tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86063229385252205662024-03-12T18:14:44.442-06:00Amanda CreatesAmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.comBlogger370125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-19590330623874927722012-04-12T20:35:00.000-06:002012-04-23T20:36:01.761-06:00Day 5 - More Lava Tubes and Waterfalls, Real Lava and Volcanoes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We spent the night in a little B&B in Hilo, and spent the next morning exploring the beach at the end of the road. </div>
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(The white dots on the top of the mountain are the giant telescopes above the observatory we went to the night before.)</div>
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Then off to another lava tube, this one much bigger than the one from yesterday.
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The lava looked like chocolate in places.
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Our next stop was rainbow falls. It was cloudy when we were there, so we didn't get to see the rainbow, but it was pretty nonetheless.
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Then off to what we hoped would be the highlight of the whole trip: seeing real lava! Sadly, when we got there we were told that today we'd only get to see fumes. We were all bummed.<br />
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(Houses that have been rebuilt right on the lava after having been destroyed back in the '90s or so.)</div>
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The long awaited, somewhat disappointing lava fumes.</div>
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Next stop, Hawaii Volcano National Park! This park was amazingly cool. So many fun hikes and things to see.</div>
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We had a ghetto fabulous car with interior party lighting! You could change the color too. We couldn't get a good picture of it in the dark, but we had to document it anyway.<br />
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What a difference an island makes! We started our day out in Waikiki again for breakfast and a last stroll along the beach. Then we headed to the airport for our flight to the Big Island of Hawaii. This island is so different from Oahu. I felt so much calmer and happier on the Big Island. More space, less people. And the landscape there is incredibly varied. We flew into a lava desert, drove through cattle ranch country, and then a jungle before getting to our hotel for the night. And along the way we explored a lava tube cave, looked out over a beautiful valley, and saw a bamboo forest on a short hike to a waterfall! We ended our day by driving up to the observatory on Mauna Kae to see the stars how they're meant to be seen. They had a bunch of telescopes set up and we got to see nebula, galaxies, and Saturn's rings. It was amazing!</div>
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-9315677575045765022012-04-10T16:24:00.000-06:002012-04-23T16:24:39.292-06:00Day 3 - Pearl Harbor and Waikiki<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We saw our first Hawaii rainbow this morning on the way to Pearl Harbor. We visited the USS Bowfin submarine and the USS Arizona Memorial. Then we grabbed a delicious Hawaiian plate lunch before heading back to the hotel for a break. Well, the kids and I took a break at the pool, but Anton decided he needed to run to the top of Diamond head. That evening we spent wandering Waikiki, eating dinner, watching the sunset, and buying souvenirs.
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-12384381059416544052012-04-09T15:31:00.000-06:002012-04-23T15:32:16.349-06:00Day 2 - Kailua, Laie, North Shore, Dole, and Friends!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Day 2 was a whirlwind tour of Oahu. We started the day on Kailua Beach. It was windy and cold, but the kids swam anyways. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">We managed to catch the local shrimp truck right as we were getting ready to leave, and then another shrimp truck up the road. We had to make sure to sample them all!</span>
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We stopped in Laie to see the temple there.<br />
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And no trip to Hawaii would be complete without some shaved ice.<br />
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I skipped the shaved ice so that I could fill up on the pineapple whip at the Dole Pineapple Plantation. Love that stuff! We toured the gardens and got lost in the maze.<br />
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We ended the day by catching up with some old friends from back in the Maryland days. We had so much fun talking, and the kids had so much in common that if they didn't have different colored hair you'd almost think they were all twins!<br />
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-53022007035817855682012-01-24T19:00:00.000-07:002012-01-24T19:00:29.798-07:00A New AdventureSo, it's been a while. I haven't had any desire to blog for quite a while, and honestly I still don't have much motivation to do so. But on the off chance that anyone reads this in order to keep up with our lives, I thought I'd give a quick run-down on events around here.<br />
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So ever since the kids were transferred from their good school to a not so good school back at the beginning of the year, I've been eyeing homeschooling, but just kind of slantwise out of the corner of my eye. But when Ella came home from school last week with lice, I decided I was done. (By the way, I think lice has to be the MOST expensive "sickness" I've ever had to get rid of. Electric bill was off the charts from all the laundry we had to do, plus all the special lice combs and shampoos, etc., are all crazy expensive!! We probably spent more than when Ella got her tonsils and adenoids out.) <br />
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So yesterday was the kids first official day being homeschooled. I've just been making things up as I go along for now since I'm trying to get them into a homeschool charter school that will buy all of our curriculum for us and pay for the kids to do an extracurricular activity as well. We've been talking about Chinese New Year and playing lots of math and reading computer games. I still have some kindergarten level stuff from when I was doing preschool with Alex, so we've been using that. Ella has a couple of those summer bridge type workbooks that we do some pages out of each day. And that's about it for now.<br />
