Go Padres!

They lost, but we had fun anyway! :) Justin & Chandler got matching hats!! :)

I have babies!!

Baby carrots, baby broccoli, baby green beans, baby peas, baby tomatoes, baby spinach....everything has sprouted except the lettuce. :( We went and got our compost today and I transplanted all the babies that I thought looked hardy enough to move to their new "bed"...the others I will give another week and then put them in their new bed. The kids were so excited to see it coming together...Justin was kinda cute about it too. We're all really looking forward to our first "pick"...a lot of the ones we're growing have a 50-70 day maturity...whether anything is "harvestable" at that point, time will tell, but we're looking forward to it.

My little helper!
Squash...now don't ask me why, but this is how I read everywhere on how to make a "squash patch"

Broccoli

Green beans & peas

A veggie garden!

Sunday was HOT..HOT..HOT!! Ok, so San Diego isn't perfect ALL the time...but more often than not...and for the last few days we are in the midst of a MEGA heat wave...yes in April. It's HOT...and define hot....91 here on the BEACH!! That's HOOOOTT!! We don't have A/C here, b/c honestly, we don't need it but for maybe 30 days a year. So, yea...it's HOT!! I set up the slip-n-slide and let the kids play and Justin and I began our project of building a vegetable garden. We are actually really exciting about this. The seeds have already begun to sprout (we have the seedlings in the garage until the beds are ready)...but so far our seed that are growing are carrots, spinach, squash, tomatoes, green beans, peas, broccoli & lettuce. We also have some strawberries and plan on some blueberries as well. Very exciting! Here's the start...will keep you posted as we add more steps!

Chandler & Ben - Best Buddies

Knotts Berry Farm!

I could be a little mad at myself, but I'll recover....yes the photographer/scrapbooker in me is upset that I didn't get more photos, but my memory is long, and MAN, did we have a BLAST!!!

9am, the Woken's and us packed up the cars and made the almost 2 hour trip to Knotts Berry Farm! The day was just as gorgeous as the last weekend (sensing a theme here?)...and we played hard till we shut the park down at 10pm!!!

Here are a few photos that I did manage to get!

Savannah, Falyn & Faith

Savannah & Chandler (he wasn't too sure about this ride!)

Happy Easter!

The night before we colored eggs.






The "hunt"













We had planned on spending Saturday at Sea World, but it was still cold and gloomy, and just wouldn't have been much fun...but Sunday was GORGEOUS....so that's how we spent our Easter Day...playing at Sea World! The day really couldn't have been more beautiful!

Let's back up a bit....

Ok, so I have so mega picture catching up to do! LOL Starting on March 21st...out 10th anniversary...we had celebrated two weekends before, b/c Justin's ship was supposed to be out to sea (also the reason we didn't have our wedding), so on the day we took a harbor cruise in San Diego harbor. GORGEOUS day and a really neat trip!






A few days later, Faith's school Kindergarten classes took a field trip to Legoland....well, Justin and I didn't pass up the opportunity to spend an "educational" day with her!! ;)







Next up....Spring Break...

Spring Break 2009!!

So, I had no real plans for us this year. Justin was in school, so we couldn't take a trip anywhere. I had to make the best of it....so day one was spent at the Birch Aquarium. And being that it was the week before Easter, it was "Eggstravaganza Week"...we got to see all kinds of interesting "fish eggs".

Baby Zoe!

My crew!

Day 2, a scavenger hunt in Balboa park. I spent a good 3 hours scouring the internet to find interesting things for the kids to find...and I knew we'd be spending the week with Tracy and her kids, so I had to make it, across the board, something that all ages could have fun with. I think I did rather well, and it ate up a good part of the day....and the kids (and moms) really enjoyed it! :) We learned a LOT about the park, and it's surroundings, as well as discovered some new hidden "surprises". Fun day!










Wednesday is "McDonald's Day" (early release day every week in school)...Tracy and I pack up our crew and "invade" McD's! LOL We show up, kids screaming and they KNOW we have arrived!! It's GREAT! But they have a huge play area, and we can sit and have adult conversation while they burn up some pent up energy!

Thursday & Friday it was rather cold, gloomy and rainy, so we spent time at home and did some little Easter fun crafts! (bad mommy, no pics!)