to JoJo. He liked to look but not to touch. Then we built a sand castles and the boys and I had fun tossing the football around. I should have been a NFL quarterback - I got skills! It was a wonderful but too short two days and we are already looking forward to next summer!!!

Football is...

I really do love football. I know I may complain and moan about how time consuming it is - but when you get down to it - I LOVE IT!! I love the hitting, the cracking of helmets, the driving through the line, the shear thrill of it all. You all better come to some of my boys' games this year - you'll see how much I show my love during the game!

Mother's Day and Birthdays

>I had a wonderful time tonight with my 2 sissies and my mom. We finally were able to take some time out to celebrate Mother's Day and all of our B-days. Only 4 months late, but no biggie. We have been trying since April to do this - just goes to show how busy we all are. Barb turned 36 this year, Deb, 40, Wow! and I turned 34. All of our birthdays are in a week of each other and then a week and a half later is Mother's Day. It's hard to find the time to cram all that celebrating in along with the end of the school year, Mom's Sacramento trip, Volleyball, and Baseball.

Tonight we went to see the movie "No Reservations" with Catherine Zeta-Jones (who I normally don't care for) BUT it was really good for a chick flick. Usually I avoid romantic comedies as a rule, but it was very enjoyable and I'm glad I saw it. It was funny, sad, romantic, and had a great story line. I laughed - I cried - it became a part of me.Then we had dinner at Olive Garden, which was delicious as always - but the best part was then going to BJ's for chocolote chunk pazookie. Probably the BEST dessert in the world! We also tried the brownie pazookie which was good, but can't compare to the OG style.

It was so nice to just be the three of us. I can't remember the last time we did something like this. We have decided to do it on a more regular basis. I would encourage anyone else with sissies and a mom that live locally to do the same. It is so fun to just be the girls. We laughed so hard and the conversation covered everything from religion to how we could make our mouths look as ugly as possible. (I was told I look like a sea bass and Barb is a wide mouth frog)

Good times, Good times

Are you ready for some football!?!

Football is in full swing now. The boys got their equipment this weekend and Marcus had his first practice last night. He was so jazzed. He was watching tv Sunday night with his helmet on and was up and dressed first thing Monday morning - even though practice isn't until 6:00. It was sweet though cuz he got JoJo all dressed in Elijah's gear and they went out back and had some fun running and tackling. Joseph is gonna be unstoppable when he is old enough to play. It looks like Elijah will be a receiver this year again - YEAH!!!! and we are all happy because he gets to keep his number that he's had for the last 3 years - #3. His old coach saw him and said it was really hard to give a #3 jersey to another kid this year cuz it has belonged to him for so long. Pray that they will have a fun and safe season - and win!



JoJo in his 3 point stance
Cracking heads!!!!
Scoring a touchdown!!!

What a Difference!

In stark contrast to my last post, Heath and I worked Fishfest yesterday. It was amazing! While we didn't even make $10 in tips, being there was payment enough. It was so awesome to see "God's People" coming together to have fun, rock out, and worship God. I love to see grown big, burly men standing up, hands raised, singing out to the Lord. I love see women doing it too, it's just neat to see men being humble before their God and not caring who sees it. It is so the opposite of what men are taught to be these days. There were people raising their hands in worship while Chris Tomlin lead us all in song and people banging their heads to Kutless. There was such a variety of people. Young and old, black, white, hispanic, asian, etc. Everyone was gracious, friendly, and just plain nice. Unlike all the other concerts we work, people actually threw all their trash away and there weren't any fights for security to break up. Nobody cussed at us for not being able to give out cups or for the ridiculously high prices for everything.($4.50 for a bottle of soda)
It was a refreshing and pleasant example of how we, who are called to be different in this world, should be at all times. And best of all.... nobody peed in the bushes!!!

Aaron Shust was REALLY good!
Mercy Me warming up - they were awesome!
Burly man worshipping!
Kutluss rocked! They got the whole place praising God!

The Joys of Being a Beer Girl

This week my BFF and I worked the Rush concert. We got to serve beer to a bunch of 40+ rockers. It was super fun. The best is when these 40+ boys, yes I said boys, get so drunk that they can't find the bathroom. Here are some fun candid (clean)photos Heather took of this. Other than this it was a lot of fun. How couldn't it be? We get to work together for 5 hours and get paid to do it! We either lead really sad lives or just love being together, cuz we really look forward to working these concerts together. We get to work FishFest this weekend and while we will not be serving any beer and making only a fraction of the money, I am looking forward to the show. Here we are in our sweet "uniforms"


The best was the night before when we had to go to this "alcohol servers" class where I think we both got officially dumbed down by the dork that ran the class. The last time I was treated this stupid was when this guy I know tried to tell me that, yes,it was his car that I saw parked in this other girls driveway at midnight, but his friend had borrowed it was apparantly sleeping with her too. I guess I do have the "I'm Stupid" sign across my forehead after all. But that is a subject for another time. Needless to say we were bored to tears so we decided to take pics.

Srappin' Weekend

Just got back the other day from a relaxing weekend with my other best friend Aliki at her parents vacation home in La Quinta. It was BEAUTIFUL!! We spent the majority of the weekend scrapbooking, swimming, and eating. I made a couple of mini albums and worked some more on the never ending project - my Disney album. Can't wait to go back soon!

wow - my own blog!!

Well as you can see my BFF has created a fun blog site for me to record the mundane events of my life. Not that there are many people who are interested, but it'll be fun.

Elijah started football today. This is his fourth season with the Cowboys and this year he has a new coach. We hope it will be a fun and exciting season.

Marcus starts football next week for the Wolverines. He decided to try one more nes style for his hair before sticking it into a helmet. After trying braids and realizing the pain is not worth it - he opted for twists this time. He looks too old - but very cute. He is quite the little hottie. I'm scared!

Joseph is getting to start preschool in the fall and had a fabulous pirate party that was a ton of fun!! I can't believe he is three already!