March 2014

All the girls watching My Little Pony

We were so excited to have Travis, Stephanie, and their girls come visit us for several days at the beginning of the month.  We all went to the Monterey Aquarium and had so much fun looking at all the fish.  The next day, Lauren, Rachel, and Abigayle stayed with us while Travis and Stephanie headed up to San Fransisco for the day.  Anna was in heaven having so many girl cousins to play with!  The highlight was when our neighbor came over and invited us to come see the raccoon they had just caught.  The girls were really interested to watch it through the cage.  Unfortunately, the next day, Steve and I came down with a terrible stomach bug.  Trav and Steph were so nice and took Anna with them up to the JellyBelly factory.  Steve and I just hung out with Matthew and took turns sleeping.  Poor Steph had to make due with take-out instead of us all going to one of the nice restaurants.


Later in the month, the kids and I had just left for the gym when I got a call from my neighbor, Brenda.  She wanted to let me know that she had just seen a whole flock of wild turkeys just hop into our backyard.  I immediately turned around and headed home.  There they were!  A couple of toms and 7-9 hens.  They were scratching and pecking around the lawn.  The kids were thrilled!  I grabbed the camera and headed outside to get some shots.  It probably induced them to leave a little quicker.  I'm glad that we went home to see them, because they didn't come back before we moved, though we heard them gobbling in the distance several times.

Our two visits were the highlights of the month.  The only other things to happen were having refrigerator repairmen use our house like a revolving door.  They just couldn't seem to get the freezer working.  Thank heavens we had a stand alone freezer in the garage to pick up the slack.  We also looked at several houses in the area since the landlords decided to sell the Mira Bella house.  We decided to apply for one in San Martin, just a little south of where we were.  It's an older and smaller house, but it has a great backyard just waiting for a garden!