President's Day Weekend

This past weekend, we loaded up the car and headed over to Phoenix, AZ to see Grammy and Poppa. I love roadtrips especially with Speedy because we often have the BEST conversations on the open road. Plus, we always stop in Yuma at the half-way point for In-n-Out :) All in all, its about a 6 hour drive - its pretty and goes by quick for the most part.

We did a lot in a couple days, mom and I went shopping and out to lunch. The boys moved some furniture from my parent's rental to their house. Mom and I saw WICKED - it was amazing! We love to go see shows...so far we have seen together: Lion King, Phantom of the Opera, Cirque de Solie "O" and "La Reve" - and now WICKED too. A couple days we would walk the dogs to the park and let Stinker run through the field, swing, and go down the slide. They live in such a nice family-friendly neighborhood (much different then where we live!)

(attempting to give Zoey "knuckles")

(he may be a little "type A" - he always has to hold the purple lease that can only walk Zoey)

(storytime with 86)

I am so thankful for the family God has provided me :) I love seeing Stinker interact with his grandparents who love him so!

Valentines Day

I'm not anti or pro Valentine's Day...I think that its nice to celebrate love and show the people in your life that you love them. With that being said, this year I thought it would be nice to get flowers from Speedy but he has been really busy with work so if it slipped his mind I wouldn't care or feel "unloved". We chatted a couple times throughout the work day and I didn't bring Valentine's Day up in case he didn't remember, but I did have to meet him at one of his accounts to pick something up that morning. As I was leaving the store, it was so cute to see the men pouring out of the store carrying flowers.

Speedy came home from work and I left for work without anything being mentioned. As I was working I thought to myself that even if Speedy doesn't acknowledge the day, I still wanted to show him how much I cared about him so I decided to pick up some of his favorite beer on my way home from work. As I went into the store the first display inside the door was of flowers and the men were buzzing around those flowers like little bees! So adorable!! On my way home I "accidentally" walked into Golden Spoon and to my surprise it was BOGO free night - perf!

When I got home there was a simple, beautiful, bouquet of flowers on my table and to my surprise a special "fun" drink for me (since I am currently knocked-up and therefore unable to drink at the moment). Not to mentioned Speedy had made chocolate covered strawberries for us for dessert!

What a simple and perfect Valentines Day. 2 desserts. 2 "fun" drinks. We both thought to get each other a special drink and a dessert and apparently my guys were buzzing around a flower stand at one point maybe making a random onlooker (like I was) smile :)

Zoo Day Again

This time we reconnected with our friends who moved away a bit north of us. Our boys are about 6 weeks apart and we try to get our families together every couple months or so. In true Slowpoke fashion we decided that morning we were going to go to the zoo so I sent a "hail mary" text to my friend seeing if they wanted to come time TBA. That's me... not quite the great planner or detail person...hey you we wanna go here sometime today you in or out? :) Thankfully they were in!

(crawling through the "ice" by the polar bear exhibit)

(on an elephant by a food court)

We met at the downtown San Diego Zoo for the afternoon. Afterwards we went out to dinner which is always an adventure with a couple toddlers. It was refreshing to see these friends again.