San Diego

San Diego is beautiful, period.  And I would move to Coronado Island in a heartbeat 1) if we had 3 million dollars to buy one of the super cute charming houses the island is filled with and 2)  My family and friends would move there too.

We flew out to San Diego on Thursday and came home Sunday and our trip was filled with great food, shopping, being tourists, relaxing, laying out, running and just having a great time!  

 I won't go into a play by play of everything we did but here are some highlights!  

 Seaport Village being tourists!

 The view from the condo we stayed in.  This was in Pacific beach and right on the bay.  There was an awesome boardwalk all around it.  It was perfect!

Pretty view from Scenic Drive 

We took a  boat road over to Coronado one day then took Segway tour of the island.  I have been there before but it was neat taking these instead of walking.  We literally pretty much went around half of the island  and got to see all the cute houses, get right under the bridge, lots of history, the famous Hotel Del Coronado, parks and beautiful trees and landscape.  

Helmets were not optional.  We all had bad hair the rest of the day!  The segway's were really fun.  I always looked at people weird who were on them, but we enjoyed them.  Great way to see lots of things without walking 15 miles and much quicker.  Fun to drive also, haha

Group photo before our Italian carb loading dinner the night before the race.  

Right to left, it's My sister Randi, me, sister Kate and my momma.  Aren't my sisters and my momma beautiful?  

 After our Italian dinner we went to a frozen yogurt place called Yogurt on the rocks and it was delicious!  We actually went back again before left.  The first time I had cupcake yogurt with a ton of toppings then the next time I tried cookies and cream they both were delicious.  I think my town needs one of these!

Our last day before we left did some driving up the coast a little and saw a few more beaches then went back to Pacific Beach and rented some bikes.  Yes I wore my purse around my neck I didn't have anywhere else to put it and my sisters loves crazy pictures me not so much I always just smile.  

Our last night and once again got treated to a wonderful dinner.  

Now that I've gained about 5 pounds from this trip,  I have some work to do.  Vacation always makes me go crazy with food and snacking, self control level was about a 1 the whole time!  

We had a great time, good weather, and lots of memories.  

I'm thinking we should make this girls trip a yearly tradition!

Have you ever been to San Diego?  If so, what was your favorite part?

Tuesday Topics

This week We are on Two.

Here are my must do bucket list items

My Life Bucket Items

1)  More Traveling- I have always wanted to go to Europe and see Paris and Rome.  We also would love to go back to Grand Cayman because we went on a cruise that went there for a day and loved it.  Another cruise would be great too!  

2)  Start/ Own my own business.  I have always had the desire to have a business of my own but over the years the type of business I want has changed a few times.  Right now it's not a good financial or good time with our kids ages.   I'm hoping maybe after the boys are in school it will be something we can do! 

Summer Bucket Items

1)  Take boys to the zoo

2)  Get the house in order-  Includes:  Spring Cleaning items inside/ outside, purged and organized/ Landscape ( Having a garage sale in two weeks so at least one items should be well on it's way by then!)  

What's on your bucket list?

Our Early Easter

This weekend, I'm taking my boys and heading to Georgia to see my grandparents along with my mom, sisters, and nephew.  That breaks down to 4 adults and 3 boys 3 years and under in 1 van for over 9 hours.  This should be fun!  Thursday we are driving at night so a lot of the time the boys SHOULD be sleeping.  I'm anxious to see my grandparents and the rest of that side of the family because we don't get to see them often at all and always have fun when we get the chance to.  Plus we should have warmer weather than here which will be great and my grandma is a great cook!

However, I am a little jealous of the hubs getting some time at home to himself.  I can be quite the loner and get refreshed by being alone.  He is quite the opposite and thrives by being around people all the time.  I can't imagine what I would get done if I was home without kids for days.  That would be the most productive weekend in the last 3 years for me.

Since I will have the boys over Easter, we thought we would do some stuff early so Matthew could get in on the fun.

 I wish I could show you some awesome pictures taken with DSLR camera and of my handmade baskets and crafts, but I don't have a fancy camera I use the Ipad.  I bought all the their items for the basket and their baskets themselves yesterday at Dollar Tree.  I sometimes want to be that Pinterest mom, but I didn't have the time or the extra money to get all crazy and it's just not worth stressing over right nwo.  And their young, so in reality they won't remember what was in their basket tomorrow.  I wanted to not do any candy and do all other stuff instead but I caved and decided to just get  them some candy, I may need it as bribe on our 9 hour drive anyway.  And a really quick plug, Dollar Tree can be extrememly awesome for stuff like this.  They had baskets for $1, I remember buying Noah one 2 years ago that was like $15.  And then they had all sorts of fun little things I got like Kites, water guns, Pick up stick game, Bible story books, bubbles, Sidewalk chalk, Little paint set, Glow sticks (they have tons of different kinds if you ever need any), stickers, and silly string.  I managed to do their baskets with all random things that were non candy except for they each got a bag of jellybeans, that's pretty much like THE Easter candy so I had to include that one.  Then their eggs, did have candy and money in them.  I saw an idea the other day that we will be using next year over at The Larson Lingo where she put these cute little coupons in her kids Easter eggs.  This year neither one of my boys would know what they said or what it meant, so I will have to save that idea but that's a great way to get around candy!  I had also bought a craft set at Dollar Tree that was foam shapes and stickers to make with the boys  and a cake pop kit but the way this day is been not sure if it will happen.  If not oh well, we can always do it after Easter.   Here are some pictures of our real low- key Easter morning.

You will also notice we had our Easter Hunt first thing this morning in our living room with just a few eggs.  We have had lots of snow that is now melting and creating a huge wet mess outside so we put them indoors instead.

 Noah was moving fast, couldn't get a decent picture

 Didn't take long for Carson to catch on to the idea

 Got sidetracked by the 3 deer in the backyard

 Putting money in their piggy banks.  Noah always loves putting money in there, Carson got upset when he put one in and couldn't find it.  He started crying, "where'd it go?"

 Brother Sweetness... And Candy sweetness..Yes, they are eating candy at 6:30 in the morning.  I'm not a perfect mom.  I couldn't say no.  I'm weak like that.

I'm sure we will have more to add.  We will be some more Easter festivities this weekend with the family in Georgia.  Hope you have a great Easter Weekend!