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40-7 Birthday and Visit from Grandma and Grandpa

Grandma and Grandpa M. decided that they wanted to come to visit for Lance's 40th and Allie's 7th Birthdays and to see our new house. We had a fun visit with them. We picked them up on Saturday at LAX and drove to Orange County to meet Grandma and Grandpa S. Jamie& Dave and Jill's & Robert's families at the new Cafe Rio. It was wild with all the kids but fun to get everyone together. On Sunday we went to church and then Allie got to open her second round of presents and have birthday cake. On Tuesday we went to Lego Land in Carlsbad on the hottest day of the year so far. The kids had fun and the adults had a sort of fun. Lance wasn't able to go with us because he had to work but we took a picture with Lego Dad as we were leaving. After Lego Land, Lance's sister Jill invited us to her house for dinner to celebrate Kyle's birthday while we waited out the traffic. We got to see G&G S. and cousins again which was a bonus. On Wednesday, we recovered from Thursday and didn't do anything. We did try and make fish and chips because it was St. Patrick's day and we are Irish. Not a good idea. We set the smoke alarm off in our house and the fish was still raw in the middle. Not my best cooking day. On Thursday G&G had to go home. We went to In N Out for an early dinner and then to the airport. What a fun visit. After we dropped them off, Allie said "I'm not even going to cry this time because I know we are going to visit them for Spring Break."

Language Arts Award for Rachel

Rachel got an award this month for achievement in Language Arts. We are so proud of her. She loves her new school and new teacher and is very enthusiastic about the things she is learning and doing in fourth grade.

Sunday Morning-Before and After

Rainy Day Zoo

Lance and I have been trying to plan a family outing for the past month. Every week, Monday-Friday we have had sunny, beautiful weather and every Saturday, it pours rain. This past Saturday, we took a chance and drove to the LA Zoo even though rain was in the forecast. I told Lance, let's just have faith that it will all work out in the end. It rained all the way there but when we arrived, the sun broke through the clouds and it looked like it would be great weather for the rest of the day. I felt vindicated. However, we got up to the ticket booth and the lady behind the counter told us that on rainy days the animals are allowed to go into their nighttime habitats if they want to and they we probably wouldn't see many animals, not to mention the fact that the tram wasn't working (dealbreaker for Aimee.) Needless to say, we didn't go to the zoo. We left and went to the "Rainy Day" zoo, aka the Natural History Museum. Jackson didn't even know the difference, he thought he was seeing real live elephants and giraffes. We had a great time at the museum, as always. Rainy Day Zoo worked for us. Jackson thought he was seeing real elephants, lions and zebras and if we squinted, we thought so too.