Spring Break 08 in the OC

80 degree beach days for a solid week. I come home and wake up to 4" of snow at the house and 11" at the Bird. My only mistake was not continuing my vacation and headed out snowboarding this morning.
We had a blast going on long island walks with the kids, alone, and together. Big Corona with the boys. A short surf lesson for H down at Blackies/Newport Pier (we'll get him a wetsuit next time).
I went down to Trestles solo and then again w/ Mateo. Best waves of my life. Pedro's Tacos. Who needs the Magic Kingdom. The boys didn't even want to go. Thanks to Sue & Dave for the accomodations, Mateo and Clan for bbq, and Phelps for the hangout pad.

AZ Baseball

Just returned from a long drive. Along the way we stopped at the AZ Grandparents and a couple of Spring Training baseball games. I just wanted to emphasize the ratio of driving to pleasure time. The drive was worth it. We had Uncle Mateo and Zach to enjoy the trip with us. Thanks to the Grandparents for room and board, and to the Nally's for coming over for an early b-day party and pinata smashing event.

Trust me, It's fake

I'm talking about the fur around the hood on ak's jakt. Saturday snowboarding is the reward you get for getting H & O up at the cracatoa of dawn, feed them, scour the house for gloves and the rest of their gear. Then, once you've found parking at the 'Bird, you have to suffer the screams from breaking their ankles while wedging their feet into ski boots. Once they are checked into their lessons the reward begins. For ak, it was a nice powder day.
My day didn't turn out half bad either:

• Tear the dishwasher apart in an attempt to fix
• Church ball
• Molcasalsa w/ JB (who was brave enough to ref bullet #2)
• Hang w/ my favorite 6'1" sister DK
• Cruising the aisles of REI w/ Penele
  

Squirrel Suit Base Jumping?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3y0IcmPcAw

This stuff is so crazy. AK still thinks this is so fake, but I'm a believer. She compared this to E.T. and Elliott flying across the sky.

Spring Training

Looking for some warm weather (although not sick of the snow here in UT yet), we'll be heading down for some baseball in Phoenix. We'll hit the Peoria Complex to watch the Padres. Whenever I say Padres, H thinks I'm saying Pod-Race (Star Wars), and he thinks we're going to watch a Pod-Race.

March 7-9 in AZ, and the boys think they'll be swimming in Grammy's pool. They are brave.

Sledding Follow-up

What's up with stores trying to jam me for $40 for a foam sled?! I guess when they know that all the Costcos are out of them they can jam you. I almost paid the asking price when O really wanted it but came to my senses. I waited a few days then picked one up for $19 once the trucks could make it through to refill the shelves at Costco.
We hope Mateo and the Gang drive safely back to SoCal. They stayed an extra day to avoid the much predicted storm we all thought would kill us. The minute they left this morning it started snowing. Timing.

Sledding & Scones

We are rocking in the New Year with a sore coccyx and about 2 lbs. of sweet cream butter and honey that rode its way into my body through 2 straight days of deep fried scones. We made them apres sledding at Sugarhouse. Then a 3rd time we made a meal out of them after neither ak nor I knew what to fix for dinner. "Well, let's fry up some more of this fatty dough in some liquid fat, then we'll make Navajo tacos!" So that was dinner. Diet starts tomorrow! right.

Sledding was a blast. I'm surprised there were no breaks, concussions, or red snow. I did see a little kid get blasted by an inner-tube and rider at break-neck speeds do a complete aerial flip and live to tell about it. H & O caught some of the "best rides of their lives"!
We even found new uses for a Pottery Barn box.