Our California Adventure

Thanks to the generousity of my parents, we just got back from a week long trip to S. California. Here is a quick run down of our trip.

-One week at a gorgeous Mariott resort, over looking the ocean, in Newport Beach. All this curtiousy of my parents. THANK YOU!!!!!!
-Sunday was spent going to church and visiting the Newport Beach Temple. The temple is brown rather than white, which I thought was pretty cool.

-First part of the week was spent with a sick Bailey who had a cold, pink eye and threw up several times. FUN, FUN, FUN!!!!!

-Monday we went to Sea World. The highlight of the entire trip for Bailey was "Breakfast with Shamu." If you have never done it before, I would recommend it. Bailey loved it becuase she got to eat a chocolate muffin and be only a few feet away from Shamu as he did tricks. Claire loved it because she got to eat eggs and watch pigeons fly around, she couldn't care less about Shamu.

-We spent Wednesday at the beach. Bailey loved the sand and hated the water. Claire loved the water and HATED the sand.

_Tuesday and Thursday we went to Disneyland. Boy, that is a big park when you are pregnant! Bailey loved meeting her favorite pricesses, Claire loved the Tiki room and the birds, Scott loved the scary rides and I loved sitting in shady areas.

_Friday we went to the San Diego Zoo. Scott was in charge of the camera that day and only took pictures of animals so I will refrain from showing those.

It was a fun and tiring week. Thanks mom and dad for helping us stay at the condo. We love you!

Are they serious!?!

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have sent a letter to the head guys at Ben and Jerrys icecream asking them to replace cows milk with human milk in their icecream. What? Are they serious? I can understand their concern about baby cows but common on, human milk!

http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=11993

What happened?

This morning Bailey was running around the house singing "It's autumn time, it's autumn time, the leaves are falling down......" only to be sorely disappointed to go out side and see everything some what green but mostly burnt from from a long HOT summer. And not only that but all the leaves are firmly on the trees, where they will probably be until December.

Come on now, I know we live in AZ but it is September 25th and it is 105 degrees today. What is that all about? Bailey and I decided we were tired of the summer and we were going to pretend that it is fall this morning. So we turned the AC way down, got in our winter jammies, made apple muffins and ate freshly bottled peaches, all things that we like to do around here in the "autumn time." What are some of your favorite thing to do or recipes that you like to make in the autumn time?

Claire likes cereal!

Claire likes cereal.

Claire likes cereal so much, she usually asks for it within the first minute of waking up. She calls from her crib "DADDY! DADDY! CEREO!!!! CEREO!!!! DAAAAAADY! CEREO!!!!!"

Claire likes cereal so much, she knows how to say all the essential elements of making a bowl of cereal. "CEREO," "BOW," "MELK," "SPOO."

Claire likes cereal so much, she wants it every meal of the day.

Claire likes cereal so much, she chooses to adorn herself with it.

Claire likes cereal!

My thoughts exactly

Here is a link to an article about Sarah Palin. Now I don't think Sarah Palin is the perfect woman and with all politics put aside, I do think she is a woman who represents some of the good things that woman can do.
As my mom wrote in an email to me, "This article encapsulates what I've been trying to say about Sarah Palin and why she matters so much. Win the election or lose, Sarah Palin shows that true women can and do still exist--not the caricature of women that feminists have tried to create."

http://www.pop.org/main.cfm?id=203&r1=2.00&r2=1.00&r3=0&r4=0&level=2&eid=1176

Lovely

I hope you have something this lovely at your house too!

Bailey was right.....

we are having ANOTHER GIRL!!!!!