Welcome Baby Joseph!

We have a new baby in our lives! Last Tuesday night we received a call from Carl and Rebecca asking us to come over and watch their little 2 year old, Hannah. Why? Because Baby Joseph was on his way! Joseph Anthoney was born the next morning at 6:42AM.

Back at Carl & Rebecca's house, we were both already awake with Hannah... she isn't too into sleeping in. She woke up at 6:00AM ready to play... oh the joys of a 2 year old. Being "Mommy" until about 10:00AM... ONLY 4 hours of awake time... really showed me how amazing Rebecca is. I was beat! So, hats off to all you Mommies out there.

On Sunday, we saw little Joseph for the first time. Funny thing is that I don't remember Hannah being so small (although I was reminded that she was even smaller!) He is the cutest thing and even looks like boy! I was expecting him to look like Hannah, but nope... he looks like Joseph! He is such a good baby and hardly fusses at all. Hopefully he will be mellower than his older sister, who was having a grand old time running around the house trying to entertain us and take our attention away from her new brother. Hannah actually is doing great with Joseph and loves to shower him with hugs and kisses… awww!

Anyway, congratulations to Carl & Rebecca and big sister Hannah!

Love,

Uncle Kenny & Auntie Jen

Mammoth Fly Fishing

We had a great time fishing this weekend in Mammoth. Early Thursday morning we piled into the Archer and headed up to Mammoth for a long weekend.

After only a few hours of flying, we arrived in Mammoth safe and sound. We decided to hit Hot Creek to do a little bit of fishing as a sort of warm up for the weekend events. Unfortunately, Kenny's line broke off after only about 10 minutes of fishing so we didn’t catch anything, but we were able to go check out the thermal areas and new geyser at the creek. Having better luck, John and Chuck both caught a few rainbow and brown trout that afternoon.

The next morning we met up with Steve, our guide and headed up to the Upper Owen’s River. Kenny had an awesome day of fishing and caught 15+ trout that day. Jen, not as great, but ended up with around 10 and had perhaps the largest fish of the day! The next day, we hit the Owen’s again and had another great day. This time it was Jen’s turn to shine. She caught a 16 inch rainbow as well as many other trout, both rainbows and brown. She also hooked what was probably the smallest fish of the trip… a 3 inch brown trout!

One of Jen’s fish decided that it wanted to come home with us, and couldn’t understand why we threw it back (we did all catch and release). After Jen put it back in the water, the fish swam over and hung out by her foot for about five minutes! Not sure if you can see him in the picture, but here it is. I also took some video that I will try to upload later.

Overall, we had a great time, but are exhausted! Check out our pictures below…

Gone Fishing!

We're going fly fishing in Mammoth this weekend!

We'll post pictures once we get back... pretty sure they will be of Jen outfishing Kenny again :)

Sailing Pictures

Sailing pictures from a few months ago. Sorry it took so long :)

Happy Friday Everyone!

Congratulations Danny!

Danny is officially an A&P Mechanic!

Congratulations!!!

Buca di Beppo & Family

Jen's parents came down this last weekend to visit now that Jim is home from the fire in Washington. Matt, Kelly & Eli also happened to be in town, so we all decided to go to Buca di Beppo on Thursday night. We made the reservation for the nine of us (Danny & Tonita too!) for 6:30pm that night downtown.

We all showed up in separate cars coming from different areas, but all managed to meet at the exact same time at the parking garage in Horton Plaza... all of us 30 minutes late! Jen’s parents had a good excuse for being late… they drove in from LA at hit traffic. Matt & Kelly hit construction and road closures… good excuse. Danny and Tonita road with us… they had no control over the time. Again, good excuse. Us? Well, we were just late. Hey, it's okay to be late if everyone is late right?!?

Well, our reservation was cancelled, but they managed to get us in right away. We had a great time eating and talking and eating some more. We discovered that Eli loves lemons. Kelly had to pry them away from him to keep him from eating the whole thing. He is also a ham in front of the camera. He showed off his cheesy smiles and photogenic personality the entire time… this kid really should be in commercials.

The rest of the weekend was spent making Jen’s parents help around the house… we always seem to put them to work when they come. We organized the shed and the Ebay room. Yes, we have an Ebay room.

We also spent time getting things ready for the Miramar Air Show which is in a month. Oct. 13-15 if any of you want to come and hang out or help us at our booth for Blue Yonder Girl or buy some stuff (shameless plug, yes I know).



PS. Sorry the photos aren't that great. It was dark in the restaurant.

New Blogger Header

We changed the header to our blog this weekend. Hope it works for all of you.

If you click on the photos you should be able to view the description. If you want to manually go through the photos you can double click on them and it will take you to slide.com

We plan on adding more pictures soon, so keep checking back!

