Have I complained yet

About driving 1200 miles when you're 7 months pregnant?

I didn't think so.

My butt hurts. My legs hurt. My back hurts. I have to pee. I'm hungry. Are we there yet? And that's ME- the kids are worse. At least I haven't said "She keeps looking out my window"

Friends are priceless

I was right- the kids were thrilled to see friends. It is going to be hard to leave them. We head out of town tonight. Here they are on our (their) way to Dinner at Red Robin. The two on the left have been friends since Christy and I met in 1994. The girls weren't even a year old yet. Now they're almost 14. Damn. I'm old.

Visiting with cousins. Isn't it great how when you're 3 and 4 you just see each other and start dancing. Because there's music and you're the same size (ish)

She had to help him out with the arm positioning, but he was a gentleman and I love her bare little feet.

In the car...

Getting Goofy in the car. G on the far left and M on the far right are deliberately making goofy faces. G2 in the middle has hair in her mouth and the doll always looks like that.


G2 gettin' messy with the car snacks. Messy car snacks are generally a no-no. She's sitting in the center row, within my arm's reach, so I can wipe her down with a baby wipe or washcloth as often as necessary.

Back to California.

This time Daddy's coming, too. We're in our new Suburban and looking forward to visiting cousins, showing off Restaurant stuff and Grandma's birthday party.

A Trip to Costco and the wardrobe planning precision of a military operation. 30 pairs of panties. 5 girls, 6 days of clothes= 30 pairs of panties. Plus color coded outfits for each day and we absolutely HAVE to throw in a load of laundry when we get to my sister's house.

We're excited to be staying at the Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills for a few nights. We're even MORE excited to be surprising the kids with a visit to our absolute all-time favorite family friends, the Spargos. Sadly, their house-sale went bad and now they moved back to Palmdale. The kids think that they're still living in Colorado, so they have NO IDEA that we'll be in the same STATE as our friends, so they will be shocked when we see them.

And we're off...