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For some reason I expected home school to go something like this: Get up, eat breakfast, do school for a few hours until done, have lunch, play! But in reality it goes more like this: Get up, eat breakfast, do some school, change the laundry, do more school, take a shower, do more school, have lunch, do more school, change the laundry, do more school, run to the Dr., do more school, go to the library, etc., etc. Life sure does get in the way of doing school. But it is nice to have a couple slaves around all day. They folded laundry today, emptied the dishwasher yesterday. I'll have them fully chore trained in no time!<br />
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On the job front, Anton is still employed. That's about it. He failed his training here in Oakland, so he has to transfer somewhere else or be fired. He found a few places that will take him, but they can't hire him until he's a permanent employee. He won't be a permanent employee until next month sometime. So paperwork has been stalled until he hits the year mark, and then all will be well. It looks as though he will transfer over to Palo Alto, so we won't have to move. We've been really lucky with this whole thing, since a friend of his who failed out of training in Houston was escorted out of the building the afternoon he failed. So for Anton to still have a job over a month later is somewhat of a miracle.<br />
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So that's how things stand around here. No promises that you'll see an update from us anytime soon. I would love to say we'll document our homeschool adventures, but I've come to recognize my limits, and consistent blogging is one of them. :)Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-71493967852837615702011-10-09T16:48:00.000-06:002011-10-09T16:48:07.641-06:00Harvest Festival: A Pictoral Memoir<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin5JLrNCbKzscRAbc-4neDDtrGQjjZe0tb0rUBtE8pawzOoE20irGMaoT8K9_fe9-atAmBkECbIbJxxB5UMsCqKgN5gFNjWlKd810WzWqvheR0hAdA7iAx2QwvYfJu6vx20RbT9T-tEA8/s1600/2011-10-08-Harvest+Festival_0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin5JLrNCbKzscRAbc-4neDDtrGQjjZe0tb0rUBtE8pawzOoE20irGMaoT8K9_fe9-atAmBkECbIbJxxB5UMsCqKgN5gFNjWlKd810WzWqvheR0hAdA7iAx2QwvYfJu6vx20RbT9T-tEA8/+Festival_0001.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br />
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I am insanely proud of this. I made it up all by myself. It has petals, a stem, leaves, even roots!!<br />
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And butterflies nesting in the flower. I kept looking at her hair all day long because I couldn't believe I had managed something so cool!<br />
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Plus she's just pretty darn cute!<br />
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After that major accomplishment on my part, the Rennaisance Faire seemed like a footnote. :) But we did have fun.<br />
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Ella was so excited to see a princess, and all the people in costume did not disappoint. She didn't care whether they were dressed as a wench or a queen, they were all princesses to her. (Though I have to say, Ren Fairs seem to be just the excuse all the trashy women are looking for to bare all. Sheesh!)<br />
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We watched the horseman skills competition thing.<br />
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Where Ella was super excited to get to see the Queen.<br />
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We were bummed that that's not what it was. (And Alex is bummed because he wanted to go to a local carnival and ride the rides, not a silly Ren Fair.)<br />
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But he's got to put up with his nerdy family that loves this stuff!!<br />
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We did try and go see the real jousting later, but even with the kids up on Anton's shoulders, none of us could see a thing. Oh well.<br />
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We went to a bunch of different shows, comedy, magic, etc., and wandered around looking at all the different stalls and booths.<br />
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The kids played with toys.<br />
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And Alex let these nasty meal worms(?) crawl all over him. He's not afraid of anything. (Though his face would say otherwise.)<br />
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We've come to the conclusion that unless you have lots of money to blow, you just can't have as much fun at a fair. We had to tell the kids "no" a million times to all the fun stuff we really wanted to let them do. Maybe after the next pay raise.<br />
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And since Anton is a huge sucker to our kids' pouting, after we got home and had dinner, he took them over to the local carnival so Alex could ride the roller coaster.<br />
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I stayed home. I was all faired out.<br />
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But the kids loved it, and was the perfect end of the day for them. Hooray for fairs!!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-79619707568745975242011-09-11T16:09:00.000-06:002011-09-11T16:09:48.930-06:00This Week: The Good, The Bad, and The UglyThis week has been quite the roller coaster. I spent last weekend in Utah with my family for my littlest sister's wedding. I didn't take Anton or the kids, and I was there for less than 2 days. It was a whirlwind. I also didn't even take my camera out of my bag, so no pictures. It was a fun wedding with lots of quirky elements, like the bridal party wearing Converse and Vans and the bride's maids wearing their hair tied up in bandannas, etc. It was fun.<br />
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I came back and jumped right into our second week of school. I reactivated my membership to 24 Hour Fitness and was able to go swimming for the first time in forever. The kids always made it too hard to go, but with them both in school, I actually have time to exercise! It's so nice.<br />
