School Update - Feb 12, 2021

 It has been the most frustratin thing, not being able to be back in school.  Almost every other state in the country has been in school, in person, since Sept.  But not CA.  Our district had a county approved plan in January to resume in person learning.  The state shut it down.  Now that the governor is close to being recalled, he is finally asking schools to reopen.  But the Teachers Unions don't want to.  It is maddening.  Our district is trying to get kid back in school.  K-5 is back to in person.  But not Middle or High School.  So this comes out and they are trying to get the MS and HS kids back to in person 1 day a week.  1 day!

smh

Cali's heart attack

 Like I said before, Cali is struggling.  And to make things harder, she fell down her stairs and hurt her foot.  She couldn't walk for a few days.  But she seriously has the best co-workers.  When they heard she fell, they came and heart attacked her apartment and left her candy and flowers.  I got this this pic from Kenzie.  She texted me as soon as they were done.  I wept.  Then I got a text from Cali with more pics and she felt so loved.

This makes my mama heart so happy!  I'm so glad she has these people!

Jeremy's Crack a lackin Birthday!

 February 10th-

Jeremy's actual birthday!

We had the family over for some cardiff crack, Rally's fries and Yellow Cake with Chocolate frosting!

He got a huge sound bar-

And gifts from my mom -

It was a super chill, super fun night with family.!

HBD Honey!

Covid Update

 Feb 9th-

We have vaccines.

Cases are going down.

Restaurants and Outdoor venues can resume operations.

But schools are still closed.

smh

Super Bowl LIV

 Ok.  So, this year, Tom Brady left New England and went to Tampa Bay.  They sucked at the beginning of the season, but somehow got good and made it to the Super Bowl.  I am so sick of hearing how awesome Tom Brady is.  Gag!

Anyways, on February 7th, the Buc faced the Chiefs in the big game.  We rooted for the Chiefs, obvi!

The game sucked and the Chiefs lost.  Boo!

But, Jackie was at the game and it was fun texting her the whole time.  She photoshopped us into the cardboard cutouts at the game!  Oh yeah, audience at this season's games were capped at like 10-25 % because of Covid.  So, they filled the empty seats with cutouts of people.  We had the family over to watch the game and ate yummy food, so that was the best part of the day!

 Tampa Bay 31

Kansas City Chiefs 9

IB Birthday!

 For Jeremy's birthday this year, he wanted to go somewhere we had never been, that was close by and that had the ocean.  That was a challenge, because we have been pretty much everywhere close by with a beach!

But I found a Marriott with a great deal down in Imperial Beach.  We've never been there, so I booked it!  The first weekend in February, we headed down.

The hotel was amazing and right on the sand!  The restaurant on site had rad reviews, so we ate dinner there and Jeremy swears it is one of the top 5 best burgers he has ever had!  We sat at the best table in the place with the best views of the ocean waves crashing.

I wish I had taked a pic of the room, because it was awesome!  I had a booked a "partial ocean view" room, but it was a full ocean view room and we were so excited.

We woke up on Saturday and set out to find some breakfast.  Not a whole lot of restaurants were open for dine in and it was hard to find one open for breakfasts.  But we did find a cute little smoothie place that also had breakfast sandwiches.  We got our food to go and went and sat out on the jetty and ate it.

Then we took a nice walk on the beach down to the pier.

It was a beautiful day!  IB is very quiet, slow and quirky.  We really enjoyed checking it out.

This is me enjoying a pepsi and the ocean view on our balcony...

Imperial Beach is the last city in the US before Mexico.  We tried to walk to the border, but got bored,  But we could see it!

Then we found a TJ dog restaurant right across the street from our hotel.  Are you kidding me?  It was so good!

Saturday night, we watched the sunset on the beach and had dinner at a yummy mexican food restaurant,

It was such a fun getaway!  We loved this place and will be back, when there's waves.  We checked out Sunday morning and raced home for the Super Bowl!

Happy Birthday Honey!

1st week of February

 Cali has been struggling.

With Everything.

She was having an exceptionally hard week, so I flew her home for some Home Medicine.  I picked her up on Monday, Feb 1st from LAX.  We stopped at Downtown Disney for a delcious lunch.

And got some treats!

That week, she helped me watch the kids and they were so happy to see her!

And everyone else was too!

She left on Friday the 5th, so we had a date night with our girls on Thursday night at Yellow Deli to say goodbye.

I wasn't sure if bringing her home would be the best thing for her.

But, it turns out it was.

She was able to go back to Utah and get things sorted out.

She still struggles with anxiety and depression, but she is making decisions and choices that are helping her.  I am so proud of her and how she is growing and facing the hard things.  She is a tough cookie!  Love her so much!