Family Celebration of Life

We stuck with our tradition of celebrating with our birthday ring

 and dinner chosen by the birthday person.

Leigh chose angel hair pasta.

There were two number '1's on the ring this year!

Then for the gifts.  There was one special one that she had REALLY been hoping for

but was still surprised to see.

Another year in the life

One more year for Leigh!

She planned her birhday party with homeschool friends at a park in Chula Vista.

She chose a spring theme and planned a game of pin the flower on the stem

with snacks for all

Excellent fruit cake made by Rose, mom of one of the homeschooling families from Tijuana

yellow and blue cupcakes

and finished up with a pinata filled with all sorts of interesting things.

I'm pretty sure she had a good day, spent with good friends

Hi this is another guest post my me, Leigh and i am goin to blog about a AWESOME weekend i just had

                                                 Our Trip was 98% beach.....

                                                     And the rest was feeding the seagulls

                                                        At OB

                                           Catching the waves dude

                                             (left to right) Rachel,Me and Mary

                                                At La Jolla

                                                     Me and Rachel walked to the peir and
                                                                        ate at the cafe

                                                        On the back a guy put our name
                                                                on a sand castle he built
                                                                          for free

                                             I may look happy but i am not lol

                                             The weekend ended with a pinata

                                                  Love to all and all a goodnight
                                                             -Leigh

A measure of Goodwill

A good will wedding!

Two of our friends who are avid Goodwillers, decided to get hitched at Goodwill in Tempe

This past week.  (on Valentine's Day actually)

They sent out invites to a "scavenger hunt"  and after the teams were divied up and everybody had their items collected and the winners were announced....they broke out the news that there was going to be a wedding!!

(I had insider info that this was happening....I kinda knew the officient..;-)

Elvis even showed up

Group of friends

Tommy and Lia Noble

The wedding party

Following that celebration, we walked over to Sweet Tomatoes for the "reception" and then loaded up and headed to the Kiwanis park for some outdoor fun.

Boys' paddleboat

Girls paddleboat

Silly Girls

Selfie with the boys

Fog along coast

A couple weeks ago we had crazy amounts of fog for about a week.

It was the thickest fog I had ever seen. Every morning, driving in was an adventure.

It varied also where I saw it.  Sometimes it would be thick in Mexico going up the Libre

and sometimes it would be light in Mexico and then thick when I got into CA.

Unpredictable.

These are all from the city that I work in.  The fog was just light on the freeway and as soon as I got off and down into the city, thick!

about a quarter mile off the freeway.

A block before my work

The street I work on

Then a few days after that I was coming home from work and when I dropped down from the border heading west to Playas, all of a sudden there was a dense fog.  It was unbelievable.  I could not see too far in front of me and when I was driving down the coast, no ocean view.  Sun was not even visible.

When I got back to our neighborhood, same dense fog.  It was definitely a crazy afternoon.

Road to Playas.  (I have never known the name of this road...)

Before toll booth

Toll road

That should be a view of the ocean

Looking up the hill into our neighborhood

Saturday morning Uno game

No Staging...ever

This is what a typical Sunday morning looks like in the Bartley house.
This IS what our house looks like.
I did not arrange anything or set it up to look like anything other than our daily life.

I didn't even crop any of the photos....Happy Sunday!  Hope everyone enjoys the superbowl!

Pancakes on the griddle

Moogly watching the pancakes

Kids on Lego Digital Design, Bryce answering email and Jesse napping...