Annual Camping Trip

This past weekend was our annual camping trip in Santa Cruz. The trip there started out with a bang. Better yet a crack, while driving a rock flew up, hit and cracked my windshield. I was so not happy about it and since it hit on the driver side I get to look at it every time I drive. Although the trip had a “rocky” start we arrived safe. We set up camp and the kids began to get as dirty as possible.

Friday was our first day at the beach. As usual it was cold, so we went to the beach in long pants and sweatshirts. The cold didn’t stop the kids from playing in the water. Today would be Jill’s very first visit to the beach. She loved it though the water was a bit cold, so she preferred the sand and throwing it into the air. Lucas is not a big dare devil and found it better to entertain himself by making a new friend and playing in the sand. Mason is much more adventurous and was having so much fun playing we almost lost him to the sea. While playing wave tag, he lost his balance running and fell, he was almost able to recover expect the undertow had him and began to pull him out. At the sight of the first fall my sister Andi was slowly making her way to him just in case. When he started going backwards she put it into 5th gear to recover him. She yelled to a man standing near him in the water and the man reached down and grabbed the hood of Masons jacket and pulled him out. Mason was safe but cold and wet. This ended our first day at the beach.

Jill's first touch of the ocean



Jill loves the feel of the sand


Friday night my brother in laws sister and kids arrived which was great so now my kids had some kids closer to their age to play with.
Evenings at the campsite were laid back, cook dinner, take walks, have a campfire and a treat then off to bed.

Saturday was yet another fun day at the beach and this time Lucas found that playing in the water wasn’t so bad till a wave got the better of him and he was wet. Lucas got his first big boy experience Sunday morning when he was allowed to go to the tide pools with the big kids and Mason wasn't. Mason is just too wild and the tide pools our hard to get to and it just wasn't gonna happen for Mason. Lucas thought that was really cool.

Watch the slide show of pictures from our trip!



The token quote for the trip was the one given by Mason. While Mason was entering our tent I asked him what he was doing and he said “Something stupid and dangerous” for all of those who know Mason you know these words to be true.

Capitol Park

Last week my Mom was in a training class downtown so we thought it would be fun to pack a lunch and have a picnic in the park and feed the squirrels.

Just the day before, we had gone to Elk Grove Park to get out of the house and feed the ducks. At EGP there are not just ducks there are geese and the geese are crazy and mean. One actually bite my butt because I wasn't giving him food. They started to swarm and Jill was freaking out. Me, my Dad and all my kids ended up on top of a picnic table till we could make our get away.

So our plans to go to Capitol Park was to visit grandma and feed nicer animals. Well grandma's lunch break started early so she was not able to make it. But the squirrels were nice. Although I think they get fed to much or they are starting really early to save up for winter because every time they got a peanut they buried it in the grass, the boys didn't care they still loved to throw the peanuts and watch the squirrel get them.

This outing however was Jill's first picnic, and she loved it. I would have to say her favorite part besides being outside was the cooler box of food. Once she realized what it was it was hard to keep her out.

She thinks she is such a big girl with a sippy cup yet 95% of the time the drink goes in her mouth and right back out onto her shirt.

Race for the Cure

Well I did it and I did better. Last year I walked in the Komen Race for the cure to support my friend Jackie and help raise money for breast cancer research (good karma). As most of you know I was 8 months pregnant last year so walking a 5K was huge for me. This years time was much better. I was able to walk with 2 of my sisters Samantha and Tracy. We had a good time, although we missed our others sisters who were unable to make it this year. I hope we will all be able to do it together next year.

The Cool Kids

Too Cool Lucas
Master of Cool Mason
Jilly Cheese

The Latest

Okay I have been told that blogging is the thing to do, so I am going to give it a try. My life has taken a new path in the last year. On the 12th on this month I will have officially lived with my parents for 1 year. In January I started working from home and I really enjoy it. Lucas goes to preschool every morning and in July he will be going to kindergarten and Mason will be going to preschool. My Jill may be the happiest girl ever. I am so grateful to have her to balance out my family.