8-5-09 Play day, finally!

Maddie & her buddie Eli, finally get a chance to play together at the park!

You never could tell that Simon, this sweet little baby boy, has spent the last month in the hospital! Thank God, he is finally home & doing well!!

July 27, 2009 Stylin'

Here I am, modeling our brand new car, 2009 Nissan Altima! We traded in our Chevy Tahoe, for a car that will get around twice the gas mileage, had 8 miles on it & costs us about the same! Actually, will probably cost us less because we won't be using as much gas! It has been so fun driving this car. But I must be careful to watch my speed-it just goes sooooo smoothly. Most definitely must use cruise control! Added benefit? Free car washes!

7-25-09 25th wedding anniversary party

Here are a few pictures from our 25th wedding anniversary party. Thank you to the kids, with the help of both sets of our parents, for putting it all together.Maddie couldn't wait for cake, so she got to enjoy 1 of NaiNai's cupcakes!

Lindsay modeling my wedding dress!
Who knows what I was saying!!!

7-23-09 One "Tow-riffic "morning

Look what happens when you taking Matt driving! haha Michael had taken Matt driving the night before over at the high school. When they had finished their lesson and changing drivers, the car would not start again. So the next day Maddie & I went to wait for the tow truck. She enjoyed watching it load the car up. She kept calling the tow truck, Mater, from the movie Cars. (To add to the fun, there was a Coast Guard helicopter hovering over the beach just past the high school. If you know the movie Cars, there is a part towards the end where Mater, the tow truck, flies over in a helicopter!!! You can imagine the excitement for Maddie!!)

7-21-09 25th anniversary

We went for a quick, but yummy dinner up to Cambria to Main Street Grill. They have such a yummy steak cobb salad! mmmm Lindsay was working, so Matt babysat Maddie for us. After a quick dinner it was off to church for a VBS meeting.

Happy anniversary honey! Here's to at least another 25 years! I love you!

Ouch!!! July 7, 2009

Matt has an owie! He was playing basketball at Cuesta with the MBHS boys summer basketball team and stumbled over another player. (He had started in this game & it was less then 5 minutes into the game.) When he landed, he landed on his wrist. We saw him get up holding his wrist, but he was at the far end of the court, so we couldn't really see his wrist, yet. But as he came walking up to us, we knew something was wrong. We got some ice on it, but he wanted to stay until half time! What a trooper! But you could see he was hurting as he was watching the game-his feet & legs kept moving! At halftime, I went to give him some advil. But when I looked at him, I told him we were going to the ER. Now! No argument from him. We dropped Michael & Maddie off at home & off we went to the ER. Matt even wanted me to bring the camera! We were in & out of the ER within an hour! Complete with a partial cast & some pain pills!

The only one allowed to sign his cast...Maddie!

4th of July! Making ice cream

here is daddy & Maddie making good ole fashioned homemade ice cream...

mmmmm yummy! This is how we spent our 4th of July. Lindsay was with friends in Cayucos & Matt was out of town at one of his basketball tournaments, so it was just the 3 of us. We barbecued tri-tip & had cheesy potatoes. Morro Bay was scheduled to have a "laser light show" which sounded incredibly lame (and it truly lived up to being beyond horribly lame). Glad we just watched it on TV. We watched a really neat fireworks show from Washington DC. Lindsay sent us a little video from her phone of the fireworks in Cayucos-we enjoyed watching those too! So we had a very relaxing 4th of July, at home.