Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Today we went to the 19th Annual County Ventura St. Patrick's Day Parade.

We had a lot of fun. The kids were very excited to see the motorcycles.

And we also liked seeing our friends Peter and Becky in their pretty Ford.

But I think their favorite thing was drinking over priced hot chocolate.

Christian started to get bored about 3/4 of the way through.

But my favorite part was buying the new refrigerator we desperately needed to replace the avocado one we have had for almost 15 years. And it was old when we bought it in college. I also bought a pretty pink iPod shuffle to listen to while I try to get my 10,000 steps a day in.

A good day was had by all. :)

Tall Ship(s)

The Lynx

On Saturday we took the boys to see the Tall Ships that ended up being the Tall Ship. One was missing. But the boys had fun standing on the "pirate ship" though the twins had more fun watching the people on the boats that passed us.

This is Christian pretending that he is about to crash into something.

Alexander, not to sure about the whole thing.

Sebastian watching the private boats - He wouldn't turn around for the picture.

So much for Resolutions

I make them and I break them. My intentions are good though. And I gave chocolate up for Lent and it has been a big sacrifice (which it is supposed to be). I miss it so.
I have a problem with my babies getting older. Half of me wants them to stay babies and the other half of me can't wait to get them out of their 2's. They are driving us crazy. Randy and Christian stayed home sick yesterday, I went to work because I want to save my sick days for when I can't get out of bed or for something fun. I usually use them for the kids though. Anyway, I was driving home after picking up the Twingles and I mentioned that Daddy and Christian were home sick and that Mommy was sick and was going to rest when we got home. Sebastian starts wailing that Mommy was not sick and she can't rest. Ha! But I did. I went straight to bed while they were eating dinner because Randy was feeling better. It was WONDERFUL!!! I miss those times were we could sleep in and Christian would sit on our bed watching cartoons. Not these guys, they want breakfast at 6 am (at the latest). So Randy sleeps in on Sundays and I get Saturdays. But today I had to drag my sick self out of bed early to make my 9 am hair appt. I am glad I did, it looks cute. But will never again after I wash it. I need to go to cosmotology school just to learn how to dry my hair the way she does. Oh well.