Luke loves T-ball

Luke has been biting at the bit and counting down the days for 5 weeks. Why? T-ball.

He is doing so well and really, really loves playing. Dave simply couldn't be happier.

He insists on wearing his baseball hats everywhere, he loves when a Cub's game is on TV, and he and his Dad went to his first Angels game 2 weeks ago. He watched intensly and wanted to stay the entire game. (I don't know who is happier about this, Mom or Dad. I am now released from baseball obligations.)

Its been so fun to watch him hit and throw. We are still working on the catching part. The biggest surprise is the little bit of competitive edge he's started showing. He runs so hard in warm-up's, pumping his little arms as fast as they will propel him. And when someone hits he will run in the direction of the ball and literally throw himself on top of it. I was just waiting for him to make contact with some poor victim. He was using his size the best he could and actually got the ball most of the time. I have never been so surprised. Maybe his size will be beneficial (he's the tallest kid on the team... and pretty much everywhere)

Here's to the first of, I'm sure, many ball games. I'm in Lukie.

Target? Now that's impressive!

I was floored to see my Husbands name pop up at Target.com. Of all places!!!!! 

Here is the link, check it out. Its pretty cool. Not to mention that on all of the places you can find the Journal online "David Wirthlin" is listed first.

www.target.com/Sleepingfish-issue-ZZZ-journal/dp/0979808057

Pretty cool honey. I'm proud of you. And don't mind my biased rating and review. I had to leave it for obvious reasons.

Next step... your Novel. Finally, after some of the press issues, due out late Fall. 

Day out with Daddy

He was sticking out his tummy... pretty impressive Daddy

me and my Daddy. I love pregnancy only because my face gets fat... mine is so narrow that I love the extra roundness. Strange? probably.

I love taking pictures with him because I actually look like someone!!! Im usually the odd man out in my family pictures.

I love these people sooooo  much. I only wished Ky and Char were there.

We celebrated a belated Fathers Day last week with my Dad. It was the most fun I have had in the longest time. It was just me, my Dad, my Brother and my Sister, something we have never done before. 

There is something about spending time with just your immediate family. It brought out sides of us that we don't get to see all that often. And it was nice to just be with Megan too! She always has to fight for our attention and tme what with us all being married and chasing around our kids whenever we're together!

I have the best Family and we have so much fun together. I laughed so hard I cried. 

We'll have to do it again. right before my due date because Im sure all our laughing could put me into labor!!!

I can walk again

Forgive the intrusion, but the blog's been lonely with Jill at girls camp.

So I've been walking around with a foreign object in the ball of my foot for almost a week, and it's been quite painful.
The pain kept getting worse, so today I went to work on digging it out.
I had been using a poor set of tweezers in previous attempts, which is why they've all be unsuccessful, so today I mixed it up a little and used my Gerber multi-functional tool.
I started using the tip of the blade to lift the skin a little.
Once the skin was loose, and I had some room to work, I popped open the tweezers and started digging.
It took a little time, and there was plenty of blood and pus, but eventually I pulled the culprit out.
This nice little shard of glass worked itself a little deeper with every step I took over the last 6 days. I'm either very tough for walking around with this sucker or very stupid, but not both, and definitely not tough.

Beat the heat

Daddy and Ella. When we were back in the car she kept saying, "Daddy, the waves were a little bit scary for me."

Daddy and Luke 
He loved being in the Ocean with Dave

Checking out the break

Lukie is my hero

She just wanted her Brother to hold her hand... they love each other so much

Bell and cutie pie Kate Muelleck

Dave heading to the Pier

Being that we are in the middle of record-breaking heat out here we were thrilled when our friends, The Muellecks, invited us to the beach. It was just what we needed. 

I love going to the beach. Although its a totally different type of ordeal then it once was. My time is now spent on the sand rather than the shore. Each time I am there I can't help but be flooded with memories of past Summers spent. 

Jr. Lifeguards was one of my favorite childhood memories. An entire Summer filled with swimming, running, being social and getting tan. Its what I was about back then. I remember the fear within me as I barely made it around the pier the first Summer. And the thrill of running past all the boys on our long Jetty run's. I still get a rush when I contemplate those years.

As we prepare to leave the Coast I cant help but to be reminiscent. I am so lucky to have grown up here and am thrilled that we will always have Family here to visit, especially in the Summers. I know our kids will have many, many beach memories just like me and their Daddy. (who is back there now surfing.... again!)

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No words needed... part 2