Getting Settled

Well,

We made it here in one piece. And we have unpacked what we are going to be living with and the rest is crammed into the garage. (Thank goodness we have a garage) Anyway. We are making do with our 1200 square feet until we figure out where we want to be.
The good things about living here are:
the pool! And boy have we been taking advantage of that!
we can walk to school! YAY! Mom's lost 5 pounds!
there is a gym! Need to use it more often.
Greg's commute is only about 15 minutes!
More soon.

Disney Princess on Ice

Thank you Mike and Annette! A little background...Mike came over after an interview on the Eastbay and we got to talking about taking his son Ethan ice skating. Melissa mentioned, after she charmed him with chips and drinks, that she LOVED ice skating. He then asked her if she like princesses. And when she replied with a yes, he got on the phone with Annette and asked if she still had some tickets and that she needed to send them to Melissa.

And WOW did she have tickets! These were on the floor, front row, club level, 3 feet away from the ice! Melissa chose to take her friend Ingrid and they had a blast! Disney really knows how to put on a show! Breathtaking! The girls and I had so much fun watching these skaters that Melissa wants to take up lessons again when we move. Yay!

Sorry for the bad pics. I forgot my camera and had to use the phone!

On The Road Again.....

"Just can't believe that we're on the road again.

The life I love is packed in boxes once again.

And I can't believe we're on the road again.

On the road again.

Goin places I thought I'd never see again.

Unpacking boxes again and again.

And I can't believe we're on the road again."

Says it all doesn't it? Can you guess? We're moving once more.

Greg has gotten a great job with Sony Online Entertainment. He is going to be their Exectutive Director of Technical Operations. (please don't ask me anything beyond that, cause I couldn't explain it if I tried!) Anyhoo. They are based out of San Diego; ergo the move. He starts on Monday. And the rest of us will be down there over Easter weekend since the kids have spring break. Lucky kids...they scored spring break both here and down there in April.

The kids are amazingly ok with this move. I think they are both old enough to understand everything now. Which helps out tremendously. We are going to be in somewhat of a temporary situation for a while. Probably rent an apartment for 6 months or so. We are going to give ourselves time to figure out where we really want to be in the area. So you'll have to look for another change of address at the end of summer.

Boxes are calling!

It Has Been 6 Years.....

Oh the advances in medical technology are great. Did you know that you can seal up a head wound with superglue?

Yep. You guessed it. Austin tripped and fell last night and we made a trip to the emergency room. We don't know what he did really. He was SUPPOSED to be going to take a shower and instead he ends up on the office floor bleeding from his head. He managed to somehow catch his head on the office chair just above and to the left of his left eye. Swelled up almost instantly which was nice because it stopped the bleeding a lot faster!

The picture doesn't really do him justice. (I'll see if Greg can take one this afternoon that is better.) Greg had to clean him up and applied a bandaid on our way out the door and he bled through that at the hospital. They cleaned him up again and applied the big gauze and then he bled through that and finally he got this little contraption that just caught the blood that was dripping down his face. Anyway, he's fine. Some Dermabond was applied and we were out of there! No fuss, no muss. Didn't have to knock him out, didn't have to numb anything.

All this to get out of taking a shower. Well, joke is on him... because he got the Dermabond instead of stitches he can hop in the shower tonight!