Coming Soon.......

Homemade Spaghetti Sauce. Yum!

Beach Days....

Beautiful Day, Cute girls, Sparkling water, what more could you ask for.... Pictures are of Olivia and Brianna my niece from Az.

Navy Seals/Surf Passage

Ok I know Navy seals are not "Marin news" but we were at Coronado the other day and the Navy seal recruits were there. These are the guys that want to be Navy Seals but have to go through the grueling training to see if they can hack it. It was the coolest thing I have seen!

Wow is all I can say, I'm amazed at the endurance they have, I guess thats why they are the best. So just to try and explain some of these pictures and what they were doing: They had this nasty stinky inlet ( it seriously smelled like a sewer) that they would have to lay down and do their leg lifts/pushups/situps in. They had groups of maybe 8 in these rafts that they would have to take over the rocks , into the water, back over the rocks and then various excise's/drills over and over again without a break. You could see the fatigue on these guys faces, sometimes they would stumble and barely recover. We met a wife of one of these guys and she was telling us they do this like nonstop for at least 3 hours at a time, when we got there they had been drilling for an hour and a half. This was their second week and "Amber"(the wife) told us they started out with 200 guys and they were down to 100 and this particular exercise was called surf passage. It was funny because two of the D.I.'s stopped her and asked who her husband was and she wouldn't tell them! They found out and kind of harassed her husband a little. They had the platoon waving at her and shouting her name during the drills, it was pretty comical, but a great way to show their sense of humor too. She was pretty embarrassed but it was neat to see!

Volleyball

Yay for Adrienna! Her team won 3 out 3 games for Volleyball. Picture soon to follow!

Seaport Village

My mom and my niece Madeline are here in San Diego for the last couple of days and we are just enjoying it. My sisters and I took her and some of the kids to Seaport Village which is a fun tourist spot.

If anybody can tell me how I can post captions under the pictures that would be awesome, in the meantime ... Here are the order of pictures.

1. The "boys" Posing with the "living cowboy" statue
2.Jessica with a parrot on her arm
3.Me and Benjamin having a "conversation"
4. Grandma and Grandkids
5.The Pirate Kids
6. Mom and her girls

Madeline

My niece Madeline is here visiting for a few days and spent the night with us last night. She is an absolute crack up. She says things so seriously and matter of factly too. So here are a few: Olivia and I took her into walmart this morning and she says" Look there's a brown man just like Uncle Arty" ..... and then poor Adrie put some perfume on and Madeline walks up to her and says " What is that awful smell" And then Olivia was doing her spanish work on the computer and Madeline was pretending to be a kitty so Arty comes out into the living room and so she starts growling at him and said" I only growl at mexicans" We could not stop laughing... Where does she come up with this stuff? By the way she LOVES Arty just in case you were wondering. It was so cute last night when she saw him for the first time, She yells Arty and throws her arms around him. So Em I hope you read this cause we are having a grand ol time with your kid here:) As soon as I gets some pics I'll put them up.

Benjamin update 2

Just got this email from my mom and decided to update the Benjamin Post.

Benjamin had a check-up today, and I am so excited I had to tell someone. He is now 12.5 lbs, and the Dr told Rose "You know this isn't usual for a micro preemie baby to gain this much weight this fast." : ) He is going to get to start food, and a normal formula. : ) He had been on a specialized formula. His development is ahead of his adjusted age, Whoooo Hoooo, the Dr said his movements are fluid on both sides and again, he sees NO SIGNS of CP or any neuro problems. Then he was reading his chart and asked about his brain bleed at birth, "So, it was just a mild one?" Rose said NO! He had a 4 bleed! (4 is the worst, and he was a severe 4.) She said the Dr turned around looked at Benjamin with a stunned look on his face, looked at Rose, looked at Benjamin, and said "HE is a miracle!!!!!" And he said now and then there is a baby that will just defy all odds of what they should be, he is certainly one of those, HE is a miracle. I had goose bumps from head to toe when she told me that. We already knew that, but it is still so nice to hear a conservative Dr say that. And I am just busting with joy and thankfulness for all God has done.