OC Fair 5K - Opening Day

It's opening day of the OC Fair again!

Chris, our neighbor Tina, and I ran the 5K. This was Tina's second 5K. Her first 5K was in the 28 minute range. This 5K was 26:54! GO TINA!

I finished in good time... not a PR, but still good:

Overall: 92 out of 618
Women: 21 out of 365
F 50-54: 1 out of 32
Age/Grade: 70.63% Place: 25
Finish: 23:58 Pace: 7:43

Chris has a NEW PR!!! This is even after he crashed coming around a turn at the beginning of the race. He skinned up his leg, both hands, and back when he rolled.

Overall: 20 out of 618
Men: 19 out of 253
M 15-19: 4 out of 10
Age/Grade: 71.37% Place: 19
Finish: 18:56 Pace: 6:06

YAHOO TO US!!!

Postage Stamp Afghan

This is the afghan pattern that my MIL used to use all the time. We have six of these postage stamp afghans. After my MIL's heart attack, we found copies of the instructions in her craft room. They are very hard to read.

Here is the little afghan that my MIL made for Cheryl's dolls. Each of the little squares is 1"x1":

I know the pattern starts in the middle with a strip of "postage stamps." Then, it's worked out and around from the center. Here is where I think the afghan starts:

Here is what the backside of the afghan looks like:

Here is one of the larger afghans made by my MIL for our bed:

I've googled and can't find the instructions for this pattern anywhere!

--edited--
Found it!
http://mylifeinknots.blogspot.com/search?q=my+first+afghan

Congratulations Bob!!!

Uh... Who's Bob? Bob is the name of the co-ed team that Cheryl plays on with World Cup winner and Olympic Gold medalist Joy Fawcett. If you are wondering which one she is, she's the one with her arm around Cheryl.

Team Bob lost in the finals, so came in second place in the league, but it's the furthest that Bob has ever made it in the play-offs! Congratulations Bob!

4th of July Photos

I've been working long hours this week, and finally had time to upload the promised 4th of July photos. I won't bore you with the running photos... they look just like all our other running photos..

Here is where we spent our evening; at the Galaxy game! Galaxy defeated the Sounders 3-1!

After the game there was a nice fireworks show...

About four years ago, we got some free paper glasses from the 4th of July celebration at the Barking Sands Navel Base. Can you believe I still had them? Here is what the fireworks look like through them!

Here's a spacey view of the stadium...

I hope everyone had a great 4th!!!

Happy 6th of July!!!

Hi all, did you miss me? We are still finishing up with the computer. I was trying to copy my backup files back to the computer and ran out of disk space. So, I've been working at compressing the video. The computer kept wanting to install backups and reboot while I was working on the video, so I took it off the internet for the weekend.

Chris and I ran the Ladera Ranch Freedom Run 5K on the 4th of July. Chris felt that he was doing really well, and might even come in 1st place in his age group... until he was passed by the first place Varsity runner in south Orange County, lol! Once Chris saw Jacob, he knew there was no way he was going to win. In fact, Jacob came in 1st place overall out of 762 runners, at 15:47! Chris came in 10th overall, at 19:46. I came in 125th, at 25:10 lol!

Chris - 19:46.5, pace 6:23, overall 10/762
Me - 25:10.0, pace 8:07, overall 125/762 (28th in women)

That evening we went to a Galaxy game (Galaxy won 3-1) and stayed for the fireworks show. I have a couple pictures, but I haven't taken them off the camera yet.

Summer's Here!

Yahoo! Chris is finally out of school, so SUMMER has officially started at our house! Chris starts summer school on Tuesday. He's taking an ROP Computer Graphics class. FUN stuff for summer! Cheryl is almost done with first summer session at college. She's taking Speech and Psycology. Second summer session she's taking Chemistry. She has no break between first and second sessions.

Not too much changes... the kids are still in school and Jim and I are still working, but summer makes me feel SO HAPPY!

SUMMER's FINALLY HERE!!!

We have some summer guests at our house. I woke up to some terrible screeching in the yard. I thought crows had a terrible singing voice, but this was ten times worse than the sound of crows. I went out back to see what was causing all the racket, and look what I found purched in our next door neighbor's apple tree. If you can't see them, click on the photo to enlarge it. PARROTS?!!! Four green parrots were sitting in the apple tree chomping on apples! What is a flock of parrots doing in Southern California! They were very cool! I even forgive them for waking me up! lol!

PTI June Blog Hop

Welcome PTI Blog Hoppers! This month we were asked to mix it up and create a card blending PTI colors. I picked a nice masculine color combo. (I need a boy birthday card for this summer.) Here is the color combo:

And here is my card:


Supplies used:
PTI stamp: Signature Greetings
PTI cardstock : Spring Moss
PTI cardstock : Orange Zest
PTI cardstock : Enchanted Evening
PTI Impression Plate : Linen & Canvas
Cuttlebug Impression Folder: Herringbone
Robot stamp : unknown

Happy Father's Day!!!

Happy Father's day to Jim and to my dad! We had a nice day Sunday with tons of food and swimming FUN! I took photos, but I used my niece's camera, so I don't have any photos to share.

I can't believe it's the first day of summer! How can is be summer when Chris is still in school? It's so not right!

I hope everyone had a GREAT Father's Day!

Laguna Hills Half Marathon - The Official Results are In!

Chris:
Overall: 110 out of 1199
Men: 91 out of 617
M 13-18: 8 out of 32
Age/Grade: 62.08% Place: 207
Finish: 1:40:17 Pace: 7:39
Tag Time: 1:40:17
Gun Time: 1:40:51












Me:
Overall: 453 out of 1199
Women: 127 out of 582
F 50-54: 12 out of 53
Age/Grade: 64.57% Place: 149
Finish: 1:58:44 Pace: 9:04
Tag Time: 1:58:44
Gun Time: 1:59:09

Scrap Camp in Paradise

Come and join Summer Camp over at the Croppin' Paradise message board. Who wouldn't want summer camp in Paradise with fun challenges and motivation to get those summer vacation photos scrapped. Add to that, PRIZES!

Congratulations Quakes!!!

Cheryl's little girls started off the Spring season losing every single game. They just moved up from 9 players per side to 11 players per side. It's taken some adjusting and adding a few new players, but they've got the hang of it now!

QUAKES WIN 1ST PLACE in SBU CUP!!!

WELL DONE! CONGRATULATIONS QUAKES!