Burn Baby Burn

San Diego is burning again. This time is WAY worse than 2003, personally and county wide. They are predicting the fire will hit the coast by tonight. The winds have died down which is good for the firefighters but really bad for my asthma.

I'm trapped in my house because the smoke is so thick outside. Even in the house I feel like I have weights on my chest. My inhaler is holstered in my jeans and I am praying we don't have to evacuate because I can't breathe when I go outside.

We packed up yesterday and have everything staged by the door so we can leave at a moment's notice.

The Discovery Hills fire that was a couple miles away from us is 100% contained. All of Fallbrook has been evacuated and I just heard that Deer Springs Rd has been evacuated. We are on North Twin Oaks Valley, which connects to Deer Springs, so I am a little concerned about that.

I'll keep everyone updated. Please keep San Diego in your prayers! It mine not seem that bad to the people who aren't living here but this is like being in a war zone. 250,000 homes have been mandatorily evacuated and over 600 structures have been lost.

Birthday Aftermath

I had such a great birthday! Loren always makes me wait until after dinner to open my presents, so all day long I was anticipating what was in the packages on the table. His mom decorated the kitchen in a Mexican fiesta theme and baked me a triple chocolate cake. Yummmm.

After Loren got off of work, we came home and he gave me a nice bottle of wine that we took to dinner with us. I wanted to go to the Spaghetti Factory so we went there, drank our wine and had a nice dinner.

We came home and opened presents...Loren got me hot pink SCUBA fins, gloves and a hot pink SCUBA bag. Now I am completely coordinated! :)

His parents got me a gift certificate to go diving on Saturday. Since I haven't been in the water in almost two years, I am really excited that I will get to go knock the dust off of my fins before heading to Mexico. They also got me a great Mexican cookbook and a beautiful book on the ocean.

The kids all drew me pictures and Paul, Loren's little brother, made me the beautiful picture with seashells.

All in all, it was a great birthday. I missed my family terribly but I got lots of calls and messages on Myspace that made me feel better.

So Much Going On...

Bodi had her kittens! She had them a little over a week ago. There were 5 originally (3 black ones, one dark gray tortie, and one bright orange tabby) but one the second day, Tyson decided he wanted to play and licked one of them to death. :( We were very sad. Tyson didn't know any better but he could tell I was upset with him.
We moved into Loren's parents house on Monday. With the three younger kids in the house things are a little chaotic but they are fun. We are getting so much more sleep than we have in the past because we eat our home cooked dinner and we go to bed! It's nice and relaxing.
I am helping Marty out at CVC again. It gives me something to do with my day.
59 days until Mexico! I really need to get my passport...