As I mentioned before, my little sister Laura was in town over what happened to be my birthday. It was wonderful to spend it with her and her husband. We ate some delicious food, laughed, shopped, ate a whole lot of Red Mango, and stayed up way past her bedtime. I love my baby sister!

And here’s a picture of the DELICIOUS meal that Geoff, Laura and Jared whipped up for me. I was forcefully kicked out of the kitchen. Apparently I tend to take over in there…

Laura and Jared (my sister and brother-in-law) came and spent the weekend with us and we had such a wonderful time. Jared has been itching to go mountain biking and Geoff gladly obliged. This is how they came home:

Let’s talk about Isaac’s face in this one.

Or about my husband’s mud unibrow.

While I was out taking pictures of them, Lucy and Isaac spotted this huge puddle and since I had the camera…

My little froggy who was inspired by his dad and took the training wheels off his bike and then rode it like he’d been doing it for years. What the? (video to come)

We’re so sad to see them go for the summer, but happy for them to be together as a family in Chicago. We’ll miss you Jen!

And fruit snack-sharing cousins.

Her favorite activity next to having books read to her:

Isaac finished his soccer season with a bang scoring TWO goals! He improved so much over the season, we’re so proud of him. Isn’t he handsome?

Sea World was AMAZING! Totally worth the money. I’d never been before so I was as giddy as the kids were. I really need to get a dolphin to train.

Isaac and I both loved the Polar Bears.

Lucy and Daddy watching the dolphin show. Isn’t my husband hunky?

Lucy and Geoff’s bosses youngest son. She was obsessed with him.

Shamu in all her glory.

Isaac getting ready for a Shamu spash.

On the way home we decided to stop in St. George Utah for dinner and ate on the lawn across from this beautiful temple.

Geoff had another conference in San Diego, so we all tagged along. I’d like to give a special thanks to portable DVD players, Pirate Booty and Twizzler Pull n’ Peels which helped us make it through the drive.

Thanks to my ever prepared eldest sister Sara, we had two free tickets to Legoland. It was super windy and not the warmest, but we still had fun. Oh, except for when I stood in line with Isaac for a ride for an HOUR and they turned him away because he was a half inch too short. Never been more mad.

I nearly threw-up just watching them on this ride.

We’re back from a family trip to San Diego. Pictures from that to come when I have some time to actually go through them.

Here’s one from today: Isaac getting pumped by his neighborhood girlfriend, Bella. Ahh, Spring!

Sadly, the best picture I had of them together. Could they look any more awkward?

I just happened to have yellow fresh flowers and I couldn’t resist putting them in Lucy’s hair. It took me back to days as a youngster when my sisters and I would put all sorts of flowers in our hair on Sunday and they’d ended up dead and limp after about 10 minutes.

My blue-eyed boy.

Never been more excited.

Never looks at the camera.