Spring Break '09

This last week Kc and I took a break and headed down to my parents house. We celebrated Martha and my birthday with the whole family (except Anne, Mike and Lucy) and tried to soak up some sun-my favorite. Here I have attached way too many pictures, but I could not decide which ones to take out. We had such a great time it was hard to leave and come back to school and work. Some of the highlights were Disneyland, Dinner at Duke's, Knotts Berry Farm, Kc mountain biking with Eric, fetching millions of mini bballs out of the freezing pool so the kids could shoot on the pool bball hoop, cdm beach, hanging out with Martha on our birthday, manicures, and much more! Thanks family for everything. p.s. Josie and Mom my kitchen looks like a little greenhouse! I love it.

Ethan had the largest cheering section

Ethan waiting on the bench for his at bat, this big guy never needed the T, only coach pitch

Kc and Shelby making drip sand castles

Cohen finally putting on his shirt Anne bought for him, such a cutie!

All the kids together (Cohen, Ethan, Drew, Shelby and Sam)

Celebrity spotting at Duke's Restaurant. Wee-Man & woman waiting for their valeted phantom

Cohen getting a facial from Ethan with a palm tree branch

Kc giving Sam the game plan to run

This little guy is hard to keep still, he runs all over the place

Teacups part II- my favorite non fast track ride

Mikey Man

Toon Town weightlifting

Madhatter

Finding Nemo ride, our first time since it opened. Pretty Cool!

Nemo Submarines

Soaked on Splash Mountain, sitting in front was not a good idea

Splash Mtn faces

If you go to Disneyland and see the cool tall grass area that looks like it could be a new ride, called the Pixie Forest don't go- unless you are a 5 to 10 year old girl. Kc and I could not tell what was at the end of the long line- but thought it must be cool. We ended up waiting for over a half hour and all it was was a photo op with Tinkerbell and one of her fellow fairies. Kc learned guys are pixies not fairies though. So that was cool. Tinkerbell made me pose with my hands on my hips with attitude, it was all I could do to get out of there.

Teacups part I- I love the colors on that ride.

I loved going to Disneyland for free on my birthday. I wore a large pin that said Happy Birthday Molly. I saw hundreds of people with my same birthday, and all day people stop and tell you Happy Birthday- most of them are paid to though. Everyone should take advantage of the 2009 marketing scheme of free admission on your Birthday. Bibbiddy Bobbiddy Boo!

loving it wish list

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.