More of Portland

We stayed at a beach house in Manzanita. It was so beautiful there!!! We had a great time at the beach and hanging and playing games at the beach house.

PORTLAND June 2009

We went to Portland to not only see where Anne has been living the last couple of years but also to celebrate!! Anne finally got  her Masters Degree, it's official Anne Harris MSW! Congrats my sweet sister! We LOVE You!!

GRATEFUL!

The future is not someplace we are going to, but a place we are creating. 

The paths to it are not found, they are made."

 [John Schaar]

I am so grateful that I get to share and create 

my life with you and our children. 

Love you!!!

San Diego Highlights

Our last day in San Diego.

Rick and I celebrated our 14th Anniversary with our kids. What could be better than San Diego, my sweet kids and a beach!

More pictures from our San Diego trip

Finding Tidepools was the highlight of our trip. We found all kinds of creatures but the the favorite was finding these huge STAR FISH!

San Diego Spring Break April 2-9th 2009

At Georgia's

We rented a beach house on this great beach called Wind & Sea Beach! This was a great family vacation. During the day we spend most of our time playing on the beach and exploring. We found so many cool creatures. Austin even found a little hermit crab  he called him CRABBY and he spent 3 days in our sand bucket as Austin's pet. Austin put CRABBY back into the ocean on our last day to join his own family. We also had awesome Tied Pools on our beach and at low tide there was a whole new world to explore. We found large, small, orange, purple starfish (so cool)! Lots of shells with little creatures living inside. The beach was so gorgeous. Our beach had lots of surfers which was great entertainment.

We were very close to downtown La Jolla and found some of our favorite restaurants. The very favorite was Sammy's Pizza so yummy and great salads too. We also enjoyed Georgia's (awesome scenery, picture above) it overlooks the ocean, sushi at Sushi on the Rock, my kids love sushi who new and The Spot (good pizza). Did I mention we ate a lot of PIZZA! The kids also found an awesome candy store.

 They were in heaven! La Jolla is a great little town to explore.

In the evenings we would go to the beach to get our last little bit on energy out and play in the waves and watch the most amazing sunsets! I think this was my favorite time of the day. We also enjoyed going back to the house and playing Farkle and Phase 10 and getting the giggles! 

Austin started using words like "totally radical waves or narley . Radical, Totally, Narley? Where did he get that?  By the end of the trip he was totally talking like a little surfer dude. So funny!

Ashlyn loved playing in the waves and was always challenging them. I guess you could say the waves won every time. One time she was fully dressed and decided she wanted to

 challenge the waves. She said this wave is mine and no sooner did she say that a HUGE wave came crashing down on her and wiped her out! She was soaked and had sand covering her entire body. I think she still has sand in her hair from that wave!

To sum it up we had a TOTALLY RADICAL time with a little NARLEY on the side!

The 2nd Most Embarrassing Day of Austin's life . . .

I picked Austin up from school and as he jumped into the car the first words out of his mouth were:

Austin: "Mom, this was the 2nd most embarrassing day of my life!!!" 

Me: "Why what happened?" I asked.

Austin: "Well look at my pants right here!"

As Austin pointed to the crotch of his pants he had the biggest hole! I couldn't help but start to laugh uncontrollably. And even now hours later I am still laughing.

Austin: "GEEZ mom I'm never wearing those pants again. I'm so lucky that only one of my friends noticed! And my friend couldn't stop laughing. I was so embarrassed!"

Me:  "So Austin what was your 1st most embarrassing day if this is your second?" I was very curious to hear his answer.

Austin: "I don't know but this was the second most embarrassing day for sure!

Through my laughter all I could say was I'm so sorry, thank goodness tomorrow is a new day! And I'll have Grandma fix your pants!