Catching Up!

We are so excited to be heading out on a mini vacation this weekend. We are packing up the kids and car, and heading to Vegas to celebrate our 8 year anniversary, even staying in the same hotel! We are so excited to enjoy some new surroundings, a super huge bath tub, pool side lunches, and of course hanging out with the Arcaris (with their son Nicholas who is just a bit older than the girls, and their 8 month old twin girls!). And maybe I am crazy, but I think taking the girls out on the strip will be fun. Ask me again in a few days! 

Its the longest drive we will have ever taken the girls on, and I am definitely nervous. I think they like being in the car enough that they will be ok, and we are planning on driving during nap times, but the memory of car sickness in the not too distant past haunts me. We haven't had an incident since February, when we turned car seats forward, but its not something easily forgotten. 

I have a ton of cute pictures of the girls - Alex is her regular super model self, and Josie is finally occasionally allowing us to take a picture of her. ;) 

Here are some from our second visit to the farm to go strawberry picking. They would not stop asking to go again, so we obliged, this time with dad. The girls had a lot of fun visiting all of the stuff they remembered - especially the chickens for some reason. There were fewer strawberries to pick this time, but we ended up bringing quite a few quarts home and freezing them for smoothies. 

It was so nice to have a 3 day weekend over Memorial Day with not a whole lot planned. We took the opportunity offered by a leisurely weekend to take the girls for a "hold hands" walk around the neighborhood. So California in their flip flops and yoga pants! 

We all went to our friends' baby shower, where the girls marveled at cupcakes that had pacifiers in them (pretend babies ha ha) and made every attempt to fall into the pool trying to play with some decorative plastic balls. They were very cute in their tutus though. 

Josie is more of an "icing" girl.