Mini-me

Can anyone guess what she's doing? After the kids got their disposable cameras we went on a hike around our campground. The kids were all too eager to snap some pictures. I think they've seen me take a few. I like to capture different points of view and it's apparent that I'm not shy about getting in awkward positions to achieve a shot.

Legoland

We really enjoyed riding all the rides in Legoland. Carter was just over the required height which made things nice. The only limiting thing was fear. It took some convincing to get Jacie on the roller coaster. We told her we wouldn't have to go on another one if she didn't want to but she had to at least try one. I think she enjoyed it after all was said and done but if there was some heart monitor on her it would have spiked as soon as we said we were going on one and didn't stop until we got off. The only complaint we had of the park was the displays were a bit dirty. The grounds didn't seem to be kept up quite as well as we had expected. We had a great day though.

San Juan Capistrano

We visited the mission in San Juan Capistrano. I must say, it was very beautiful. It was nice because they handed out "phones" to all the kids so they got to punch in a code to hear about that part of the grounds. I was amazed at how big the mission was and of course how beautiful it was. We had heard that this is the "jewel" of all the missions in California.

Carlsbad

Is anyone a fan of Huell Howser? I can't remember the last time I watched him. Maybe when I was nursing. Anyway, he travels up and down California looking for "California's Gold." I remember seeing an episode on the flower fields of Carlsbad and thought that some day I would like to go see them in person and take some pictures. I think the only way to do that place justice is to rent an airplane or helicopter and take an aerial shot. We went camping in San Diego county. We planned on going to Legoland one of the days there. I knew that if we went to Legoland the first day they'd practically shun me at the thought of visiting flowers after that, so I scheduled this for the first day. We also got them recyclable cameras so they were pretty excited to visit the ranunculus. Personalities sure did come out upon receiving the cameras. Carter was practically done with his pictures before we left the campground. Avery and Kenna were a little more conservative about it but still ended up being done by the first day. Jacie had allotted 2 for the campground, 3 for this, 4 for the flower fields, etc... Although she showed the most promise, she did end up using them up quicker than what she planned but lasted longer than the rest.

April Fools

 I have enjoyed finding things to trick the kids with for April Fools Day.  I think last year I made candy bars look like breadsticks and green Airheads rolled into peas.  This year I had a few up my sleeve.  Kenna likes having a fried egg for breakfast sometimes so I made this for her.  It's yogurt and a half of a peach. 

Jacie has been into collecting seeds for her garden so I printed out this seed packet and put Cheerios inside it.  She read the label and still didn't realize it was a trick until she was going to divide her "seeds."

For lunch I made them Jello in cups with straws so it looked like punch.  After that the kids were scheming.  They tried mixing glue, lotion and some other stuff to make it pink.  I thought at one point, this could get kind of messy.