Christmas Lists

You know all those times throughout the year when your kids come up to you saying "That's cool, I wish I had that" or "Oh, I'd like one of those" my standard response is always "put it on your Christmas list" or if it's close to a birthday than.... well, you get it. So my little angles came up with these the other night. Ian's is ALL motorcycle and snowboarding related stuff. Evan's is really cute, If you can't read it. It says: Soda Machine, Phone, Ipod Dock, Shark Tooth, Watch, Axe (that smelly drug store stuff), Slot Machine and A Surprise. On the bottom it says Thank You. Be careful what you wish for. :)
In other news, Sometimes I feel like the last one to find things out. I was watching the news this morning and they were talking about how prescriptions prices can very from pharmacy to pharmacy. Who knew! (Obviously the guy on the news who wrote the book about it) Anyway, I just paid $184.75 for a 60 tabs of a generic Rx at Longs Drugs only to look online at Costco and find out its $164.00 for 100 tabs. Knowledge is power!! And $20.00 is $20.00!

88 Days

This morning during the hustle and bustle of making breakfast, packing lunches, finding homework and shoes, Evan yells to me from upstairs "Only 88 days until..." Well naturally I thought he was going to say Christmas since he spent the morning looking at the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog that arrived at our house via our friends Mike and Lynn (thanks guys) until I heard him say "Bush is out of office" He was referring to the Bush countdown clock that he got for his birthday back in March. Something I had completely forgotten about. Way to make your mom laugh in the morning, Thanks Evan!

Pumpkin Festival and Friends

Pumpkin Festival in all it's glory brought sun, fun, food and friends and ended with cold and exhaustion. I loved it all.

Card Sharks

This has become a nightly affair, playing Blackjack. I don't know who likes it more Wayne or the boys. It probably depends on who's winning. :)
I didn't feel like cooking tonight so Evan had left overs and Ian, Wayne and I split a $6.00 chicken burrito from down the street. Usually Ian will eat a whole burrito himself but they were at Grandma and Grandpa's after school today and grandpa always makes them ramen noodles so neither of them were very hungry. Tomorrow.....turkey meatloaf.

And the winner is........

Thad Starr of Pleasant Hill, Oregon. His pumpkin was 1528 lbs. as you can see from the above picture with Ian and Evan, It's BIG! Thad also won last year his pumpkin weighed 1524lbs. The picture of the pumpkin with Ian and Evan is a couple of posts back"Pumpkin time in HMB". I think he has it down to a science.
It's another beautiful day here in Half Moon Bay. Of course this is our Indian summer. People were walking on the path today in tank tops and shorts. I think my car said it was 68 degrees when I picked up the boys from school.
Still waiting on Ian's historical figure grade and he's now working on science fair. I'm not thrilled with his choice of projects, something about motorcycles and engines. Sounds like dad will be helping with this one!

Ian as Ben

On Tuesday Ian spent the whole school day dressed as Ben Franklin. He had to do an interactive oral presentation for his class. I haven't seen his grade yet but his presentation was highly critiqued during dinner with the family. Advice was flowing as freely as the wine. LOL Ian's comment about his look was "Hey! I look like uncle David!"

The first Cunha school dance is tonight. As part of Ian's leadership class, he is responsible for choosing the theme and decorating for the dance. I think it's "Fright Night" tonight. Ohooooo Evan is spending the night at Grandma and Grandpa's.

Pumpkin time in HMB

Anyone who lives in Half Moon Bay or has ever lived here knows that October is crazy with orange. Pumpkins, lots and lots of pumpkins. We (who live here)become hostages to all of the pumpkin patches, hay and corn mazes. Traffic on the weekends becomes unbearable and yet the whole thing is contagious. October is fun! It brings in the end of summer and the beginning of fall, my favorite time of year. At the Pumpkin festival this year we'll be selling 4-H pumpkin rolls and riding on floats in the parade and eating dinner with our good, good friends. What could be better!

Moin Pen Tournament

The final the Moin Pen tournament at Kuk Sool Won was yesterday. Evan's team competed against 4 other teams and came in second. Again. (It was a different team before)He really wanted to win. I'm not into competition and sometimes have a hard time relating to sports and why people do them, but I really got this. Evan took it very seriously and really worked hard and actually won his portion of the event. But it's scored on an over all basis. So over all his team came in second. There's alot of stratagy that goes along with Moin Pen and team work. It also renforces what they've been learning in Kuk Sool Won. All of the forms, kicking, breaking and most of all respect and self-control. Yea Evan! I can't wait for the next time you do Moin Pen.

LPGA in HMB

What? That's right. The LPGA's top female golfers are playing the Ocean Course at the Half Moon Bay golf links. I tried to volunteer through the sponsor Samsung. Mostly because I'm always up for something different and the perks were pretty good. Of course you had to pay $40.00 and commit to 3 days. LOL But it sounded fun and it came w/ a 5 day guess pass which my dad(pictured above) could have used. By the time I called, all of the positions were filled except one. That was to work directly with NBC news by walking all 18 holes, all 5 days with a reporter and confirm the player, strokes, the hole etc. When I heard that I asked the lady if she though it would be helpful to know anything about golf or the golfers. There was a long silence on the other end of the phone. Need less to say, I'm not volunteering at the Samsung LPGA golf tournament this week.
In other news, It's a good thing (note the sarcasm)that I filled up yesterday at $4.37 per gl. because today it was only $3.79! What up with that? I always try to get gas in the beginning or the middle of the week because it seems like by Thursday/ Friday the prices are higher. Just goes to show, you can't count on anything right now. I feel like I want to take a 2 year vacation. Or at least fast forward to November 5th. I hate all this political stuff. I'm skeptical at best about both party's and both candidates.
Pictures: May 3, 2006
Ray (my dad) and David(my Brother) playing the Ocean Course