Ohhh, how cute!

This past weekend, as part of our weekend activities, we went out window shopping. We window shopped at many different stores for many different things, all just for fun. One of the things we like window shopping for these days is for appliances for our "dream home." On this particular Saturday, we decided to go to Sears and look at their refrigerators, freezers, wall ovens, stove tops, etc. But before we left the store, Ammon wanted to go check out the tools.

Now, I've often heard girls say, "Ohhh, how cute" to things, a lot of times they're baby sized things (Ex: baby shoes, a small stroller to push a doll in, a cute outfit for a young child, and maybe even a tool belt for a little boy who wants to look like their daddy). But let's face it, it normally comes out of the girl's mouth. Not this time!

So we're looking at the tools, we're on about the 4th row and Ammon says, "Ohhh, how cute!" I smiled, "Did you just say this tool is cute?" And Ammon responded, "Ya, it's a miniature Jointer." So I just had to take a picture of the tool. Now you know what can make a man say, "Ohhh, how cute!"

Stay-Vacation with the Eggett's

So my family (Dad, Mom and Kimberly) drove into town on Thursday, April 19, but we didn't see them until Saturday. Saturday morning Ammon and I drove to San Clemente where my parents treated us to our annual Income Tax Return meal out. It's always been dinner in the past, but because of schedules, this year we did breakfast at IHOP! While looking at the menu, Lina learned that Americans can eat ENORMOUS (in quantity and calorie) breakfasts!

Saturday was the day before JD and Maia's 1st birthday, and the day of their birthday party! After breakfast, we ran a few errands then headed to Alan and Shelly's house to help set up for the party. Elise had planned a very cute Circus themed party!

On Sunday we went to church, then visited some local San Diego places. First we went to the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum because Kimberly loves airplane everything :)

Next we went to Balboa Park, not remembering that it was Earth day. After about 20 minutes in bad traffic and a VERY quick walk around, we decided it wasn't worth fighting the huge crowds and headed to Children's Beach to see the seals and to La Jolla to see the paragliders. We had Ross and Jane McCollum over for dinner that night. That night our feet were tired, but we were looking forward to another day of fun!

Monday we went to the Carlsbad Tulip Festival. The colors were beautiful and we had a wonderful time! After the flower fields, we went to the beach and ate lunch.

Whole Family Picture

Enjoying the good weather and company

JD absolutely LOVED being swung!

Beautiful Flag of flowers

After lunch, we headed back to San Diego to visit the Midway Aircraft Carrier.

In one of the Captain's seats

Kimberly and Dad did a pilot simulation and had a lot of fun!

There was a plane that you could actually sit in. Kimberly loved checking out all the airplane gadgets!

On Wednesday, the Johnson's came to San Diego and we all went to the San Diego Zoo together.

We had such a wonderful time with my family! We're so glad they could come and we could show them the beautiful city that is our home! We're already looking forward to their next trip here in August!

San Diego Scene - Update

I realized today that I haven't posted on here for quite a while. It's not that we're boring people, but Ammon's been in this funk lately of not wanting to take his camera places. And what's a post without pictures? We still get out almost every weekend! Last weekend we went to Elise's house and Ammon built a temporary wall. He had a lot of fun creating it. In Ryan and Elise's new home, there was a pass-through that they didn't like. A pass through is like putting a window on an interior wall (between to rooms inside a house), except that it is just open, no window is installed. A couple of weekends ago, we did a bon fire on the beach. We ended up having it on the beach of an ocean bay because it was packed that night at the actual ocean beach. But we really liked the spot! In the distance you can see all the lights of downtown SD. We're going back to have another bon fire this weekend! A few weekends ago we went to the Safari Park and walked around there. We went through an exhibit of butterflies. There were hundreds and hundreds of butterflies flying around the aviary!It was pretty cool! Anyways, that's a few of the fun things we've been doing. Sorry about no pictures! We'll try to get some this weekend!