Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Sunny San Diego

Scott and I went on a quick weekend getaway to San Diego last weekend. We were there in February for a conference but we didn't have much time to explore so I left not knowing when we'd be back. Little did I know that he had been trying to plan a surfing trip w/ his friend who lives there so we were able to return sooner than I expected.
We had such a great time. San Diego is a cool city and the mid. century architecture made it fun to walk around. And the weather was much better than in Feb! Perfectly sunny and warm.
We caught up with some friends who we love dearly, wandered the Farmers Market in Little Italy, shopped and got to see The Drums in concert. Woot!

But I must say that the highlight of the trip for me was catching the Red Tide in Carlsbad on Friday night. Have you heard of this??? It was AMAZING.
The red algae blooming in the ocean makes the water dirty and red. But when the water is agitated, it activates the bioluminescence and it GLOWS. GLOWS! So at night there are neon blue waves lighting up the coast.

These are not my pics, I found them here.

Check out this video though to see it in action. It is seriously a wonderful phenomenon. Our earth is so beautiful!

Monday, October 10, 2011

Ohyeahbigstuff

September has passed by somewhat quietly. But two eventful things have happened around our house that are in need of recording. One: Do you remember me telling you about Elliet getting spacers to prep for braces? She got them about a week into school. The first band colors she chose were purple and black (whah??). She likes them and they make her (and me) look older.


Two: Oh yes. What you see is what you think. I was on a fun little getaway with some girlfriends in Laguna and Scott sends me a text with an image of Luke in the ER. They went to the park and Luke jumped off the equipment, snapping his ulna in two. Hm. Does this sound familiar? A little? Similar to his twin sister about five months ago? Ah twins. Tweeeeeennnzzz!! (insert image here of me shaking my fist)
Poor Luke. The following Monday we took him to the doc who confirmed he'd need surgery because of the dislocation from his elbow. He'd need pins like Sadie. Wednesday comes and we have surgery, only now the doc tells me the pins won't be adequate so he was given a plate to hold the bone in place. Oy. But everything will heal well and now he'll match his Dad - same arm, same bone, same plate (different time {college}, different situation {soccer, not park equip. Ha! That'd be a good story, though...}).

A few days later, we went to get his cast and he said he wanted a gold one. As in gold, like the 'brazen calf' gold. I told him they didn't do that. So then he said he wanted 'Rainbow'.
No.
Then I suggested he choose a pink one and maybe they could put kitties on it.
No, Mom.
He ended up with Red. I'll post of pic of that one soon, before it get's too gnarly and gross. He's already had it autographed.
OTHER THAN THAT, all is well around here. I love October. Halloween is upon us!!

Summer Time

As I try to catch up on posts here, I came across something I didn't want to forget. During the summer when we had some spare time (Ha! Seems so foreign during the school year), the kids and I set up a make shift miniature golf course upstairs. It was certainly flawed but gave them a good few days of fun! We have this building kit which consists of sticks and plastic balls with holes that you assemble like tinker toys. We put them together for our golf clubs and used tennis balls as the golf balls. Points were awarded according where the ball landed into colored hop-scotch rings, and books were stacked to make hills, tunnels and the final hole. Great fun!