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Then I got bad news. The schools here have no idea how to balance their student loads, so two weeks after my kids have been in school, they now have to move to a new school. I am so miffed about this whole thing, and there's nothing I can do about it. They're getting sent to a school that gets terrible ratings and I hear really bad things about, but I have not choice about where to send my kids in this district with "open enrollment." It's so messed up and backwards. I'm tempted to just pull them out and homeschool them until their spot opens back up in the school they've been at, but I'm loathe to give up my all alone exercise/housework/grocery shopping time. We'll give this new school a try, but I didn't get a whole lot of positive vibes when we visited on Friday. Definitely a different demographic from our current school. And now instead of walking to school everyday I'm going to have to drive back and forth 3 times a day. Blah. It's just a big mess.<br />
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So this week had it's highs, and it definitely had a super low. Hopefully this next week can just level out and be "normal."Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-53522000246924613712011-08-31T15:29:00.000-06:002011-08-31T15:29:38.227-06:00First Day of School!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_MBu_Vy7rz9KfiHh6STNPd2ybWdt8NkDbVT9O_HXmKIGEFViqv6QLwOH4Bqsxumu1VAc1KkF4ZawIyvyl6PN4mWpjjInJ-wUwML55QSjimWl_Rn7dSQcJkou8XWG3Lm99hqkGDmaBgQE/s1600/2011-08-31-First+Day+School_0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_MBu_Vy7rz9KfiHh6STNPd2ybWdt8NkDbVT9O_HXmKIGEFViqv6QLwOH4Bqsxumu1VAc1KkF4ZawIyvyl6PN4mWpjjInJ-wUwML55QSjimWl_Rn7dSQcJkou8XWG3Lm99hqkGDmaBgQE/+Day+School_0003.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br />
School started really late here, it seems, compared to everyone else, but it finally did start! Ella is now in second grade, and Alex started Kindergarten. Both my kids are now in school! They grow up so fast.<br />
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We live in walking distance to the school, so I will definitely be getting my exercise this year. I get to walk back and forth three times a day.<br />
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Alex had his orientation yesterday, so after forcing a hug and kiss from him he was off. He hardly gave me a backward glance.<br />
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Ella hadn't gotten to meet her teacher yet, but everyone says she's a great one.<br />
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Ella was a little shy waiting in line, but when it was time to go in, she marched right in and was right at home.<br />
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The verdict at the end of the first day: Alex couldn't really tell me anything he did, but he seemed to have fun. Ella was in high heaven. She made "four new friends," and already has a playdate on Friday with the set of twins that are in her class. All the parents I met were super nice, and the PTA people seem to have it all together. I think this is going to be a really good year, and hopefully the first one we won't have to move in the middle of!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-53718212311260724122011-08-31T12:40:00.001-06:002011-08-31T15:31:11.674-06:00Jelly Belly FactoryAs a last hurrah to summer we went with some friends to visit the Jelly Belly Factory!<br />
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It has a free tour you can take to see how they make Jelly Bellies.<br />
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We got to wear goofy hats, which the kids loved, but mine just wouldn't stay on my head. We weren't allowed to take pictures during the tour, but it was really cool to see all the millions of jelly beans. Did you know it takes anywhere from 7 to 21 days to make a Jelly Belly? Now you do.<br />
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My favorite part of the tour was getting to see all the really cool Jelly Belly mosaics they have.<br />
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Ronald Reagan was a huge Jelly Belly fan. The blueberry Jelly Belly was invented just for his presidential campaign so he could pass out red, white, and blue Jelly Bellies. He would start all his meetings in the White House by passing around a bowl of Jelly Bellies, and there was a special spill-proof Jelly Belly container on Air Force One.<br />
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I totally want to make a jelly bean mosaic now.<br />
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You also get free samples at the end of your tour. I was brave and tried a moldy cheese one, and it actually wasn't too bad. They also now have candy corn flavored Jelly Bellies, which were pretty good, but I think I'll just stick with the real things.<br />
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We stopped at McDonald's for lunch afterward, because even though a jelly bean shaped hamburger sounds good in concept, paying $8 for a kid's meal is not. And that was our fun outing! We had a great time and it was a fun way to finish off our summer.<br />
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Next up, first day of school!!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-56398955359409347682011-08-28T17:39:00.000-06:002011-08-28T17:39:12.760-06:00Back to the BeginningAnton's and my anniversary is on Tuesday. It'll be eight years since we said our I do's. Unfortunately, our anniversary falls on a weekday, specifically the one right before school starts, so we knew a fun night out on the town was out of the picture. Instead, we decided to head back to the beginning this weekend and hang out in Monterey.<br />
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Eight years ago Anton and I were both in the military studying our different languages at DLI, the military language school in Monterey. I fell for the good looking guy in a Navy uniform, and I managed to convince him that I was a nice sweet girl. (Ha!) Five months after we met we were married. I don't feel the need to drag things out once I've made up my mind. :)<br />
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At first we were kind of planning on recreating some fun events from when we lived in Monterey, like eating at Bubba Gumps on our first date. But then I decided that we'd done all that stuff before and we needed to do some new fun things. So here's how our fun weekend went.<br />
