I'm seeing a trend here...

So far I've seen endless pen, mascara, washable markers, dry erase markers, and concealer, etc... I really thought I'd seen the worst of it too!

But not until I got off the phone yesterday did I realize how wrong I was. It got worse... much worse. Melia is using heavier much more harmful weapons... here come the big guns!

Permanent marker anyone?

(and no I have NO CLUE where she got it from!)
Thank heaven for Mr. Clean Magic erasers, removed it all (eh plus a little paint from the walls)
from the walls, floor, cabinets and table. Unfortunately we are still working on the couch stains.

So this week...

...I made this pie and it was just ridiculously yummy that I made it twice! haha
You can find the recipe here. Wow I am just in LOVE with our fruit stand out here :) They really do have the tastiest produce and it's super cheap!





Future soccer player!

This is totally random but
I thought it was so cute she was dancing for Bryce when he was asleep...heaven knows how he sleeps with music blaring that loud!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

This makes me happy! Go here and see why! :)

Happy Birthday mom <3

Yesterday was my mom's 50th birthday. That's right, the big 5-0! We (my sister, mom and I) celebrated first off by going to Glen Ivy and sharing a spa day together. It was a whole lot of fun, lounging in pools, mineral baths that stunk like farts...no joke! We sweated it out in a sauna and then jumped in the pool for a water aerobics class.

We also had a crazy fun time in Club Mud. You slather yourself with red clay mud and then you bake and get all tight and crackly. Smoother and detoxified skin? I'm not sure but we sure had a good heck of a time doing it!

An elephant's ankle? LOL no it's my mom's crackly elbow! The dried mud made everyone look like they were 100 years old and crumbling away :)

I'm not too sure why I am even posting this disgusting picture on here, just to prove I played in the mud too I guess! No making fun allowed! :P

We joined our family in downtown San Diego for dinner at Bucca Di Beppo's which is my absolute favorite Italian restaurant in possibly the whole world :) It was really fun being together with the family again, we tend to get a little crazy when we hang out!

We sat in a private room that we deemed "the pope room". It was wall to wall pope madness complete with a pope head round robin. That is all I've wanted is to have the pope staring me down as I stuff my face with lasagna :P

My mom and me

I don't even have words to explain what it's like when we sister's get together...

Here is a picture of my family, hmmm something just isn't quite right...

OK this is more like it. Here is the family I know and love haha

Seriously, we are just a bunch of crazy's!

My mom and her siblings

I think the best gift of the night was a brand spankin new walker! Complete with tennis ball stabilizers!

We then went to go see Fiddler on the Roof at the San Diego Civic Theater. It was really good and it was extra special to see Topol who was the original Tevye in the 1971 movie play his signature role. I am not really a musical/broadway lover but it was a good show to go and see.
It was such a fun evening, even though from walking all around downtown SD in heels gave me the most monstrous blisters on my feet (don't worry I don't have pics of them to post haha)

Happy Birthday Mom! I love you :)

Our 4th...

We went to Sylvan Park in Redlands for some 4th of July fun. Melia got her face painted, jumped in a bouncer, ate her first snow cone (well technically she just sucked out the syrup :P) and we danced to a live band. Melia had a tons of fun.

This was pretty much how Melia was the whole night. She covered her eyes with the first little fire work that popped off and I had to show her that it was her ears she should cover and not her eyes because I could tell she got really panicky about the loud fireworks. She did not take her fingers out of her ears one single time that night!

Parachuter with the flag

One of my favorite parts of the day is when Grandpa Hastain stands up while everyone sings the Navy song.

Me and my sis-in-law

We went to the U of R for the fireworks show, we've gone there the last 3 years and I just love the show they put on every year.

Whew what a week! I just got back from our wards girls camp so I didn't get a chance to put these on here from last week. Bryce's sister was able to watch Melia for me which was so much help. Although I snapped my finger in a mouse trap and fell off the stage and rolled... it was such a blast to run around being a goofy girl again.

I found out that it is impossible for me to pull an all nighter...ahhh what an old fogey I am now but seriously those girls are machines! I think I annoyed them just a little from being such a morning person all happy and cheery while running on no sleep lol! They are like Sister Holmes what is wrong with you! I was like gurls - when you've got a crazy two year old you have no choice and it comes naturally, well to me anyways!

We had a blast and I just feel so blessed to have that experience to meet all the girls I did because even though I've been in our ward for over two years I have not had the opportunity to really know the youth. They are just absolutely amazing and all my YC's worked so hard too. But as much fun as it was I can't begin to say how glad I am it's over and I'm back home again with my family. I can take showers barefoot, not beg and scream to be first to eat, and to be able to wear flip flops again.

Happiness

Happiness -

1. The quality or state of being happy

2. good fortune; pleasure, contentment; joy
3. in which one rests without desires, even though every wish may not have been gratified