5 Turori's. 1 blog.
Last month Christopher surprised his girlfriend Lauren by proposing on the cliffs of Big Sur in Northern California. They’ve been dating for about 3 years.
This means we’ve got TWO weddings in our future! Dale and his fiancee Carina will be getting married in March 2019. Alas, Dale is a highly private individual and so he has asked that I not post any photos of the happy couple here.
We’re all super excited to welcome Carina and Lauren to our family. And so Team Turori is expanding!
Dale Turori and his brother Chris brought Navy SEAL type of training to this team, and in every game it showed. They also taught the boys to play with great intensity, humility and integrity. There was no show-boating, or any type of hype after any score, and they always were respectful and courteous of their opponents.
Here’s a little bit about where each of us are in life right now!
I live in Orange County, very close to Disneyland—about a 90 minute drive away from the rest of the family. I’m the Web Content Coordinator for STAA and I also do freelance video and marketing stuff (and I’m working on my first feature film!)…most of the time you’ll find me in my office, AKA the living room.
This year Dale graduated from SDSU with a Master’s in Exercise Physiology. Now he’s working at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, while pursuing 3 gun competitions and training for a few triathlons in 2015. What an overachiever! 😉
John is our resident philosopher, thinker of deep thoughts. He is also a youth pastor/caterer person/dancer/rugby player/student of life.
Christopher is a nomad—he travels between the house, school, and the USA Rugby Sevens training program in Chula Vista. Between naps and meals (AKA recovering), he’s probably strumming his guitar.
As the youngest, miss Jenny is not-so-secretly planning to dye her hair blue some time next year. While she waits for that to happen, she dances (hula and tap), watches more TV than mom would prefer, and has just joined a girls rugby team. Oh, and she will be finishing high school next year. (Whaaaat?! How is that possible?)
George stays busy working and coaching rugby with the local youth club. Meanwhile, Suzye is usually occupied by keeping everyone properly fed—cats, dog, chickens, goats…and children.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year! We intend to update our website periodically throughout the year, we’d love it if you drop in from time to time and say hello. 🙂
Kia Ora Whanau! Here are some photo’s of life in California!
People that move to California from places like the Midwest or East Coast often complain about the lack of seasons in the Golden State. I always disagree, if you live here long enough you can see that even Southern California has seasons — we just classify them a little differently. The favorite season of the state (at least in So. Cal) is called “Beach weather!” aka “summer.” Then we move into “fall” which could also be called “Pack up your towels” because the end of beach weather is coming fast. “Freezing!!” is the next season and it arrives when the temperature drops below 70 degrees F on a consistent basis, the rest of the country calls this season “winter.” After winter is my favorite season — well, tied for first, right up there with “pack up your towels” — spring. Which is also called “Beach weather kickoff.”
All that to say that it’s finally spring again. Hillsides are green and blooming, new life is springing up everywhere (pun completely intended). For the Turori’s in VC, that means it’s gardening season. I love spring for its vibrant color and pretty flowers.
That’s part of the view from our backyard. Gorgeous, right? I dare you to look at that photo and not feel at least a little lighter and happier.
Spring is also the time for baby goats. Two of our ladies had kids, one had an only child and the other had triplets. All of the goat babies are male and absolutely adorable.
This one we’re calling Prancer.
Two of the triplets (above). Mom suggested we call the triplets Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner — pretty appropriate, I think.
There are other goings on around here. The usual rugby games and practices, and the spring soccer tournaments are also getting under way. Spring break is coming up for us college attendees. Which reminds me, I will be graduating from Biola in 9 weeks and a couple days…May 23rd to be exact. And Dale has been officially accepted to San Diego State University, where he’ll start as a transfer student this fall.
All of a sudden it’s December and Christmas is coming up fast. The other day mom called me to ask what my gift plans were and my reply was “uhhh, I haven’t thought about it yet…” which of course, is kind of dangerous since it’s already December 7th. Which means there are only 17 shopping days left before the big day.
Unfortunately, shopping is not high on my priority list right now, that spot belongs to school because there are only 10 days until my last final exam is done for this semester. Yikes! I’ve got a couple of papers and projects to finish or get close to finished this week alone (of course, this means that I just had to get online right away and update our family blog with a Christmas theme!). Dale, I’m sure, has an equally large workload as he finishes out the semester. John, Christopher and Jennifer…well, I’m sure they are very pleased to not be dealing with the pressures of college yet. Speaking of the rest of the family, how about a quick update from the last month or so? In handy bullet point fashion:
Sorry for not blogging lately, it’s not that nothing has been happening, just that so much has been happening. Well, a few weeks ago Dale won his first rugby playoff game in L.A. The score was 31 to 28 North County Gurkhas. Dale played at wing(#14) and played very well. Dale’s next playoff game is in Texas, which he will be leaving for tomorrow (Friday)morning at 7:20 am. Hopefully, I can get dale to blog while he is in Texas, most likely he will not, but I will do my best to try.
Well, John and I(Christopher) had rugby playoffs last week at San Luis Obispo, which is about Five hours drive. John played at fullback which he is getting better and better, but John’s first game was against the winner of last year, and well his team lost. As for his second game his team lost 10 to 5, it was a alright game and sand lose for his team which would have put them is 3rd place. As for me, my team won its first game at which I played fly half the first half. The second game for my team was against a team that had a undefeated season, and well we lost but I had allot of fun playing fly half for the second half. Also wile we were there, John and I got invitations to go and try out for the under 17 Griffins rugby team. which is a regional team for California. So this Saturday I will be in L.A. trying out for a regional rugby team.
Well, our family just got back from Disneyland a few days ago. It was a blast, we stayed for the fireworks and left about eleven thirty. As you probably know, Jennifer broke her leg a few months ago, so she needed a wheel chair when we went to Disneyland. Well, it turns out that when you have a wheel chair with you, you can skip almost all line, which means no waiting in line for an hour like other people have to do, so that was very nice.
This week are rugby club has pictures and Johns team has a game, but my team does not have a game and I don’t known why. Dale also has a game after Johns game and will most likely be playing wing or out side center. John also has a soccer game this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. John and I have State Cup which is a soccer tournament next week, and I will be missing my rugby game that week end, which will be very sad for me, because my team is very close to getting into the playoffs.
Well, today Dale John and I had rugby games. I played first and I was playing flyhalf, a position that I have not played before, but was eager to try it. I learned that it is not a position for me!
John played fullback and scoring allot of points off of place kicking. He is also becoming a great open field tackler, and does very well under presser with the ball.
Dale played wing(#14) and scored two tries, but on the inside of at #13 is a cook island Maori, His name is Matt Malloney and he is from Rorotanga, but was living in New Zealand and came over here to visit or something like that. So we are going to try to have Matt over for feast before he goes home, which will be in a couple of weeks.
I will try to post soon!
I think I forgot to write about the Sevens tournament in San Diego. Of course New Zealand won against South Africa 27 – 12. I think the score speaks for itself. South Africa came out strong, but in the second half it was a bit sad after South Africa got a yellow card. We stayed for the end of the game and for the trophy ceremony. But back to us, Dale is a utility back for his rugby team, usually playing fullback, but he would like to play 1st 5/8 or midfield. John is playing Fullback and is the kicker for his team. As for me, I’m playing Tight Head Prop and I am the kicker for my team(what, a prop kicking?!).
Any way thats about it. I will blog as soon as I have something to blog about(which should be soon)
Cheers, Christopher
