The last few weeks

Here is a picture of the finished poster that I made for Singing Time. It is pretty big!

Unfortunatly, I have been sick for going on 4 weeks now.  I have missed the last three weeks of church.  It started at a really bad cough and that was all I had for about a week.  Then I started getting cold like symptoms and a stuffy head.  I wasn't sleeping well at all.  We were about to leave to go to San Diego for the weekend, so, I went and bought some Nyquill.  It works so well for my sister and I was desperate get some sleep at night. Well, it didn't work at all and it surely didn't knock me out and let me get a good night's sleep!  I was so sad.

We went to La Jolla anyway.  Tanner, Cynjyn, Garry and I left at 7am Thursday morning.  Taz had to go to school that day and was leaving with the team at 5:00pm.  Talon was going to take him to the meeting spot.  We got into La Jolla around noon.  We couldn't check into our hotel until 1, so we parked in the parking lot and walked up the street to a local chinese place for lunch.  Cynjyn has always been obsessed with tea pots and so when they brought us tea, she really wanted to pour real tea from a pot.  So we let her fill our cups with tea. 

Then I poured some water into one of the cups so she could "drink" out of it.  It's the little pleasures in life we should all cherish!  It made her day.

We could walk to the beach from our hotel and so we did.  The weather was iffy, but we enjoyed walking and sitting along the beach and watching the surfers.

That evening, we went down to try to get some picture at sunset, but we couldn't get the camera settings to shot good shots, so they were all weird!

Tanner is wet, because he was standing on a rock and I was taking his picture and a big wave hit the rock and then just splashed up over onto him.  It was funny and we didn't see it coming!  After this pix, he quickly ran up to the hotel for the night.

I super love the foliage in California and I was always stopping to take picture of it.

The kids were getting tired of it, but I didn't care.I made them pose under this unusual looking tree and then I was wishing my dad was there to identify it for us.

That night we walked about a mile up to a local pizza joint for dinner.  We ordered their bear bread and a pizza.  They messed up on the pizza and added green peppers instead of olives, so we ended up getting the bear bread free.

The next day we woke up to rain, rain, rain. So we went on a little drive tour of La Jolla and then we went back to the hotel and played hearts all afternoon.  We decided to go hit the beach one last time before we went to watch Taz's tournament and the weather was gorgeous.  We went to seal beach and walked around looking at the seals for a long time.  Garry was trying to get a pix of C holding the seal.  She thought they were so cute and really wanted a pet seal!

The mothers and babies were all over the beach and they were so adorable.

Tanner and Cynjyn decided at the last minute not to go to the tournament and to stay and play on the beach for a couple of hours since the weather had really improved.  So Garry and I went to the tourny.  Taz got in for one serve that night.  I started feeling worse and worse.  The next day, we packed up and checked out by 8am.  We drove to Taz's tournament place.  He actually got a lot of playing time since the libero got hurt and he did pretty good. 

It was a long morning and tournaments are always draining.

They finished in 6th place and were done by 2;00.

During our bye's I played with Cynjyn's hair,

and for some reason, C kept these glasses on the whole time.  They had no glass in them.

We got home by 6:30 and I was so sick.  I was dizzy and coughing and couldn't taste or smell.  I went right to bed.

Finally, last Tuesday, Talon's car was fixed.  He ended up needing a new engine.  When we went to pick it up, the owners had a pet wolf they had rescued.  That wolf LOVED Garry, it followed him around as he paid for the car and then followed him out to the parking lot and stood in front of the car and Garry couldn't pull out.  The owner had to come out and get the wolf.

Last Saturday, we put the garden in.  Garry made 5 raised beds and we enlisted the kids help and got it done in no time.  Tanner is planting the tomatoes we bought.

Taz is planting the ones we started from seeds about 6 weeks ago.

The kids are all placeing the drip hoses along the planter boxes.

Cynjyn is putting the strawberries in.

Tomatoes

Strawberries, hopefully this will work and we'll enjoy the fruits of our labors in a few months.

Cynjyn is so stinking cute.  She just comes up with the perfect clothes combinations. This was her outfit on a Saturday to go shopping at Goodwill.

Garry and I have been wanting to try some spaghetti squash as noodles.  So we had that for dinner that night.  I haven't been able to taste anything going on 14 days now.  So I really couldn't taste it.  Garry and Cynjyn liked it well enough to eat it again. 

Taz and Tanner said they would eat it again if I made it, but they wouldn't request it.  I will make it again when I can taste again!

And her she is wearing a little sweater she picked up at Goodwill and accesorizing with my pink necklace and hair flower.