Crazy Life at The Warner's

We have been staying busy at our house. Of course life has slowed down a little bit with soccer being over.

Avery started wrestling at school and he has already had four meets. Two of them he couldn't compete in. He got hurt at wrestling practice last Friday. He slammed his knee on the mat and sprained it really good. He has had a brace on since then and we were told that if it didn't feel better in 7-10 days to take him to an orthopedic. Today he was actually walking a little bit more normal. I think that is a good sign.

Chelsea is dancing and playing the piano and of course working hard to get good grades. She keeps busy with that stuff.

Austin will start indoor soccer tomorrow and he is back swimming again. He really likes it and wants to be on the comp swim team. He will only be able to do swimming when he is not playing outdoor soccer. They conflict too much.

Brayden is staying busy with the piano. He is working hard in school and has a daily review to complete every day. They don't get a grade if the assignment is correct, but if they are prepared. Every day they have to look up some fact on the internet and tell what they learned. He really likes to do that.

I really can't believe that this year is almost over. It has really flown by. I guess the saying, "Time flies when you're having fun" is really the truth.

I guess you are all wondering if we had any fun on our trip to San Francisco. We had a great time, but Mom called me to make sure we were home. On Tuesday at about 9:00 they had an earthquake. We were home by then, but mom reminded me that when Wendy went to San Fran is high school they had an earthquake that day also. At least the one that happened with us didn't collapse any bridges. Well back to the trip. We went to Fisherman's Wharf (Pier 39), drove down the crookedest street, ate yummy food (Mark had crab, yuck), Six Flags, Muir Woods and the Beach.

On Pier 39 they have an area that the sea lions just hang out. We watched them play in the water and sun bathe and make lots of noise. They bark really loud and are fun to watch. This started out our vacation. On Friday after we arrived at our hotel we drove to the wharf and wandered around looking at all the sights.

At Six Flags we watched several shows. As we were watching this dolphin show I thought about Stacy and how much she loves them. I thought this was a cool picture so I had to share it with you.

This is from the killer whale show.

This is from the sea lion show. We went back at night to watch the spooky Halloween show and tried taking pictures, but it was too dark and we were too far away. Both shows were really fun and the kids loved them. Avery took video on his phone and Chelsea took pictures with her phone.

In the middle of these shows we rode some of the rides. Since I love going on the rides (ha, ha) I had a lot of time to sit around. I was bored during on of these times and so I was playing with my camera since I am still trying to learn how to use it. I took this picture of a flower that I thought was pretty.

I have to do something to entertain myself. Well we went to Thomas land and so for Cooper I took this picture.

All the kids had a great time having a ride on Thomas. They had several places for kids to ride little rides. Toontown and Thomas land. While Chelsea and Austin rode the big kid rides Avery took Brayden to the kid towns. Brayden would ride the big rides, but he is not tall enough yet. Avery doesn't really like rides either.

We ran into several looney toons around Six Flags and Avery was really having fun with Donald Duck. I thought this was a funny picture. We had a lot of fun at Six Flags.

Another adventure that we had was to go to the Muir Woods. It is not the big Redwood Forest that people go to, but they had big redwood trees. I was amazed at how tall the trees are. The pictures don't really give it justice. The trees are around 300 feet tall and have been growing for thousands of years.

I was laying on the ground trying to take this picture so you could see how tall the trees where.


The Muir Woods was a really cool place to visit. To get there from where we were you had to cross the Golden Gate Bridge. The kids liked going over the bridges. To get from our hotel to most of the places we visited we had to cross the Bay Bridge. They liked seeing the huge ships and all the sail boats on the ocean.

Another place we went to was Lombard Street. It is the crookedest street. We drove down it three times. I had forgotten how steep the rodes in San Fran really are. Some streets where the cars where parked it looked like they could just roll over and go down the hill. I would hate to live on this street because of the traffic.

So on Monday we went to the beach. The few days before it was about 75 and sunny. On Monday we went to the beach and it was not warm. It was about 55 and cloudy and it had been raining a little bit. I can't believe the kids actually got in the water.

Avery of course got the wettest. The whole reason for going was because they wanted to skim board in the ocean. They tried, but it was a little bit harder than at the lake. The waves are a little bit faster.



By now Brayden was freezing. We spent about an hour there and had a great time. Chelsea and I of course stayed dry.

Well considering that we had to change plans at the last minute we had a great time. It was fun to go back to San Fran again. Mark and I went when Avery was about 8 months old and saw Phantom on the Opera. It has changed a lot since then. Our favorite place to eat was at Boudins. They had sour dough bread. Most of the family had clam chowder in sour dough bread bowls and I had pizza on sour dough bread. We even bought some canned clam chowder and bread bowls to bring home. I was a great vacation.

Austin and all the 5th and 6th graders performed at school for Halloween. They had black lights and white cut up shirts and white gloves. They turned out the lights and did a lot of songs with hand actions. The gloves just glowed. They asked us not to take flash photos during the program so I ended up with a few cool looking pictures during the program.



They sang some songs, just did hand actions to other songs and told jokes. It was really fun. Austin's teacher, Ms. D. (her last name is too hard to spell), is new to the school this year and has done this at her previous school for lots of years. They practiced for about three weeks every day. They worked really hard and it was a great program.

Here are some pictures from the last few games of soccer that we played. I took pictures of Avery and Austin's games since I already had some for the other two kids. Soccer is over until Spring. We will be playing indoor with Avery and Austin, but that is nothing. No practice, one game a week and it's fun. I love the fast pace and the ball bouncing off the wall.

Avery is number 11. He claims he will not play soccer unless he is 11. I guess he thinks that is made other people in the family lucky to wear that number so he has to also.




Austin on the other hand just picked a number when he made the team because 11 was taken. He is number 99.