With Christmas falling on a Thursday and New Years Eve as well, we scored some great free vacation days with Ben. We are ending today our 4 day weekend that we all felt was well spent. After two rainy and cold days spent mostly inside (one day almost entirely in pajamas!) today was cool, full … [Read more…]
NYE 2013 Had a fabulous time with these fine people tonight to celebrate and ring in 2014! It was a busy day for us. We headed to Texas Direct Auto to look at and drive some cars at 10am and by 2pm we’d decided to buy a Toyota Sienna. Yes, a minivan. A new … [Read more…]
Grocery Shopping With both New Years Eve and New Years Day parties to attend and prepare food for, I was stressed out this morning thinking about the things I needed at the store and how I was going to prep and fix and transport them all. I enjoy planning meals and cooking, and I … [Read more…]
Rudolphs Carson and Betsy got these Rudolph toys from Gigi (Grandma Betty) and they both think they are the greatest! Carson had the one whose nose lights up, and Betsy has the one whose rosy cheeks light up. They both play “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer”, a favorite song of Carson and Betsy. These were … [Read more…]
Family Christmas Since we didn’t bring any presents from each other or from my family to Christmas in LA, we did our Christmas tonight. I made Swedish meatballs (a Sundbeck tradition) and then we opened presents and then the kids had to go to bed. Carson cried and cried about leaving his new pirate ship. … [Read more…]
Thank you, iPad This wonderful invention got us through today’s trip home. Betsy fell asleep without too much trouble. Carson fell asleep, but woke up soon after. I think he was having trouble getting comfortable. I was worried that Carson was going to wake Betsy up so I was going to give him my … [Read more…]
Kettle Corn This was probably the best part about the zoo and gave us all the most pleasure! I thought Carson would LOVE the zoo. He has before. But unfortunately I think he was just too tired. We waited to go to the zoo until after Betsy’s morning nap, which made it a little close … [Read more…]
Merry Christmas! I am so thankful to have married into this family. In talking to my sisters over the last few days we all expressed a desire to be together because we have a lot of traditions that we don’t experience with our in laws. My family is a little ridiculous when it comes to … [Read more…]
At The Beach We drove up to Carpinteria this morning. We had lunch, went to the beach and visited Ben’s grandmother’s grave. Betsy loved the sand and the water. Carson was way more interested in the construction equipment (and his milkshake) that was there. Then we drove to Ojai, where Kate’s cousins live. We had … [Read more…]
Picnic Ben, Claire, me and the kids went and picked up lunch at a little grocery store today. As I was walking in I saw Maeby Funke (real life name Alia Shawkat). I didn’t even realize it was her until we’d passed each other. Kind of fun to see someone from a show I really … [Read more…]