SAN DIEGO WAS GREAT

Brigitte and I have never went on a vacation by ourselves and we decided that it was time. We decided that we would go to San Diego for a weekend. I had never been to Sea World and thought that it would be fun. We got some really great deals. Delta was having a special where you could use sky miles to pay for the entire flight, taxes included. We still had to pay the baggage fee. We Pricelined our hotel. I was scared that we would not get a good hotel but we got a great hotel right in along the harbor. The Manchester Grand Hyatt was were we stayed for $75 a night. I would priceline a hotel again anytime.

Our hotel was three blocks from Petco Stadium, home of the San Diego Padres. No we did not goto a game because we spent the day that they played at SeaWorld.

We had a great time at Sea World. We first went to see the Killer Whales and sat in the 4th row. We got absolutely soaked. From there we went to Journey to Atlantis and got even wetter. We were there from when they opened to 10:45. Then we had to catch the bus to the trolley. It was a late night.

Our hotel was right next to the Seaport Village. We spent the first night walking the pier and visited all the stores.

The last full day we were there we took a tour of San Diego. We visited the Hotel del Coronado. It was massive and beautiful. Also expensive. We spent $7 on a single peice of fudge.

We also stopped at Balbo Park and walked through a couple of gardens. The gardens were also beautiful.

The day we were to fly out I wanted to go to the Midway Museum, but breakfast was a little hard to find and we spent 45 minutes standing in line to have a delicious breakfast. We walked down the boardwalk to the ship to at least say get a picture. Overall it was a great trip. Look forward to doing it again next year.

April's Scrapbooking Pages

Brigitte is a Close to My Heart Consultant and she makes layouts every month. This month the layouts used were the That's Amore Paper. The first layout she put pictures of when the girls got their ears pierced. I thought that it turned out really cute.

The second layout was of Trevor's Valentines Day party at school. It shows him making his Valentine bag and where he sits. Trevor was really proud of his bag.

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY KOLBY

Kolby is really 1 year old. Man it does not seem like that long ago that he was born. He has all of a sudden decided that he does not want to eat baby food anymore and all he wants is to have what we are eating so tonight he had steak, broccoli, deviled eggs, and pineapple. He loved it and ate two whole pieces of pineapple.

Thursday night after decorating eggs we opened his presents from Grandma and Grandpa Gorton. He really got into the unwrapping until he tore off his first piece of wrapping paper and then that is all he wanted to play with.

Saturday we went down to Grandmother and Grandpa MacKay's for another birthday party. Kolby is to the age where if there are alot of people around he gets into that stranger danger stage and is really clingy. But once the presents came out he was all right.

Brigitte made a really cute birthday cake for him. The caterpillar was suppose to be upright but the cake was so soft that it would not stand up so instead she laid it down. I still think that it turned out really great. And it had my favorite frosting - Cream Cheese.

Kolby was once again clingy and did not want to sit in the high chair for his birthday cake. The whole time we were singing to him he was crying and screaming. He wanted to have nothing to do with the cake. He finally had a few bites but that was all. No big mess to clean up. Hallelujah!!!!!!

WONDERFUL FUN OF COLORING EGGS

It is that time of the year again. Time to decorate the eggs and hope that no one spills the dye and ruins their clothes. We made Trevor go get his old shirt on.

We made the girls take their clothes off. This way we did not ruin any clothes at all.

The kids had so much fun decorating the eggs. They were so sad when it was all done but at the same time we were glad.

This egg decorating kit was really weird. It had the space theme with stickers of bunny-nauts and egg ships. It even came with glow in the dark stickers and glow in the dark paint that never really existed. It came with these punch outs that you could use to put rings around your eggs.