some of my favorite pics from the trip

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TROY!

Sweet Bliss

Mom, Kate and Carrie carrying the daily burden of "where do we eat?" It really was hard decision making...but we managed.
Ahh, yes. Here we are a Ghiradelli's. My milkshake was amazing!
Mmm...this Mexican was really good.
And our stop on the way home at In n Out. How many burgers did we eat?
I hate my camera! It only focuses half the time. You remember this bad boy? Kate, you have to tell me what they're called, I forgot. REALLY underbaked cookie with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge on top. It's really good for breakfast too:)

I did take some pics that didn't involve food, I really did. They just didn't turn out and most of them were similar to Carries she posted on the Lambournes blog. Besides, we all know food is our favorite past time---side note----I lost half a pound over our trip (A big thank you to Alex for still nursing, he just melts those calories away! -if I'm still nursing him when he's 3, someome please stop me!)

I noticed today that there's a job opening at the high school in Pacific Grove...maybe we could buy a cute multi-million dollar home there! Wow, wouldn't if be nice to buy any type of home there...

So I must share my SPA experience! On Monday I went to Tri-Citites to spent 3 wonderful hours getting pampered. It was heaven. While I was waiting they brought me some lemon water in a pretty glass, then I went into a nice changing room and put on a really nice robe and slippers. First I had the Swedish massage, it was amazing! She started with my face then went to my neck, shoulders, hands, arms, legs, feet and back. It felt SOOO good! Then I went into another nice room and had a facial, that felt really refreshing. Then was my pedicure....I wanted to collapse and never wake up when it was over. I am so grateful for my friends who were so generous for my birthday and to Becky and Natalie for (always) watching my kids!

Okay, so I posted all my trip pictures on the Lambourne Update Blog: http://lambourneupdate.blogspot.com/
Usually I post stuff to both, but it took a long time to post so many pictures, so go there to see them and copy them to your computers. There's also a picture of Caitlin in her nightgown I made her and Rod's Easter masterpiece.
Also, we finally watched Enchanted last night! Caitlin did NOT like it- we put them to bed and finished it. She didn't even get to the way fun singing in the park part, so I showed her just that part today and she liked that part, but even the cartoon witch scared her- she's just a sensitive soul! I thought it was a great movie, and one worth buying.

me jardin!

Okay, don't correct my French, I'm sure it's wrong! Anyway, before I post my girls' trip pictures, I'm going to make you all look at my garden that I built. There's a gate that opens to access it, and I divided it into 4 sections with the pavers, so I can just step on the pavers and still get to all my plants. There's a lot of plants at different stages, so some are still very small and you can't see them in the picture. The tomato plants I took pictures of (I have a total of 10 tomato plants!) are my Italian Cherry Tomatoes from Italy that mom got me!! They are doing great! The whole yard around my garden is a work in progress, although I have laid a rock path, built a fire pit, and planted a Sunflower Forest!

Caitlin's party & Grandpa's visit

On Friday we celebrated Caitlin's birthday! She had a "camping birthday"- complete with a tent filled with balloons set up in the back yard. We went on a bear hunt, they made "rock monsters" (glued eyes and yarn for hair on rocks), and had a delicious campfire cake. I even made invitations out of brown grocery bags. Yes, I know that's ridiculous. But it worked great for a camping party! I forgot to take a picture of the cake, but I got the idea from: http://www.brightideas.com/birthdays/themes/campout/cakestreats/c_1658_1.jsp It turned out great, except I nixed the cellophane and replaced them with candles, instead.

We also enjoyed a visit from Grandpa this weekend! Caitlin and Lizzie loved having him here, they really love their Grandpa. When I told them to say good-bye to Grandpa before I took Dad to the airport, Lizzie said "No, Grandpa stay here." Isn't that adorable??

We'll celebrate with a little family party tomorrow night, I'll post something then, too.

For lunch, the girls made "campfires", with peanut butter on the plate, they stuck on pretzel sticks for the logs, raisins for rocks around it, and cherry tomatoes and cheese chunks were the fire.

This is Caitlin's vogue shot and Lizzie's doing Marilyn Monroe (Caitlin was trying to show the camera her flower tights from Grandma)

Happy St. Patty's!!

Does everyone have their corned beef and cabbage cooking for tonight?

A couple years ago I tried the 'green' cream of wheat like mom did and it didn't go over very well...maybe next year I'll try it again. Devon woke up this morning at about 6 and I was very out of it trying to put Alex back to sleep and Devon started off looking to see if I was wearing green, pinching me, asking me to find some clothes for him that were green, and just TALKING and TALKING and he doesn't talk quiet either. Finally I mumbled something about Happy St Patricks Day and told him my brain wasn't working yet today. Early mornings are HARD! Sometimes I wish I was a morning person.

Nathan and Bev are almost moved into their new house in Yakima and on Saturday I had their girls over. All the kids including Cam's best buddy, Ethan decided to make volcanoes in the backyard. They were all working out there for about 2 hours, they had so much fun. Kids just need a place to dig and get messy!