Adventures and Non-Adventures of Cheryl & Kyle

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Matisyahu

If you ever have the chance to go to a Matisyahu concert, I highly recommend it. If you have never heard of Matisyahu or listened to his stuff, I say, "shame on you".

Jumping Jacks

We took the nephews to Jumping Jacks (an indoor inflatable place) a few nights ago and had a blast. It could be considered exercise without much of a sweat I was working up.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Since I was 14 back in 1994, I have been wearing contacts. Put them in in the morning. Take them out at night. Repeat for the next 17 years. This process was getting old. Nevermind the fact that camping or swimming with them was a pain. So, I decided to finally change that forever.

Last day I will ever have to wear my glasses again. Until my eyes get 'old' and I will have to wear reading glasses that is.

They put numbing drops in my eyes so I had to let them set in.

After the procedure I had to sit with my eyes closed for 20 minutes.

I seriously should have done this procedure a LONG time ago. I wasn't that nervous going in but I shouldn't have even been a tiny bit nervous because it was much easier than anticipated. I thought I would have a hard time not being able to blink, but I didn't even feel the need. It was kind of a weird thought to know that he was slicing off a bit of my eye, and I could see him pulling the flap back, and could smell the laser burning my eye, but all in all it was really easy. I didn't have any pain afterward, and just came home, slept from 11am-7pm, ate dinner and then went back to bed from 9pm-6am. Woke up this morning and could see clear as day without having to put any contacts in:)

Friday, July 29, 2011

San Diego for AVID Summer Institute

This coming year I will be teaching an AVID elective class.....so I got to go to San Diego these past 4 days to attend a conference about it. It was held at the Town & Country near Fashion Valley, and most of the 3300 participants stayed there at the hotel, but I was a late add-on so they were booked by the time I tried to make reservations, as were all the neighboring hotels. So I ended up booking a hotel in Old Town San Diego, which was fine by me because I like that area of SD.

The Mormon Battalion in Old Town SD

Baby Del on Coronado

The Mormon Battalion has been completely remodeled and is done very authentically

Ocean Beach

Kyle hung out at the hotel during the day when I had class, but afterward we would explore Old Town, or Coronado Island

Megan Hall and Loretta Durkin from Michigan were in SD for a family luau, and I was able to meet up with them one night and have a fun Girls Night Out in Old Town

I took the trolley from Old Town to Fashion Valley everyday for the conference. I was really impressed with the people of SD: 1. a girl in her 20's gave up her seat for an elderly man when he got on the trolley. 2. at the next stop a thuggish looking man gave up his seat when a lady got on the trolley. 3. when a gentleman got off at a stop he picked up all of the trash from the seats and put them in the trash can. Way to go people of San Diego!!! You impressed me with your kindness.

I wish there was some form of trolley/subway/metro from my house to my place of work, I would totally take advantage of it.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Last Beach Day for the Summer

A fun family tradition has come to an end. This summer my family has made it to the beach every Monday. But today was our last time. Erin, Rich and Zeke are off to New York and Texas for 3 weeks, I am getting LASIK next Monday and then the week after that school starts. So....my summer is coming to an end, but it was a great summer.

Cucamonga Peak

This past Saturday I went hiking with my boot camp people. We hiked to the saddle of Cucamonga Peak. Didn't have the extra time to make it to the peak because I had to get home and ready for the Pioneer Day Celebration at my Stake Center.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Beach Day

As per tradition, we made it down to the beach again on Monday, and even Kyle came this time. We cooled off in the water, played CornHole, hung out with Zeke, Brittany and Brixton, Erin got kicked out of the surf area because she was on a boogie board, and had a great time.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Malibu Lagoon Beach

In following our Monday Beach day tradition during this summer, we headed to a new beach, Malibu

Lagoon. It wasn't very crowded and the surf was good for my brother in law Richie. But the traffic coming home from Malibu is horrible.

Grand Performances

Somehow I became aware of a free summer concert series in downtown Los Angeles called Grand Performances, so Kyle and I went to our first one a few days ago. The location is really cool but to get the good seating up top you have to get there early. The two performers we saw were not as good as I had hoped for, but from looking at the calendar there should be some fun ones coming up.