Seriously. What a difference two more adults make! One adult is in charge of Kole (full time job), one adult is in charge of the girls (they are a package deal), and the third adult is in charge of the cleaning, laundry, and cooking. Things are so MANAGEABLE. Mom is staying the week and I’m already so not excited for the following week when she heads home and Kenny heads back to work and I am completely out numbered again.
Just a few things we’ve been up to —
Took the kiddos to a local Farmers Market this weekend. Love Farmers Markets. I would have taken more pictures (so many fun things to see) but I was too busy managing daughter #1 —
El finished up her lifeguard camp at the beach. She had such a blast! This camp will definitely become a new summer tradition. The kids learned about ocean safety, did exercises, played beach games, swam, and spent a day snorkeling at La Jolla Cove. She made a lot of new friends and is so bummed it’s over. So is mom. I loved seeing her have so much fun at the ocean every day. Although I won’t miss the sandy mess that exploded in my car each afternoon as soon as I picked her up. You’d think after living by the beach for nine years that I’d be more chill about the mess that always follows a trip to the ocean. Nope. Maybe in another nine years?
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A little bunny has been living in our front yard. Every time we pull up to the house my girls spot him and hop out of the car to try to catch him. Of course he scurries away as soon as he hears them.
We check every day to see if we’ve caught the bunny. Nothing yet, but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. Cross your fingers for us. :)
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p.s. Grandma, thank you so much for the new dresses and for coming to visit us in San Diego! Thank you for playing with us in the yard, fixing us snacks, taking Kole so we can play without him knocking all of our dolls over, watching princess movies with us, and showing us dogs on the computer (again and again and again). Also thanks for helping mom. She is much more relaxed when you are here. :)
xoxo – Ellie & Addie
Aaaah, your life seems so idyllic!
Your family is gorgeous :)
Wow…lots of fun…it looks like the kids at a great time with grandma there…The beach looks like a lot of fun too. The bunny house is my favorite. :) Sue
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Visits from my Mother in Law are like visits from your mom. I always leaving saying “I need to get me a wife.” Everything really does go better – the house stays clean, the dishes and laundry get washed AND put away, I can sneak away to exercise or organize something without interruption…the list goes on and on. We are very blessed that we have ladies that love our kids as much as we do that come to visit us, don’t we?
Adorable BUNNY HOME! ADORABLE girls!!! (LOVE the little one’s hair in that braid with her curls hanging out!!
so cute! we have a few bunnies around too and some chipmunks (my kids names the chipmunks so it is especially cute to see them!)
So sweet! Love that Ellie talked to everyone with a dog – someday our paths will cross and she can meet Cricket, who is 6 years old and a yellow lab :). How fun to have your mom visit!
So cute!! I love your pictures of the girls! the bunny house is so cute!
Your family is adorable!
Ahh so envious of visiting helpful parents/grandparents. :( lucky lucky!!
sounds like you all are having a great summer :)
Erin-I love your girls dresses that your mom bought! They are so bright and fun. And it has been fun running into your mom three times a day. :) She really is just about the cutest grandma with your kids that ever lived!
So glad you are having a great week with your Mom there! Enjoy it to the fullest! Ellie is cracking me up with the dog obsession! Good luck with that one. And love the bunny catching idea, love those girls, they always crack me up. Especially love how they are sneaking out from hiding the bunny trap!
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Oh my goodness! Kole is looking so grown up and handsome!
And I think you just got a spam comment (right before mine–it says “Adult dvds”). Yikes! Don’t click on it.
Got sand? Bring baby powder. Sprinkle baby powder on their feet and the sand wipes right off. Trust me…we live so close to the beach, we are there everyday…I don’t know what I would do without baby powder! It doesn’t help with the sand from the blankets…haven’t figured out a trick to help with that yet…do you have any??
Hi Erin!
Im in love with your blog!!!!
Im a stay home mom of two, and my older girl wanted a pet for years…But we had the same problems: allergies…my boy has lots of allergies, and we thought he was allergic to the dogs hair…but anyway, i couldn’t ear her prayers all day long (she wanted a Labrador soooo badly )and we buy her a puppy lab, last winter.
Good news: he is not allergic, Bubas, our Lab, he is cutest, and her best friend, and now the bad news: I got a new home…my furniture its all bitten…my garden has no flowers…
Looking forward im not regret for this, cause we had a new family member!!!!
Hugs
mila
So I’ve read your blog for a while, and this past week we took a vacation all the way from Kentucky to southern California. And I thought how cool it would be to meet you, since I read your blog. Then I realized that I never comment and so that would be weird, because I feel like I know you but you have no idea who I am. So I chose not to be a creeper. But, small world, we went to La Jolla on Saturday. So we might have been close to the same place as you without even knowing it – ha! It was absolutely gorgeous, along with the rest of San Diego, and now we want to move out there :)