We had a great weekend over Memorial Day spending time with my parents and my sister. They came for “one last visit” but I worked hard all weekend not to think about that part of it an to just enjoy being with them. I kept reminding myself that if wasn’t really their last visit, it just meant that the next time they visit it will be a long plane ride instead of a long drive. Practically the same when you consider gas prices these days! :)

It started off with a great day at Disneyland on Thursday. Tom had to work but I met my parents there and we enjoyed the magic of Disney. The only down side to the day was the rain, but in truth I don’t think the kids complained about the rain even once, it only bothered us. At one point Hayden I were on Thunder Mountain Railroad and the ride stopped in the middle just as it started to rain. While we sitting there on the ride, in the middle of the track with no where to hide it started to pour!!! We just kept laughing and Hayden was saying “this really isn’t funny” and then laughing as hard as he could. Then he would say “it could be worse, really!!!” The other passengers thought he was hilarious. Needless to say after that we were soaked! Luckily my parents and the girls had taken cover and were mostly dry. We then went on the Pirate’s Ride and Haunted Mansion to get out of the rain for a while. It was a great day.

Then on Friday night my parents were awesome and watched the kids while Tom and I went out on much over due date! We went to the temple and then did some shopping and went out to dinner- at Red Robin of course. Thanks to my sisters awesome Marriott discount we stayed at a great Marriott in La Jolla for cheap and actually slept in! Then we went running on the beach in the morning before heading home. It was a dream come true! T

Saturday we went to Torrey Pines and hiked down to the beach, it was gorgeous! Sunday we met up with a friend of mine who was learning how to take family pictures at the beach and needed a family to practice on. They took hundreds of pictures of us, it was a great experience and the pictures are cute. I’m glad we finally got a picture taken of all 5 of us! Sunday night we enjoyed a stroll at the park, trying hard not to remember that this was our last night together for a while. Monday morning we said our sad good-byes and Hayden saw me tearing up and was good to remind me “Mom, it’s not sad, we’re going to see them again!” And he’s right, we are!

We spent the rest of Monday hitting some Memorial Day sales and stocking up on some clothes for the kids in the next size up since we’ve been warned the shopping there is limited and expensive. The rest of the week has past in a blur. Tuesday night I was in charge of the End of Season party for Hayden’s t-ball team. It went well and we got the coach a nice gift and he got great trophies for all of the kids and said nice things about them. Despite all of Hayden’s complaining he was sad to learn he only had one game left and really enjoyed running around with his team mates. He is in love with his trophy and keeps on saying “I can’t believe I got my very first trophy!” He made a sign for it so he could keep it in a special place.

I continue to prepare for the move and have suddenly started to feel really anxious about it. I hope the anxiety passes soon, I am working on organizing my to do list because I keep stressing that I won’t possibly be able to get everything done. I can't wait for Lake Shasta and the chance to just sit back and relax. It should be a lot of fun, the break I need because once I’m there I can’t stress about things to do. But in the meantime I am stressing about getting everything ready for that trip as well. Hooray for Adina dealing with all the food prep!! Thank goodness we cancelled the Hawaii trip or my head just might explode! Hayden is starting to feel the pressure of moving as he has the “last” of so many things. He came home from school on Friday telling me he is going to have a Halloween party at our house right now because he wants one last party before we move. We keep focusing on the positive so hopefully he won’t get too sad about moving. It’s going to be really hard to leave his friends because he still clearly remembers how it felt to leave his friends in Cleveland. Luckily is so good at making new friends he’ll be okay once we get there!!

Okay, I have to stop typing and must get things done.