Where the Turf meets the Surf

Pilot at Balboa Park

Sunday we took Pilot to Balboa Park for the first time. He loved it! So many people to see and things to sniff. He had fun helping us find some geocaches and even located one for us that we couldn't find. We only stayed at Balboa for a few hours and then called it a day because it was soooo hot. We can’t wait for the cooler weather so we can go Geocaching without risking heat stroke.

Del Mar Racetrack

On Saturday we celebrated Rebecca's birthday at the Del Mar Racetrack.

We had a blast and even mananage to walk away with some winnings thanks mostly to Carl. If you ever go to the races, you have to bring Carl. He is as much fun to watch as the horses!

And they're off!

Carl & Kenny studying the racing forms

Hannah is as fun to watch as her daddy Carl...

She is such a star!

We look like giants with our cute little soda cans :)

Happy Birthday Rebecca!

Can you hear me now?

I just wanted to say that I LOVE my new phone.

A few weeks ago Kenny and I got new phones from Verizon. After much debate and too much time spent reading reviews and researching phones, we decided on the LG VX8300.

It is sooo cool.

Not only does it get great reception and have an excellent speakerphone, it also takes pretty good pictures and video. The best thing of all is that it has a built-in MP3 Player!

I was just out walking Pilot and was listening to music as we strolled along. I didn't have headphones on so it was like I had my own personal theme music as I walked :) A few people looked at me funny wondering where the music was coming from!

Anyway, that is all. I love my phone. Don't be jealous, Kenny ;)

Congratulations Dustin & Sarah!

We're with the band...

Last week we were invited by one of Kenny's students, Dave, to a concert at the House of Blues. He was going to be playing as drummer for the band "Cinematic Sunrise." Also performing that night was "The Sounds of Animals Fighting."

It was an interesting night. We showed up and got in line at the ticket counter only to find out that the guy behind the counter couldn't find our name on the guest list. We put on our best, "We're with the band" faces and asked him to check again mentioning that we personally know the drummer :) After a bit of searching, he found our tickets and we headed downstairs to the concert only to be stopped by two bouncers who asked us to empty our pockets. Well, Kenny ALWAYS carries his Buck Knife pocket knife (so small and insignificant... your pen could do more damage!)… He pulled it out of his pocket and the bouncers just stared at him. In order to not get thrown out, Kenny rushed back up the stairs and "hid" the knife somewhere outside.

Dave's band played first, but only did 3 songs. A bummer because they were good. We then waited and waited around for "The Sound of Animals Fighting." Hey, we figured that everyone was there to seem them and they had a crazy name so we had to stay. They were... umm... entertaining.

At about 10:30pm we finally left the House of Blues. We were tired and hungry (we hadn't eaten since 11:00am). To top off the night, Kenny's knife was no longer in its hiding place outside :( I guess someone else likes Buck knives too! Oh well.

All in all, it was an interesting night. Probably would have been better if we had food in our bellies and a Buck knife in our pocket, but we still got to see Dave perform and for one night say that we were with the band. It was pretty cool. Kenny's students are so talented!

It's a BOY!

Congratulations Jamie & David!

We love you!

Downtown

Kenny's parents came down to visit this weekend and we had a great time goofing off downtown. Sunday we went to Seaport Village, Balboa Park and the Gaslamp. We had fun playing tourist, but also were able to get a few geocaches while we were down there.

There was a geocache in the middle of all these people. It was located behind the scale. We had to be sneaky. If you look at the picture you will see that it didn't work so well because nearly everyone on the bench was staring at us!

But we got the geocache!



Kenny's new boat & helicopter.



Another geocache!

Hot Pockets :)

Just for Kenny & David... "Hot Pockets!"

P.S. The video is about 5 minutes long and is a comedy routine by Jim Gaffigan

Animal House

We have a new roommate that has been living with us for the last few days. No wild toga parties, but her and Pilot have been “hitting the sauce”

Yum! Pilot & Buttercup love gravy!!!

Don't worry Danny & Tonita... Buttercup didn't have too much...


...but Pilot did. He just didn't know when to stop!

Tic... Tac... TOE

This weekend Kenny broke his toe :(

We aren't exactly sure how it happened, but are pretty convinced the incident occurred sometime on Saturday when Kenny was kicking small children... it’s okay, we were at Tae Kwon Do... the kids like to be kicked!

Actually, it probably happened while we were sparring at the end of class… Jen always beats Kenny up in class!

A few of you have asked for a picture. It is pretty disgusting so if you are squeamish don’t look any further…

Fridge Magnet Messages :)

Remember these? We found the web version of those good old alphabet fridge magnets. Move them around and leave us a message :)

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