Summer

Here is to our first day of summer. It was 98 degrees and we were hot.

SCHOOLS OUT FOR THE SUMMER! (actually 2 weeks and then summer school, but hey that sounds great to me!)

my happy place

My grandfather loved to garden. He actually started the community garden at his house in Red Fox Hills when we were little kids. I will never forget walking down those old wooden steps past the blackberry bushes into the green belt by Trion creek. It made him happy. Up until the week he died he was working in my mom's perrenial garden at our Redmond house. It was his happy place.

I'm named after my grandmother and I am going to name my first daughter after her (and my best friend since I was born), but I definately inhereted Pop's green thumb. There is something about getting dirt under my fingernails and wet patches on my knees that makes me feel like I was just on vacation for a week in mexico drinking margaritas and eating my weight in chips and fresh salsa.

This year I am growing tomatos, peppers, basil, and chives. And roses, and cactus, and a palm tree, and a grapefruit tree, and strawberries, and kangaroo paw, and an orchid, and a hydrangea, and some jade plants, a honeysuckle, bouganvilla, and some other kind of vine that was dying but needed a little love and my Christmas tree.

Its the one place that nobody gets to ask me to do anything for them. Its the only place where I don't have to be in charge. I just get to give them water, pull out the weeds, trim and

Football Widow

June 8-12 University Nevada Reno camp
June 14-15 USC camp
Red eye flight to Memphis (14th at 11)
June 16-18 University of Memphis camp
June 19-22 USC camps
June 24 USC camp
June 28 - July 5th FCA football camp

I love football.
I love my husband's job.
I am so glad he is a football coach.

I miss my husband..
Its hard to sleep.

holy moly.. has it really been a month? So here is what has happened in the last month:

1. Katie graduated from USC! Fight on!!

2. My whole family was here and we went to disneyland (the happiest place on earth except my cell phone got stolen...which reminds me, if you can text me your number because I lost them all!)

3. We went camping with our friends in San Diego for Memorial Day weekend. It was 45 degrees the entire weekend, but we kept the fire going and cooked a lot of good food.

4. I had cheer tryouts for El Camino. Keep in mind last year I had a team of 14 go down to 6 by the end of the year... 65 girls came to tryouts. I kept 42. I have no idea what I have gotten myself into.

5. Our friend Jessica got married

6. Dave went to Reno for work (boy playtime football camp..ha ha. that is an inside joke with my husband sorry).

7. I have been planning my friend's bridal shower and took their engagement photos

8. We had our cheer banquet

9. I'm looking for a permanent teaching job since I am 4 classes away from my masters degree.

10. My cousin moved home to a trailer to help her parents work on the house and dream about dreaming..

11. I'm sitting in my house alone exhausted thinking about what I have to get ready for uniform fittings for tomorrow.... I think I am done thinking. yep. check on that one.

Here are my pedro cheerleaders... wow I am getting old.

THIS CRAZY BEAUTIFUL LIFE...

CRAZY WEEKEND. FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE IN TOWN FOR THE WEEKEND, A FOOTBALL CAMP COACHING SNOOP DOGG'S SON, A BABY SHOWER FIT FOR ROYALTY, A FOOTBALL GAME, AND SOME GOOD FAMILY TIME. PERFECT. NOW WE ARE A WEE BIT TIRED AND SPACING OUT TO CSI MIAMI TONIGHT.. BILLS STILL SITTING IN A PILE ON THE FLOOR.

Dodger Fans

So it has been in the 90's this weekend. Perfect timing to go to a baseball game in the reserve section (ie the nose bleeds) at 1 in the afternoon on Sunday for Coba's birthday. It was hot and we drank a lot of water. And guess what? They sell veggie dogs at Dodger Stadium.

Today we went hiking in Malibu. It was surreal to drive 30 minutes from our house and be in the middle of the mountains hiking along a stream. It was nice that it was almost 90 degrees and we could hike in our bathing suits. Dave let me know this morning that this year there is an unusually high number of rattle snakes in Malibu canyon. Perfect. We hiked up to this stream and pool with sandwiches and fruit salad. Kate and I swam (or rather stood neck high in freezing cold water... not the 90 degree weather didn't make it OK) while Dave and Duron hiked around and jumped off rocks. They tried to convince us to swim across the water to the big jumping rock but we were freezing. I think Duron realized how cold it really was when he had to swim back across after sitting on the rock for a half hour watching these crazy guys jump off a 40 foot cliff. Dave jumped in and swam back while Duron scaled the rock walls around to the path barefoot. He has size 14 feet so they looked a little more like paddles than shoes (ha ha that's for you Kate and D :). So we made it safe without any rattler encounters, but we saw a lot of lizards, bugs, heard some bullfrogs, and a little gofer peeked out of his hole and tried to make friends with us. Afterward our hike and swim we treated ourselves to some ice cream. First time I had any since I went vegan. I only made it through half a scoop before my tummy said "that is all thank you!" Now we are home and have all of the doors open and the fan on. Sounds like a good night for some tacos and coronas. I think my house might combust if I turned on the stove...