Thursday, January 8, 2015

Catching Up

Sunday, December 28

My friend Sara was trying to host a Mary Kay party and we didn't really plan accordingly...it was supposed to be at 2pm on Sunday but of course that was when the Seahawk game was on!  Most of her friends were out of town or watching the game, so we ended up having an impromptu MK party at the in-laws and it was just Sara, Missy and Ann/Nana.  But it worked out-I had a lot of fun still!  These are all what we call "Dash-Out-The-Door" looks, only Sara has eyeliner on.




Sara hung out for a little longer afterwards and then Josh came over later for the Seahawks game!

Leif likes honorary Uncle Josh!
Oh, and it was cute-Leif was carrying around Eeyore in his mouth for a while...


Seahawks won which was awesome, we had lots of good food, played lots of game with Josh, and I can't remember if bath time was the night before or that night, but enjoy these bath photos.  Leif loves baths.



Monday, December 29

Last full day in Washington...ran a Target errand to return a few things, got together with my good friend Hattye for lunch, hung out at home, then met up with my folks in Factoria Square for dinner.  Afterwards we stopped by a bowling alley to see some of Pop Pop's friends, and Leif was very intrigued by bowling!

Hanging out at home-Bella liked Leif's lion puppet

Pa picked out a place called "Ooba Tooba", a Mexican place.  Pretty decent food!

Bowling Alley shenanigans

Tuesday, December 30

Woke up around 4:30am to get to the airport...the lines were crazy to check-in for our flight, but the security line was easy (no coats to take off, no shoes, no removal of liquid bags...what IS this place?!)...flight was smooth-Leif slept most of it, and after retrieving our car and picking up Miles, we were home.

My ONE year old is so awesome!
Let's see...New Year's was uneventful-just cleaned up the house.  We tried making it to midnight-Leif's nap schedule was all wonky, so he went down early, woke up around 10:30pm, hung out until 11:30pm and then fell asleep at midnight.  Hubs didn't make it-he fell asleep on the couch around the time Leif woke up!

January 1 was nice-we ended up taking a hike at Sage Ranch Park, literally a three minute drive from our house.







So the park borders the Santa Susana Field Laboratory...from wikipedia: a complex of industrial research and development facilities located on a 2,668-acre portion of the Southern California Simi Hills in Simi ValleyCalifornia, used mainly for the testing and development of liquid-propellant rocket engines for the United States space program from 1949 to 2006.
There was a "small nuclear meltdown" in the 1950s...crazy, right?!  And we live so close to it.  If we start to mutate, you know why.

What else...

January 3: Aunt Missy got us a membership to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, so we decided to take a trip down.  Unfortunately our dryer was broken and they could only come that afternoon, so we had to make it a very quick trip.  Leif enjoyed it!

January 4: Grabbed lunch in Burbank and found that Leif loves pita and hummus.  Then had a successful trip to IKEA and a nice, relaxing Sunday afternoon.

January 5: Leif had his one-year checkup that morning...
Happy baby.  He did such a great job-three shots and the nurse poked his arm to get his blood, but couldn't find his vein.  No tears from this kid!

When I got to work, they were doing a simulation school shooting to train police and firefighters.  Hard to tell from this photo, but there are mannequins all over the ground and they had big guns.

And yes, I'm back at work.  Campus is quiet which allows me a little free time here and there to update the blog!  And I'm all caught up.  :)

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