{"id":3688,"date":"2012-08-19T20:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T03:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2012-08-19T20:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T03:54:27","slug":"well-now-this-is-embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"Well, now…this is embarrassing."},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been nearly two weeks since we have checked in here on the ‘ol blog. No excuses, just been busy – and I mean, CRAZY <\/strong><\/em>busy. The girls start school tomorrow, as unbelievable as that is, so I guess in all reality…summer is ovah!<\/p>\n

So how did we spend the last few weeks of summer? Let’s back up a bit, shall we?<\/p>\n

Mama left her little birdies and Daddy for five.whole.days<\/strong>! Me and my best girls headed up to Santa Barbara for a yoga retreat. We stayed at the St. Mary’s retreat house that has been turned into a monastery.<\/p>\n

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A gorgeous, serene place with an incredible mountain view.<\/p>\n

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We did yoga inside, outside, on the beach.<\/p>\n

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An incredible week full of yoga, hikes, meditation, and peace – and we all came home Zen Mamas.<\/p>\n

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We celebrated an anniversary<\/a> quick like, and then the Voris family went on a little roadtrip to Monterey. Despite forgetting J’s suitcase we managed to have a wonderful weekend together.<\/p>\n

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No, we didn’t leave J. behind, he was just taking the photo, so Mommy would show up in a photo or two for a change. See here he is…when we hit the Aquarium.<\/p>\n

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And Gracie tried her hand at scuba diving. I wasn’t entirely sure she was going to do it. It sounded like a great idea at 10am when she was watching the other group, but as the day wore on she got more and more nervous.<\/p>\n

But she didn’t back down.
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She got all suited up. They got to wear dry suits – I was so jealous!<\/p>\n

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She did great. It was funny to watch them because their guide would pull stuff up and talk to them about it, and our sweet little brown-noser would pull her regulator out every time to be the first to answer questions.<\/p>\n

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Her first words when she came out of the ocean, “It was AHHHHHWWWESOME!” I think she is hooked.<\/p>\n

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Addie in the meantime made it her mission to hunt down some otters. She claims them “just as cute as kitties!” Thankfully we got to see a lot of them.<\/p>\n

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One of the nights we went out for seafood and had this lovely view.<\/p>\n

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And the otters visited us.<\/p>\n

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It was a perfect little way to say goodbye to summer.<\/p>\n

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