Monday, March 28, 2011

A long time, in a galaxy far away....

Donovan and some other youngsters, indentified by the Jedi Council as showing promise to one day become knighted into the order, gathered at our humble dwelling this past Saturday for some training. Among other activities, they assembled and personalized their own light sabers, and then went through a rigorous basic Jedi training camp, summersaulting, bounding over obstacles and practicing with their weapons.

Padawans at the ready!

We were then surprised by the appearance of a powerful Sith lord, who foolishly entered the Jedi camp.
"You don't know the power of the Dark Side...."

Unfazed, the Jedi recruits charged and beat the snot out of Vader, clobbering him into retreat.
"And, apparently, you underestimated the power of a small troop of Jedis"

Post combat, the young Jedis replenished their energy by devouring some cake in the shape of the Death Star, and then used their light sabers to beat the candy out of a pi~ata, in the shape of Darth Vader's head (of course). Everyone had a pretty good time. No injuries, no casualties. Peace in the universe was restored.

The day was still not over for me, as I still found myself having to wrestle mexican lucha-libre legend Huracan Ramirez himself.
La llave del oso dormilon!
We had a fun weekend. Thanks for reading.

Obi-JC

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Dear Blog,

Life has been super busy in our corner of the world, haven't had a whole lot of time to write entertaining stories for all 2 of you loyal readers. I was able to pull off a surprise dinner party for Theresa's birthday. I managed to cook for ~25people, and I think the food turned out pretty good. My brother- and sis-in-law Chris & Christina gave me a hand with some of the last minute details, and it all came together. I stressed out about it for about a whole month, but it was great: She was totally surprised, she had no idea, it was cool. Next up is Donovan's 5th birthday. We will do a 'Star Wars' theme for his party, since that is what he is mostly into these days.

Other than that, the swimmin, bikin & runnin is gettin done. I've had to make some adjustments to our race schedule, and will not be kicking things off at Oceanside this year.