Happy Halloween!!

Kellie and baby LuLu dressed up as a basketball player for Halloween...What a cute costume...if she were any further along she would have had to make it a beach ball...jk ;o)

I hope that you all had a safe and sane Halloween!

A Drive-By Visit

We were very luck to have a "Drive-By" visit from Grandma Virginia on laundry day. I know I call it laundry day but really it should be called "Grandma's day of lovin'" since I get to hug and squeeze and kiss and rock and dote on my babies. Anyway... as I was saying, my mom and Aunt Maddy stopped by with Great-Great-Grandma Virginia. She was too weak to get out of the car but we still had a nice visit from the car. She got to meet her latest great-great grandson, Calvin.
What a blessing it is to have our Grandma so near to us. We need to keep her in our prayers these days as she is in the hospital right now due to difficulty eating. They just put a feeding tube in her stomach so maybe she will start to improve soon.

Deep into Football Season

We are still head deep into football. This is a picture of Sam playing in last weeks game against Fountain Valley High School (JV). Although we haven't won too many games, it is sure fun to watch Sam play as though he is Reggie Bush ;o) Don't you just love that stiff arm? He even did the "Bush Push" in that game. Tonight he will be dressing out for Varsity against Los Alamitos and Friday he will be playing against their JV team.

An important New Study ;o)

Men With Cramps: Dr. Gerhardt Fardel's Study

An Important Study

Soooo Cute!

Christina and the Babies came over to visit Grandma a couple of weeks ago and we took this video of Calvin's bath....ahh....Good times!

OOPS! DO-OVER!





Baby Bath I on Vimeo

There...That's better

Here You Go Becca

Rebecca has been begging me to post some pictures of Calvin so here they are. These were taken on laundry day...I love laundry day....laundry day is when Christina and the babies come over to do laundry...it's usually on Thursdays...which makes for a happy grandma.. :o)

What a Nice Little Get-A-Way

Here is the view that we had from our "condo" that we stayed in last week. It was sooooo beautiful!! The condo and the view. Michael won a three day, two night stay at the Newport Coast Marriott resorts. It was a two bedroom, two bathroom full on condo. We had such a nice time. I really needed the break. It just so happened that we were celebrating our 30 year anniversary of our first date (October 8th).


We brought in yummy food from the Cheesecake Factory the first night and ate it in our little dining room.



The next morning we took off for the coast. We drove down to Cresent Bay and parked and took a nice walk on the beach...the weather was so perfect....they said it was supposed to rain but instead we had the most gorgeous weather. We even saw a seal out by the rocks.
(if you click on this picture, you can see his little head poking up)

After the beach we went shopping at the Crystal Cove Prominade and had lunch. We then had to jump back into reality for a while to see Sam play football out in Paramount. (they tied 21-21) But since we were still on vacation, we just said good-bye to everyone when it was over and went back out to our little adventure. We stopped off at the boat show in Long Beach on our way back to Newport...then had dinner at El Torito...mmmm

We had such a nice time, it was hard to come back to my real life in Huntington Beach...I'm not complaining, I have a wonderful life...it was just nice not having to worry about doing the things that need to be done and just doing what we wanted to...anyway, I would just like to thank my Mom and Dad for taking over with the boys and the dogs and the football practices and the driving them here and there and all of that stuff. Thanks for all you do... I love you!

Update

Finally we have had a winning weekend...whahoo!! Sam's JV team finally had their first win...it was against Colton...you may be asking "where the heck is Colton?"....well...I don't know for sure. I just know that it took the bus over three hours to get there through all of the afternoon traffic. The game was originally supposed to be a home game on Thursday, then they changed it to Saturday...Then at the last minute they changed it to Friday night out in Colton. Mike and I weren't very happy because we weren't able to go with such short notice. The sad thing was that Samuel was the star of the game. He scored the touchdown and tackled their quarterback for a two point safety. The final score was 9-8. I'm trying to find someone who video-taped the game so we can see Sam's plays.

Aaron's team also won their first game this Saturday. They played the Garden Grove team and won 13-0. Since this is Aaron's first year playing football, he doesn't get to play the whole game...just one quarter....but he is learning a lot and having fun being a part of the team.