Ski bunnies are back again, baby!

We went back to Mammoth again a few weeks ago and again we had such a blast. I'm so grateful I'm able to load up on my meds and ski...when I thought it was an activity possibly out of my realm for a while, I felt so much grief. It's awesome beyond words not to have to give it up, and Rob says I have a huge grin on my face the whole time...though I'm not surprised. I'm in heaven!

It was super sunny and perfect spring skiing conditions, the warmest weather and only like skiing in a warm slurpee at the very bottom. 

After two days of hitting the slopes hard, we were pooped and on our drive home, we had the bonehead idea to "drop by" the ancient Bristlecone Forest which we thought was just off the main drag. Well, little did we know it was a winding 45 minute drive off the main highway (when we had another 6 hour drive in front of us) and when we got there, the freakin' road was closed! Sorry, folks, moose out front shoulda told ya. 

 Then came bonehead move #2: we thought "oh, I'm sure it's not far to hike in to see the trees, we've come this far, let's just hike in and we'll be right back in no time". Um, didn't the Dahlmer party say that? Cripes. 2 hours of steep hike through snow and ice later, (and mind you, I can't even describe the crazy wind we faced...we were above tree line and it was madness how the wind would almost knock us over) we finally got there. And the kicker? Yah, the trees are somewhere around 4000 years old, so that's cool and all, but I don't even think they're that pretty. But after that hike, to be fair, unless they were covered in chips and guacamole and gave out massages, nothing would have been pretty. We're dum dums. But at least we burned some awesome calories. And saw some ancient trees. 

Illegally gotten, park is closed, we almost died from exhaustion plank. 

We live! Now get me a milkshake.

The storming of the Steitz's!

Meg and Bill came out to stay with us for several days in honor of Bill's big birthday and we were so happy to have them. We had such a great time, of course we'd have a blast with those two regardless of what we were doing.

Bill had arranged a private tour of th Salk Institute, it was really cool!

Nerd graffiti:

We went on an adventure trying to find Bill's childhood homes and we actually found thm! While they were nice suburban neighborhoods back in the day, they were pretty interesting now and we found a great treasure. 

Our treasure, and I was dared to go try it out for a photo op. 

Dare success! Beth never disappoints on a dare. I could have totally been shot for this pic but it was so worth it. 

For Bill's bday dinner, we went out on the beach and celebrated Bill-style with big ol' white mustaches. When in Rome...

Love you two!!!

My new office digs!

We moved office buildings to a block away (still in La Jolla) which is so exciting because it's larger. This means I've been able to expand my hours and see more clients and it's been wonderful. Here's a few shots of my space, it's gorgeous and very peaceful. In the lobby we have lovely zen music piped in and it's neat, we can even play it in our own offices if we want too. Here you go!

I just realized that's a shot of my lunch on my desk, haha!

ZRB day of fun!

Ok, so we need a new title, but we recently took our little buddy Zoe out for her 3rd birthday and had such a special day. Little Miss is such an adorable little chatter and cracked us up with telling a Uncle Booter to keep two hands on the wheel, asking us what we got for Christmas, and at one point told me all the other precious things that occur to 3 year old brains. Enjoy!

Singing Frozen to us:

I love this pic, happy face!

Zoe looooooves Panera so that was her choice of lunches, how cute is that? Once I saw their cookies though, I can't blame a sister. 

Hide and seek. Kind of.

I was watching my neighbor's kids the other day and we were playing hide 'n seek in our house. I just had to share Mac's hilarious "hiding spot".  As I was looking for him, I could hear his giggling coming from my bedroom and this is what I found. A laughing little lump. Pretty hilarious.

ROW - the Paprika Chicken Edition

Ok, ok, I fully realize it's been a month since I last blogged and THIS is what I'm coming out the gate with...a stupid recipe share? Well, there you have it, it's all I'm able to do right now :) but maybe it'll spring this lapsed blogger into action and I'll post more this week.  In fact, I will.  I promise.  I return to teaching next week (woot!) so I know I'll be busy, and I've had a relapse in vertigo again, so I've been feeling like crap, and it'll help me to have a fun little project on the side.

ANYHOO - we had this recipe (From People Magazine, who else) the other night, and it was so freakin' delicious!!!  I highly recommend it.

I know my usual gig is to also post a pic of what it ACTUALLY looks like in real life on our plates, but we were both so starving after smelling it for an hour that we gobbled it up.  Whoops.  You'll just have to trust us, it's delicious.  I sub'd chicken tenders instead of thighs because I hate the whole dark meat and grizzle situation and I reduced the cooking time a lot - next time I think I'll try chicken breasts just to mix it up.  Because that's how crazy I am.

Please enjoy - delicious!!!

Snow Days aka Human Bowling

Just like last year, only in San Diego would we truck in fake snow on a warm sunny day in the mid 70's while people on the east coast are grumbling and digging themselves out of feet of snow.  But, regardless of the Cali insanity, we love that our neighborhood hosts this event and we have such a blast.  Thank God we have fun neighbors and we can borrow their kids to sled with.  Rob and I took a sled run together, but apparently 2 adult butts does not make a sled go fast.  Or at all.  The perfect combo is apparently adult + tiny kid = crazy speed in order to go human bowling.

When me and BatMac went down, we were going so fast, we NAILED a poor volunteer and totally knocked him down - it was hilarious.  The rest of the day, Mac kept reminiscing and the story go bigger and bigger "Ms. Beth, remember when we knocked that guy's head off?", "Ms. Beth, remember when we made that guy's face bleed?" (we didn't, btw, he was fine), and my favorite, "Ms. Beth, remember when we killed that guy?"  hahaha!  Ah, the beauty of 3 year old memory.

Here's the two adult butts in slow motion, it's not nearly as exciting as it sounds:

And Ms. Beth and BatMac as we go down our Run Of Terror.  Too bad we have no photographic evidence of said human bowling incident, but you'll just have to trust me (and BatMac), it was pretty epic.

I love how Mackie is making his arms aerodynamic right here - I fully blame him for our speed which led to the carnage.  I'm sticking with that story.