Girl after my own heart

My girl loves shoes! She brings me shoes all day long and cries until I put them on her feet. I have a bin under her crib that has a bunch of shoes in it and she plays with that more than any of her toys. We got back from vacation on Friday and her bedroom door was closed to keep the dog out while we were gone. She stood in front of her door and squeaked until I opened it for her and she ran in and went right to the shoe box and pulled it out and started giggling and pulling out shoes.
One time when we were moving way back before kids.... Our friends
The Coffeys were helping us load the moving truck. Nathan tried to pick up a huge box almost bigger than him and it had "shoes" written across the box. He and Val couldn't believe I could own that many pairs of shoes and never let me live down the human size box full of shoes. I'm happy to say I think Elsie has inherited my love!

A day in the life...

Emma made me pancakes for breakfast and insisted on giving me breakfast in bed. She cut it into a heart shape and smothered it withy favorite strawberry jam.

She can be such a sweetie. A few mi tues after retreating to my bed to enjoy my pancakes (I'd already been up an hour) I went out to find someone else who enjoyed pancakes she found left on the table...

Spring Break

We took a fun little trip over to Arizona to visit my grandparents for Spring Break. They live in the middle- of- nowhere, Arizona close to Prescott, AZ. We love to go there and get away from the crowded- iness of Southern California and enjoy the country life. And we love to visit G&G! Dave is in the middle of tax session so it was just the kids and me. We got to drive over in our brand new van so it made the ride much nicer! Elsie was okay on the drive over but coming home I decided to drive in the evening so she would sleep. It worked out much better as she did sleep most of the time on the way home and everyone else fell asleep too! Except me of course.

Highlights for the kids - packs of gum from grandpa, searching for Arrowheads with Uncle Duane, fishing at the lake (although I think more rock throwing in the water was done than fishing), and going to the zoo and museum. And the #1 fun activity for the kids - driving grandpa's tractor. He drove them around for awhile and then they pestered him so much he let them drive. It was the first thing Emma wanted to do the minute she woke up every morning. I think we used up all of his gas and drained the battery.

Jacob giving us a ride.

Searching for arrowheads and Indian Pottery with Uncle Duane. He has an awesome piece of land that has a train bridge and river bed on it. He went there ahead of time and planted the arrowheads and pottery. The kids didn't know of course and thought it was awesome. Jacob slept with his bag of arrowheads and pottery each night.

Thank you G&G. We love you!

Awesomeness

I just found the blogger app on my phone! I can even add a picture. Like this one just for cuteness! Now that posting to my blog is as easy as a Facebook update... Expect to hear from more often!