Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween 2009

One of our favorite movies of 2008 was Watchmen, so I was so excited for us to dress up as Night Owl and Silk Spectre...
...well, Tony had a pretty rough day at work, so he opted for comfort, going to the party as a video gamer in his "It's on like Donkey Kong" t-shirt...would have been more fun if we were BOTH dressed in character, but it was still a fun night!





Saturday, October 24, 2009

Friday Night Lights

A fun time under the Friday night lights for Amat Homecoming. Gregory's Chamber Singers group sang the national anthem to start off the night...


Then Dad and Gregory left to go the Chalet for the kick-off dinner of Paul's bachelor party weekend. Mom, Cat, and I stayed to watch the Lancers beat the Alemany Warriors 36-14!



After the game, we headed to the Coliseum for the Nike Human Race...running at midnight in South Central... yeah, probably won't do that again...but it was an experience!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Happy Birthday to a LOT of Limas!

Celebra- ting September October, and November birthdays at Aunt Debbie's... and it looks like a few others snuck in for the candle-blowing as well... ; )

Sunday, October 18, 2009

UCLA Day

What a fun afternoon in Westwood with Angela! We had lunch at the Corner Bakery,
went shopping at the UCLA bookstore, and had dessert at Diddy Riese, an essential stop on a tour of Westwood!





Saturday, October 17, 2009

Field Trip to Edwards Air Force Base

Dad took all of us kids and Grandma to the Air Show at Edwards Air Force Base.

We started out with a great
"down home" breakfast in Lancaster at a place called Karen's Kitchen, then stopped off Avenue G where we got to drive over the Honda Musical Road. Thanks to Aunt Marilyn for tipping us off to this...Honda built this as an advertising stunt - when you drive over it (ideally in a Civic at 55MPH), the grooves in the road "play" the William Tell Overture. Here is a video that someone posted on you tube of the the original road. Apparently, many residents complained of the noise, so they paved over it and moved it to a less busy street not too far away. We couldn't resist driving over it twice!



The Air Show was really impressive...amazing to see these planes take off and land in such short time/distances...pretty crazy how close they are able to fly to each other, too!






After the show, we stopped at Sonic Burger Drive-In for dinner because Gregory and Catherine, after watching too many very tempting

commercials recently, discovered that Lancaster was the closest location to us - so of course, we couldn't pass that up...! All in all, a VERY fun day with "Vacation Dad!"




Thursday, October 15, 2009

Welcome, Baby Kendra!


Congrat- ulations, Brent and Janelle - what a beautiful new baby girl!

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Beach Run 2009

Cat and I ran in our "5th Annual" Manhattan Beach 10K...Cat warned me that she hadn't been training, so I was going to have to bring up our "Sisters" team score...well, I'm pretty sure she could take an entire year off from running and still smoke me...

Catherine 52:23 Pace: 8:26
Carly 1:00:25 Pace: 9:44 (a new personal best!)

Mom came to cheer us on and we had a great breakfast at Uncle Bill's Pancake House afterwards.