Ted's Mommie and Me day 12/23/09

Ted choose to go to the Queen Mary for his mommy and me day. He is interested in ghost hunting. We took the ghostly encounters tour and went to some eerie places where there have been ghost sightings. Bottom you Ted in the engine room. Right you see Ted in the empty boiler room. Ted believes that he got a picture of paranormal activity (top picture) when he took a picture of a dark hallway in the dressing rooms located in the 1st class swimming pool which is suppose to be a vortex. You be the judge.

Travis' Mommie and Me Day 12/22/09

Thursday 12/17/09 Travis was playing dodge ball at the Boys and Girls club and managed to get his hand stepped on and broke his index finger just above the hand. So for the 2nd year in a row we will go to Idaho with someone in a cast (Ted broke his foot last year the week before Christmas).

Tuesday 12/22/09 was Travis' mommie and me day. We went to Disneyland and had breakfast at the Story tellers cafe with the characters. Here is a hint: do not go to Disneyland the week before Christmas it was nothing but people.

Christmas Time at Disneyland

We made are yearly trip to Disneyland to see the holiday decorations. We say saw Santa and took in all the decorations. Left: in front of It's a small World Right: in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle

Water Polo

Its been very busy. Football has ended but Ted has developed a passion for water polo and now plays on the Los Alamitos Club Water Polo Team. He is at the pool between 4-6 times a week plus an hour of dry land training on Tuesday at Champion's Quest athletic training academy ( In the left picture Ted is wearing the white cap)

Football season

Travis has been busy with football. He has been doing well. He plays just about any position they want to put him in as. He has played quarterback, center, lineman, running back, defensive end and outside linebacker. He prefers outside linebacker but currently they are only letting him play defense for half of the game but he is still the leading tackler on his team. His team is not doing so good though. They only have between 16-18 players at each game. They are all 7 yrs old and first year tackle players so they are currently 0-5-1.

Ted has just started water polo. He is currently taking a fundamentals class to learn the game. He seams to love the game and if his enthusiasm continues he will probably play on a team starting in January. I will try to get some pictures next week. I had to run between water polo and football last night because they change football practice this week because of the rain.

Busy Times

Well it is fall once again. The boys had to change schools at the last minute (2 days before their former school started). They attend Twila Reid Elementary which is just down the road from our house. The have to go to day care at 6:15am so that I can get to work on time.
Travis is busy with football 3 nights a week and games on Saturday. This is his first year of tackle football. His team is very small and young. So far they are 0-2. Ted will start swimming 2-3 times a week at the end of September.Ted still goes to Sylvan 4 hours a week. I am still working on a Masters Degree and teaching full time so we are busy.

Queen Mary

We were able to spend the night on the Queen Mary. We had the chance to tour parts of the boat at night time. We had reached the R deck of the ship. When you come out of the elevator there is a little platform and staircase (center). To the left there is a unique curved doorway (left). The R deck was the former first class dining and swimming pool area. We were the only ones down there. Ted and I were looking around. I turned and saw Travis still standing on the platform by the elevator. He looked petrified. When I got him to talk he ran off the ship and refused to come back to even get in the elevator. We had to go around the boat and enter from the main gangway. He said that someone bumped into him and laughed. He was so scared that when we went down to the R deck on our tour the next day I had to pack him and he shook the whole time we were down there. So I guess Travis had his own ghostly encounter with the ghosts they say haunt the area around the swimming pool.


There is also a Russian sub next to the Queen Mary. We toured the sub. It was EXTREMELY small. They said it held 75 people and since there wasn't even bunk space they slept in shifts. When you went from one section to another in the sub you had to go through these tubes (center). The bunks were all throughout the sub. They did not really have any rooms to sleep in. Many times the bunks where just out in the open (right).