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

Walking with a purpose

Today I did my first breast cancer walk. I choose this one because it seems pretty low key. I know the woman who puts it on and it was just a one day 12 mile walk in a area that I haven't been to before and wanted to go. It had a small registration fee and you could ask for donations or not. I had W.Impink Builders donate (a no brainer). Anyway, I knew there weren't going to be very many people because the organizer told me that, but I'm pretty sure Cheryl and I were the only ones to walk! We set out ahead of everyone on the advise of "the orginizer" and although we didn't expect to have anyone pass us going out, we certainly expected to pass some of them on the trail coming back. We didn't see a sole. Not only that but when we got back to the starting area there was no one in sight! No congratulations you finished, No Thanks for coming out to support us, No balance bars or water. Nothing, nata, nilch Nothing Nobody. But I didn't matter one bit. We had a great time, a great walk and ended with a good feeling of accomplishment anyway.

Big day yesterday

Yesterday was a big day for Ian. He got his braces off! I was looking at the before and after pictures of him, not so much of his teeth, but of how much he's changed in just a year and a half . When he got the braces on he was 11 1/2 years old and he's now 13 1/4. A big 8th grader. People tell you all the time how fast they grow up, but you don't really understand it until it happens to you. A little plug for my office www.bracesbystasun.com
Ian Pictures:
Jan. 07
Sept 08
Sept 08 post braces & haircut

My beautiful backyard

I love it rain or shine, windy, or hot anyway it wants to be. I love it so much.