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</div>On Friday afternoon we picked Anton up from work and headed out for the 2 hour drive down there. We had decided to camp there on Friday night so we would have more time to play. The campground down there doesn't take reservations, so it's always nerve wracking planning to camp there because if it's full there are no other choices in the area. But we were lucky. After paying a pretty Monterey fee for a campground ($27!!) we set up camp.<br />
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It's a beautiful campground surrounded by trees.<br />
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Just be warned, if you ever stay there, it's right next to the Army base and you will be woken up at 7 a.m. by reveille.<br />
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It's been foggy and misty both times we've camped there, but I think it just adds to the charm.<br />
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We set up camp as fast as we could because the place we wanted to get dinner from closed at 6. We managed to get there about ten minutes before closing. Now, this restaurant, if you can call it that, is definitely not gourmet.<br />
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But it has the HUGEST sandwiches ever, and they are the best. You'll never want to eat at Subway again. You can get these beauties at Compagnos, a little convenience store right outside the base. But the real reason for eating there is not the sandwiches, it's the cake!<br />
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Anton and I spent many a date with a slice of their cake. Yum! We took our food out to Asilomar beach. It was cold and foggy, but a stop there is a must. This is the beach where Anton and I had our first awkward kiss and where he proposed to me.<br />
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Ella played in the sand and Alex wore himself out chasing the seagulls.<br />
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Then before it got too dark we headed over to the Dennis the Menace park. This park features nowhere in the dating history of Anton and I, it's just super fun for the kids.<br />
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They have all sorts of fun slides.<br />
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A real full-sized train you can climb all over.<br />
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And a maze and a swinging bridge and all sorts of fun things. Alex managed to convince me to climb through a big pipe with him, and Anton was so obliging as to take a lovely picture of my rear for you all.<br />
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We played until the city employee had to kick us out because he was closing the park.<br />
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Then back to the campground to go to sleep. Well, at least some of us slept. I sure didn't. Have I ever mentioned I hate camping? I do. Plus, I asked Anton multiple times if it was supposed to rain because we were taking our bigger tent that is not so waterproof any more. He assured me that rain was not in the forecast. But as soon as we all settled in to sleep, rain it did. All night long. We were all damp and fully wet around the edges in the morning. Not fun.<br />
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We needed a good wake up, so we headed over to First Awakenings for breakfast. We'd never eaten there before, and we regret that fully now. They have divine pancakes and crepes and eggs Benedict to die for! I was tempted to lick the Hollandaise sauce off my plate, but I refrained.<br />
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It was still somewhat drizzly when we finished eating, but we decided to press on with our plans. We drove over to Carmel where we told the kids we were going on a treasure hunt. All throughout the shopping district in Carmel are all sorts of little hidden alleyways and courtyards. We gave the kids a map and had them lead us through a bunch of them.<br />
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And these aren't normal back alleys, most of them are flowery and beautiful. The kids had lots of fun, and the treasure at the end was a candy shop. We let them each pick something out. Ella chose a giant peanut butter cup, and while she was eating it, I hear her say, "Uh oh." That never signifies something good. I look over, and sure enough, she has lost a tooth!<br />
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Yuck. Falling out teeth are so gross!<br />
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We took a break to eat our treats in a fun little park. The kids each made a wish in a little pond there.<br />
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Anton and I just sat and took a break.<br />
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After our treasure adventure we headed over to the Carmel Mission. Don't think less of me, but I wanted to see it after reading all about it in the Mediator series by Meg Cabot. I'd never even heard about it before reading those books.<br />
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It's one of the old Spanish missions that line the coast. We wandered around the grounds, and managed to get a quick peek inside the church since there were three weddings going on that day.<br />
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It was pretty cool to see, though Anton and I both agree it probably would have been cooler and made more sense to us if we were Catholic.<br />
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Next we headed back into Monterey to find a bench along the beach to sit and eat our leftovers from the night before.<br />
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I was pooped from my lack of sleep and all our exploring, so I sat and rested while the kids and Anton went scrambling over all the rocks.<br />
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They found a dead sea lion and a tide pool full of fun creatures, like this hermit crab:<br />
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And then we made one more spontaneous stop at the Point Pinos lighthouse.<br />
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It's the longest continuously running lighthouse on the west coast. It was a fun little place to see.<br />
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And that about does it. It was a full weekend, but I have to admit I was glad to head home. I have a one night limit on camping. Though Anton and I have both agreed that we'd be more than willing to retire to Monterey some day.Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-10268395107755657092011-08-24T14:26:00.000-06:002011-08-24T14:26:24.654-06:00Birthday RecapI haven't blogged about the kids' or my birthdays this year, so I thought I'd do a quick overview of them all at once!<br />
