Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Beauties & Butterflies...

This past weekend we drove to San Luis Obispo to visit Aunt Kristin and Uncle Beau and the cousins, Asher and Eden... It was Eden's birthday yesterday (the 19th) and we spent the weekend celebrating her sweet little life... Eden Grace... you are a ball of fun and joy... you have so much personality for such a little tike!!! I sure do love you!!!

Robbyn and I drove up late Thursday night after I was done babysitting... I was so grateful to have Robbyn with me... I truly enjoyed her company and was so grateful to have an extra driver...

The next morning Aunt Kristin and Hal made us pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream...


Here's Hal putting all the ingredients in for the pancakes...

After breakfast we all headed out to the butterfly pavilion... all my kids fell asleep on the way there... Here's Siah trying to wake up enough to see the butterflies....

Two of the butterflies mating on the ground...

Eden watching the butterflies mating on the ground... :) How cute is this little face???

If you can blow this picture up you will see that there are thousands of butterflies on the branches... It's an amazing sight... really.

My beautiful Hal hanging out in the sunshine...

Siah trying to view the butterflies up in the trees through the telescope...

On Saturday we hung out at home... It was such a gorgeous day... we spent some of the afternoon in the backyard... Then the kids took a long afternoon nap and Kris and I got to catch up on the couch...

Reesie in the sunshine...

Aunt Kristin made these beautiful butterfly cupcakes for her little Eden... they looked so pretty I had to take a picture...

The whole weekend was a total treat... good food... great conversation... just enough adventure... and just enough rest... Thank you my sweet sister for putting me and my little crew up for the weekend and taking such good care of us... I am so grateful for you! Sure do love you friend!!!