Halloween

Happy Halloween!

bailey dog and sarah dog playing with the bone
dalmation sarah!
matt-o ready to fight a fire in an authentic fireman suit!
fireman and pet dalmation.  bailey kept trying to steal my bone. :)

I love LA

SURPRISE!!!! Yay! Theresa was planning a trip to LA to visit Daniel and Jen for the 4th and I had the brilliant idea to come along and surprise Daniel. Jen had to be let in on the secret since we were uping their house load from 3 to 5-- she still couldn't convince him to get the Sam's club sized toilet paper. The key was not letting papa frank in on the secret-- he has a reputation for letting things slip! :) It worked, Daniel had no idea and we all had a BLAST!

This is us waiting it LAX while a bomb threat was going on in our terminal-- mind you a REAL bomb threat. we saw at least 30 cop cars zooming past us then we saw the bomb squad and got nervous.... we then mosied up to the USAir terminal to wait on Tree.
Theresa's first hair cut! We almost, it's been over a year since sissors touched her hair and way more than that since she has paid more than 12 dollars for a cut. Yay for carlos, he did an awesome job!
HAPPY 4th OF JULY! We walked to Century City, saw WALL-E, ate at the Counter (yum), "watched" a firework and went BOWLING!

BOWLING

Round 1: matt won with a 118 and I came in last with an impressive 44.

Round 2: daniel won with a 117 and Theresa brought in the tail end. I won most improved, bringing my score up to a 92!!!! The key was degrading comments right before I released the ball. ie "you're stupid and bad at bowling."
Sofie was very tired after the day at the beach-- barking at seaguls and chasing daniel's kite. The dragon kite made quite an appearance in Malibu at Zuma beach- after multiple suicide attempts (nosediving into the retention pond) it finally got cought in the powerlines then fell into traffic on HWY 1. Daniel saved him and decided to pack up the dragon until next time.

WE'RE GOING TO DISNEYLAND!!!!! Wheels up at 0700. Packed tightly in the prius and headed to Anaheim. Daniel played California themed music the entire way and Matt's shoulders filled up the back seat- we discussed the bed sores we were forming from the inability to move in the back of the prius

Matt borrowed Daniels' sunglasses-- bad idea. After they were left on the first ride of the day-- Indiana Jones, matt left me in charge of them on each ride thereafter. Oddly, that was not the only item lost in Disney......

HIGH SPEED TEACUPS! woohoo!

Jen sat the matterhorn out- afraid she would become decapitated. We all decided she'd been watching the news too much!

Our new favorite thing! Brother bear adventure park. We climbed and crawled our way around this kid park then Daniel did the triple pocket check and realized his wallet wasn't in its correct place. uh-oh. Thanks to some nice person, the guide had it! And the 1$ bill was still in it!

Mulholland Madness. Truly terrifying.

Big thunder!

Goats!

Storybook land- pretending we are all very tiny and live in Disney movies :)

After eating massive amounts at Blue Bayou- YUM. 4 Monte Cristos later, we all decided it was time to go on a grapfruit fast.

NC Mountains

Another Fox Family Adventure! Matt had a few days off after his step 2 so we invited the entire Fox Clan to meet in the North Carolina Mountains for a weekend of hiking and eating. Daniel and Randi have a friend that own this beautiful house in Blowing Rock, NC. They graciously let us all stay there (minus Rosie and Bailey).

So Pretty! We all had our own rooms and plenty of space to spare!



We all made this 4 mile hike together (including Ellie on her dad's back)

Finally to the top and ready to turn back around. This so called
"moderate" hike kicked our butts! We were practically scaling rocks
at one point!





Naked Ellie!

Jacksonville Beach

Matt's friend Casey has a house in Jacksonville Beach that he so graciously loaned to us while we had a few consecutive days off last week. We had a blast, Bailey was introduced to the ocean-- which he thought was trying to chase him. I totured my legs with a very long beach run, we both attempted po-going and we ate plenty of yummy carribean food.

new sink!

After our air conditioner broke, I noticed our sink was leaking... of course. We had just blown almost our entire economic stimulus check on AC coils and repair, so I thought we should fix the sink ourselves.

I attempted to unscrew the old sink for over 30 minutes then left the job to Matt. At least 6 calls to work later, I got the final "it's finished!" and then 2 hours later the "the floor is covered with water, what do I do?". We double checked and triple checked that the sink wasn't leaking then finally put all the cleaning products away and admired our beautiful new sink. Yay Matt, you're quite the handy-man! :)

run run run as fast as you can!

May 16, 2008. Women Run the World 15K

0400 in the morning... before running 9.3 miles

0915- after 9.3 miles and a couple powerades!

Celebrating our finish, and our cool new running fanny packs (which, by the way, are the most awesome invention ever!)

Matt decided, last minute, to join me and Theresa for our Women Run the World 15K. Not that he could run it, one because he's a man and two because his knee is eternally injured. But he did manage to join us for the pre run meals! yum!


We had an excellent race-- finished in 1:37:31.

ELLIE!

This past weekend we treked to Tampa to see the ENTIRE Fox family (that includes our favorite niece). Ellie has grown so much. Enjoy the adorable shots I got of her... notice how much she loves Bailey Dog!

She loves her Uncle Matt!

Ellie and Me!

I don't know if Bailey likes Ellie as much as she likes him, but he is very tolerant of the eye grabbing and nose pulling! :)