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Ella's birthday was back in June. She turned 7! I can't believe how old my kids are getting. :( <br />
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Ella wanted a ballerina themed birthday and was very specific about how everything needed to be. First we had to play pin the tiara on the ballerina. I busted out my drawing skills (sure) and drew a giant ballerina on a leftover piece of packing paper. I left it empty and let the kids decorate it as part of the activities.<br />
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</div>I think they did a pretty good job.<br />
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My ballerina with her ballerina. Isn't she just so cute?<br />
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Then on to the game! Not a single one of us managed to get our crown on the ballerina, not even the kids who cheated.<br />
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Next up was musical chairs. It's pretty hard to play when you only have 4 people and one has to start and stop the music. That leaves you with 3 people and 2 chairs. The game goes pretty fast. Anton took a video or two of the silliness, but I'm too lazy to hook it up right now to upload it.<br />
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Then it was present time! Ella's one and only request was for a Happy Napper. <br />
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Thank you television for introducing my children to such fantastic toys. She also got a ballet tutu (she wanted a whole ballet outfit and was totally bummed about the homemade tutu I gave her), clothes, art stuff, and a jump rope.<br />
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She's still working on the jump roping skills.<br />
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Then it was time for cake!<br />
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Ella requested a strawberry cake with white frosting.<br />
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I did all the pink decorations with chocolate. There were different ballerina silhouettes all around the cake. I wanted to cover the whole thing with the roses I did on top, but I ran out of frosting. Those things are frosting hogs!!<br />
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It was a tasty cake, but sadly Ella didn't like the strawberry filling I put in it.<br />
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The rest of us enjoyed it though.<br />
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So that was Ella's 7th birthday!<br />
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Next up was Alex's 5th birthday in July. Can you believe he's starting kindergarten in a week? Where did my baby go? We celebrated his birthday in parts since we were travelling and moving right around his birthday.<br />
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We gave him one present early so he could have it in the car.<br />
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Yes, another Happy Napper. He loves it. <br />
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When we were in Utah we had a whole big family party for everyone, so he got celebrated some more, and then it was off to California. We actually celebrated his real birthday in the hotel.<br />
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I had tried to get all his gifts ahead of time, but ended up having to make a last minute Target run to round out the gifts.<br />
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But he was thrilled with his goggles and floaties since we had a pool there at the hotel to swim in.<br />
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I didn't want to try and bake a cake in the little hotel kitchen, so I let Alex pick his cake at the grocery store. And no matter how much I tried to convince him that a nice plain white cake with Happy Birthday on top would be perfect, he insisted in this one:<br />
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Yeah. The kids were pooping green for days. I couldn't eat it. But he loved it, and that's what matters, right? I need to send a picture of it to Cake Wrecks.<br />
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And then last, but not least, was my birthday. We pretty much didn't do anything. Actually, that's not true. we house hunted on my birthday. We went to the open house of the house we're currently living in, and all I wanted for my birthday was this house. And I got it so all is good. We also went out for dinner at a super good sushi place, and on my birthday itself went up to see the Oakland temple.<br />
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And that about does it for birthdays this year. I'll probably do a couple other catch-up posts, and one of these days I actually post about our new house! I was hoping to wait until we are all unpacked, but I don't think that will happen anytime soon.Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-43834864439082298602011-08-19T17:37:00.000-06:002011-08-19T17:37:48.158-06:00Ella UpdateElla is doing great! The girl who ran into my bedroom Thursday morning was so not the girl I left at the hospital Wednesday night. She gets sleepy now and then from her medicine, and she says her throat hurts, but other than that she seems to be doing fine. She eats regular food (soft food), though she does take advantage of the pudding and Popsicles we stocked up on before the surgery. She is definitely milking the invalid status for all its worth. She's watched LOTS of movies and just lays around on the couch all day, which is what she would do on any regular day if I would let her. So besides a little throat pain, she's in heaven. So that's the update for now!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-29274898362068261772011-08-17T15:48:00.000-06:002011-08-17T15:48:11.732-06:00Adenoids and Tonsils and Tubes, Oh My!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So I'm hanging out in the hospital with Ella today. She had her tonsils and adenoids out this morning and tubes put in her ears. She's been a total trooper about it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So that's the excitement in our little neck of the woods. We'll keep you all posted on how she's doing!</div>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-83670461472890947132011-08-14T00:09:00.001-06:002011-08-14T00:11:15.994-06:00The Weekend Tourist - San Francisco EditionLiving as "close" as we do to San Francisco (about an hour drive and a $5 bridge toll) and after listening to the kids beg to see the Golden Gate Bridge since they originally heard about it, we decided today to head to the city. We couldn't just drive in and see the bridge and go home, though, so we planned a couple other stops and made a couple unplanned ones.<br />
