Oh. My. Goodness.

There's something wrong here. Check this out. It's murder. Click the play button, and to make yourself feel better, click on the video underneath it. Oh my.

Fun to be Had

We made a family trip to Party City this evening. The boys had a blast screaming and playing with this blow up guy.

Quinn wants one of these for our backyard.

Let's stand here and scream at the guy.

See that blur on the lower right? That's Quinn, running from the Halloween guy.

Saturday Fun

The boys went to Tule Pond Saturday morning to complete a conservation project for scouts. They cleaned up around the area, and obviously there was some exploring going on.

While the boys went to a Halloween carnival with my parents, Kevin and I went to Diddams to get ribbons for our scout costume contest. We came across this big guy. I had Kevin take my picture for Quinn-he's a BIG fan on Playmobil. You should have seen his reaction when we showed him the picture! I think he wants that viking for his room!

We took the boys to the ghost house Saturday night. It was the first time that we went inside with them. Neither of them wanted to go inside, but Kevin asked about the gruesomeness and found out that it wasn't gruesome at all, so we went through with a "Good Fairy." The fairy keeps all of the people inside from jumping out and scaring the living daylights out of you. The theme was a haunted train, and it was pretty cool. Very dark though.

Scary, scary boys.

The house-kinda creepy huh? This house has been in Fremont forever. I'm not sure of its history. Every year the Candlelighters turn it into a ghost house. Fun for the whole family.

My New Bag

I made this bag. I finished it up last night. It's an Amy Butler pattern (Swing bag). It was pretty easy, but the corners where the bag meets were a bit tricky. I'm happy with it though. The fabric is also Amy Butler.

Fun at the Beach

We spent yesterday at New Brighton Beach State Park. Our two nieces and my mother in law have birthdays in October. My sister in law and brother in law and their 3 girls spent the weekend camping. We joined them on Saturday for the birthday festivities. Lots of fun hanging around, playing with cousins, exploring the beach and finding a geo cache.

Our first stop (because we were way too early) was this cute produce stand in Capitola.

Cute display of pumpkins. I love the old truck! See those green pumpkins on the right? I came home with one of those. Cool huh? Different.

The Pacific Ocean. Those cliffs are the town of Capitola. Beyond that a ways, is Santa Cruz.

Wave fun with the cousins. The boys loved playing in the waves and running away from them. They dug holes and let the water fill them. There was a lot of screaming going on.

How peaceful is this? It was foggy, sunny, foggy, sunny most of the day, but just beautiful!

Warning! May not be appropriate for OTHER children!

I had a really good laugh this morning, when a teacher friend sent me the following picture. It's really not for children, so beware. I just thought it was so darn funny! Ready? Perhaps you should click on the picture, so it's bigger. It's makes more of an impression.



I know, she's little, and she probably (hopefully) doesn't know what that finger means-but her teenage sister is pregnant... But, look at her face! She's pissed! It's just too funny. Nice raincoat too. And that lady behind them, she looks so proud!

Sha Sha Sha Shakin'

What is that? Is that the result of an earthquake?

How about this one? What is it?

Those are just cracks in my backyard cement. I was looking for something clever to blog about the BIG ONE of 1989. Today is the 19th anniversary of our big 6.9 earthquake. Let me just tell you-those who are unfamiliar with earthquakes-this one was not any fun at all. I was in college, on the 10th floor of my dorm building in San Francisco. That building was never lived in again after the earthquake-lots of asbestos (spelling?). It was later imploded. That was pretty cool though! Anyway, the aftermath of that earthquake was the scariest time of my life. I couldn't reach my family. I had lost my car keys in the quake and I was stuck. A bunch of us spent the night on the floor at a friend's house. There were aftershocks all night long, and the fires from the Marina were horrible. I spent most of the remainder of that semester living in a study room. My one friend lived at the house of one of her professors. All of the residents of that building were farmed out to anyone willing to house any of us. The staff of the college was great-many opened their own homes. My two friends and I lived in a study room, on cots. It was horrible, but also really great. People really pulled together to help one another, and that was very comforting.

That said, I still would rather live through an earthquake, which is completely random, than a tornado or hurricane to which there is a "season" every year. I'll take my chances, and many say that will be here soon enough, as I guess we are just about overdue-at least on the Hayward Fault. I'll cross that bridge when/if I get to it.

I'm wishing good thoughts to those who lost loved ones during that earthquake, and those who were injured. I hope we all learned something about life and being prepared.