Burrs Turns 60!

Right after my grandma's visit my parents came to town, April 8th-15th. It was GREAT timing! Not only was Jim going out of town for a week, so they were in town to help me with the girls, but it was my mom's 60th birthday. Here are some pictures of our adventures. We basically did my normal weekly routine with a few extra activities thrown in.

Sunday was a HUGE holiday for my dad, Master's Sunday. We were able to drag him out for a hike in the morning:

Then we watch a bit of the Masters. Kera looked like she was actually into it...

While dad finished watching the Masters back 9 us girls headed out to "The Farm". Not only was Sunday the Masters but it was also National Egg day. On the morning news I heard about a local farm that sold fresh eggs so, we decided to check it out. Well...the term "farm" is used lightly in this case but...there were animals. This place was more like a junk yard with animals but...it was a nice junk yard and Abby LOVED it.

We did not end up coming home with any fresh eggs, they were really expensive, but we did come home with some fresh local honey, YUM!

Monday, was my mom's birthday. The morning started off like any other Monday with story time:

On Monday evening dad cooked us a great birthday dinner (I did help with the seasonings), halibut and asparagus on the grill and of course, carrot cake for dessert...

On Tuesday we had gymnastics and then we headed to Ethel's Chocolate factory. I had this grand hope that the factory would look like Willy Wonka's factory but, no such luck. It was a very small factory and the tour consisted of a hallway that you could look in on the workers. The problem that we ran into is, they were not in production on the day we went.

One nice thing about the factory is that there was a cactus garden connected to it so, we were able to take a nice walk through the cacti...

After the factory we headed out for lunch and I could not believe our luck! On Tuesday Ben and Jerry's was giving away FREE ice cream!!

My dad brought a fun project for Abby and him to work on during the week, a bird house. Dad had all the pieces ready to be screwed together and painted. Abby and Pepe had a good time working on it together!

Also during the week, Burrs was able to see Abby at dance class:

take Abby on a few bike rides:



and frozen yogurt:

Their trip ended with a visit to the Shark Reef and lunch at The Hotel. It was another great visit by Burrs and Pepe and we are looking forward to seeing them again in August.