Beach Day

We took Zoey to the beach this weekend, of course as soon as we were half way there the sun went away and it got chilly. She loves chasing after her tiny balls and though I don't like it Corey throws it in the water so she'll chase after it and get wet, we were giving her a bath as soon as we got home so he had her soaked by the time we left.

We also celebrated Corey's dad's birthday this weekend, I have no pictures of that but it was fun and we got to spend time with our nieces, and had the yummy Costco chocolate cake that we all love so much.

Today Danielle and I are going to see my grandma this afternoon, Sister Pat is staying with my grandma this week till Thursday so we wanted to get a visit in. Tomorrow Josh has a track meet and I will be taking our good camera so hopefully I'll get some decent pictures.

I'm really excited with the progress in our dining room, we finished putting together our new cabinet/countertop thing and I found 4 paintings to go above it, I also found some cute accessories and can't wait to get everything up and organized. I want to paint the interior of our place but our landlords seem hesitant to let us so I'm kinda in limbo right now, I don't want to hang everything if there's a chance I can paint, I'm hopefully going to find out next week so I guess things will wait till then.

Not Surprised

I have about a million and two photos just like this

The Bluffs

Earlier today we took Zoey to explore the bluffs nearby. She loves exploring and getting into things and she had a great time. She loved to roll around in the long grass and wanted to investigate every hole and burrow which scares me to death cause thou she's a tough girl she's only 6lbs and would do anything to protect me if she felt I was in danger or scared. This morning Zoey was outside having fun with the squirrel, when she wasn't looking the squirrel came inside the house to look for nuts. I quickly yelled to Corey and he followed the squirrel outside and proceeded to feed him. I think it's about time we give him a name. I desperately need a new camera as you can tell from the photo.

Michelle's Birthday Surprise

Last night we celebrated Michelle's birthday at The Goat, it was a blast and it felt good to go out again since we haven't gone out for awhile. Andrea has been wanting to come down for awhile but it just hadn't worked out, since it was Michelle's birthday she made it happen and came down with Elliot and Chris. They are both really sweet and I'm so glad I got to spend time with them also, we met for an early dinner at Hooter's and then again at the bar. Andrea decided to not tell Michelle she was coming down and surprised her instead...this was her reaction

Michelle, Diana and I moving to the music

Zoey and the squirrel

Zoey has made friends with one of our squirrels, I don't know if he thinks Zoey as a friend but he loves to antagonize her and she loves to chase him. I'd hate to think what would actually happen if the two actually came face to face cause that sucker has some sharp claws, I have a scratch on my finger to prove it. We feed the squirrels almonds and today I had jelly beans, the squirrel was checking out what was in my hand so I gave him one and he liked it. I could probably get in big trouble for that but I figure they probably eat worse with In'n'Out down the street.
Please excuse the last of my phone conversation with Corey and the fact that the video is the wrong way, I have no idea how to change that. This is one of their favorite things to do, Zoey chases the squirrel around the tree. They also like to play on the fence and the squirrel has a grand time jumping from the tree onto our roof which drives Zoey mad.

Josh

I'm so very proud of the youngest Osty, my little brother has grown up to be a very talented and handsome teenager. At 16 he towers us all at 6'4 and can't get enough of calling all his older sisters short and asking us how the view is from "down there". In a weeks time I've been lucky enough to attend two of his track meets and a basketball game. For track Josh does 4 events, long jump, high jump, triple jump and 4/400 or something like that. His record for high jump is 6ft, long jump is 17.11ft, I don't know anything about track and field but I'm very impressed by what he can do and can't wait for the next one.
He plays league basketball for Huntington Beach, this was from his last game. I took my point and shoot camera which was obviously a mistake so next track meet I will make sure to take our "real" camera.And of course some photos of Zoey. This was last Monday, it's Corey's day off but he had to stop by work to fix the computer, I let Zoey out to run around but it was hot so we went back to the car. She was waiting unpatiently for Corey and kept climbing all over the car trying to find the best spot to see him from. I love both of these photos.

We had a visitor

Yesterday Jesse had an interview and Chandra was working so we got to spend some time with Sydney. She is such a sweet little girl and we love her to pieces. She's extremely mellow and well behaved, she has big beautiful blue eyes and looking into them you really see childhood innocence.

Uncle Corey & Sydney

Zoey & Sydney

Zoey had to get her yearly shots so she got the total spa day, she got her hair cut and nails done. I hate taking her to the Vet because she realizes about a mile away where we are going and starts shaking. It kills me to feel her shaking in my arms and not being able to comfort her. Corey picked her up in the afternoon and when she got home she was happy to see me at first and then was ignoring me and wouldn't look at me for a long time. Eventually she got over it and was back to her old self, she loved having someone her own size to play with and she's very gentle with little ones.