President's Day

Thank goodness Kari has a great camera and got some great shots from our President's Day/Lillian's First Birthday!!!  Look at these cute girls, just wait like one more year...yikes!!! FUN FUN FUN!!

 And there's nothing like a group of crazy cousins that know how to have fun together.  They spent the day riding bikes and visiting the horses.  Then we sent them to find "treasures" in the open fields by my house and here's what they came back with!! hahahaaa!!  Check out Kali's personality in all these pictures, she is such a fun girl! 

Health-full® breads Buzz

I am a Buzz Agent, so I receive free samples from time to time with products to try out and then share my thoughts with my friends.  So, I tried this bread and it is delicious!  We usually buy the cheapest white or wheat bread for .99 and my family is fine with that.  But it felt so good knowing that my kids were eating something that was healthy and nutritious for them!  Plus the fact that they are asking me for that "new" bread, made it clear that they approved!  I preferred this bread with turkey and cheese, but my kids would eat it with anything.  So if you are thinking about trying this bread, it's delicious!!

Closing a HUGE Chapter...

 It's a sad sad sad day.  I'll never get to sit on these stairs again.  BOO.  My parents sold their house, the house that I have every single childhood memory in. I think I'm doing surprisingly good, no tears, we're just moving on. So I went up this weekend and helped my mom and dad make their "last trip" up to the house.  I took a bunch of pictures out on the deck and around the house.  It's so empty so I didn't really want too many of those pictures, so I just focused on the outside.  I had my dream wedding reception here, many many sleepovers, family basketball games (mom's defense was the best!), hide and seek in the dark, campouts on the lawn and trampoline, and so much more.  My kids got a taste of my childhood every time we came up here and I loved that.  I'm sad our next baby will never even have gotten to see it.  But I'm convinced if you don't live in the now with the future in sight, you loose precious time that could have otherwise been enjoyed.  So, we begin making new memories in Placerville (and I'm NOT going to complain with a 20 min shorter trip from Modesto! SO NICE!) Mom and I have been trying to think of all the positives to the move, and their new little house is just perfect for them and still great for the grandkids which I know was a must when the search began.  I started helping mom unpack until we just couldn't do any more (I pooped out probably way before she would have, but I still had to drive home).  It's hard to close such a large chapter in life, but as long as you have your family, it's all just geographics, right?? 

No more bottle...grrrrrr

Seriously, if I didn't know it only gets harder with time, I probably would have let Hailey have her bottle forever.  So much easier than change.  But, being the mom, I figured 15 months was probably time to make the switch to a sippy.  So there. Done.  Check. Hailey HATES it, but oh well, she'll get over it and I have to say, she's eating a ton more food since she's not filling up on so much milk. 

Happy Valentines Weekend!!

For Valentines Day this year Jeff was originally planning on taking the weekend off and doing something fun with just he and I.  Well, after realizing Justin had Monday off too, we decided to take full advantage of the three day weekend and planned a quick trip to So. Cal!!!  We hit up Magic Mountain on Saturday which was AWESOME!!! We'll def. be going back there seeing that it's only 4 hours from our house and with season passes, we're going to be taking full advantage.  Then that night we drove the rest of the way down to Carlsbad where we were staying for the next two nights.  Turns out the one star econolodge I booked was PERFECT for our family.  It had a huge room, fresh made waffles for breakfast, fruit to take for lunch, very clean...shoot, we were super happy.  Plus it was 2 min. from the beach, church and Legoland.  YESSS!  Oh, and the Rite Aid at the end of the street came in really handy when we needed a thermometer to see just how high Haileys temp. was...poor poor girly. 
DAY 1 MAGIC MOUNTAIN

DAY 2 CHURCH AND BEACH

DAY 3 LEGOLAND!!! Still waiting for Hailey to wake up...poor girl was drug everywhere sick, and still a trooper. 

I think it's hilarious that my boys are torturing the poor lego boy. Ah my eye! My foot!

Our first little train ride!

Driving the cars, so much freedom!

I told the boys to make sad face b./c they are all locked up, Jordan didn't get it, but Justin did!  And then below are the friends we made while at the park.  While Jeff and Jordan were on the Helicopter ride a met a mom there alone with four little boys all Justin's age and younger.  We decided to stick with them and help them out so she could ride with one of her boys and either Jeff or I would stay out with the little ones.  Turns out we find out she's a member of the church and had a good feeling about me when I first offered to watch her two younger boys so she could ride with her older two.  So glad she trusted me, and we were happy to be able to make her trip a little more fun.  Turns out the boys had a great time with their new friends!!

You can see in the picture above that the boys are soaked...yes, we got poured on towards the end of the day. :0(  It didn't even phase the boys, but me and Hailey were DONE, so we took our park hopper passes and hopped on in to the Aquarium.  You can see she was loving her freedom to be OUT of the stroller and free to wander around.

She was spent by the end of this day.  You'd think she'd pass out in the car on the way home...no, not this child.  OFFICIALLY world's WORST car traveler.  She cried non stop from Bakersfield to Turlock...that's like 4 hours! BAHHHHHHHHHH!