Surfing USA!

  So about a month ago, I had my first and hopefully not my last surfing lesson. My sweet friend Jessica use to be a surf instructor in Hawaii and she was willing to try and teach me here in San Diego. 

  I usually take to new sports really well, I am not an instant pro but I can at least get the basics down pretty quickly. Surfing on the other hand was a lot harder than it looks. I had a lot of factors keeping me from feeling very confident. First my biggest fear is to drown. Second I hate to be cold. Third I am kind of afraid to go very far out in the ocean. The closer I drove to the beach the more anxiety I felt.  

  The lesson began with practicing position, paddling and foot placement in the sand. Ok that was easy. Next we moved to the water, ummm yeah my foot hit the water and immediately I wanted to turn around and say forget it. That water was freezing!!!! I didn't quit and we paddled out. My first try was actually a success!!! Jess was watching the waves, turned me around, pushed me off, told me to paddle, then yelled at me to STAND UP!!!! Guess what I was SURFING!!! It wasn't a huge wave, more like a little baby one but I did it!!! Turns out it was beginners luck. I wiped out every time after that. I swallowed so much salt water that eventually my dinner became fish food. I took a break after that to recompose myself. It was getting dark and almost time to pack up and go so I decided to try one more time. Couldn't have my last attempt be awful. My last ride was awesome!!! I was so confident and so excited....until I didn't realize how close to the shore I was and the board bottomed out on the sand and my face ate the ground. It hurt like crazy!!! I was kind of out of it  so I ended up being tossed around the a few incoming waves. I looked like a beached whale being rolled in by the tide. The pictures are worth way more than the words I wrote. I hope you get a good laugh even if its at my expense.

   To my kids: Just try. It may be scary, it may be hard, it may take a few tries, but don't give up.

Oh No I Am a Month Behind!

Wow! It has been over a month since my last update! We have done a lot in the last month. Where should I start....?

I know I will look at my pictures and see what we have been up to.

We went with some friends up to Laguna Beach to meet some more friends that were visiting CA from Colorado. It was like a mini ward reunion!

We spend a lot of time at the beach. We always have a great time no matter how long we stay, an hour or the whole day, with friends or just our family.

CJ's beach Christmas tree.

CJ and Eva made their "own ocean".

Another beach, another day.

Went to see my long lost family!

We have a LOT of eye doctor appointments. I think in the month of may I accompanied my family to 14 eye doctor visits. 

We have had a lot of play dates! To all sorts of place. We are going to miss all the friends we are making.

On the ferry to Coronado Island.

On the ferry back to San Diego.

At the splash park down town.

Dinner at new friends houses! We even played with their chickens.

We did a lot more fun thing that I will write about later. I love it here in San Diego. It will be a very sad day when we eventually have to leave.

More San Diego Happenings

We are living it up here in San D! We really do love it here. We have been making amazing friends and amazing memories. Here our some pictures of what we have been up to lately!! Hope you enjoy.

Bobby excited about play group at the beach!

It was time for the yearly eye exams. We were lucky to find an amazing eye doctor here.
She is great and the kids and I love her. She understands our traveling situation and is
willing to work with us on everything. This is CJ with his new glasses.  

This is Bobby and Eva with their new glasses.

Bobby has been struggling with some reading issues so we chose to have a vision exam.
Our great eye doctor reviewed the results and Bobby will be starting vision therapy next week. 

Went bowling with some friends. Malayna, mom and Lindy.

She got a strike!

Me.

Lindy's turn. She would get mad if we tried to help her. She carried that ball all by herself.

Julia came to San Diego with her school. We met her at the zoo.

We are just down the street from 7-11 so walking up the street for a slurpee happens often.

We made a surprise trip to UT for mother's day. We text this picture to Selinda to see if she could
figure out where we were standing. She didn't even look at her phone.

Went to see Grandma Gubler.

The kids playing with a 50+ year old toy at Great Grandma Gublers house.

Lindy loves carne asada fries just like her mommy!

Bobby setting up his "battle" in the bathroom. He said we wants to be military commander when he grows up.

Went with a friend to this private beach. We had to hike down this hill to get to it because you need a key to be able to
drive down to it and the key was already at the beach with some one else. Thank goodness she got a ride back up
that hill and drove the car back down with the key so we didn't have to hike back up with all the kids. 

Taking a selfie and I noticed Eva behind me enjoying a hand full of sand! LOL!