Had a wonderful family breakfast together.
I took the kids to purchase a birthday gift for a party Ben was attending later. The girls and I dropped him off at his friend's house and left for San Luis Obispo. We left Dad home alone to do whatever he'd like (I think he really enjoyed himself). The girls and watched a play called Pinkalicious based on a popular children's book. The girls LOVED it, especially Ellie. We ran into Abby's teacher and one of her classmates was a supporting roll in the play. Afterwards, they were able to meet the cast, take a picture and get autographs. Super fun girls day! Daddy picked up Ben and we all met at home for a nice dinner.
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| Pinkalicious cast and the girls |
Sunday February 5th
Superbowl Sunday!!!
Made football shaped whoopie pies, jello shooters and roasted potatoe wedges.
Went over to a co-worker of mine's house in town. Lots of kids there for ours to run around with. Disappointed with the game's outcome but what can you do?
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| Football cookies I made |
Monday February 6th
Minimum days all week at school for Parent/Teacher conferences
Picked up kids and relaxed at home.
Dropped Gus and kids off at gymnastics (they all 3 go the same day, same time now!) and went to Abby's conference. Teacher said she's doing well, loves reading and is excellent at math. She needs to work a bit on writing and punctuation but overall doing well. She is a bit shy (nothing new to me) and has been partnered with other students with more outgoing personalities. She has been complaining each afternoon of ailments such as a stomach ache or headache...we're relating it to a "nervous stomach" and working with her one feeling more sure of herself. I'm taking extra care with her and trying to encourage her the way I needed it at that a age (we are very similar). Gus seems to have a harder time relating and being compassionate but he can't relate like I can.
Gus and I have the next 3 days off from work due to a previous scheduled and cancelled Vegas trip. We decided to go camping and take the kids out of school. The kids were thrilled...except for Ellie, she was very disappointed she'd be missing any school!
Tuesday February 7th
Packed and packed and packed...until we couldn't pack anymore.
FINALLY left the house around 12 and headed the grocery store. Brought the truck pulling the trailer and I drove the Expedition with my girlies. Things seemed to take forever but not as long as they do when camping with my Dad :)
Got to Pismo around 2, aired down and quickly found a campsite. There were about 3 other camps in the entire place! It was raining a bit that morning and was chilly but we knew the weather would improve that night and the following days. We were right, it was beautiful! Set up camp quickly and the kids immediately started playing in the sand.
Gus was hilarious, sweeping out the trailer every 10 minutes anytime someone went inside. I putted around cooking and organizing, reading my Kindle.
We had a wonderful dinner and sat out by the fire, make smores. Kids crashed early and sleep well. Ellie got to sleep on the top bunk for the first time, she was very excited. I was nervous all night that she might fall out of the bed but she didn't.
Wednesday February 8th
I programed out GPS with a few Geocaches throughout the dunes. We needed flags for the vehicles so we decided to drive the Expedition into town to buy some. Little did we know it was high tide. When we came upon the river crossing, it was deep with waves crashing in quickly. We didn't want to have to come back again but I wasn't willing to risk crossing. Gus decided he could do it and he did! I had my head buried in my lap, the kids were screaming with delight as we drove through.
Unfortunately, all the ATV stores were still closed. Apparently, no one gets up before 10 around there. A very nice lady at the entrance gate clued us in on another store at the northern gate. Luckily, they were open and we got our flags!
Went back to camp, got some snacks and headed out on our Geocache trek. Proved to be more difficult than expected- the terrain and fence lines had obviously changed since the caches were placed. Ben was able to successfully lead us to the first one we looked for. We wrote in the log, left a toy truck and took a mardi gras necklace that Ellie picked out. They had so much and wanted to keep looking. We went back for lunch and went out again. We were unsuccessful with the next few, they were a long ways into the vegetation from the fence line.
The kids played the rest of the afternoon, went for walks on the beach looking for treasures and shells.
Went into town for dinner at an awesome burger place. The kids were great, ate all their food and behaved nicely.
Had a campfire and smores...again :)
Thursday February 9th
Much of the same as yesterday.
Started packing up after lunch and left around 1. After airing up and getting all the tow situation settled, made it home around 3. As soon as we got home, I unpacked everything. It felt so good to be organized and done...done! I had all the dirty laundry washed and put away, dinner made, everyone bathed and homework done by 7. It felt better than awesome...amazing! I was so grateful for our time together...now back to the real world!
Friday February 10th
Took the kiddos to school and hurried into work for an 8am training on a new computer system.
After I went home and had a few hours to myself. I did more house chores and homework.
Gus kindly picked the kids up from school and took them to purchase books from the book fair at school.
I helped with homework and valentines cards when they got home.
Went to work...bummed
Luckily, the kids and I have the next 3 days off together.
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