Solvang

So back to my trip... there will be lots of pictures in this post, fyi! We stopped in Santa Barbara on our way to Solvang. It was SO windy, but we love it there!

Take a close look and the Merry-Go-Round of death is looming in the background.

View from the pier
Oh sure the ride looks harmless until you are spinning round and round at terrifying speeds! I about barfed! But I had to hold on to Brody for dear life because he kept trying to leap off the horse! It was horrifying!
planning his escape, no doubt.
We ate lunch at the lighthouse restaurant behind us. My mom, sister, and I ate there back in 2002 when we made a trip up to San Francisco. Memories!

Matching shirts was not my idea, but you have to go with mom (the one funding the whole vacation.) Plus it was a cute shirt... and free (thanks to mom...again :)

AND now Solvang. It's a Danish tourist town in central California, and it's a lot of fun!

Only in Solvang will you find a box of Jujyfruits for $4.99. OK, besides in a movie theater.

Anne's favorite place: The Mole Hole

Obviously I was not prepared for this picture. But I love the awesome face I'm making. This is us chillin chowing down on some delicious Danish pastries. They are the reason I go to Solvang, really.

This place had a sick amount of salt water taffy

A girl gets a little lonely when her husband is not around! heh heh

Brody is obsessed with climbing stairs! That time he got away from me

This picture cracks me up because all of us started walking off assuming someone else was going to push that beast of a stroller. Thankfully, it didn't take that long to realize our babies weren't with us!

This has to be my favorite picture of the trip. Clearly, it was Brody's favorite part. Ha ha!

Ahh yes, AJ Spurs. Pretty much over priced and over portioned but yummy nonetheless.

And that was our day in Solvang!

Mutant strawberries

NOPE, I'm not at all finished with blogging about my trip. But there's just something about sorting through hundreds of pictures and deciding which ones to post, that has me putting it off. Can't put my finger on why that doesn't sound too appealing... hm. Anyway...

How fabulous is this: 1 lb of strawberries for 88cents at Safeway! YES WAY! I have to admit, within the week I bought 8 lbs for me and my family. I have thoroughly enjoyed the fruit salad every night in place of my delicious oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I’m trying to lose a few. That's besides the point.

As you know, Wal-Mart price matches so I got my last few boxes there, since Safeway’s selection looked pretty sad by the end of the week. (Yes, sorry, the sale is over. I know, I'm a horrible friend for not sending out a mass text message) Moving on, I’m not a fan of Wal-Mart produce or meat but I was craving more strawberries. As per usual, there was something definitely odd about their fruit. Observe:

This strawberry has a finger... or some random appendage.

It was pointing at me when I first saw it... nice.

It's hard to tell, but this one ABSORBED another berry!

this has arms! (i'm easily amused)I guess it's true what they say... turns out you can't judge a book by it's cover. I made sure to taste them and they were no different than any other mediocre Wal-mart strawberry. Lesson learned: blog about fruit because that's how you get readers. Oh, and some garbage about not judging. I don’t know where Wal-mart get’s their stuff but I always find something amusing there.

part deux

Ok so real quick I wanted to show ya'll (mom) my new hair, I got it done again and it has blonde in it, obviously, which is a first for me. Ignore the mess in the background, we're in the process of packing. Moving on, my mom generously paid for us 3 to go back home to California for a few days. So here's some pictures of that. No lie, this trip had me thinking I was pregnant. It all started with our midnight run Monday morning to Del Taco in which I ordered my usual (of 18 years), chilli cheese fries. I never get anything else. So after that I was feeling sick. Then, at the airport my mom decided to go with a “luxury” vehicle rental car. We’re high rollers, incase you didn't know. Unfortunately for me, I can’t take leather seats… apparently. Every time I got in there I felt sick and stayed feeling that way for a while until I got enough fresh air. Weird. It was so much like my morning sickness when I was prego with Brody that we ran out and got a pregnancy test. It didn’t take more than 10 seconds for the reading to indicate “NOT PREGNANT!” So I am as far from pregnant as they come. For now.

Brody with our plane in the back

My dad is in the Army, and he is always recuriting people. He got my sister, my brother, and now he's working on the grandkids. It was impossible to get these guys to stay still for a picture. A pretty sloppy but cute army

Brody LOVES Sheba, my grandma's dog.

teaching my nephew how to play piano.

K, this is all for now, I'm bored of blogging.