Spring Break

Prepare yourself for this long winded post...Last week we decided to go pay a visit to my sister in Oceanside. Steve had a scout trip, so I took the kids and hit the road. Lori recently had a baby girl and I couldn't wait any longer to see her. It was a little chilly, but my children proved resilient.

Hailee and Savannah

Sadie and Tyson love to explore the marine life

Tyson found a big starfish!

I'm a baby when it comes to the cold!

Sadie's favorite place all weekend. Holding baby Emily! :)

We got Savannah this skirt for her birthday, and I couldn't resist getting a matching one for Hailee. They were so cute dancing around.

In Carlsbad, the flowers were in bloom.

Tyson and Savannah

I caught Tyson doing push-ups

And then checking his muscles. hee hee! So cute!

Tyson begs constantly to go fishing. So the last day, I took him down to the pier.
Here's the fishing crew

Visited with some odd creatures

And some really cool ones! This seal kept coming to see us.

Here's my fisherman cutting up squid for his bait

He could stay here all day

In fact, we did.. I had to pull him away when it finally got dark. Finally after all that, he caught two itty-bitty fish he was so proud of!At last, time to venture home. I had to hustle, Steve was making a birthday dinner for me at his parents house! I couldn't miss my own party! The road was treacherous! An hour or so of foggy rain, then wind blowing me to and fro
Then through the dunes, there was a sand storm that fogged up the road
But at last we made it back -just in time. Steve had made my favorite dinner-Hawaiian Haystacks. Steve and his family all pitched in and got me this Beach Cruiser! I've been wanting one for a while! So exciting!

I had to take it for a spin. :)

My second birthday present ( I know it's still early), was from Dr. Tyler Robison. Notice anything??? Not the tired, it's 11:00 and I need to go to bed look! Oh yaaa! My braces are off! No more tinsel teeth, silver mouth!!! Woo hoo! I'm so happy, and it's not even my birthday yet. Oh wait, one more hour.

A Day of Firsts

A few weeks ago, Sadie started begging me to run with her so we could do the Pats Run together. Steve runs it every year. I am not a runner, in fact I don't know what all the fuss is about. Run far, run fast, hurt the next day... tell me why that is fun for you!!! Anyway, Sadie drags me out of bed a few times a week, we run a mile, then I go 1 more while she gets ready for school. Okay, so maybe it gives you a little more energy during the day. Well yesterday sis-in-law gives me a route of a 4 mile run and tells me I should just try it and if it's too hard I can just walk home. Well, I did better than I thought. I ran/walked it, but I got home in one piece. It took me 40 mins! That is the first time in my life I have ever ran that far. I wish I could say it feels good, but it flipping hurts! Curse all you runners who love this!!!!

Another first- Sadie is hanging out with one of her friends yesterday (not actually a first). She comes home and clears off her night stand and realizes how fun it is to see a clean, organized surface. Then she gets the idea to organize her closet. She tells me that her friend has her clothes and her shoes color coordinated and she wants hers the same way. Her friend is a major organizer :) (I like this friend better every day!) Sadie then starts organizing her clothes and shows me after she is done with each stack. I can't tell you how long I've waited for this day! Every family deserves an organized person, and I've always known it wasn't me. I'm so excited! She came in this morning and asked if she could organize my closet. Hmmm, let me think about that one---SURE!

Here's her closet after she was done. I'm so happy! One kid down, 2 to go!So then I walk in my bedroom ready to go to bed last night, when this horrendous smell wafts into my nose! A chemical burning mixed with skunk. It burns my nose. I tell Steve to check on Jasmine (our dog). Sure enough she smells horrible and she's even coughing. Steve then sees out of the corner of his eye something white move. I grab his glasses for him and low and behold there is the skunk, right off our porch. It looks terrified and is just staying put like it's been cornered. I grab the camera and Steve starts getting closer to take a picture. It starts looking like it's going to charge him like a bull, we back off, but not before getting a picture. Can you see it? I wish I could lighten the picture so you could see how cute it is.