Spring Break '09

This spring break was very special and extremely FUN for us! It was our first family vacation other than Alaska since living in Utah. I drove my trusty and speedy Honda Civic all the way and back. Everything went well besides arriving home from the trip at 4:30am then having to be to work at 5:30am.

I need to request everyone's help about something very serious! The first day of our vacation was in St. George at our long time family friends, The Goolds. We dyed Easter eggs and Gary and Eric hid them for Paul's two children, Kalen, and Rylee. The second day was spend at Disneyland Resort along with our third day of vacation at California Adventure. After the first three days my sim card in my camera was full. No worry I had already planned to burn a disk at Walmart, erase my pictures and continue my photography. Unfortunately when I got home to Salt Lake City my disk I burned at Walmart would not read or open any files. I took it to a local Walmart to try on their machine, failed. I called the Walmart in Oceanside, California gave them my order# and they gave me the bad news that my files had been deleted already. Fortunately the last three days of our trip are well documented, however I feel I will never see the memories again of our first family Disney vacation.

If you have any suggestions I will try them! If nothing else I do have five thumbnail index cards of all the pictures I took of our first three days, maybe I could just get them blown up! lol

The last three days we went to a beach front resort in Oceanside, California. Boy was I in heaven! The decor was fabulous, it was recently renovated with all new textiles. I want to go back!

The kids spent hours in the pool!


I was content staying in the room, the decor was so me!




Walking across the street to the beach..

The wind didn't stop these cuties from having the time of their life!


Kalen was admiring his wind blown hair do!


LEGOLAND: Everything was made of Lego's!


This was totally Kalen and Rylees idea, I just told them I wanted to take a picture and they posed! LOL


Kalens favorite lego creation :)

G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S

The Glamorous, the glamorous, ooh the flossy, flossy!

Remember when everyone used to go get Glamor shots!

Well I talked my Mom into doing it with me, probably just so I could go have it done, I used to love getting my picture taken when I was young and gorgeous.

Taric the Terrific Two!

Little "Tear Bear" is what I call him. He is really funny and witty at such a young age. He will tell you how he feels and isn't shy about it. Our whole family was invited to his Thomas the Train party last Sunday, April 5th to watch him celebrate his special day. We love you little guy!

A Happy Birthday Wish to....

... One COOL Dude!


We Love You Dad!

Cleaning 101

When a door to door salesperson comes by and charms you with their wit and humor take this lesson from me. I am all about helping out my brada's and sista's from the mistakes I make! If you promise not to make fun of me or tell me, "I could have told you that" then you may read on.

After returning home from work this afternoon I was sitting back relaxing when there was a knock at the door. Kalen answered it while I ran into the kitchen to hide, (I unbutton my pants when I get home, and most days remove the brassiere as soon as I walk in the door, sorry if that is tmi). So the nice young girl asked Kalen if his Mom was home. He first replied by asking her if she was selling chocolates. I hurried and buttoned up my work pants and went down to greet her. She was really funny and made me laugh a lot, and talked to me about how amazing her cleaner was. I told her I didn't have the money or the time to listen to all the specials but I did want a good oven cleaner due to the upcoming move.

One of her demonstrations that sold me was this: Last spring I was being a cool Mom and gave my kids all of my bottles of acrylic paint and brushes and told them to paint me some pretty rocks. Well they got it all over the driveway, and added some rainbows and stars to decorate the driveway and liven it with color. It hasn't washed off one bit throughout the past year. I had LaShonda try out the magic cleaner on the driveway paint and *PRESTO* the paint came right off with her special touch! The minute I got done paying I handed Rylee a dish brush and the new cleaner and told her to get to work scrubbing her pretty artwork off the driveway. The traveling salesmen were outside at the next house entertaining the Hispanic work crew freshly home from a hard day of work. I was somewhat suspicious and wanted to make sure this was the real deal and not just a bottle of lemon scented soda pop.

Rylee was putting all her effort and the paint wouldn't budge. I ran inside and poured the magic potion full strength onto my oven door. I knew my time was limited when I could run back out and proclaim they LIED to me so I started scrubbing the oven right away!!! Meanwhile Rylee wasn't having any luck outside on the driveway. I walked down to the end of the driveway to write down the license plate of the white child molester van in case I would need it for any future investigation if I wanted to claim FRAUD. RoShonda's traveling partner got done entertaining the neighbors and came walking over and said to Rylee that she better listen to her older sister and get the concrete cleaned up. I told him it wasn't working and then he said I needed a wire brush, pulled out his handy dandy, pocket sized wire brush and it came right off. Then I told him about the oven and he pulled out a few green scouring pads from TatiaShalonda big black bag and said these would do the trick.. ah ha! So I didn't need the yellow colored cleaner with the fresh citrus scent after all.. the actual magic rests within the SCRUBBER?!?!?! AHHH! UGH! DUH!

Thank you Tyrone and LaShonda for the valuable lesson today. I will not forget it and I will tell all my friends, family and blog stalkers.

$35.00 Cleaner
$4.95 Spray Bottle
$3.22 Sales Tax
Four 2X2 in. green scouring pads
One ball of steel wool
= $43.17 total

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