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First stop, Lombard Street!<br />
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Lombard Street is supposedly the windiest street in some geographic region, be it city, state, country, world, etc. From the top you can see all the way to Coit Tower there in the distance and across to the other side of the bay. You have to run over a few tourists to be able to actually drive down Lombard Street. They just stand in the middle of the road snapping pictures, neveryoumind the million cars headed your way.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next stop: the Palace of Fine Arts. I actually took a History of San Francisco class when I was in college, and it was one of my favoritest classes ever! (How do you like that great grammar?) Ever since then I have wanted to see the Palace of Fine Arts in person. I never imagined it was so HUGE!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Most tourist attractions leave you thinking, "That's it?" But this place was waaaaay bigger than I ever imagined. It's beautiful there!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>To give you a sense of scale, that's Alex standing in the middle of the dome area where the red arrow is pointing. So cool! There's actually a science museum right there too, but we decided to save it for another day.<br />
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Next stop: Golden Gate Bridge!<br />
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Alex declared after the fact that he didn't like it because it wasn't gold and because we had to walk on it. We didn't want to pay another bridge toll, and I though it would give us a better sense of the size to walk out on it instead of driving.<br />
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It was fairly foggy most of the time we were there so we only caught glimpses of the top of the bridge.<br />
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It took me forever to get this picture set up with me all sprawled out on the ground and in everyone's way, only to have the kids making goofy faces! Argh.<br />
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Let me tell you, though, you want to see an interesting cross-section of humanity, go walk the Golden Gate Bridge on a Saturday afternoon. Wow. And I just have to say, there have been so many times that I just want to scream out loud: "This is America, people! We walk on the right side of the street/sidewalk!" And those particular people won't get out of your way for anything. They'll plow you over if you don't step to the left. Grrr. But regardless, the bridge was fun, but I would suggest going on a cold weekday when it's not quite so busy.<br />
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After grabbing a quick and expensive lunch at the cafe in the parking lot (note to self, don't be so lazy next time and actually pack a lunch) we drove around the point of the peninsula and down to Ocean Beach.<br />
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We only walked out to the water and back since it was chilly and we hadn't planned on making a beach stop. But the beach was nice and empty, and the sand was really nice.<br />
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From there we drove down the Great Highway for a short ways to see the sights, then back over and through the city. We passed some of the Russian places we had visited when we lived in Monterey and made a note to come back that way again some time. And then it was back home for naps and recuperation. Big cities take it out of me. But then again, I've already made an enormous list of places I want to see next time we go back. We're kind of thinking about making this a monthly thing. We'll see!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-32229101588787687042011-08-06T22:58:00.000-06:002011-08-06T22:58:34.857-06:00What We've Been Up ToI've been a bad blogger. I know. I'll give a quick rundown of what we've been up to, but the details and photos will have to come later! <br />
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In June we moved from Oklahoma to California with a short stop in Utah to see family. Once in California we spent almost 3 weeks living in 3 different hotels while trying to find a place to live. The cost of living out here is insane, and a lot of the rental places want to see that you have three times the monthly rent in income, which we don't have at this time. I finally found the perfect house for us and had to convince the landlady that we were the perfect tenants regardless of our income. We managed to convince her and got the house.<br />
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We moved in two weeks ago and I've been working at unpacking and organizing and getting rid of all the junk that's been sitting in storage for 2 years that I can't believe I packed in the first place. It's been busy. So once I have the house looking like I want, I'll post pictures of it. If you really want to see it in all its messy glory, Anton posted pictures on his facebook.<br />
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My brain is not working right now, so I really can't think of anything else to say. I'm know, I'm boring. I'll try and be better about posting and even using pictures! If anyone is out in the Bay Area anytime, drop me a line and we'll get together and play!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-86442768716260919252011-05-08T19:25:00.000-06:002011-05-08T19:25:16.020-06:00Our WeekendFun weekend! Friday night we went and tried a new sushi place. It was okay. Not the best we've tried here. It was pricey too for the quality. But it was my Mother's Day dinner out, and I'm worth splurging on. :)<br />
