Sunday was just a beautiful day so I attempted to have Evan sit in front of the flowers. It worked for about 30 seconds. My tulips are finally come up, and they are just sepectacular. I hope they last through the weekend for the party we are throwing. 
I believe my favorite part of spring are the flowers. Not just any flowers but tulips and daffodils. There’s no better place here in Utah to see spring flowers than Thanksgiving Point. Each year in April they have a Tulip Festival. For those two weeks it’s breathtaking beauty. There’s only 1 week left of the Festival but due to the colder than usual weather only about 30% of the flowers have bloomed. So if you haven’t gotten the chance, go and enjoy the beauty.
Update: NPR posted the song in its entirety. Check it out here.
Utah’s very own Orin Hatch has written a song for his buddy, presidential candidate John McCain. It’s kind of old fashioned, but really McCain should consider making it his theme song. After all he needs to compete with Obama’s Yes We Can song.
I am sure you’re just as anxious as I was to hear this new tune, so check out this video from hardball. The clip of the song starts about half way through.
I don’t really consider myself “crafty” or much of a seamstress (that would be my mother, who just volunteered to make someones Prom dress in 2 weeks) but I am tempted by fabric, and I find it perfectly fine to go fabric feeling. So as I’ve mentioned before there are a million and one babies being born to people I know and good friends, and we are even going to have one too! So for one of my good friends (I’m not going to say who) I picked up the cutest fabric at the Jo’Ann’s and for the first time ever followed a quilt pattern and came up with the following. The book is Quick Quilts To Make in a Weekend, the pattern is Oriental Indigo & White Country Quilt, on page 28. Now obviously I didn’t use Indigo & White fabric but I like to choices made for a little girl. So in about 3-4 hours I got all of the fabric cut and the top sewn together. I have to admit I’m really happy with the way it came out. I just need to work on the binding and then tie it together. Just wanted to share some of my latest projects. I’m going to miss my Friday nights when Jon gets done with school.
Tijuana, Mexico….. Last time I was there I was 12-13 years old. I don’t quite remember. All I remember was I was with cousins and it was such an adventure, and I don’t think I had any ID at all, but the border guard just believed me and let me back into the US. This time, it was just as easy to cross the boarder into Mexico. Everything seemed a little bit cleaner, but there were still all the vendors using whatever catch they could to get you to come into their store to buy cheaply made trinkets that you really don’t need. My favorite line this time was “Free Parking” I guess for the stroller that Evan really didn’t want to ride in but loved pushing around. It was a sort nap day for him.
Unlike last time we were in line for just under 2 hours trying to get back into the US with about 2,000 other people. Evan and I have passports from our Europe adventures last year and we made sure to bring those. The boarder agent took them and handed them right back. He didn’t even look at the pictures. I felt a little jipped, at least scan them for the amount of time I’ve spend in this line. At least it wasn’t 100 degrees. So I now feel I can go another 20 years without a visit to Tijuana. And I’m reminded why I like the US so much!
Like Universal Studios, Sea World is just a California adventure you can’t miss. It was a beautiful day in San Diego and we had a wonderful time, with Grandma, Evan, Daria and Gordon. My favorite part was the Shamu show. If you didn’t see it with your own eyes it’s hard to believe that such large animals can life themselves out of the water and do flips, and to music. It was just beautiful.
We really like the penguins too!
Grandma and Daria thought it would be fun to right the rapids. They thought they wouldn’t get that wet, and hour later they came out soaked. I think underwear was still wet when we got to the hotel.
If you’ve never been to Universal Studios, Hollywood you have to do it at least once in your life. For me it was a second time with Daria and Gordon but a lot had changed and some stuff hadn’t. New was a Curious George play area for kids. Evan is a big George fan. So I gave in and bought the $12 stuffed George. Still 3 weeks later he finds it around the house and lights up, giving it a hug. He can even say George now.
Daria and Gordon eating their lunch of Pizza Hut. It was the only day we didn’t eat McDonalds. As they put it, it’s reliable.
Monday our adventure was Hollywood/Santa Monica. Even though I grew up in Southern California I really can say I’d never seen most of the famous thing like the Hollywood sign, or the Walk of Fame. It was fun to go their with Daria and Gordon.
