Polaroid Thursday

A few Polaroids to look at on this fine Thursday! I am glad this week is almost over, I need to hear from a certain job, and this blogging is keeping my busy for the time being.

i think someone had worn my glasses before me

Under the Sea was the name of it, narrated by Jim Carrey

Golden Gate, wow that sailboat is in a perfect spot

she is already a month+

Sometimes it takes a village

Do you every think about how every little choice you make totally affects if something awesome will happen. It sounds like something amazing happened to me, but mostly what happened was a 10% off perk at the end of the day.
My sister Emily was here this last weekend to visit Anne, Mike and Lucy and while we were grocery shopping for them she taught me everything she knows about coupon clipping and saving more than you spend at the store. But yesterday I learned one more tip!
I needed a floor bike pump and decided to bike to my local Alameda Bicycle shop. But of course needed to carry my keys, wallet, phone, and chap stick so I grabbed my old yellowish purse, but remembering the last time I biked with it, how I shredded the bottom of the purse in my wheel well, I decided to use my handmade purse. So I headed down to park street and stopped in an alternative bike store to check their prices. As I was leaving and dissatisfied with their $55 pump the 70 year old store owner said "nice rack" which was incredibly funny since I have never heard anyone say that seriously about someones bike. Next I walked my bike down the street to Alameda Bicycle and as I was checking out a lady interrupts to ask me where I got my bag! Which I was first of all so shocked that anyone would notice, but I told her I made it out of my JetBlue blanket. When the Bike shop owner said "Hurray for recycling and reusing- you get 10% off just for that." Where I immediately said thank you to the lady for liking my purse.
I almost left that purse at home, and if I hadn't stopped in that other store with the weird old man that lady and I would not have been at the register at the same time. Timing it is everything!

Saturday in San Francisco

This last weekend we headed to the city in the afternoon to meet up with some friends.

Bath Basins- my sister Anne's favorite place

Kc and I being weird

The Ormes, Bellisarios, Fujikawas, and Packers

Laughing at the duck who ate Kc's luggie

I love living so close to the city, especially because friends are more inclined to visit! Hint Hint

Fool Me Once...

Every month on either the 3rd of 4th Thursday we are invited to inservice meetings at the institute building in Hayward where we meet with the local teachers in the stake along with the CES leadership to talk about how seminary is going and all that good stuff. We get one of these invitations in the mail about a week before each one. So this one comes in the mail and I got really excited with good reason...don't you think?

...So Molly and I get all spruced up on a nice Friday night to go have an "Evening WITH Elder Quentin L. Cook." We walk in the building only to find out that we had to huddle around a 15" TV and watch a broadcast from SLC. Call me naive...I know he's from the Bay Area and I thought to myself, especially after reading the invite, when we got this in the mail, "Cool, he's probably in town visiting with some family and wanted to have a fireside with the local CES people." I'm confident that I wasn't the only one fooled because there was a big showing. All I have to say is Kudos to you Brother Remington for great advertising and for making me think that one of the 12 would be in town to share a special night with us. But in all seriousness it was a great talk. Even though he wasn't there in person it was good to get out on a Friday night for a very uplifting experience with my wife.

Week with Daddio

I just got back from hanging out with my Dad for a whole week. It was a lot of fun- and a lot of work. My Mom had come to San Francisco to help my sister Anne with new baby, Lucy. So I went down to help at the office and hangout with my Dad. We managed to do other things besides just Zerorez, I went inside the LA temple for the first time, and to a Laker game- it was fun just the two of us all week.
I found a really old journal of my mom's while I was there and read a few entries from 1983, right before Martha and I were born and a little while after. Some of the funny parts were how my Mom and Dad didn't know they were having twins until two months before we were born and they didn't find out the sex before we were born. Then my Mom wrote how if she took her eyes off of Anne when she was just 2 years old, she would "step on us, slap, and pinch us." Haha, no wonder I have a high tolerance for pain. My mom also wrote about how Anne's hair got wrapped around Martha's toe so badly that is almost had to be taken off. How I drank toxic material and my favorite, how Martha got her head stuck in a Barbie Toy Bus. Awesome. I am so glad she wrote a few entries in her journal so I can uncover them while she is away.

Sweetest Swing in Baseball

I have been one happy camper the past few days for this reason:

Ken Griffey Jr. has decided to come back to Seattle for possibly his last season and there's no place better for him to finish a great career that started in the Emerald City. The Mariner's play in one of the most beautiful parks in baseball thanks to Ken. Safeco field is truly the house that Griffey built. I remember the day when Griffey came back to Seattle for the first time since he had been traded to the Reds. They had a presentation prepared for "The Kid" in the pregame and it was seriously one of the coolest things I've ever seen. The city is absolutely in love with him and I think it's safe to say that A LOT of people, including myself, fell in love with baseball because of what Griffey was able to do in a Mariner's uniform. I know he's 39 years old and there's only so much left in the tank but there's no place better for Griffey to be than in Seattle. So this is a tribute to the guy who puts his bat on the ball the way that no one else can...."Swung on and belted, deep to right field...bring out your rye bread and musturd grandma....My Oh My" I tip my hat to you Griffey and the excellent decision you've made to return to the team that I love because of your sweet swing.

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200902183847400

Baby Packer Weekend

I had been waiting for this past weekend for a very long time. I was so anxious and excited for my older sister Anne to have her first baby girl. My parents, and sisters Josie and Martha all came up to support Anne and Mike, along with Mike's parents. We had a great weekend and were so blessed to have the c-section and surgery go well. Anne and Mike are going to be wonderful parents and have shown that already this weekend. It was a struggle for them to decide on the perfect name, but signing papers before they left the hospital forced them to choose one today and they decided on Lucy Jean Packer! She is so cute and such a trooper. We are going to love living close to see all of her little changes.

sleepover at Anne's apartment

Anne and Mike right before the delivery

Anne and Mike right after the delivery waiting for an update on the baby

Beautiful new mom...Anne

Lucy Jean Packer, 5 lbs. 11 oz., 18 inches