More from Easter Vacation

Our visit to SF (the boys are in front of the famous crooked road). We drove the road after this picture and I'm amazed at the houses along the road (and all over SF). I would be afraid to live there because of earthquakes. It's a crazy place to drive - oh, no wait it's a crazy place to let Tim drive. He definately made it fun (and about gave me a heart attack. The kids loved it though).Below is the Exploratorium. The boys were fascinated with all the things to do and explore. I enjoyed it too but after a couple hours I was ready to go.
My cutest boys sitting on a little chair

Walking along part of the Golden Gate Bridge was a very fun thing. We enjoyed going underneath the bridge and walking along it. What a beautiful background.

Six Flags was great. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the shows. There were some serious thrill rides which some were too large for our kids. Little J. is quite the daredevil though. He really enjoyed a couple of the serious rides.

We also enjoyed the butterfly house. Some of the butterflies were larger than I've ever seen. Little T. enjoyed it too; he pointed and got all excited every time he saw one (which was about every three seconds).

Little T. had enough. Isn't he the cutest thing?

Mom and the boys on a ride at Six Flags.

Back to Easter Vacation - the Ocean

Big T. at the ocean

Little T. and MomBig J.
Little J. (my little GQ man)

While in San Fransisco we took the boys to the ocean with hopes of finding some tide pools, letting them get wet in the waves and basically seeing what we could discover. Unfortunately it was windy and cold and high tide. We still had a good time and the boys did find a few treasures.

We won Something!

This morning I was in the shower while the kids were eating breakfast. They came running in full of excitement saying we had won $5.00. Well it was true. In their General Mills cereal box was a $5.00 cash card. We rarely win anything so this was kind of fun. Of course we are going to have a hard time sharing $5.00. They want things ranging from candy to a gameboy. I said they should spend it on me for Mother's Day but they didn't really like that idea.

Guess what the weather is like today . . .

It's windy, very very windy AGAIN. I just drove to the kids school and the sidewalks near the school are piled with sand that has blown onto them. On the way home I had to drive around the street sign that blown down and was in the middle of the road. I think I'm done with the wind.

After the Monster Truck Stadium

Not sure if you can tell what this picture is. . . it's the bathtub and all the dirt left after only 2 of my kids took a bath after digging in the dirt. They didn't even look that dirty. Since my boys bathe by themselves I didn't even notice the tub until this morning - yuck!

I should have waited to take a picture of the boy's Monster Truck Stadium. They made the hole much bigger. The baby loves to climb on top of the pile of dirt.

Monster Truck Stadium

The kids made a Monster Truck Stadium in our backyard. Littlest T. likes to climb in and sit in it too. Unfortunately this is where the pool will go in the summer and it needs to be VERY level. Oh well, they had fun digging.

I hate spring!

I know, I know that sounds a little harsh and I really don't hate spring - I like it a lot, it's just that in this area is always so darn windy in the spring. The wind part of spring is what I really don't like. It gets old real fast. Last night I got woken up by banging and clanging and lay wondering what we might be losing over the fence in our backyard. The kids also had a hard time going to sleep. We had to spend a little bit of time explaining to them what all the sounds were that they were hearing. Oh, and by the way, I don't think we lost anything over the fence.