L & S

Saturday, May 22, 2010

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I promise I'll blog again someday.

But not today.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

BIG NEWS!!!

We just found out today that Seth got accepted into the the Quantitative Methods in the Social Science Masters Program at Columbia University!

What is so amazing is that they didn't even interview him...they said that his application was very strong and that the committee members were very enthusiastic to admit him into the program! What a smartie pants!!!!!!

I am so proud! And so excited!

New York, here we come!

Ok well we haven't officially said "yes" to Columbia yet, because Seth still has an interview at USC this weekend, but we are pretty sure that is where we are going!

Seth has worked so hard over the past few years, and it has finally paid off. I am so proud of him. And I am so grateful that Heavenly Father has blessed us with this. So grateful.

Monday, May 10, 2010

"Seth Kressin Week"

Seth's mother Pattie declared last week "Seth Kressin week," so thats what I've been calling this last week too!

We started off opening presents and eating cake! When I asked Seth what kind of cake he wanted, he told me an ice cream cake...so I've been going all crazy trying to figure out how to get one since he had the car all week and I couldn't go into Kaneohe or anything, so I faced my fears and made one.

It was harder than I thought. The first problem was that hours after I brought all of the ingredients home, I ate all of the ice cream!! (Sorry, blame the hunger!) So I had to hop on my bike late at night to go to the store to get some more! The ice cream kept melting as I was trying to mold it too. But overall, it worked out. It ended up being a cookies 'n cream ice cream cake, with the ice cream in between two vanilla cake layers! yum. But....next year I will only accept regular cake requests.

And then I sang Happy Birthday and he blew out the candles and opened his presents!

Then we went and picked up some of the ABSOLUTE BEST kettle corn ever. No joke. I made Seth get the "big" bag. Last time we got the small one it didn't even last the car ride home.

After that, we made our way up to Haleiwa and ate at our beloved Stortos and Matsumotos, and then I took Seth to do something fun...

Stand up Paddling!

We took the boards all the way down the river underneath the Haleiwa bridge. It was so much fun and so relaxing!

We saw plenty of turtles swimming with us, and some locals with their dogs on their boards. All I could think about was getting Fatty back so I could strap a life vest on him and taking him paddling (though I know he would absolutely hate it).

Can you believe I was brave enough to take my camera with me?! Before I got on I swore that I would protect my camera over all costs! haha. There was one time when I last my balance and fell over, and I instantly held my camera as high as I could above my head as I went under water. I'm sure it was a pretty funny sight to see someone struggling to stay afloat while keeping her camera above the water. But I survived. And so did the camera. Thank goodness.

The best thing to do after paddling: