Halloween 2014

Happy Halloween, let the carving be creative and the creepiness be somewhat funny. :)

My post-surgery wife, with her big belly scar carved a quirky pumpkin face with a big belly scar. My pumpkin was creeping in on her pumpkin, thinking of taking a bite. :)

Quirky and creepy (kind of).

Couch Time

When Kim was in the hospital, a dear friend of ours sent her a big, fluffy teddy bear. He has since been named Brian, after a favorite Blues goalie. He gets lots of love on the couch these days. :)

Zoe is also alongside for all the snuggles and loves her human could need. She's been a wonderful companion for my sweet wife during these long days of recovery (and boredom and sadness and pain and everything in between).

Pumpkin Picking!

Pumpkin picking time! We usually go pumpkining on Kim's birthday, but this year was a bit abnormal. First, it's our first "fall" in California, and it's like 80 degree and sunny everyday, so that's weird. Second, the wife ended up having emergency surgery right after her birthday and we got to have a lovely (*eyeroll*) four night stay in a hospital room. She's slowly recovering, but enough so that I convinced her to take a little field trip with me to get pumpkins. It was a slow stroll around the patch, and I got to lift and carry everything, but she's cute and fun and worth the slow stroll. :)

We took the new Instax along with us, to use up some Halloween themed film. Such a fun little camera and instant photos! I'll have to get those scanned, so they'll be posted a little later. :)

Lots of Flowers

My sweet wife seems to love getting me flowers, especially around our anniversaries. This year, on our one year wedding anniversary, we went for a sunset picnic at the beach. She stopped at the little flower hut where we got our wedding daisies and bought me a single red daisy. :)

A couple of weeks later, she went grocery shopping and got me this gorgeous bouquet of just because flowers.

And then we rode the train to Oceanside and walked around on the beach and pier. We passed a young guy making these cool flowers from palm tree stalks and she stopped and got one from him. This is maybe the coolest flower she has ever given me. :)

Always Cute Zoe

Zoe... always being cute. Here are a few photos of her from September, just being her cute, thirsty, sleepy, perky, little self. 

Whale Watching

Kim's parents came to town for a visit so we booked a trip on a local whale watching boat. We did this once before and saw lots of dolphins, but no whales. We headed out on this grey, cloudy morning, hoping for whales and more dolphins! 

The seals are always napping on the buoys.

Sleeping so happy in the little bit of sun that was trying to poke through the clouds...

And this guy, I swear he was smiling for the camera. :)

Finally, our very excited captain announced a whale, not too far away. His blow hole gave him away. :)

Dolphin. Whale. Bird. Ocean.

Racing dolphins!

These guys were extra cute... I love that I got the face of one of them in a photo. There were babies in this little group of dolphins and I was seriously wishing I could grab one and take it home with me.

They love racing alongside the boat.

And on the way back in, we saw these fishermen with their cool hats. :)