I planned a special day for the kids a few Friday’s ago.  I pulled Hudson out of school a few minutes early because I didn’t feel like letting him participate in a school activity.  Don’t worry it wasn’t anything bad, just pizza.  I thought by pulling him out early he would forget about it.  Well [...]

Will took us to Miguelito’s on Coronado Island a few weekends ago.  It is one of San Diego’s best hidden and most delicious.  This is the first restaurant our kids have been to where they were perfectly behaved and they ate EVERYTHING on their plates.  We sat outside on the patio surrounded by cute little shops. [...]

I’ve been to a lot of museums and historic sites in my life and I have got to say that the new Mormon Battalion site holds it’s own.  It’s very well done and it even managed to keep my kids engaged the whole time.  The sister who gave us our tour was very sweet.  It [...]

…and maybe did a little bit ‘o shopping too. Who knew that mud slinging and fire jumping would be a good fit for me?!  Amber, Brandy and I did the Warrior Dash on the 10th up in Lake Elsinore.  We made a girls’ day of it.  Amber was sweet enough to bring breakfast and we [...]

Both of my kids love to paint.  They are always begging me to let them paint. Suffice it to say I usually let them.  This particular day I wasn’t feeling the clean-up vibe of it all so we headed off to a Pottery Shop.  The kids got to paint.  We got out of the house [...]