Philip Gubser

Philip Nathaniel Gubser
September 10, 1983 to August 28, 2007

Here are the memorial details:

There will be a viewing at Struve and Laporte
Funeral Home in Salinas, CA Saturday September 1
from 12:00pm-3:00pm.

A memorial will be held at Harvestlands Foursquare
Church in Salinas, CA Sunday September 2 at 3:00PM.

Struve and Laporte Funeral Home
41 W. San Luis Street
Salinas, CA 93901
(831) 424-0311
http://www.struveandlaporte.com/


the Harvestlands
327 Pajaro St
Salinas, CA 93902
(831)757-3677
http://www.harvestlands.org/index.php

A Loss

Unfortunately, Philip died shortly after being admitted to the hospital. After receiving severe head trauma, he was admitted to a cat scan where his heart stopped, and he couldn't be revived. This fucking sucks.

please pray for the gubsers

the gubsers are in the midst of a family crisis. josh's oldest brother and sister-in-law are getting a divorce, josh's uncle is refusing to see his own mother, and josh's younger brother just attempted suicide this morning. the lord stepped in and prompted him to call his ex-wife to tell her that he was going to committ suicide. she then called josh's parents to let them now and they called cali. highway patrol. in a matter of minutes he was in an accident. he's in the hospital in santa barbara unconscious right now. please please please pray for the gubsers that they heal from whatever is plaguing them and they open up to talk about it. please pray for a miracle for this family. pray that those who are not directly in a crisis be safe from one.

thank you for your prayers.

Meet the Simpson-Gubsers

simpsonize yourself

CLE

I'm going to become a certified lactation consultant and I'm sooooo excited. yay for breastfeeding women!

my angel

just had to post this pic

polenta lasagna

last night i was inspired to make a vegan polenta lasagna. polenta was on sale at king soopers so i thought i'd give it a shot. i've never ever made anything with polenta nor have i made lasagna. but i must say it was quite a success. here's what i did:

- saute slices of polenta, onions, and garlic (i did raw garlic and it was a wee bit strong). you could also saute any other veggie like zucchini, eggplant, etc...
- boil lasagna noodles
- heat spaghetti sauce
- layer lasagna noodles, spinach, sauce, onions, polenta, garlic, etc... in a glass pan
- bake in oven for 20 mins on 350 deg.

it was super simple. took a little bit longer than my normal dinner creations but was well worth it! and it's healthy too! yay!


here's josh enjoying my creation!



a look of pure mouthwatering satisfaction (this is his second dinner, hours later)

Lincoln can sit!

Lincoln's newest developmental task that he is working on is sitting. He's doing really well. In the past four days he's gone from sitting by himself for a few seconds to over a minute without toppling over. He's doing so well. And he is ridiculously cute.

bath time

If you'll notice Lincoln has the world's smallest mohawk.

picnic at the park

we packed a picnic lunch today knowing that we would be hungry after teaching baby & me class. we ended up at alamo placita park in denver at the intersection of (stupid) speer and emerson. it's beautiful and surrounded by flowers. lincoln discovered some flowers too. so cute! yay!

i'm 26 and one half

hey who celebrates their half birthday? anyone? everyone right? well, apparently not. just me. therefore no one celebrated this weekend aug 12th with me. it's a good excuse to at least have a cake and a party. get with it, folks.

the most beautiful thing happened last night...

lincoln had been asleep for several hours already when josh and i got ready for bed. josh is lying in bed barely alive and lincoln starts to get fidgety. it's time to feed him. so i feed him and then change him into his night-night clothes and a clean diaper. i pick him up to put him in his bassinet and he smiles at me. but at the same time as he is smiling his eyes are slowly closing. i kept telling him "i love you" in the quietest voice and he continued to smile as his eyes were closing. i can't tell you how beautiful it is to see my son fall asleep with a smile on his face. it reassures me that he is happy deep down inside and i haven't made any major parenting mistakes so far. i continued to kiss him and tell him i love him for several minutes before putting him down. he is amazing!

even better...lincoln just woke up (oh yeah 10am) and i asked josh "was that lincoln" after hearing a peep from the bedroom. he said "yeah, that was lincoln, he's laughing"

how awesome is it to go to sleep smiling and wake up laughing!

my ladies!

this weekend my two best friends ever were in town. anna came from eagle and alyza came from san fran. we went clubbing...no joke! friday night we went to cuba cuba at 12th and delaware in denver and had so much fun. anna met a guy and he wanted to take us dancing so sat night we went to la rumba at 12th and broadway. la rumba is a salsa club. again, it was a lot of fun. josh stayed home with the linkers! we also ate at vg burgers in boulder. it's a vegan burger joint and is worth it! lincoln loved alyza and anna. he had such a great weekend laughing at everything they did. he even tried a lemon.