Happy Easter

Happy Easter! We had a great Easter Sunday. By the time Sunday came around, the kids had already done a few hunts already and we had a huge stash of candy piled in the kitchen. How does that work? I buy lots of candy to fill eggs for school/ friend easter egg hunts and then Taylor and Brent collect the eggs, and we still end up with three times as much candy. ?? I guess the kids are expert hunters.
We enjoyed our last Sunday in the La Quinta Ward, so sad... and then drove to Hemet to spend Easter with the Jones family. They have a great tradition that the Easter bunny delivers the goodies to the dad's who go out in to the yard and hide everyone's presents/ candy/ and eggs. Meanwhile the kids have to stay inside behind closed doors and shutters. When everything is hidden and skattered outside, the moms hand the kids their "lists." They have all their goodies on the sheet of paper that they have to find to put into their basket. It's kind of like a mini- Christmas. But hey, there wouldn't be Christmas if there wasn't an Easter... right. So the kids run around and find their books/ movies/ and candy hanging in trees, behind bushes and even floating on kick boards in the middle of the pool. It's lots of fun and the kids love it.

Taylor's New Do

It was time for some haircuts around here. Taylor's was long and beautiful but hard to brush especially when it was tangled. And it always turned into a frustrating experience for the both of us. So after one of those times when she's screamed at me for pulling her hair while I was brushing it, I threatened that we should just cut it off since she doesn't like brushing it. She surprisingly agreed. wow... I wasn't sure what to think... I've loved her hair long but thought I should follow through. And the more we talked about it the more she really wanted it cut.. so we did it today. And it's adorable! She keeps running her fingers through it and admiring her new do. Brent go a haircut too, but we'll have to post his later because he's napping and this is the only time I have to add this to the blog.

Fun/ Sick in Newport Beach....

Last week we spent Wednesday through Sunday in Newport Beach. We scheduled the trip to go house hunting and enjoy the Newport Coast Villas. As luck would have it, Eric caught the office bug that was going around and was so sick. It's like he had a cold plus flu mixed with migraines. poor guy... he was miserable. And the kids and I were so excited to be at Newport, we were ready to jump in the pool and go to the beach, go down to Triton's cove (the kids activity zone at the resort, and search for bunnies- the kids personal favorite). So we did and left dad in the Villa for some peace and quite and a little ESPN when he felt like it. Well the whole reason for our trip was to find a house so I left Eric and the kids and went with our realtor to see the list of houses we had narrowed the search down to. Some of you might think I'm a horrible wife for leaving my sicker than a dog husband alone with the two kids, but we had no choice. We had to find a house. So I went to the store and got mini apple juices, smuckers frozen PB&Js, fruit, apple chips, and treats and put them all on counter top level so Taylor could reach them. I changed Brent's diaper before I left hoping he save his daily 'treat' for me when I got home --7 hours later. -yeah right. Taylor was in charge(which she loved) and Blue's Clues and Disney channels were on two of the TVs. So I left for the day with my cell phone very accessible. Surprisingly they did very well. The kids were stir crazy when I got home, Eric wasn't feeling any better, but he was trying to be a good sport. Anyways, we found a house, yeah. And we went to our new ward, The Live Oak Canyon Ward in the Santa Margarita Stake. The ward was great, there are 100 youth! wow.. Tay loved primary and overall it was great. This move is so bitter- sweet. Sad to leave our great friends here, but exciting for our new adventure.
Eric was feeling a little better by Saturday and we found the greatest little restaurant on the beach to have breakfast. It's on Crystal Cove Beach and it's called the BeachComber. The kids played in the sand while we waited for our table and Taylor built a mermaid. The breakfast was DIVINE! We are food lovers what can I say, we are definitely going back. It's a tiny restaurant along the beach with lots of other little houses. It's actually where they filmed part of the movie BEACHES, with Bet Midler. It was a great ending to our little get away. And we are glad that Dad is now feeling better.

We found our home!!

So it is official, we have gotten our house in Orange County and found the perfect one for us! It is located in the community of Dove Canyon that sits in Rancho Santa Margarita. It is right off the 241 in South County. And yes, it has a guest room and bath for all of our friends that live in the Desert heat during the summer!!!