Can I do Easter over??

I lost my camera battery charger and I wasn't able to get a new one until after Easter. I was so sad to miss documenting the festivities. Today I put the girls Easter dresses on to have a "do over".

Aren't they beautiful?

Cookies anyone??

One of my New Year Resolutions this year was to get back to eating and living better. Ever since having my girls, eating and living better have taken WAY too much time. I decided that I have had enough and I need to live the way that I teach other people to live.

I am proud to say that I have not had any sugar or Gluten for 4 months. It hasn't been easy but I feel so great!!

The down side to eating well is finding fun things to eat. Today I was really craving cookies, so I pulled out my Xylitol and rice flour and tried to make up my own recipe. This is the result.

I obviously shouldn't be making up recipes. Looks like I will be buying a sugar and gluten free cookbook soon. They don't look good, but they sure tasted good! Geoff even ate them.

Venice Beach

The only nice thing about Geoff traveling so much is that he gets to stay in awesome hotels. After our Disneyland adventure on Saturday, we headed to the beach on Sunday. We didn't swim but the girls had a wonderful time playing in the sand and waves.

All Aria wanted to do was to build a sand castle. Here is the beginning.

Laila is trying to help with the sand castle

I am trying to get Laila in the water, she was scared.

Aria found a sea shell

Laila found the sand.

Oh boy! She LOVED the sand. She ate that sand like she was starving. She must have low minerals or something. I wish I had taken a picture of her poop the next day. It was just sand, nothing else.

It was a glorious weekend. It was so fun to see our dad and to go to Disneyland and the beach. I feel so blessed to be able to do fun things like this.

DISNEYLAND!

Geoff has been working in California for the last month and we have missed him. If he travels enough his company will pay for a weekend hotel stay in between travel weeks. Geoff and I decided to capitalize on this and take the girls to DISNEYLAND!!!

The girls were excited and Geoff loves Disneyland so much that I think he was the MOST excited.

Geoff and the girls in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle.

Buzz light year was the favorite ride. We went 3 times.

The Marry-go-round was the second favorite.

Mostly because there wasn't much of a line.

We of course had to see Mickey. It went much better this time around. The girls were not scared. Laila was a little leery.

This time we even got to see Minnie. Aria was very happy.

Laila's favorite ride was "Small World" . She danced and clapped, it was so cute!

Dumbo was another favorite with the girls.

For dinner we got chicken strips and mozzarella sticks. Laila used the mozzarella stick as a way to eat the ranch. She ate and entire thing of ranch, it was disgusting. Everyone around us was watching her, only one lady thought it was cute.

Aria is so so happy to be at Disneyland.

Geoff and I have different philosophies on vacations. Mine is, go and have fun but don't spend money on anything unless it is absolutely necessary. Geoff's philosophy is to go and have fun and don't think about the money you are spending because it is all part of the experience and chalk it up to a memory made. I am trying to meet him somewhere in the middle, but Geoff totally go his way when he bought the girls these way too expensive toys that they totally don't need. Geoff's excuse is that Disneyland is the happiest place on earth and toys would make the girls so happy. What do ya do??


It was so fun! I feel very lucky that Disneyland is relatively close. I feel bad for our children yet to come. I can guarantee that this behavior of ours will not last long when we start having to pay for more then one kid. Maybe we can photoshop them in...