Embarrassing

"So I guess these are the rules.. [Kristen Borland] tagged me for this. I think the rules are that you have to take a photo of yourself as soon as you see you've been tagged and you're not allowed to primp or get all dolled up...."

Really Kristen, do I have to do this? I suppose not, but I'm not that vain so here I am. Make up smudged, hair pulled back, funky pose.... Actually the only reason I did have any make-up on at all at one point is that I took my dad out to lunch for father's day the day I got tagged on this blog. If only I'd checked Kristen's blog before I left for lunch, I might have looked a little better? =)

Tag you're it! Cara, Becky, Jeannett and Joanie =)

My compassionate daughter

We had a fly in our house this morning that was being annoying.

Daddy killed it with the fly swatter.

The girl crawled up to the fly carcass that was laying on the floor and said,

"I'm sorry fly, but you can't bug us. I'm so sorry."

=)

My View

I think I mentioned that the weekend of my high school reunion Jen put together a breakfast for just our friends to come to. This picture perfectly portrays my experience that morning. I was there, but most of my focus was on this cute little boy. It was wonderful and I really enjoyed seeing everyone, but I didn't get the time to really connect because I was chasing around this little guy as he explored his new surroundings. Does anyone else feel like friendships are really hard at this stage of life?

On the flip side of chasing a new toddler, I didn't even see the girl the whole time. She and Kaylin (Allison's little girl) played, and played and played. She had such a great time. We miss you Kaylin! =)

(side note: jen is not smoking a cigarette even though it looks that way for some reason. =) ).

In Memory of Michael Jackson

Did you hear that Michael Jackson died yesterday?

I was never a hardcore fan, but I know and enjoy most of his songs. I remember loving his egyptian "Do you remember the time" music video in Jr. High. I remember listening to the Thriller album with my friend Jacob and watching him try to do the moon walk. =)

I'm not all that sad. I'm not all that surprised. He hasn't been very healthy for the last 15 years or so. But if my life were a soundtrack his songs would be an important part of the play list, so I'm feeling a little bit nostolgic.

What is your reaction?

I also can't help but remember Brianna's interaction with him during his trials when they lived in Santa Maria. (See #94 in this post. And refrence to him here too) =)

Brianna, didn't you get stuck behind his motorcade (or in front of it) or something once? =)

Father's Day

Daddy and the boy in the "tree cave"

Mommy and the girl

Daddy carrying both kids. =)

Enjoying the view

We found the exact spot where we got engaged!

Stopping in the "tree cave" again on the way back down

Can you see her shoes? Yep, we found sparkly pink TENNIS shoes!

For Father's Day my husband wanted to take our daughter on a hike. Hiking was one of our favorite things to do when we were dating and before kids. We haven't been on a single hike since the girl was born and lately she has been telling her Daddy that she wants to go to the top of a mountain. So we decided to hike up Islay. It's a relativly easy hike and she actually did REALLY well. She only had to be carried a little bit when it got steep. It was really great to have some family time, just the four of us. We don't get time like that very often.

We took a bunch of pictures in the "tree cave" half way to the top. It was great. My children are blessed to have this man as a father.

After the hike we stopped to have lunch with Grammy and Pops Blair. My dad wrote a beautiful post for me and my siblings in honor of father's day and shared it with us. I don't have the words to express how thankful I am for my Daddy.

After lunch everyone headed to the baseball field to watch my brother play a little ball and I went to work. It doesn't get much better than a hike, yummy lunch and baseball for this daddy. =) Happy Father's Day!!

Twitter for Food

The next twitter for food event is coming up in less than one week. Are you in?

Another Farmer's Market

SLO Grown Organics got invited to do the Wednesday morning farmer's market in A.G. too! My hard working husband will be out there this morning at 8:30am.

On another subject he also asked me to get rid of all the last names in my SLOHS Reunion Post, so it will be updated shortly to have first names only. If you happen to be interested in seeing the original post with last names, I'll save it and I can e-mail it to you.