I love, this.

Ever had one of these? I call these a PHC. Or also known as, bliss in a cup. Starbucks has these drink called a peppermint hot chocolate. They're HUGE during winter time but I get them year around. (hence the festive cup) They make my tastebuds sing higher notes than you hear in the phantom of the opera.

Amy, Matt. We shall journey the 2 miles to the closest starbucks, and partake of this goodness.

Totally worth the 2-3 bucks!

Weekender!

Jeff and I hit the big 2-year, last weekened. So, we booked a night at a B&B and headed off on up to Anacortes. (said like: anna-core-tis)There usually is a tulip festival in the spring nearby out in La Connor, but we missed it by a week or two being that spring came pretty dang early here this year (early March or so!) so alot of things came and went and we missed it. But, we did get to go up to Roozengaarde, which was neat! So many pretty types of tulips up there! Anyway, we went from Saturday to Sunday, came home mid Sunday night. Wasn't half bad! It was a nice day and the place we stayed was really nice. Easily a million dollar home, the innkeepers were insanely nice and made sure we were more than taken care of :) The whole interior of the house was just tons, and tons and tons, of antiques. It was impressive!

I simply can't hide it anymore

I absolutely freakin' love Barbara Streisand in the movie, "The way we were", back from 1975 or '74. It's totally cornball of me, I know. But I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I get this in my head, and not to mention....it STAYS in my head for weeks!



Barbara, I love you. Unfortunately just in this song and movie...ok, and maybe in What's up Doc?

Falling!

So my little Landon Jeffery is a walking machine. This is good and also, BAD NEWS. He's so clumbsy! He's also turning into a small, handful. He will be in his high chair, and take his food and if not throw it AT you, he'll throw it onto the floor. We don't give it back to him not only becuase that's just gross, but he needs to learn not to do that.

Yesterday as I sat here watching Oprah talk to "Octo Mom", Landon was supposed to be taking a nap when I heard a massive thud. I sprinted up the stairs as fast as I could, to go into his room and find him laying on the floor, by his crib. He'd fallen out. The noise was so loud, I was convinced the crib had come down with him too. I was expecting a horror scene when I went into his room, I was happy that he was only out of his crib and no injuries or blood were present. It just goes as a reminder that he's a busy toddler now, and into EVERYTHING. Just this week, I've pulled a small spool of thread out of his mouth, a penny, a quarter, a large piece of lint, and I can't remember what else. He is my little pirhana. He also, now bites. If we don't firmly say "NO BITING", prior, he'll bite as hard as he can, until he shakes in some cases.

I will admit, it's cute to see him walk in circles, and stand up and go wherever his little heart desires (usually to one of his wheeled toys, he has an obsession with cars/trucks) but at the same time.....I want my little non mobile boy back that diodn't fall out of his crib, that didn't tear down his gates (we have a mounted one, and un mounted one, he yanks the un mounted one down..cause it's not drilled into the wall) that didn't throw his food on the ground, and that didn't bite his Mom.

He's so cute and sweet sometimes, have to remind myself of that because he's a handful now!

I'm not going to answer my phone

My grandparents have been failing in their health the last few weeks, We're "waiting for the call". and that makes me HORRIBLY sad. I think of it and cry, honestly.

A few nights ago....I heard sobbing coming from Leenas room. It was after bedtime, and late. I go in there, and poor Leena is a mess. She was sobbing, and hard. And when I asked her what was wrong, she said "I'm worried about grandmaleen". It broke my heart. That's my moms mom, who is 87.

We had a talk that grandmas body is old and frail, and she's in A LOT of pain.
I told her she's old and in pain, but her spirit is still young and the same person she's always been, and she will die. We just don't know when. But, we need to remember that they'll both be pain free. I told her how awful it would be to suffer everyday.

With that said, I hope my grandpa goes shortly after her. I don't know what he'd do without her. I can only hope it's like this, and if you DO NOT CRY during this, you have a heart of stone! Even I don't cry, and this makes me weep.

Winter Wonderland - in April!

We went to Mt. Rainier with Jeffs mom, as she's in town until tomorrow. It was fun and ended up SUNNY!!!! YAY! Roads were closed up past the visitors center, oh well. Still was fun to climb up on some ice stacks, and see some wildlife ;)


Jeff and I



Found these cute little snowmen just staring at me


Thanks Leena!








Sweet little boy, wow LOVE this picture!



Jeffs mom....hahaha




Leena Beena!



HOLY COW!! It was SOOOOO COLD!! Wind was blowing everywhere and I had a measly fleece on that gave me no protection! Leena caught me in the middle of the "HOLY CRAP, run back to the car!"

Well, that was fun. But, I have no proof!

I forgot to take ANY picture of easter! Wow, it crossed my mind too, but...oh well.

Saturday I went to a session of Conference with my friend and Landon. I swear, I kept seeing lights fly around the inside of the dark chapel. Now that I think about it, it probably was a piece of glitter on my eyelash and if I blinked, would give the illusion of a church going UFO or something.

Landon was totally exhausted but did whatever he could to stay awake during the 2 hours there. He even fell off the pugh at one point, but didn't make a peep, in typical Landon fashion. He got a lot of snuggles and had a lot of fun with his car, but it was a distraction to have a toddler there, that's for sure!

Leena was at her dad's for Friday-Saturday, and she had a lot of fun at a extreme trampoline gym out in Bellevue I think. She came home tired as well. Sunday was easter, we did tie dyed eggs, and Landon helped too! We'd ask him what color he wanted...he's sloooowly point to all of them, and pick a color! Too cute! his egg came out good :) I then started the meal preparation. I made scalloped potatoes without owning a medalion. I will be buying one of those next time! My hand is still mad at me for thin slicing for what felt like an hour yesterday. Dinner was fantastic, even if Jeff and Leena demanded steak :) (we're not big ham fans over here)

Because the egg dying went past the designated time frame that I would've liked, cooking got delayed and so on. We did our won easter egg hunt inside the house. I always had SO much fun with my parents when we did that when I was a kid! I hid the eggs in our downstairs area of our house, and the kids had to wait upstairs. Leena was a whirlwind and found many pretty fast. I even hid some in Landon's toys because they would blend right in with all of the bright colors they have on them.

Landon got some help from Jeff, but oh my gosh. SO CUTE, he would find an egg and smile sooo big and shake it and run to his easter basket and drop it in. He thought it was great!

It was great fun. This morning, I sat here quietly watching Landon enjoying the buzz of a almost empty home, and I noticed....it was way too quiet. I looked for where Landon was, as he was no more than 10ft away from me. I look to my left, and he's parked next to Leena's easter basket. He's mastered the art of opening up the plastic eggs to get the goodies on the inside. I watched him shove something in his mouth, and then I realized, it was a jelly bean. And then I see the open eggs and that they're empty! He is a candy thief! Haha, funny boy! I let him eat the one in his mouth and yanked him away.

He's so smart, I'm in for it.