my kind of day

Oh how I appreciated the weather this weekend.
One of the many things I appreciate about California.

Okay, some of my non-California friends might not want to know what we did today.
I would totally understand if you just stopped here and went to another blog.

If you are intrigued though...

We busted out the bathing suit, flip flops, slip n slide...and even Otter Pops.
Oh yea baby, it was a beautiful Valentine's Day!!!
But before that we did our normal Sunday routine, light breakfast, church, lunch. But for lunch today we went to one of Sammy's favorite places.


There was a small carnival there too, lucky girl.
She also was able to talk us into a few rides. I do HATE carnival rides, but hey, it was Valentine's Day.

How did she talk me into this?!
She pulled out this:


And so we got to enjoy the view.

Then Daddy took her down this...well actually she got to the top and looked at him and said, "I can do this all by my SELF"
Oh the words of a 2 year old!

She did good though!


Now back to the sunshine...it was SO hot so when we got home we decided to ditch naps (which later led to meltdowns) and pull out the slip n slide.
This was SUCH a hit last summer, who knew we would be using it again in February?!

Water was FREEZING!



But it didn't stop either of them!


T got knocked down a few times...

But he went right back to giving out his fair share of tackles.



Sammy needed a break and remembering last summer, she asked for her Otter Pop.
Joe says coming out from the freezer, "Pavlov's Dogs".
"What?"
He continued to explain that she had one every time we did the slip n slide last year so she was waiting for it when we pulled it out this time.
That's Pavlov right?
I started as a Psych major in college...I should know!


T's translation:
"Mmmmm, that looks good Sammy"

"Can I try yours?"

"Really, you're going to share with ME?"

"MMMMM, I love my sister"

Hope your Valentine's was a splash too :)