As part of Stacy’s birthday celebration we headed to San Diego for the weekend. First stop Sea World!
Stacy was afraid of the big penguin at first and wouldn’t go near it:
By the end of the day, Stacy was good with the costumed characters:
Stacy really enjoys puzzles. She is patient:
Stacy didn’t want me to take video or pictures of her doing the puzzle:
But I took them anyway as she was progressing thru the puzzle:
Stacy did the puzzle all by herself:
Viola! All done:
Jack with all his jerseys, DURANT AND K-LOVE:
AMARE and LBJ:
CP3 (I hate the Clippers…kills me when Jack wears this jersey) Laker Sunday jersey – Kobe:
Jack and his Kobe Fathead sticker. Kobe Home jersey:
Laker away Jersey. UCLA Football jersey:
Drew Brees Football jersey.
Afterwards we went to take some pictures with the statues outside Staples center:
Chick Hearn:
Jerry West:
Kareem:
Magic:
For all the Laker fans who buy season tickets on their American Express card, the Lakers have a fan-fest day where it is the ONLY day where they allow fans to watch a game day shoot around and ask and answer questions. One of the dads on Jack’s basketball team invited us to go so I took Stacy and Jack:
First there was Q&A with assistant coach Bill Berka, Stu Lantz and Mitch Kupchak:
Let me just say Mike D’antoni does NOT work on any defense! When we went the Lakers were struggling on defense and I kid you not they WALKED thru their defense for 5 minutes. They didn’t even do it right and then they moved on to lame shooting drills.
D12 warming up his bum shoulder:
Steve Nash:
Nash, Gasol, Peace, Howard and Kobe shooting:
Lets play a little game of, “Guess what happens next!!”
Are you ready to play, “GUESS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT??” Does Jack catch the football???
NOPE:
ROUND 2 – “GUESS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT??”
See, in the photo’s Jack doesn’t look half bad…but in real life this is what really happens *sigh*:
ROUND 3 – “GUESS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT??”
Well? What is your guess? 3rd time’s the charm?? NOPE. You should hear the other boys GROAN when Jack runs his route or drops the ball.
Lets add some salt to the wound:
Ran the route, eyes are tracking the ball, it looks good…are you ready to play GUESS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT???
Yup you guessed it…OFF JACK’S HANDS OF STONE!
We can’t end on a bad note, can we??
Jack has got this. He GOT this…right?
NOPE. STONEHANDS in all his glory. I can’t tell you have frustrated it is standing and watching on the sidelines when Jack can’t even catch ONE ball. NOT ONE BALL!! The sad part is, all the other boys can catch. Even the other sucky boy is getting better and he caught a few balls. Not Ferdinand…um I mean Jack. Looks like a player…all show, no go. Millon dollar looks, $1 hands….and this is how you separate football players and water boys.
In honor of Superbowl Sunday here is a clip of Jack at flag football practice. They usually play 3 on 3. When your flag is grabbed the offensive player sits down until there is only one offensive player left and 3 defensive players.
Seriously, Jack is terrible…the worse one on the field…but somehow on this day he survived to the last player and it was just Jack against the entire defense. All season at practice no player has ever scored a touchdown.
I would not have believed it if I didn’t see it. I wish I didn’t end the video early. The coach reviewed and Jack was in bounds and it was a touchdown. Jack was then mobbed by his teammates. Even when I see it again, I am amazed Jack scored. I mean he is BAD. I am not just saying it…he is TERRIBLE at football. Jack loves to play but he has hands of stone!
Whoops! Last weekend I was super sick so that is why there no posting on Monday. I started to post about Stacy and then I realized it was my mom’s birthday before Stacy’s! I blame it on my cold for not being able to think straight.
We celebrated my mom’s birthday at their house with some Chinese food. Dawn and Bryan hired a photographer for the family Christmas gift and we used one of the family portraits as a gift for my mom:
No candles or numbers so just Happy Birthday:
And now our signature goofy picture:
You know that saying, “There is a sucker born every second?” Yup, I am that sucker. Here I thought no birthday party for Stacy, a nice simple cheap birthday for Stacy, easy-peasy-japanesy. Nope, Stacy’s birthday requests continued with meat and creamed corn, Fancy Nancy style at Lawry’s:
Uncle Su drove down to celebrate:
Along with Grandpa:
And Grandma:
Aunty Dawn and Uncle Bryan:
Uncle Bryan got the BIG piece of prime rib:
For someone who was afraid of the fire last year she was great this year:
Brother and sister:
Uncle and Stacy eating up a storm:
A good 3rd birthday celebration!
