Total Eclipse of my Heart

 Girly got a hair cut.

She was not happy.

I felt like one horrible mama

but,

someone was being very sassy about how her long hair should look.

It was becoming quite a battle

every

day.

 For the record I think it is adorable.

She is slowly coming around.

Change is hard for Lily Pie.

Not being in control is even harder.

She is coming around but still misses her buns terribly.

I have no doubt we'll be growing it again soon.

Open house was last Wednesday.

Lily was so proud to show me around her Kinder classroom.

I'm so proud of my girl.

I can not believe we will be a first grader in mere weeks.

Makes a mama want to cry.

 We got to watch a pretty amazing celestial event.

A solar eclipse.

Peter brought his welding helmet home so that we could watch it.

 Lily lost interest fairly quickly

but did enjoy putting on the helmet.

 Picture taken through the welding lens.

Pretty cool, huh.

 The eclipse made these very cool shadows everywhere.

One scary mommy!

More cool eclipse shadows.

And I leave you with my Lady of the Shade.

Lily loves a particular episode of

Kung Fu Panda.

In the episode there are some ladies

who dance with umbrellas.

Lily watches this particular episode at least once a day.

She's got the dance moves perfectly memorized.

I'll be sad when we move on from the ladies.

I miss when she used to walk like Mowgli in her orange panties.

These phases are so fun and fleeting.

6th Forever Family Celebration

I can not believe it's been 6 wonderful years.

Little Miss had big plans for our family celebration.

She wanted to go to the fair on the beach.

AKA Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

That sounded just fine to me.

Our original plan was to go this weekend

BUT

the weather was just gorgeous last weekend so off we headed.

We stayed in a hotel outside of Santa Cruz

cause our pocket books liked it.

It was a little warmer there like 75 degrees or so

and the water was freezing.

Lily wanted to go swimming and I was quite sure we would dip our big toe in and high tail it out of there.

Turns out she's a regular kid

the cold didn't bother her one stinkin bit. 

 After our swim we headed to the boardwalk.

We decided we were not too scared to ride the rides

but perhaps a little too shy to go it alone.

So we watched awhile

we rode a train had some ice cream and then......

 hit the beach.

A certain someone was sure she would not want to go to the beach.

So we had no towel, sand toys or proper apparel

but who needs any of that.

 Not so very long ago these toes refused to touch the water

and that face was full of tears.

Those days are long behind us we now love everything about the beach!

 We hit the town for some dinner and crashed exahusted.

It was a perfect day!

Then we woke up for some more fabulous fun.

You simply can not miss the trees while in Santa Cruz.

 Our little tour guide.

 Good Gracious I love this girl with all my heart!!

 Happy 6th Forever Family Day my sweet girl!

I love you forever and ever and ever!

 And we had to enjoy the beach just one last time!

We walked down some stairs to this perfect little patch of beach.

It was simply divine.

 Practicing some Kung Fu on the beach.

Two wonderful days in one of our favorite places

with all of my favorite people

it just doesn't get any better than this.



Race Day

On Sunday we ran the Zoo Zoom.

We ran the 5K portion.

The first 5K for both Peter and I.
I was wondering whose idea it was, to get up at this ungodly hour,

go out in the cold, and run 3 miles.

Oh yea it was all my idea.

This is a picture of Peter and I having this exact conversation:

Peter, "I'm a little faster than you, so I'll be in front just follow me."

Sarah, "What makes you think you are faster than me?"

Peter, "I don't know, you think your as fast as me?"

Sarah, "I think I just might be."

And we are off.

Truth be told the first mile was easy as pie.

The second mile was a little rough for me.

I got a cramp I wanted to give up a little

and I let that husband of mine get ahead of me.

Once I passed the 2 mile marker I was feeling replenished

So I sped up and found that fast man of mine.....

And we finished it together.

I think they call that a tie!

Upon further investigation Peters time was
36.38.7

and my score was

36.38.8

So we now have to have a rematch!

Next up were the littles.

I cherish our friendships with all of these people.

Meg came to see us finish and all of them took time on their

Sunday so Lily would feel comfortable to run in the race too.

I'm so blessed to call them my friends.

Some warm up excersizes.

My two favorite peeps!

Perhaps, we over did it, on the warm up

Great job kiddos!

Not pictured here are mi Padres

I also owe them a giant thank you and I love you!

They met us at my house at 7am to come see us race

and keep a certain little someone happy.

It was a great day and we feel so accomplished!

Easter Day picture overload

We had a wonderful Easter day.

We woke up to an Easter scavenger hunt.

Lily's request.

When she was 4 the Easter bunny did a hunt for the basket.

At 5 he didn't have time because he had to find us out of town.

She wanted to make sure he didn't forget this year.

There are no pictures of said event because I had my camera on the wrong setting.

It was however thoroughly enjoyed!

After a lazy morning getting ready we went to the zoo.

Its an Easter tradition.

The below picture is of Lily posing like a flamingo.

Not a bad flamingo imitation.

The Slamingos have always been her favorite.

I miss when they were called Slamingos. Oh, you said pose with them not as them.

The big cats were out and enjoying the sun.

Lily has become a little model.

I used to have to take millions and millions of pictures of her in action.

Now she finds the place and poses herself.

She is quite the guatemodel!

I was not sure if this guy in the front was going to enjoy a back rub

or a push down the hill.

The guy in the front wasn't sure either he headed out.

I'm gonna say he wanted the spot all to himself.

Another Lily placed pose.

I think she has an eye for these things.

This poor guy finished all his Easter treats.

I know the feeling.

The Easter bunny had a surprise for us.

He packed Lily's lunch inside of some eggs and hid them.

He even set the mood.

Lily approved of the bunnies new idea.

And were all ready to eat.

And it was approved of.

Good job E.B.

After lunch it was time for some bubbles.

Another Easter tradition.

My favorite picture of the day.

Some family shots.

I know I take after my daddy.

I got my eyesight from my mom but everything else came from him.

I never thought however that I looked much like either of my parents.

I guess I was wrong.

We look very much alike.

On the way to the car Lily treated us to some more modeling.

In the late afternoon we had a hunt with cousin Ava

and a very Easterly dinner of lasagna.

Then we tried a family shot.

Guess Lily was all done posing for the day.