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New and Improved Prospector Pete

Friday night we went to the CSULB vs UCSB girls volleyball game. The big deal was that they were unveiling the new and improved mascot. The CSULB mascot is Prospector Pete who's just a guy with a dimpled chin and five o clock shadow with a pick axe for gold mining. The mascot costume for the last 10 years has been an inflatable costume--think moonbounce or the giant blow up gorillas at car dealerships. Consequently, it wasn't easy for the old pete to get around--you could hardly tell when he was moving his arms. So, after the second game/set they take a break to introduce the new pete. The cheerleaders come out and are rallying and form a entryline for the mascots. The announcer tells everyone to stand up its now time to say farewell to the OLD pete and introduce the NEW pete...so the old pete comes out and goes to center court. More applause. More loud music. And heeerreeee's the new Pete. NEW pete comes out riding a segway (like GOB from arrested) he goes like 3 feet and runs into two cheerleaders, falls off. All is not lost, he can still save face! He attempts again and quickly hops back on to the segway, goes another 2 feet and this time leans too far forward and completely falls off. It was hilarious. Then he makes a wise choice and ditches the segway and runs around the court rallying and cheering. It was quite the grand entrance. We watched him as he finished his thing and walked off the court and he threw down his pick axe like he was mad as heck that he blundered his big intro...i guess you had to be there. It was funny, I promise.

Now to the important stuff. Lacy did well at the game too. She cheered and shook her pom pom. We made sure she wore her LB tshirt. Cousin Kortney was good to me and took Lacy for walks when she got too restless.

Family Bonfire

We spent the evening with family at Bolsa Chica State Beach. We got there just before dark and it was already a bit cool and windy, but Lacy didn't seem to mind. She tugged on Cliff's hand to head towards the water. They found some cool shells and jumped over waves. The lighting provided some very romantic looking pictures. (Thanks to Tori for the pics...we came cameraless!)

While I dried off and tried to warm up Lacy, the Aunts got to work on our gourmet seven course meal of hot dogs, chips and smores. Lacy ate a well balanced meal of cheeto puffs, pringles, and apple juice. Weird kid wouldn't have any hot dog OR smores! Lacy did laps around our bonfire area all night long. Aunt LuAnn tried to teach her duck, duck, goose...but Lacy kept patting her own head and saying duck, duck...

A little later, we got a REAL treat. There was someone walking a polar bear on the beach. just kidding... it was a dog, but it was the most ginormous dog I had ever seen. It was an Irish wolf hound and it was a puppy and still had another foot to grow. Cliff and family ran over to question the owner and ooh and aah at the dog. It was pretty cool.

We topped off the night, by stopping at a little cafe Cliff used to go to so he could get some banana nut pancakes. Lacy licked the whip cream off of Kortney's hot chocolate and had some watermelon. Then we took our tired dirty girl home to go to bed. We had SO much fun!

Labor Day with Noah

We spent Labor Day weekend visiting Uncle Noah at the Academy. It was his first opportunity to leave the base for the weekend and I think we all enjoyed it. He looks so handsome in uniform! We're so very proud of him.