Aaaah....life!

Before she got too old, we made a trek to the American Girl Doll store in LA and splurged on lunch!

My Boy Scout on a zip line!

On a cruise ship.  With real grass.  Amazing trip!  Thanks, Mom!!

My little ham.

Ft Ross Settlement.  Gorgeous place - highly recommend!

Visit to one of our favorite places.  Poor pig. 

Giddy up!  City boy meets Ms Easy.

What form!  Track and Field Spring '13

Yes, it's supposed to be edible.  Man o'da house having fun with the dehydrator.

Before the oven broke.

64 Oreos.  Since the oven wasn't working.  

Ummm....shouldn't the boy or Dad be doing this???

Fishing.  Dumb fish too smart to eat peanut butter and lettuce.

She better end up an artist.  Hopefully not the starving kind.

Look, Ma!  I learned how to sew on zippers!

Fancy pillowcases.  With pockets a la Pottery Barn.    And crocheted edge!  If you wanna buy one, it will cost you $50!

Fun with fleece.  

Learning how to sew more stuff.

Foot mops.  Binding and curves - aaack!

Rainy like Seattle

Rain, rain, go away...come again another.....Oh...rain is good, very, very good. As a matter of fact, California can use probably a month or so worth of rain. But it's sooooo dreary!

Here's a card I made - hoping it would coax the sun out just for a bit:



I cased the card idea from Impress but added a few more 3D embellishments for it (there are those starfish die cuts again - Cuddlebug die cuts that were shaped to make them 3D; also some hand-made flip flops out of fun foam). The Hibiscus flower was cut from felt. I have the instruction book somewhere that tells how to make them so when I find it, I will update the info.

I hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day! We had a low-key one, told my DH not to splurge on any roses so he was good and got me a nice bouquet with red/white flowers and just 3 red roses. We all went out to eat at PF Changs. The wait was 2 hours if you had no reservations!

Man in Skirt and back from vacation (again!)

It seems that we just got back from our Florida vacation and off we went again but this time to the Pacific Northwest. We had a wonderful visit both to Oregon and Washington states! We even made it to the Oregon Coast with the entire family which consisted of 9 children! I believe the adults were officially outnumbered by the little ones.

Can you guess where this photo was taken? Yep, that's a man in a "skirt" and its type used to just be found in Seattle but we hear they can now be seen about town in Portland, OR too. Apparently, a lot of carpenters like to wear these "Utilikilts" because of the good airflow! LOL!



And what kind of animal leaves these type of footprints? I believe they call her "Rosie" and the famous pig can be found in front of the fresh fish store where they throw fish around when someone buys a piece of fish.



Look at this beauty! When kids got too close to it, the fish monger behind the counter made it move. Can you guess what it is?




And here's my family at Pike Place Market. Love that place! We lived downtown Seattle for 2 months and we went to the market everyday to buy fresh produce. We even got to visit my favorite bakery: The Three Girls bakery!



Here's the view from our house when we used to live in Seattle:

That cruise ship above was one my parents were on when they were on their way to Alaska!


That is the Puget Sound where you can see lots of Islands, cruise ships, ferry boats, Navy ships, barges, sailboats and once, we even saw a bunch of Orca whales!


Now here's our view from our house in California:



No comparison!

More vacation photos tomorrow. Hope you all had a Happy Monday!