Our little vacation

Well, I haven't posted in a while! I know, I know, it's sad. We just returned from a little trip to San Diego. I had four days of work, then Jeff and Payton flew in to meet me. We spent Friday at the SD Zoo, then Saturday and Sunday at various beaches. Let me just say that that place is beautiful! WOW! I would love to live there. You couldn't ask for nicer weather.

So this was P's first plane trip, and Jeff got to take her by himself. I was pretty nervous for him, because he was nervous! He's not a very experienced traveler, so the thought of him doing it by himself made him a little nuts! I was quite relieved to pick them up at the airport and see that they were both still in one piece. He did really well, even though he forgot the STROLLER!!! Ah geez! Needless to say, I got to go buy ANOTHER stroller because I wasn't about to go four days without one. That would have been impossible.



So the zoo was really nice. I have to admit, I was really looking forward to it since I had heard such great things. I liked it, it was very pretty, but I was a little disappointed. I didn't see near as many animals as I thought I would. I don't know if they were all in hiding or what! Payton wasn't too excited about it either. Guess I should have known she would be too little, but she liked it a little. She was sooo worn out that she finally conked out in the stroller and we left.

The beaches and food were amazing. I must say I like the Pacific beaches much better than the Atlantic. We will definitely be going back there!

Well here are a few of our vacation pic's. I hope you enjoy!

Little of This, Little of That

So, it's been a while. I wish I could say that I had some exciting news to share, but I don't! Life has just been flying merrily by! We got a new lawn mower this week. I'm sure that excites everyone! Jeff decided that the riding lawn mower that we had didn't mow fast enough, or turn sharp enough. So, he up and bought what we affectionately call a ZTR. For those of you who don't know, that means Zero Turn Radius. It's what you see most landscapers using where they push the two bars to steer. Anyway, that's the excitement in our lives this week. Let me tell ya, Jeff is excited! Woo hoo for him.

So Payton's been saying sentences a lot this past couple of weeks. Really, one sentence that she changes out the words. For instance, "Where daddy go?" or "Where milk go?". As you can imagine, I'm extremely proud. Not even 1.5 and already making sentences. Brilliance does run in the family though.........

Fourth of July

So we had a pretty good 4th. We opted to stay home this year so that we could keep better control of Payton! She's at this age where she thinks she can do whatever she wants, and has no fear! So we had some of the family over on the 3rd, and we ate brisket and stuff. Then all of the kids went and bought fireworks. What a great idea! In the midst of shooting off all the fireworks, Jeff and Mike thought it would be a good idea to light one of the big one's and then throw it in the field of 6 ft. tall, dry dead weeds! Man, they are intelligent! Needless to say, a fire shortly erupted but Jeff was able to get it out. It was pretty scary because it got big so fast! Geez!
So the night of the 4th we went to Dana's for BBQ. We had a great time. We watched the fireworks in Flower Mound then headed home. We managed to catch the Frisco firework traffic and didn't get home til 11:00 PM! Both Payton and Justin were out!! Happy Fourth!