Feeding San Diego

Recently Eric and I had a great opportunity to volunteer with Feeding San Diego (part of Feeding America). This is an awesome organization because they not only focus on feeding those in need, but they place an emphasis on providing healthy food with nutrition education.

In their first year of operation in 2007, San Diego County suffered from disastrous firestorms that displaced hundreds of thousands of individuals. In the first week of the fire with only two employees, they delivered 515,000 pounds of food and water to evacuees, firefighters, and volunteers.


We got the chance to meet some really great people and had a lot of fun while we were there.


We learned how to glean onions, there were people washing various produce, sorting boxes, cleaning, etc.


I really enjoyed doing something different after work as opposed to our normal routine, it was a lot of fun and was for a great cause. I would love to take advantage of more of these opportunities!

Easter

Although we didn't have any real set plans for Easter, it turned out to be a busy weekend. We went down the street to a Good Friday service after work. Saturday morning we met up with Alison's family for an Easter egg hunt for the girls.


It was a beautiful day to be out, and so funny watching all the kids' strategies for collecting eggs. Sienna only wanted pink or purple eggs; she only ended up with two. Thankfully one of them had her favorite candy in it.


They also had all kinds of inflatable bounce houses and slides for the kids to play on.

Then we went to take a ride on the Poway-Midland Railroad.


It uses a steam engine. You could see them filling it with water after each little tour.





The next morning I made pancakes and tried to make them look like Easter eggs.


Eric and I made baskets for each other which was a lot of fun.


Then we headed to church and pretty much relaxed the rest of the day! It was a really nice weekend celebrating with family. I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter, and I hope this Spring is starting to bring warmer weather for the East coast :)

Watching the Sunset

One day this week Eric and I both came home from work after a very long, mundane day feeling very under-stimulated. Usually we have a little more variety to our work days, but on this particular day we had both been staring at a computer screen working on the same thing all day long.

So we grabbed some snacks, a blanket, and went to go watch the sunset at Sunset Cliffs.





In the picture below you may be able to see a couple surfers. It was so cold! But I bet they were loving it.

We're so thankful to have such beautiful sunrises and sunsets around us. Actually the very next morning, I opened the curtains to see the most gorgeous sunrise over the golf course.


It was just what we needed to turn around a very drab day.

St. Patrick's Day

It was nice that St. Patrick's Day fell on a weekend this year. We don't usually do anything to celebrate, but it was fun to have an excuse to make green meals. On Saturday morning I wanted to make green pancakes for Eric. But we didn't have any food coloring, so I made him go out and get some. I guess maybe that was more for me than him...

I also made some Irish white bean and cabbage stew.


Eric is in the home-stretch of studying for his big test this weekend.

We also found Scrabble in one of the little community center buildings in our complex so we had fun borrowing it. These were my letters.

Nothing else too crazy going on around here - just pushing through this final week of studying. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Exploring San Diego - Fleet Science Center

Last week Eric's parents came to visit to celebrate his mom's 60th birthday! They spent a couple days in Las Vegas first, and then spent the rest of the week in San Diego.


It was so nice to have them here. Unfortunately we didn't get a ton of time with them since we were working all week, but we did have the full day Saturday together.

Saturday happened to be the one day it was raining all day long, so we did a lot of hanging around the house that afternoon.

That morning we decided to go to Fleet Science Center for some indoor fun. They had so much to do for people of all ages.


This girl was also celebrating a birthday - she turned 2 on Monday!

We got to see a short movie about dolphins in their IMAX theater. I had never been to a theater like this before, it was a totally new experience. Truthfully, I probably wouldn't be able to sit through a whole IMAX movie. I didn't know where to look and too much movement started making me dizzy. But it was still very cool to see.

They had a huge play area for some of the smaller children. Sydney spent the entire time in here.


There were endless other areas and rooms with various hands-on learning activities. We learned about electricity, sound travel, weather patterns, earthquakes, laws of physics, engineering, and much more.



They had an entire web of passage ways created entirely out of packing tape!

There was so much to do we didn't even get to everything before we were in need of naps and food. I would love to go back at some point. Although it is one of the few things that isn't free around here, I would definitely recommend for a great rainy day activity!

Thank you so much for visiting and happy birthday to Betty and Sydney!