Celebration weekend

Last weekend we had some fun with Maya and Ron in San Diego. We "played" some guitar, made our best attempts at Karaoke- but Simon said Tony and I were the worst he had ever heard!, and had some fabulous fondue with a pot of cheese and the chocolate fountain.

Saturday and Sunday the kids stayed with Maya and Ron and made pottery, visited a mission, had two football parties, and learned to Chinese paint. Tony and I shopped and had lunch on the waterfront in La Jolla, attended an art festival in historic San Diego, stayed in a historic hotel (code for needs rennovation really bad), did some boogie boarding in Carlsbad, and walked down the pier in Oceanside with gellatos- which we tried for the first time.

It was a fun weekend for everyone. Thanks Maya and Ron!

Happy birthday, mommy

One too cute card, three fabulous pairs of shoes (thanks kids), $10 Kaiden drew to buy more shoes, and Tony's sneakiness this week-and this morning left me this box to find this morning after he left for work. The kids wanted to take pics of me opening their gifts they wrapped themselves. Thanks everyone!

For Tony

Back in my youth- aka 20's- I climbed this wall over the Caribbean. Jeans and black t.

29...

So call 30 what you want, I think this picture of me in Hell, Grand Cayman sums it up ok!

This is officially my last post being 29. I fear how the world will change when I wake up in the morning! I'm going to hope I still get to keep my eyesight and flexibility in my old age- wouldn't that be weird if you just woke up at 30 with a head of grey hair and a pair of glasses on your nightstand? Thirty- I'm not even sure that sounds right! But, it's coming none the less.

I have no idea what Tony is up to. He's been going places after work the last few days- planning something, and hiding receipts. I suppose I could look up the purchases on the online banking, but I'm not a peeker, and that would ruin all the fun. Tomorrow he's taking me to San Diego and I think we're spending Saturday and Sunday at the beach- much thanks to Maya and Ron for taking the kids and hosting the night of the pizza/ fried chicken and chocolate fountain tomorrow- I hope we don't get sick! Yesterday he gave me the one birthday gift I asked for- he let me sleep in and packed the kids lunches and took the little ones to school. Yeah, I had to be in Kelsey's class at 8:30 to volunteer, but oh how blissful was that extra hour. Before we went to bed he helped me with my toe nail painting. Thanks T- for being so sensitive and making me feel great in my old age!