Jul 10
Pretty sure I’m permanently full. When’s dinner?
Oh my god I have just had the busiest four days EVER. We literally have not stopped since I got off the plane on Thursday, and I’m about ready to drop.
The girls were SO surprised when they saw me, it was so much fun! I hid in the baggage pickup part (behind a corner, and I KNOW I looked suspicious to all those other people, peeeeeeking my head around every so often) and John made sure they were focused on the carosel so they wouldn’t notice me walking up. I made it almost all the way to them before they looked over and saw me, because I am stealthy with my ninja skilz. But then they turned around and just sort of…stared, and then they were like heyyyy! and then it was big group hugs and possibly tears and a tad bit of ‘yay’. They are both so much taller than they were nine months ago! And they are so cute! And funny, and awwww I love my girls!!
After we got their bags we headed over to my sister’s house, where we immediately proceeded to the best pizza place in the world, Lamppost Pizza, and ate wayyy too much food. Of course, because we were all so full, when we left we headed to Coldstone’s, and sighhhh….there is much love in my heart for ice cream. Seriously. I.LOVE.ICECREAM. I got my favorito favorite, Cheesecake ice cream w/ brownies, caramel and walnuts. It was SO GOOD.
Okay, so to prevent this from becoming a blow-by-blow of what I have eaten in the last 72 hours I will just give you a sum up: on Saturday we took the girls to Gameworks, and then drove home, because our realtor called and said we were having an Open House today and believe me, this house was not ready for potential buyers to see. As soon as we walked in the door, we started cleaning, and when we woke up this morning, we immediately started cleaning AGAIN, and ughhhh it sucked. What sucked worse than that was that we were SUPPOSED to go see Pirates of the Carribean, but SOMEBODY IN THIS FAMILY that was ABSOLUTELY NOT ME didn’t want to deal with the Sunday crowd, so after we ate (and yeah, I’ve eaten at least twice my weight in food this trip ALREADY including Mexican food TWICE, and all I have to say is: MMMMMM) and…where was I…oh! So we ended up having so much time to kill and it did I say that it sucked? Yeah. By the time we made it home I was tired of the heat (it’s sooo hoottttt hereeeee) and tired of…being tired and for awhile I stared at my laptop thinking ‘I should really post’ and then ‘hmmm…’ and then ‘FINE.’ and here I am.
We’re heading up to Paradise either tomorrow afternoon or Tuesday morning depending on some appointments John has on base, which means…yes, even MORE of my favorite restaurants to stuff my face at! Oh, and some other stuff like camping, and fishing, and wakeboarding. Right NOW, though, guess what!? It’s time for dinner!!
Auf Wiedersehen!!


July 10th, 2006 at 4:46 am
I am glad you are having so much fun and hope you get some “down time” with the family just doing nothing which is a personal fav of mine. Heh.
Glad to hear from you! Now go enjoy that family!
July 10th, 2006 at 7:14 am
Have fun!!!
July 10th, 2006 at 7:34 am
I’m so glad you’re happy and home and all that.. minus all the cleaning of course. I would recommend going somewhere that has a hummus plate. That is my next favorite thing to Mexican food.. and I would eat it all day if I could too.. in fact, I made awesome burritoes tonight. So there. But no ice cream for me.. tho yours sounds fab! Will call you this week sister.. probably on my way to the ocean on Wed.
hugs!!
July 12th, 2006 at 2:48 am
Hey, I’m so glad you got home safely and surprised your girls. I’m sending you good real estate karma so you sell that house quickly. We just got home from Gleneden Beach - the weather was perfect - 80 degrees, no wind, not a cloud in the sky and my girls loved it! Have a fantastic visit with your family and eat some Cold Stone for me