6/12 - Dad Alien sees a rainbow

Rainbow flowers, to be exact.  Happy pride month!

3/17 - Weekend fun: Rainbow and Shamrock edition

We made it to the parade!  The kids rode their scooters in the junior auxiliary brigade, and I skated with my b*tches.  It was awesome.  Then we went home and collapsed.

Sunday, we made rainbow pasta!

The pot of gold?  My little leprechauns.  Awww.

11/28 - Gold Camaro meets a reindeer car

Meet Rudolph the red-nosed…  car?

Gold Camaro and Robot Dog had a race.  It was a really good race until someone tossed a piece of grapefruit on the track…  Whoopsie.

Mark and I had a nice dinner in the Mission (Thai food) and caught up on all kinds of stuff.

And that amazing rainbow full moon was back...

11/27 - Gold Camaro finds the sweet spot

I had to explain that the frosting was not a new kind of gasoline, but chocolate.  *MY* chocolate frosting...

There was a rainbow around the moon tonight!  Whatever could that mean?

Full moon or not, Gold Camaro and I sure were happy to find a huge box of tastyness waiting for us at home.  We have such good friends...  :)

11/18 - Weekend fun: Roller derby edition

It was my team's last bout of the season.  We were hungry for another win, and were preparing for this bout with an intensity that was new for us.  I was also preparing a mountain of snacks and toys to keep the twins busy during the bout, in case they were not into watching me skate...  That morning, there was a most excellent good luck spider in the kitchen and a good luck rainbow in the sky when we hit the road.

The bout was in a vintage roller rink that was leaking from days of rain.

The other team was better than us and hit harder.  They had plays that foiled us multiple times.  We lost by a heap, but what we won was better than points.  We came together as a team in this bout, communicating, devising new strategies on the fly, and we were hitting b*tches like never before.  (And we participated in the other team's flash mob, dancing Gangnam Style at the top of the third jam in the second half.)  As far as I'm concerned, we were winners that day.

And I was a hero to my biggest fans.  :)

A million thanks to Kingpin for his kid wrangling assistance.  (And for being outraged at the officiating!)

Photo credit: Thank you, Russell Reno Limprecht!

9/06 - Pink Yoshi loves a bake sale

I was starving this morning, and they were having a bake sale at work.  What a happy coincidence!

Did you see my rainbow and double rainbow pictures from yesterday?

Also, check out how they looked in San Francisco (from SFGate).

9/05 - Hold on, Pink Yoshi!

Doesn’t Pink Yoshi look sweet next to these little flowers?

Whoa!  Motorcycles don’t have seat belts, and this one is off like a rocket!  Hold on!!!!

After Pink Yoshi's hard day, she just wanted to putter around the house...  (help)

And then, on our way to derby practice, look what we saw!  A rainbow!

No, TWO rainbows!!  We are doubly lucky.