mommy's journey: beach

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

sea is 8...

i woke up early with hopes of writing about this point in her life...our lives...but am rushing to get ready to go out of town for our 10 year anniversary...more to come :)

Monday, July 9, 2012

initially i was just going to post photos of our day...until i realized i had "narrowed them down" to over 60! so i guess i'll try to choose about 10 and include a short caption for each and leave the flickr link to get the experience of the full day...while i'm waiting for these to upload, i'll add that we've gone to the beach probably 6 times since i've been back from my mom's...three days last weekend, fourth of july, and the past couple days...

(i was having trouble accessing my photos on my external hard drive...)

in other important news for our family (and facing my issues with procrastination and need to take responsibility for difficult issues), my husband and i pulled everything out of our disorganized garage (my stuff, not his that needs tending to) and painted the dingy yellowy creamy disgusting walls a bright white! very rewarding...two days of work later we have some of the items back in but i have a lot of things to go through (read: "get rid of") in the coming days...so i thought i'd get in a post while my family is sound asleep after 9 HOURS at the beach today...literally 11 something until after 8 and after sunset!

i really want to post a reply to my friend tanya's most recent post but also want to include photos from said inaccessible hard drive so that post will wait for morning, too...so here are 12 memorable photos from the fair...we went there over a week ago...you can tell i love the ferris wheel as it is in most of the shots :)

before i forget some of the details of the day...we started by visiting the various animals...petting zoo...searched for various baby animals...then we headed over to the children's rides...we asked if there was a larger ferris wheel and were sent back on the other side...

view headed to the top of the ferris wheel:

looking up from the bottom of the ferris wheel:

ferris wheel and del mar beach in the background of our ride on the swings...my husband took this shot of sea and me (bottom right corner) from his vantage point with story in the swing behind us:

next we ate some vegetarian burritos and grilled corn on the cob (there was a lot of unhealthy food to choose from...we had a giant serving of garlic fries to supplement)...ate giant chocolate dipped ice cream cones and went to look for some more rides...

love the shadows and contrast of light this time of day...

sea and story had fun sliding down a giant slide just to the left of this photo...

sea watching someone bungy jump...i catch the action of her glee and the ferris wheel at once :)

the bumper cars were probably sea and story's favorite since they both got to drive...i was extra happy with this ride because the ticket collector let the children go in free "as long as they can drive"...

the fair at night...our whole family walked through a house of mirrors (ferris wheel in the background):

sea going on a crazy upside down spinny ride with her dad (they were both super excited...she barely made the height requirement)...

welp, here is the flickr link if you want to see the full day...

i'm off to bed...hoping i can be productive enough tomorrow to get to the post in reply to my friend tanya...she is a dear friend!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

sea and story's 1st bike ride at mission beach

yesterday we fixed sea's flat on her bike, put new (working) training wheels on story's bike, purchased them both working lady bug bells and streamers, bundled them in warm clothes and secure helmets and took them on our 1/2 marathon training route along mission beach boardwalk...

story loved going through the giant puddles from the rain the day before...

and spinning over and over and over and over around in circles...

he also REALLY wanted to play in the sand...so he took a few breaks to check it out...

did i mention these photos were taken with my phone? i LOVE apple products...i think my phone is better than my point and shoot at capturing low light...

story trying to escape to the sand again...

i actually like the blurry movement quality to these photos...

Thursday, September 1, 2011

end of summer beach day

we went to the beach today...a couple beaches in fact (huge swells, undercurrents, wind and excessive bacteria sent us packing to different dog beaches)...right now my children are watching curious ("monkey") george and eating spinach and cheese ravioli...our dog can't decide if she wants to be in there with them, outside, inside, chasing our cat...the cat is asleep on the desk by my computer...slacker is playing "favorite mashup station"...some trance/dance type number that has more energy than i do...manuel is already asleep...we are going to spend all day tomorrow at our community pool and then go to the ice cream social at sea's school tomorrow night to find out who her first grade teacher is.

i've had so much anxiety about letting go of my little kindergartener, summer ending, not knowing what is ahead of us...we should know a little more tomorrow...i wanted to write a lot more on that topic like my memories of her in kindergarten, expectations before school, memories from summer, etc. but i'm not feeling it right now. i haven't been feeling a lot of things lately...like an irritable, sleep-deprived, anxiety-filled low grade depression that seems more self-indulgent than anything else...so i want the focus to be on HER or at least appreciating the now instead of lamenting what i'm losing...

i changed my nablopomo badge to the month of september and the theme of "return" but i haven't committed to writing every day this month as i was WAY over it and it felt like a task halfway through...i want to enjoy and look forward to blogging when i have the time, something interesting to say...that may not be tonight :)

Sunday, August 7, 2011

all day at the beach

kind of cheating for nablopomo...spent all day today at coronado dog beach...no photos...just got home...more details tomorrow...

Saturday, July 30, 2011

sea's 6th bday party at the beach

last sunday was sea's 6th birthday party at la jolla shores...we got there at 5 something to reserve a spot...here we are getting ready...blowing up #6 birthday balloons...

then we made some bubbles (forgot to do this once guests arrived)...

here is our "favor" table...a little sand bucket and shovel and little toys to go inside...the whistles were a hit...my favorite favor was the rainbow leis...