getaway

Last Thursday Ron and I decided that we would load everybody in to the car the following morning and head south to my parents house for the weekend. They had offered to watch the kids so we could get away for our anniversary, which is coming up this Friday. It's our 15th and we were really hoping to be able to get to do something special to celebrate. My brother Todd works at this amazing new resort and was able to get us a room for two nights.

Here's the view from a walking trail that runs along the edge of the resort.The happy couple, fifteen years later.

Laying out by the pool and enjoying the amazing view. We hung out at the adult pool where there were no children allowed. It was nice and quiet and we had drinks served right to us poolside. My dream vacation.

This was the view from the balcony off our room.

We drove down the street to Starbucks for breakfast. This is the view from Starbucks. Can you imagine getting to go there every morning for your coffee?! I could so get used to that!

We had a wonderful weekend and so did the kids. We even got to have an impromptu birthday celebration for my sister in law Rachel on Sunday evening. It was great to be able to so easily be spending time with family. Thank you Mom and Dad! And thank you Todd! Lucky you getting to go there to work every day.

marky mark

slowly, but surely

Several days ago I decided that I was going to focus on getting the boxes out of our bedroom. There were so many in there that we could hardly walk and it was, needless to say, getting very frustrating. So I spent an entire day working in there, unpacking stuff, putting it away, moving things to other rooms, etc. The room is far from being finished, but we can walk freely and there are no boxes. Woo Hoo!

Part of the reason I wanted to get our bedroom done was so that at the end of the day I could come to a place that did not look like this.

Or this.

Or this.

Mission accomplished!

CA

We wandered around Ikea this evening and then had dinner there. It was great to not have to cook and we got to check out all the cool stuff.

Ron and I met some good friends for dinner in Napa last week. I was going to post a picture, but I look like a pregnant Alfalfa, so I'll leave that one off of here.

Ikea and Napa all within 40 mins. of our house. I guess California isn't all bad.

backing up

Our good friend Dorothy was brave enough to make the two day drive with us out to CA and then stay for several days helping to start us get settled.

We took the day off one day and went to the Jelly Belly factory, which is only about 15 minutes away. All you can eat Jelly Belly's... the kids were thrilled!

welcome home

We took a day off from all the packing today and went to Stinson Beach. It was at the end of a VERY winding stretch of Highway 1.

The water was cold, as you can see by the look on Gregory's face.

The smell and the sound of the beach made me feel like I was back home. There really is nothing quite like it.

MIA

A lost camera and no internet connection for a week makes for not such an interesting blog.

Hopefully we'll get back on track soon.

For now, we're buried in boxes, but enjoying the pool and the weather that has actually been quite nice. Aside from that one day that was 109...