For years I have had a fascination for Sailing. I have only been a couple of times. When we lived in San Diego Darin did a little studying and we went once, but never with the whole family. This time we took the whole family and hired a captain. This was perfect because Darin got to "practice" with the captain on board. The weather was sooo perfect and it will be a memory to last a lifetime.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Chance of a Lifetime
If You Ever
Have a chance to ride in one of these....
With this guy in San Diego.... Do it! This guy was hilarious. Our family laughed the rest of the trip about our "ride" back to our car. Only in Ca could the bike peddler have once been a famous movie star. He told us some many conflicting stories and has us all guessing and googling all the way home. We are pretty sure none of them are true, but high entertainment value for sure.
This night we went to our very favorite Thai restaurant. Royal Thai. Can't even tell you how much we love that place. Even the lemon water is fabulous. Next stop was the Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory. We made a pretty poor showing there, with kids melting down, thus the peddler! It was such a fun night!
Bless this sweet baby's heart. The second day of our trip in San Diego Ava was jumping or really just doing a little bouncing with the kids on a trampoline. She got bounced just a bit too much and next thing we knew she was crying that cry. Darin and I both knew something was really wrong right away. She hardly cried, but Ava is tough as nails and an extended cry from her means business. We packed up and thank goodness Darin was able to pull some strings and we were in and out pretty quick. Just in time to head to beach. No water for her, but man was she a great sport. 
The Jenson's joined us one night for tin foil dinners and shrimp and little smokies on the fire pit. What a fun night! This might be the only way little smokies taste good. Next time we fire this baby up, we are cooking a whole lot more of those.
The kids all bargained for the present and future "birthday money" if only they could jump and play these games. They all thought it was worth every penny.
It wasn't all it was cracked up to be for Madeline. One look down and she was Outa There!
All girls looking on during a "performance." I'm sure next year they will be taking center stage.
The Beginning of Spring Break
Our Spring Break trip started like this. The Bray family (minus Chris, and Oh how we missed him), but what fun we all had. The kids were in absolute heaven for every minute.
I thought Easton would be the odd man out, but he loved hanging out with Elle
I knew these girls were going to be in absolute heaven, no surprise...
These girls made up dances just about every second. Make up dance, perform, eat, make up dance, repeat...
Ava and Madeline were two peas in a pod the entire time...
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Something About a Boy
This Boy is something SWEET, I'm telling you and just when I think I can't fall harder for him, I DO! Here he is of playing in the snow while all of the girls are Ice skating.
I wanted to post about him for two reasons.
1) All my kids keep asking me what they said or did that was funny, I wish I had better records.
2) I feel Easton coming in to "his own" whatever that really is supposed to mean, but I'm pretty sure he is doing right now, and I really like who is!
3) He said something funny I don't want to forget when he asks me about himself when he was 7.
A few months ago I got Darin French Women Don't Get Fat. He's got a long commute and sometimes I can sneak books in that I want to read and he can read them and report. This was one of those. One of the nuggets he gleaned from the book was that the French SAVOR their food. Well, we LOVE food at our house and love that most of our kids appreciate good food as well. We have try to teach them to savor and enjoy the flavors of the food, savor and enjoy the whole experience. Company included. So for example for FRIDAY FUN, we may get a small container of Haagen Dazs rather than a large container of Breyers. We tell the kids to SAVOR.
Easton came in the laundry room while I was doing laundry. I tried to sabbotage his attempts to put the socks in the basket, because it was mid-morning. He declared, "mom, I have really been savoring these socks for 3 days, I think it's time to change them. I laughed, wanted to remember this moment, and permission granted!
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