May Came and Went

My birthday happened while we were driving home from San Diego.  Or rather, it didn't happen.

So, we celebrated the next week with some cake.

Meili truly enjoyed the ice cream cake!

Unrelated to my birthday, Derek wanted to try out our new tent and have a backyard campout.

Our dutch oven dessert.

Girls playing while we set up the tent.

squishy net faces!

Our tent...not sure how much use it will get this year.  

Pregnant lady + no bathroom at night + hard ground = not so excited.

Hot dogs, chips, and soda.

Messy Hands!

Trying out the new tent

New Do's (or don'ts)

Let's start out the summer with a little taste of HORROR!

Sofie, Meili, and their cousin got to play at Grandma's house, how lucky!

The girls were so good for about 10 minutes.

A little too good. 

This is what we found when we checked on them:

Meili's new do

Sofie's new do

All 3 girls

Luckily my sister is a hairdresser and came asap to "fix" it (also her child was one of the culprits).

The best we could do.  A little short in the front...

Fixing Sofie's.

Final product.

She got really lucky, except for the bangs she cut for herself in the front and all along the top of her part, it's actually a cute haircut.

Poor unsuspecting Meimei.

She's now got pierced ears.

Still makes me want to cry!

San Diego Part 2

Last half of the San Diego trip:

We went to the beach at Oceanside.  But it was still pretty cold, so we didn't get in the water much (except for Sofie who got dumped in it the first few minutes we were there...)

I LOVE the ocean!

Again, on another cloudy cold-ish day we had to find other things to do.  We found out you could "fish" at the small lake on the resort grounds.

Everybody caught a few, it was fun!  Even if we had to throw them all back.

Seaworld was a nice sunny day, but the kids were exhausted by then and didn't last more than a few hours.

Here we were waiting for the dolphin show (I think Mei had just bit her tongue or something.)

Dia and Sofie playing with starfish

Mei loved the pink one

We got to pet the bat rays too!  They're slimey.

I'm so grateful we got to go!  And I'm so happy that I felt good enough to do it, even if we did have to take things really easy for nauseous and exhausted mama.  I took more potty breaks than the kids!

San Diego Trip Part 1

We were so lucky to get an awesome vacation this year before the baby comes!

Dia's parents were so generous and gave us a time share of our choice for a week!  Of course I chose sunshine and ocean :)  San Diego!!

We drove...and drove...

Stopped in St. George overnight then onward to San Diego.

(Sofie puked in the backseat from Vegas to San Diego.  It took us 10 hours instead of 6 because of traffic.)

View from our hotel balcony.  We stayed at the Welk Resorts in Escondido.

Our wonderful kitchen!

Unfortunately, the first few days were too rainy to play, so we went to the clubhouse for entertainment.

Mei and Dia working hard on a puzzle.

Resort grounds.

Director Mei in the clubhouse.

Playing Candyland on a rainy day.

When the sun finally came out we went to the Zoo.

Dia and Sofie at the Panda exhibit.

People kept asking Dia if she was our Nanny.

Mei and Daddy with the panda.

Takin' a break.  Tired feet!

Crocodile Meili in a gift shop.

They LOVED the zoo!

"Mingos!"

Enjoying some sun!

Bipolar Spring

I appreciate the variety Utah spring has to offer.  One day it's below freezing, the next it's nearly 80.  However, it does confuse the children...

Cartoons on Mom's bed on a freezing day....

I laughed so hard at how deathly BORED they looked!!

Sprinklers on a hot day!

Derek made this sweet toy out of pvc pipes and some misters.  Super easy, cheap, and fun!

And sometimes if we were lucky we got to do some yardwork.

While the girls played in the dirt :)