.: May 2010

First stop- California!
The kids and I decided that we would be over the top and travel coast to coast- literally! We started in Southern California to visit with Grandma and Grandpa. On the way, we did our usual stop in Vegas at In-n-Out off of Tropicana. It really made it feel like we were just vacationing. I'm sure I'll be in and out of reality for a little while to come. Anyway, we had a wonderfully relaxing few days! Great Grandpa came in and stayed the weekend, and Boma and Bompa stayed an evening as well. We kind of had a photo op as we were leaving, so I'm just going to warn you now! Lots of pictures on this post! Jaelin sobbed because she didn't want to leave her BFF, Angel, and Ayden just wanted to get on the road to our next stop...he's such a guy!

So P90X is kind of a big deal right now! I mean, come on, even the pup does it! Every other day you do abs at the end of your normal workout. If any of you have the dvds, you'll understand. Jacqueline and I were getting ready to excercise and Ayden said, "Sciiissor...get it??" We had a good laugh!

My son is totally the scrawny kid in the movies who stands in front of the mirror checking to see if there's any muscles there that weren't 5 seconds prior. He's all about flexing his "muscles" anytime he can!

If a video tape could have done the walkie talkie conversations justice, I would have video'd! It was hysterical! Jaelin never held the button down the whole time she was talking, so we got half the conversation over the radio and the other half we could just hear directly since she would scream everything anyway!

Oh yeah, these are the "war faces!"

Jaelin NEVER eats string cheese, except when we're at Grandma's house! I think she just likes to secretly torment Angel. It took Jaelin the better part of an hour to get through one thing of cheese. Angel never failed to let her down...she followed her around the whole house hoping for her to drop some.

Yep, cheese still in hand while having a nice sibling moment.

Mark and Jacqueline ordered some things so the garage became the construction site of a cardboard playhouse. Seriously, why do we even bother with wrapping presents? This kept them entertained far longer than anything they would unwrap!

Jaelin and Great Grandpa. Little did they know, they were about to eat a LOT of bread!!

Despite this picture, she really does know how to use utensils! I guess she just loves this pie that much! Everytime I make it she asks me why she can't marry it.

Let the photo op begin! You'll notice that we try to mix things up a bit by moving to different locations in the house. For a minute there, I thought we were going to have to change our clothes! haha!