When I asked Colm to climb up into this tree he knew exactly where I was going with it…he was ready and willing to strike a pose. We even ended up trying various trees because he wanted to make sure there were enough flowers showing in the picture too. 🙂
We try and meet my friend Christie and her sweet pup, Luke, at Manzanita at least once a year and today was the day. It was a chilly, rainy day, but we persevered and made a great day of it.
(Project 365-3/26/2013)
The boys spent a lot of time playing baseball on the beach, but I don’t have any pictures of that since I was in the game too. They did still spend some time digging and building.
The boys also spent quite a bit of time racing each other on these bikes.
We always end our Manzanita trips with a trip to the ice cream store.
There’s an empty spot on our counter where the toaster should be. It all started with a rather large hunk of a bagel that broke off and got down under the coils that heat up. I tried everything I could to get the hunk of bagel out. It was stuck for good so I figured I would just try and use the toaster with the hunk stuck in there. BAD IDEA!!! The hunk became a smoking hunk.
I have been wanting to by a toaster oven for a while so we could use the microwave less and also heat up our big oven less…you can cook a LOT in a toaster oven without having to heat up your whole kitchen by turning the big oven on. I took this as a sign and doubley took it as a sign when I researched toaster ovens and found the one I wanted for less than $30 shipped.
Sean and I got to go out to dinner at a restaurant that’s been on my radar for a while. Sean had been there a few weeks prior for a work dinner and gave it two thumbs up. We had a nice dinner out by ourselves while the boys stayed with some friends.
We usually go out to eat on Saturday nights. I love this picture because it shows exactly what usually ends up happening. The boys jockey to get the seats that have a good view of the television which is why they have these blank looks on their faces. They are done eating and are just waiting for us to give them the green light to get up and go.
Colm got his new belt tonight that he earned last week at belt testing. He is now a brown stripe.
These are the pretty roses Sean brought home today for our 15th anniversary. 15 years! That is a long time! 🙂
My favoritest author in the whole wide world has come out with a new book! I just started it, but so far so good!
If you don’t know whose bracket this is, just look at who they have winning.
There is a very brief period of time where we can go salamander hunting and now is the time. We had some friends who went this past weekend and they caught 16…that’s a lot. We only caught nine on this trip, but that’s more than we have ever caught before. The boys had so much fun running around the pond, trying to find a good spot to find one…lots of fun outside getting dirty with their friends.
In case you are wondering what we did with all of the salamanders (which I think are technically newts and not salamanders) we put them back in the pond once we were done for the day.