Day 251

The picture of the day definitely fits into the random things we stumble upon in life category. We spent our last morning of vacation playing in the pool before we needed to pack up and start the drive to the airport. One of our stops along the way was the Harley-Davidson dealership of Anaheim/Fullerton. I needed to use the restroom before we continued on our way to LAX and what to my complete surprise was the motorcycle faucet. It was just longing to be the picture of the day.

Day 250

Happy Birthday Mike!! What a better way to spend your birthday than at the beach with your family playing in the water and sand. God has blessed me tremendously with such a wonderful, godly man who is such a great husband and father to our two boys. It's been such a ride of peaks and valleys, but Michael, I couldn't imagine my life with anyone else. I love you!

Day 249

This evening, a dear friend of mine, Elisabeth was getting remarried to a wonderful man, Michael and my Michael and I were very blessed by God to be able to attend the wedding. The wedding took place at a home in San Juan Capistrano in the hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The views were just spectacular and the party was so much fun. The wedding was very relaxed and low key so you could mingle with friends and meet new people as well. I am truly blessed by my friendship with Elisabeth and I wish her and Michael many, many happy years filled with God's blessings for them.

Day 248

Today was such a fun, busy day. We left dark, rainy Seattle in the morning and landed in sunny, warm Los Angeles by noon. After picking up our sweet , super fabulous price, rental car, an Infiniti QX56, we grabbed In-N-Out for lunch and headed up to see Mike's aunt and uncle who live in Thousand Oaks. After a wonderful time with Tom and Marie, we checked into our hotel in Santa Monica and headed out to find some dinner. We ended up on the Santa Monica pier to do a little sight seeing. On the way back from our fun outing, we walked right by The Hotel California of course made famous by The Eagles. I thought the sign would be a fun picture because you can always take pictures of the adventures you did, but you never know what you may happen upon.

Day 247

All day long I've been looking for my wand that would magically complete all the laundry and the packing would be complete. Unfortunately, I don't have a fairy godmother, so it's all me. We are leaving in the morning for California to see family and attend a friends wedding. I am really looking forward to this trip as it will probably be the last time we get to play in the warm, sunny weather until next summer in Seattle.

Day 246

I didn't finish my bracelet in the riveting class I took last Saturday and I really need to give back the tools I borrowed. This inspired me to get myself downstairs during nap time and pound away on some metal. I didn't have time to complete the piece I was working on before Aaron woke up from his nap, so I brought him downstairs in hopes that he would sit and watch tv with his brother so I could finish. Aaron isn't my couch potato like older brother, so he decided to come help mom. It's a super close up picture because he was sitting on my lap, but Aaron did a really good job being gentle with the hammer. His curiosity is on fire everyday and I want to encourage that little curious mind to explore and learn.

Day 245

Meet Mr. Bean, he or she will become the newest member of our family on or around April 2nd. I had my first prenatal appointment this afternoon and Mike and I were able to see the baby and see the heartbeat, but it's too early to hear the heartbeat. Everything looks great and it's amazing how you can see the little arms and feet already.

The boys were staying with grandma for this first appointment and when I picked them up, Andy declared that baby is his new baby brother. Earlier, Andy was very adamant the baby was a girl, but he seems to have changed his mind. Whatever the sex is, God has blessed us with another child. And no, we won't be finding out the sex this time either.

Day 244

The weather seems to have turned to a bit fall like already, so I was in the mood for some tomato soup. Safeway has some good soups in the deli section, but the regular creamy tomato soup has too many calories if you want to eat anything else with your lunch. There was a new organic tomato basil soup that has 100 less calories so I can have a bowl of that and a grilled cheese sandwich without having too many calories for lunch. The soup was also quite tasty and I decided to have an english muffin with my soup today.

Day 243

I thought I would start off the week by making my boys pancakes. We ran out of our normal pancake mix and have yet to make it to Costco to replenish, but I have a new cookbook that has a recipe for pancakes. It's your basic recipe of flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, eggs, milk and butter. I added baking spice to add a little more flavor and the pancakes turned out okay. I don't care for the baking spice, but the boys ate them up. You can tell I had a little helper who was hungry and ready for mom to start cooking and not be taking silly pictures.

Day 242

One of my Gerber daisies has decided to bloom another flower for me to enjoy before it comes to its demise again. The yellow daisy seems to have gone from a nice yellow to more of a cream color but that could be because I don't get much sun in the back. I'm also thinking maybe I should move my flower pots to a place where little hands can't get them.