It's still summer in SoCal

Saturday we decided to go to the local Harbor Days festival. It's an aptly named gathering with lots of carnival food like funnel cakes and fresh squeezed lemonade. Just as we crossed the street from the parking lot we ran into our friends Nick and Amy. So we spent the day with them. We climbed around on a Marine hover-craft that was brought on shore for the crowds to see. We looked at all the weird stuff that was for sale, and just hung around and enjoyed the beautiful weather and harbor.

After a while we drifted back to their boat to get out of the sun and have a drink. We kicked back and had a great time chatting and just generally relaxing. We struck up conversations with the local flare that also has boats in the harbor including a seal and some pelicans that came by to say hello.

The water was calm so Nick suggested we take the boat out for a spin. No complaints here!

We came up on some seals soaking up the sun. They remind me of Henry and Lola, "Excuse me, but we're napping. Please move on."

The next buoy was the place to be though. I don't think there's anymore room for you buddy...

It was a great day, all spur of the moment and lots of fun. Thanks guys!

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Coming up this week: Color

iPhone! Check it out.

Apple does such a nice job right from the start, nice white bags and black boxes.

Then you get to enjoy the ever exciting "Apple out of box experience." Apple really cares about the details you see when you get a new product. When you open the box hey present the pièce de résistance:

All of the iPhone's little friends are neatly hidden below the surface. It's just nice and tidy.

But then getting it to work was another story. We don't have At&t so we had to do a little modification...

T-Mobile up and running!

What a nice husband I have to give me a surprise like this!

Apparently I've lost my mind

Update: PocketMod

Since posting about the PocketMod, I've had a lot of responses and great additional tips. One person uses theirs as a daily budget tracker, and a few of my friends flocked to the site immediately.

A reader let me know about this page, where there's a lot of extra little add on pages that people on the net have made. You will need to download the flash version of PocketMod to your computer, but after that you can add in all sorts of fun! There's pages like a random maze generator, a Google calendar sync and even movie listings.

Happy 16th Birthday Bradley

Today is my nephew's 16th birthday. I can't believe it. It doesn't seem like it's possible that he's practically a grown-up! I've put together some of my favorite photos of the little guy!

I remember when he was just a cuddly baby, he was cute ...me, not so much. This is his first Christmas.

He's always been a happy kid. Who know anyone could get that excited over his birthday cake? I've always loved this photo just because of his sheer excitement!

I took this next photo at my 18th birthday. He was so cute, always wanting to sit next to me. It looks like we enjoyed some more birthday cake, (look at Nancy back there... always trying to get in the photos!)

But popping into photos is just family tradition. (There's a picture of his mother running through a wedding picture, here.)

Even with bunny ears, look what a cute little kid he was!

He's been so cute, I wish he could stay little. Happy birthday Brad! Have a great day, and good luck on the driving test!

Love,
Aunt Heather