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On Saturday we went and visited the Museum of Osteology, or in other words, a bone museum. It was pretty cool.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There were skeletons of all shapes and sizes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There was also a scavenger hunt for both the kids and the adults. I learned all sorts of things. Did you know the myth of the cyclops originated from the unique shape of elephant skulls?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This morning for Mother's Day Anton made me <a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2011/05/creme-brulee-french-toasts/">Creme Brulee French Toast</a> for breakfast. It. was. so. good. Make it. You can even sub out the whipping cream for fat free half and half and it'll even be almost good for you. Anton topped it with fresh strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. You won't need syrup for this. It's good all on its own.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then in a mad rush as we were running out the door for church the kids gave me all their cute homemade gifts and flowers from Anton.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then after church I spent the rest of the day doing whatever I pleased, from reading to playing on the computer. I wish it could be Mother's Day every day!</div>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-63573253386380620672011-05-06T07:51:00.000-06:002011-05-06T07:51:44.063-06:00Vote for me!I've entered a contest to win 100,000 SkyMiles and I need your votes to win!!<br />
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And if you can get lots and lots of people to vote for me, maybe I'll take you on a trip with me! :)Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-12289071034116658962011-05-03T19:58:00.000-06:002011-05-03T19:58:23.595-06:00Success!After almost a year of "practice," Alex finally rode his bike alone for the first time today! Thanks Grandpa for the training wheel and pedal removal that made this so much easier!<br />
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He's such a big boy now!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-63249296833201975462011-04-17T11:25:00.001-06:002011-04-17T11:25:00.228-06:00Get Your Kicks...We had a crazy fun day yesterday! This post is going to be heavy on pictures, light on text, so settle on in and get ready!<br />
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First, we went to an Easter egg hunt put on by the city. It was insane. Here's a rundown of how it all went:<br />
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Do first egg hunt for 5 and 6 year olds:<br />
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The field was empty of eggs in under 2 minutes.<br />
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Play on the bounce houses while mommy waits in line for face painting:<br />
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Pet the animals at the petting zoo while mommy waits in line for face painting.<br />
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Do the egg hunt for the 3 and 4 year olds while daddy waits in line for face painting.<br />
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This hunt was much calmer than the previous one.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally, get faces painted!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then we hopped in the car and headed out to Route 66! It runs right through town here. Our first stop wasn't historic, but it was pretty cool.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We went to <a href="http://popsroute66.com/">Pops</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's a gas station that also happens to have hundreds of flavors of bottled pop for sale! The whole front of the store is glass, and the windows are lined in pop bottles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They have shelves and fridges lined with all different flavors of pop arranged by color and flavor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We picked out two six-packs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We ended up with: Fizzy Lizzy Pineapple (super good!), Boylan's Creamy Red Birch Beer (bleh, Anton liked it though), Round Barn Root Beer (the local brew), Leninade (had to get since it was in Russian), Maine Root Sarsaparilla, Gale's Root Beer, Dog n Suds Root Beer (notice the root beer trend?), Cool Mountain Black Cherry, Carousel Green Apple, Capt'n Eli's Blueberry Pop (okay), Gardena Grape, Americana Orange Creme (can't wait to try!). It was tough to choose what flavors to get, and I'm sure Anton would have walked out with all the root beers they had if I'd let him.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They also had a burger grill, so we had lunch there, and it was pretty good too. We ended with a giant ice cream sandwich sundae that about busted our guts. Yum.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then we headed slightly down the road to visit the famous Arcadia Round Barn:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's 113 years old and completely round. Fancy that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's been refurbished, so it's not original materials, but that's how it would have looked. Up inside the top of the barn it had really cool acoustics.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Alex loves to hear his echo, so he could have played in there all day. But we were pooped and needed to get home. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We drove a little bit farther down Route 66 before turning around and heading home. Here we crashed on the couch and watched Tangled and called it a good day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-24813797609408824612011-04-16T20:00:00.000-06:002011-04-16T20:00:12.809-06:00Random Funny<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkkt4PX9p30fnBQSbK8bLVgBF6f5z4WHsO3v5hPCF8OjeFCY9GD8x7MRC5Nzpj4fpsjhkQP4sYI2JK1idjX3_kz0lWTiXaCm2QF1p8T1SIt0UwlA__n2hyMVHlxYkKdB5qXwIDg-IZe-4/s1600/2011-03-01-Face+Painting-3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkkt4PX9p30fnBQSbK8bLVgBF6f5z4WHsO3v5hPCF8OjeFCY9GD8x7MRC5Nzpj4fpsjhkQP4sYI2JK1idjX3_kz0lWTiXaCm2QF1p8T1SIt0UwlA__n2hyMVHlxYkKdB5qXwIDg-IZe-4/s320/2011-03-01-Face+Painting-3.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(Random picture of Ella.)</span></div><br />
While talking with Ella about what Easter means, I was describing why we have Easter eggs:<br />
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Me: What comes out of an egg?<br />
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Ella: A yolk?<br />
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Me: No, what does an egg make?<br />
