Pacific Coast Highway

Here is the video of our trip! Enjoy!

Pacific Coast Highway

Day 2 of Vacation...told by Ella

Today my mom went running. She ran to Pauline's Pancake house. She did not see us at Pauline's Pancake house so she kept running. Dad and me waited for mom to come. When she came we sat outside and ate. I ate french toast, dad ate the special. The special was pancakes. My mom ate eggs. Then we went to Grover's Beach and made a sand castle. All of us did. It was a good thing my mom stopped for coffee. We used the coffee cup to make the castle. We dug a moat around the castle. We put sea shells and pretty rocks. It was really pretty. My mom took a picture of it. Then we went to San Luis Obispo. We ate lunch and I had a peanut butter sandwich. We saw 2 blue jays. We threw crackers out for them, but the did not eat them. I think they ate them when we were gone. Then I went to the park. I went to the exercise park and did pull ups. There was a big weight and I could not move it. Then I did a leg exercise. Then we went on our bikes and we did a tour around the park and the city. We heard some music. When we came closer it was a Greek Festival. Me and my mom danced together with everyone else. My dad took pictures. We ate some pastries. When we were done we looked in the old church. We got on our bikes and went to our car. We heard on Nuvi that there was a street called Ella so we went to the street and took a picture. Then we drove to our new hotel. Our hotel was Creekside Cottage. It was really beautiful. We had a balcony. We heard music and singing. It was not the Greek Festival. We walked down to the town and had really good pasta. Mom and me had tortellini and spaghetti and dad had ravioli with mushrooms. I liked the spinach tortellinis the best. Then we went to our hotel and I went to bed.

Santa Barbara...told by Ella

At first we had a long long drive. I watched two new movies called the Princess and the Pauper and Strawberry Shortcake Fairy Berry Tales. Then we went to the park and ate lunch. Our lunch was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with chips, cheese, and turkey and ham. When I got done eating I went to play at the park. I played a game on the slide with the other kids. When the bottom person let go we all zipped down the slide together. Then when I was done playing at the park we drove to the beach. At the beach there was a lot of lady bugs and one crawled on me. It did not come off of me until I got of the sand. A kid at the beach said there was a jelly fish in the water, but I did not see one. Then we walked on the pier and saw someone who built two mermaids out of sand. We walked farther and then I was getting tired so we got some ice cream. I got rainbow and it was mint, orange, and strawberry. Mom got cherry. Then we walked back to the car and flapped our shoes and all the sand fell out. Then we started to drive to our hotel. We saw this big sign that said blueberries. We stopped and found out we could pick the blueberries. We had a lot of fun. We filled a whole bucket full of blueberries. The are good. Our hotel was on the second floor. Our hotel looked like a windmill. Then we went to Solvang and had dinner. We went to the Little Mermaid and I had meatballs with my mom. I did not want my green beans or cabbage so I took my dad's broccoli. The meatballs were really good. We went back to the hotel room and I jumped on the bed and then it was time to go to sleep.

Back from vacation

WE ARE BACK!!! Our trip up the Pacific Coast Highway was exciting. I took a ton of pictures and will get them uploaded into a video soon...promise. Ella is going to help me blog about the trip, so it might take us a few days!

What is better than Friday?

How about it being a summer Friday... a payday Friday...NATIONAL DOUGHNUT DAY Friday!!!

More summer projects

I have been keeping Ella busy with projects each day. Some have been multi-step, so it takes all day or even 2 days....yeah! I am amazed at how she sits and babbles to herself as she is creating. She has an amazing imagination.

Step 1--color entire paper with crayons.

Step 2--paint over crayon with black pain

Step 3--after paint dries use toothpick to scratch a design

Egg carton caterpillars

Mom's project was to organize the linen closet...not as much fun as Ella's projects.

Before and after

Memorial Day Weekend 2010

Summer is official here! The weather is getting warmer and the sun is out! Here are some pictures from this weekend. Enjoy.

Memorial Day Weekend 2010