Don flew from Houston (USA basketball weekend business) and I flew from Iowa to meet in San Diego Sunday night. With a rented car we drove across the bridge to Coronado, California. We checked into the only timeshare hotel on the island - the Coronado Beach Resort. It is right across the street from the famous Hotel del Coronado dating 1888.
Monday Don had a lunch meeting with sports people and I headed out to the 3rd floor roof top area. Ahhhh...the sun felt so good. Don joined me later and we lounged the time away. We enjoyed our evening dinner at The Beach House in the marina area. The shrimp, steak & lobster along with salads were superb. A martini and a mojito capped it off.
We moved rooms when we returned from dinner - the air conditioner wasn't working in our studio room. They upgraded us to a lovely one bedroom suite on the third floor! Our precious room temperature was up to 84.
Tuesday morning we took a historical walking tour of Coronado. It was informative and fun. We found out that The Beach House where we had supper last night was put up as workers were trained to work on Hotel del Coronado. Hotel del Coronado was the focus in starting Coronado as a place for the rich and famous to vacation.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Celebrating Birthdays in Indy
The first weekend in May is our traditional time to head to Indianapolis to celebrate Cade and Brent's birthdays. Ahhhh.....retirement allowed us to leave on a Wednesday to be there for Cade's birthday on Thursday, May 2. Cade is FIVE! Five years ago we eagerly waited each day at school to get the call that Brent and April's first child had arrived. We didn't know if the baby was a girl or boy. Don got the call at school and called me to say "It's a BOY!" We quickly planned a weekend trip to Indy to see our new grandson and congratulate the parents.
We arrived Wednesday in time for Don and Brent to go to the Pacers NBA play-off game. Thursday was CADE's day and it started with papa and Cade going to Dunkin Donuts to get donuts to start the special birthday day. Brent headed off to work and the rest of us to the zoo. We pulled in to find the parking lot with 25-30 buses! We started at the butterfly house and loved watching the many kinds of butterflies fly around us. Cade got to observe a beautiful one up close on his finger. The zoo was crowded with school groups and Cade was happy to do some of the "special" things instead of seeing the animals. We took the zoo train and the papa & Cade rode the roller coaster. We said good-bye to April and Kasen (Kasen wasn't very happy about that) so that we could treat Cade to a special lunch out downtown with his daddy. We met Brent at Weber Grill and thoroughly enjoyed our lunch time together.
We had another fun day on Friday. Off to preschool for both of the boys and papa and I went along.
After preschool and lunch we enjoyed lots of outside time shooting hoops and biking.
Cade, Brent and Papa took off Saturday morning to go golfing. Cade was anxious to try out his new clubs! Who knew that the golf club had a rule that golfers must be 8 or older. So the boys got a couple buckets of balls and hit them on the driving range. They were home in time to go the Children's Museum with us.
We arrived Wednesday in time for Don and Brent to go to the Pacers NBA play-off game. Thursday was CADE's day and it started with papa and Cade going to Dunkin Donuts to get donuts to start the special birthday day. Brent headed off to work and the rest of us to the zoo. We pulled in to find the parking lot with 25-30 buses! We started at the butterfly house and loved watching the many kinds of butterflies fly around us. Cade got to observe a beautiful one up close on his finger. The zoo was crowded with school groups and Cade was happy to do some of the "special" things instead of seeing the animals. We took the zoo train and the papa & Cade rode the roller coaster. We said good-bye to April and Kasen (Kasen wasn't very happy about that) so that we could treat Cade to a special lunch out downtown with his daddy. We met Brent at Weber Grill and thoroughly enjoyed our lunch time together.
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| Happy birthday, Cade! |
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| Off to the zoo! |
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| Cade in the butterfly house at the zoo. |
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| Kasen and April in the butterfly house. |
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| Papa and the boys waiting for the zoo train. |
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| All aboard! |
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| Cade and Papa riding the roller coaster! |
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| Downtown for lunch |
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| Lunch downtown with birthday boys Brent and Cade. |
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| Cade with his new Nike golf clubs. |
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| Some practice swings in the backyard. |
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| Birthday supper with his favorite foods! |
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| A basketball birthday cake, of course! |
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| 5 years old! |
We had another fun day on Friday. Off to preschool for both of the boys and papa and I went along.
After preschool and lunch we enjoyed lots of outside time shooting hoops and biking.
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| April reading Cade's birthday book during preschool. 5 Years of Basketball |
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| Out side time! |
Cade, Brent and Papa took off Saturday morning to go golfing. Cade was anxious to try out his new clubs! Who knew that the golf club had a rule that golfers must be 8 or older. So the boys got a couple buckets of balls and hit them on the driving range. They were home in time to go the Children's Museum with us.
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| Kasen creating at the Children's Museum |
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| Papa helping Cade at the Museum getting ready to explore for underwater treasures. |
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| More backyard practice with the new clubs. |
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| Rocks and dump trucks! |
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| Steaks on Brent's new grill! Happy Birthday, Brent. |
Sunday morning we skipped church so we would have a little more time together before we headed back to Iowa. So we have breakfast at LaPeep, one of our favorite breakfast places.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Calling All Super Heroes: Owen Turns 4!
Owen Donald Kahler turned four years old on April 7th! That cause for a big celebration on April 13 at his house. Super Heroes was the theme for the family birthday get together.
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| Happy birthday, Owen! |
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| The best of the Super Heroes: Owen, Landon, Cade and Kasen. These 4 boys will always be our super heroes! |
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| Lunch time. Owen's favorites: pasta, veggies, fruit |
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| Chow down boys. |
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| Time to open presents. Big brother helping. |
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| Super hero figurines and legos were appreciated. |
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| Watching as presents are unwrapped. |
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| Yummy cupcakes! |
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| Which one?? |
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| Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Owen, happy birthday to you! |
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| I love this "Owen face" |
Photo booth picture time!
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| Cade |
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| Owen |
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| Kasen |
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| Landon |
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| Great Gm and Gpa Bauer - such good sports! |
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| Brent and April |
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| Yep, Nana and Papa took our turn! |
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| Scott and Melissa. Thanks for the wonderful party. |
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| Kasen slept in Landon's bed. |
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| The three big boys bunked in Owen's room. |
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| Landon lost another tooth! Shortly after the boys were all tucked in he pulled out a tooth! |
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| Adult game time. |
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