Sk8er Girl

The other day we were out front and I got out my (yes, I use to ride one) old skate board. Paige hopped on and was instantly in love... I think she was out front the rest of the week. She road up and down our street for hours.
Ezra got in on the fun.
Paige and our neighbor Avery.
Anytime I try and take a picture of Paige lately this is what she does... really???

Cruise to Mexico

John planned a "tester Cruise" for our anniversary this year. Neither of us had ever been on a cruise, so why not a short 3 day one to try it out? Turns out we'd like to go on another one ...


An old winery
We anchored by Catalina
John posed by some old paintings
John farmed out kids out to all our friends and family - thanks for taking care of the kiddies!
Wendy kept emailing me photos of Olive... here she is having a blast at the beach.

Model in Training... at 10 months

Penelope Lotus Weston

March 20, 2010

7 lbs 12 oz

19.5 in

My little sister had her baby yesterday. Congratulations to Tracy & Joe. I can't wait to meet little Penny! She looks adorable.

Girls Get-Away!

For the past year+ Lori and I have been talking about doing a girls weekend to Big Bear... it just never seemed to quite work out until now. We were so excited it was like Christmas when the day finally arrived. The six of us packed up and headed for Big Bear last Friday afternoon -- we got off to a late start but it turned out just fine. We got to Big Bear in time to find a place to eat dinner and get settled into the cabin.

I purposely avoided taking Dramamine because it makes me drowsy. Well, Adrienne had some non-drowsy, so I took one. Big mistake! We got to the top around 6 p.m. and at 8:30 I was passed out - drugged to the world. I was so mad (inside my head) because I knew why I was so out of it. I couldn't even get changed in pj's... just out cold. I woke up at 12:30 a.m. lucky to find everyone still awake and talking. We stayed up till 2 am then hit the sack.

It snowed all through the night and all day Saturday... it was a winter wonderland. We got to stay inside and craft the whole time.

Lori (we nicknamed her "mamma bear") was always taking care of us and making our food. So nice Lori.
When I would get frustrated with my own projects I started to learn the crochet techniques from Adrienne - here I am making a shoe lace. Nice. I think I got carpal tunnel from holding those needles so tightly.
Here was where I camped out and worked most of the time... I think I was a bit of a counter hog. Oops! As you can see we made Happy Birthday signs... so cute.
Brad was giving Julie a hard time asking if we were going to do pillow fights while we were up there. So to appease Brad we took a couple of "fake" pillow fighting pictures -although about 1 1/2 blows into it we realized this was no "fake" fight. It was very therapeutic. I haven't laughed that hard in I don't know how long. I almost passed out.
Here we all are - at the end of the Way Too Short Trip. We dragged our feet on leaving - I could have stayed a lot longer, but that's the life of a mom.

{Christy, Lori, Me, Adrienne, Julie & Diana}

Look how beautiful it was the day we left. We got 2 whole days to ourselves up there. We crafted, watched a bazillion movies, laughed, ate, slept, ate chocolate and laughed some more. Oh yes, I ended my chocolate fast up there. I did it - 26 days without chocolate. Not 1 lick!