Grandma and Grandpa took us to the San Diego Space Museum. I haven’t been there since I was a kid, but I remember it being really fun and it is pretty close to their house. We had lunch outside when we first got there...
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While visiting Grandma and Grandpa, we had a big birthday bash for Elora and Oliver and their cousins Amy and Amanda, whose birthdays are all within a month of each other. It was fun to have the cousins together and to eat a lot...
So this random girl we met many years ago turned out to be my (Chris’) long lost cousin. Who knew we had family on the east coast? Not me! Well, now she was getting married and we were thrilled to attend the rehearsal and...
Just before we left Arizona, Nana wanted to give Elora a little party for her birthday, even though she isn’t technically five yet…So we made some cupcakes (which Oliver enjoyed eating the batter more than helping...
Elora likes celebrating Dirty Teddy’s birthday. We celebrate at least twice a month. She got a new book called Fancy Nancy Tea Parties which had all sorts of cute ideas for having a fancy tea party and Elora was so excited...
My brother David has a boat, so he took us all out to Canyon Lake here in Arizona. When we were kids, we had a boat and we would go waterskiing all summer long. Funny fact of the day – Arizona is land locked but has the...
The kids’ birthdays are only a month apart, so their big birthday present this year was a puppy! Chris and I went shopping at Walmart one night and saw some people in a truck selling puppies. We went to check it out and saw...
We went to the zoo with Nana while we were in Arizona. The kids had such a great time, and the weather was perfect. When we walked into the zoo the kids grabbed a map – and on the cover was a koala bear. We asked what they...
Oliver turned 3 on February 14th, Valentine’s Day! Because Chris has fond memories of the R2-D2 cake that his mother made for him as a child, Chris volunteered me to make one for Oliver… hmmm… I am not really a...
Oliver’s beautiful curly hair is not curly anymore now that we are in a dry climate… so I had no more excuses to keep it long. Luckily Breanna is going to school to get her beautician license, and she cut his hair for...