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The first week of August we officially went on vacation to Northern California. We stayed in a rental condo in Aptos, CA, near Santa Cruz. We could not have chosen a better time to go. Down here it was about 90 degrees and up there, it was a glorious low 70s. We wore pants. We wore sweaters. The mornings by the beach were foggy. GLORIOUS. On the way up we took the 1 which, while it was beautiful, was a bad idea with squirmy Walter. We made a stop to see elephant seals and it was chilly! But we should have just kept driving since Wally had fallen asleep. He never bounced back from that and I had to hand over the amazon fire and many many snacks but it was not enough. Ah Walter. The drive sure was beautiful though. What an idea to make a highway that runs the coastline of California right? Overall, the kids were so-so during the day. We'd have leisurely breakfasts/morning times at our rental and then would head out for the day. It was those times when I knew that renting ...

Well after 11 months of a baby living in our room, our bedroom is finally ours again. Well it became ours again back in February actually but I'm just now posting about it. And sure it's ours, except for the fact that small people still come into our room at 5:30 am and barf all over our bed, ruining our old quilt leaving us blanket-less until I decided to just use the old guest quilt until I decide what I want. This is why I hoard things.  The rest of the room looks like so, I'm not sure what I've posted but I changed out the brass curtain rods to the black ones we had in the living room in my attempts to add black hardware to our room to stay consistent with the rest of the house.  Our room is where I tip more towards Matt's interests. Like King Kong posters... ...and drum sets... ...and framed photos of monsters... To be honest though, I love it all too. Not as much as Matt but I have embraced them. The top of the triplets is m...

The past few weeks I've been home with the kids have been full of everything and nothing. When I'm with them I try to keep my attention on them and not my phone, except whipping it out to take pictures of just how stinking cute they are but sometimes I just gotta bug Matt with "MATT! Take a picture!" when I have my phone far away.  I've hit the ignore button on Twitter and Facebook and haven't been on either for about 3-4 weeks.  It's not like I made some dramatic "Bye Facebook, see you never!" I just haven't logged on and I doubt I've missed anything. Except maybe event invites? I dunno. Frankly, I don't want to know. I don't want to know what's going on anywhere except what's going on at home. There's nothing and everything going on at home. We don't have to do much but it is everything.