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Ella: Cookies!!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-58466593396950009512011-04-07T16:43:00.000-06:002011-04-07T16:43:00.141-06:00The Goings OnJust a random catch-up post of things that don't necessarily deserve a post of their own.<br />
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The other day Alex wanted to do my hair, and was quite adamant about how he wanted it to look.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He was sure that two ponytails were not enough.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So I got three. I had to help do the ponytail holders, but he divided it all up and told me where to put them. He's a nut.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There's a place here in town that has a bunch of bounce houses and swingsets inside. I had a 2 for 1 coupon so I took the kids last week when Ella didn't have school.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My camera was not cooperating, so most of my pictures ended up looking like this:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">See Ella slide!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Still not good, but that's as good as I got. But when attempting to get a cute one of the kids, they were losing their patience waiting for me to get the camera functioning right and I ended up with this:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And in light of the recent scandal with the air traffic controller falling asleep on the job, I just had to post this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anton went to an informational meeting for NATCA, the union for air traffic controllers. They gave out a bunch of free stuff, including tickets for two free alcoholic drinks at the get-together. Anton also came home with this:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Note the bottle cozy and the bottle opener key chain sitting on top of the folder with the big word "Safety." Do you sense a theme here? From conversations I've overheard and people I've met in the ATC world, it would seem that drinking is a major life theme for a lot of these guys. Someone in Anton's class even asked the instructor what the legal blood alcohol limit was for coming in to work. Now won't you feel safe next time you hop on a plane? :)</div>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-71298175660720789082011-04-06T09:04:00.001-06:002011-04-06T09:04:00.330-06:00Princess EllaAt the Medieval Fair this last weekend Ella saw the stand where they will braid your hair for only three monthly payments of $19.99! I'm way to cheap to pay someone to do what I can in theory do myself, so I told Ella I would do her hair in braids later. Well, I lived up to my word, and while we were watching <a href="http://lds.org/general-conference?lang=eng">General Conference</a>, I braided away.<br />
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I've never been good at French braiding, and Ella has fine, wavy hair, which makes it that much harder to do, but an hour or so later, and I had success!<br />
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I got this cute idea from the <a href="http://www.princesshairstyles.com/">Princess and Her Hair</a> blog. Lots of fun stuff there, but it will make you feel like a bad mom for not making your kid's hair cute everyday.<br />
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Sadly, we own no hairspray, so by the end of the day her braids were all fuzzy and flyawayie (sp?) and she needed a bath, so she only got to be a princess for half a day. But I've promised to braid her hair for school tomorrow, just not so fancy.<br />
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UPDATE: So doing fancy hair in the morning before school is not the best idea. Ella was almost late, but that was partially my fault for messing up her hair and having to start over. But it came out cute in the end.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A little French twist action. She wouldn't let me put a flower in it to hide the tacky hair thing. Oh well.</div><br />
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She's cute either way. :)Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606322938525220566.post-16706776662229717492011-04-05T17:55:00.000-06:002011-04-05T17:55:00.737-06:00Medieval Fair!We love medieval and renaissance fairs. We found out about one this last weekend and dropped all our plans to go. It was a pretty big one as far as these things go, but definitely not the best we've ever been to.<br />
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Our first stop was the jousting field, where the kids had horse stick races while we were waiting for the main event. Alex decided he wanted to race.<br />
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He regretted his decision pretty quickly after volunteering, but he went through with it anyway. He doesn't like to be the center of attention at all, so when he heard us yelling for him while he was racing, he got really embarrassed:<br />
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He cracks me up. My sister says he's a cartoon character with all the funny faces he makes.<br />
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Our knight ended up losing the jousting after getting into a sissy fight at the end.<br />
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Plus, what kind of knight takes tips from the audience? I've never seen that happen before. But we took a picture with him without leaving a tip. We're terrible.<br />
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After a little bit of wandering we went and waited in line to get some food.<br />
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Normally I love fair food, but this was not very good and seemed more expensive than usual. $8 for a gyro? That's insane.<br />
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Then we went and waited in line for the kids to ride....<br />
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... a camel! They loved it.<br />
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By this point I was all tired out and had a raging headache. All that line waiting wore me out. So after a quick browse through the artists' stalls, and two magic wands purchased for the kids, we headed home. I was the big party pooper. But we're already looking at which fair we can go to next!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645379450030344058noreply@blogger.com0