Inspired by my aunt, Kathryn, Gregg and I enjoyed a nice dinner of this
to celebrate Dr. Seuss's 107th birthday.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Snowshoeing in Green Canyon
Gregg went skiing today.
I spent the morning in the lab.
But before you feel sorry for me, let me just show you what I did after my cells and mice were taken care of:
Yeah, it was a good day with my sis.
I spent the morning in the lab.
But before you feel sorry for me, let me just show you what I did after my cells and mice were taken care of:
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Miss Moo comes to visit
We got to spend Saturday evening in the company of a mighty adorable 2 1/2-year-old niece. And what a fun evening it was!
She kept us entertained by showing off her
letter
and number
and color
and animal (complete with sounds)
and body part
identification skills.
and number
and color
and animal (complete with sounds)
and body part
identification skills.
Miss Moo is one smart cookie.
We colored and stickered and read stories and watched Despicable Me.
And we may or may not have taught her a new cheer: "Go Aggies!"
And then she put herself to bed on her pink hippo pillow/sleeping bag combo.
Talk about easiest babysitting job ever!
Thanks for coming to play, Melia!
And a note to any other nieces or nephews who may be reading this blog:
we'd love to have you come visit and play, too!
Sunday, January 9, 2011
As Good as it Gets
No sense wasting time with words, I'll let the pictures do the talking. Just know this, when you combine warm weather, soft sand, the happiest place on earth, good food, temples, sunsets, and a rock-awesome traveling partner...let's just say, its hard to beat.
Day 1 - Walking through the surf at Newport Beach. Just after we hit up In-n-Out before soaking it up in the hot tub before a rather early bedtime.
Day 2 - Disneyland! Woot! On the bridge in Tarzan's treehouse. The lines were great all day. Most rides had about a 5-10 minute wait. Both Space Mtn and the Matternhorn were around 15-20. Autopia was about 25 but we were lucky enough to go at the absolute busiest time. Go figure.
Lunch of some bodaciously large corn-dogs at a little spot by the Golden Horseshoe.
Waiting in line (fast pass of course) at the Indiana Jones ride.
Walt has a mouse to pose with. I get a cute girl.
The Autopia hillsides flying by at over 5mph.
We wanted a picture with Mickey. The only way to get one these days is to wait in a super awkward line at his house and be escorted into his presence by two...um...interesting Disneyland staff guys.
Dinner of Steak Gumbo (for Kim) and Clam Chowder (for me) in breadbowls. Tasty viddles indeed.
Day 3 - We spend the day at the beach watching surfers, collecting shells, and playing a little frisbee. Kim's ultra-fabulous photography skills even captured this rather awesome shot a Huntington Beach local.
Also day 3, we got to see a pretty amazing sunset. The next picture shows the colors a little better. This picture was taken from the Seal Beach pier.
Surfers and sunsets, a snazzy combination. Right after Kim snagged this shot we headed to Kinda Lahaina in Seal Beach (where we ate last year as a family) for some seafood.
Day 4 - We caught a session at the Newport Beach temple to start our day before heading back to Anaheim for the afternoon.
We spent the evening in Downtown Disney, window shopping a bit. Legoland was particularly cool.
And finally, a nice California Pizza Kitchen dinner to end the week. Quite tasty.
Day 1 - Walking through the surf at Newport Beach. Just after we hit up In-n-Out before soaking it up in the hot tub before a rather early bedtime.
Day 2 - Disneyland! Woot! On the bridge in Tarzan's treehouse. The lines were great all day. Most rides had about a 5-10 minute wait. Both Space Mtn and the Matternhorn were around 15-20. Autopia was about 25 but we were lucky enough to go at the absolute busiest time. Go figure.
Lunch of some bodaciously large corn-dogs at a little spot by the Golden Horseshoe.
Waiting in line (fast pass of course) at the Indiana Jones ride.
Walt has a mouse to pose with. I get a cute girl.
The Autopia hillsides flying by at over 5mph.
We wanted a picture with Mickey. The only way to get one these days is to wait in a super awkward line at his house and be escorted into his presence by two...um...interesting Disneyland staff guys.
Dinner of Steak Gumbo (for Kim) and Clam Chowder (for me) in breadbowls. Tasty viddles indeed.
Day 3 - We spend the day at the beach watching surfers, collecting shells, and playing a little frisbee. Kim's ultra-fabulous photography skills even captured this rather awesome shot a Huntington Beach local.
Also day 3, we got to see a pretty amazing sunset. The next picture shows the colors a little better. This picture was taken from the Seal Beach pier.
Surfers and sunsets, a snazzy combination. Right after Kim snagged this shot we headed to Kinda Lahaina in Seal Beach (where we ate last year as a family) for some seafood.
Day 4 - We caught a session at the Newport Beach temple to start our day before heading back to Anaheim for the afternoon.
We spent the evening in Downtown Disney, window shopping a bit. Legoland was particularly cool.
And finally, a nice California Pizza Kitchen dinner to end the week. Quite tasty.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Stockings and Skiing
For the FHE before Christmas we decided to try our hand at the fine art of stocking-making. We learned a couple of key things in this process:
1) Never trust ehow.com for accurate instructions on how to make a Christmas stocking
2) Always have a husband on hand who thrives off of jimmy-rigging things -- it saves a wife like me from having a sewing melt-down five days before Christmas
Turns out, they look quite nice (just don't look too closely!) and they were perfectly functional come Christmas morning, stuffed full of fun goodies.
One of the perks of watching three ski movies in a span of a month or so is all the free stuff they gave away/raffled off to viewers like us. At the first movie, Gregg won a sweet Flylow ski jacket, which was too small for him, but just happened to fit me perfectly! (Score!) The next two movies provided free day passes to a couple of ski resorts, so we decided to put both the jacket and the pass to Wolf Mountain to good use on the 28th. While it wasn't the sunniest of ski days, we still had a marvelous time.
(Coincidentally, it was also our four month anniversary. Yeah, this is the life.)
1) Never trust ehow.com for accurate instructions on how to make a Christmas stocking
2) Always have a husband on hand who thrives off of jimmy-rigging things -- it saves a wife like me from having a sewing melt-down five days before Christmas
Turns out, they look quite nice (just don't look too closely!) and they were perfectly functional come Christmas morning, stuffed full of fun goodies.
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One of the perks of watching three ski movies in a span of a month or so is all the free stuff they gave away/raffled off to viewers like us. At the first movie, Gregg won a sweet Flylow ski jacket, which was too small for him, but just happened to fit me perfectly! (Score!) The next two movies provided free day passes to a couple of ski resorts, so we decided to put both the jacket and the pass to Wolf Mountain to good use on the 28th. While it wasn't the sunniest of ski days, we still had a marvelous time.
(Coincidentally, it was also our four month anniversary. Yeah, this is the life.)
Thursday, December 9, 2010
100 Days
.... and counting*
*at the time of publication of this post we're up to one hundred and three
*at the time of publication of this post we're up to one hundred and three
O Tannenbaum
one freshly cut fir = $14.00
one heavy duty tree stand = $12.00
(we don't have a saw, but that didn't stop Gregg from using our 'saw knife' from the knife block)
(note the swell tv fire, complete with popping fire sounds to add to the ambiance)
four hundred twinkling, colored lights = $11.52
our first Christmas tree = priceless
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