on memorial day weekend 2011....

....four girls had a blast in seaside, florida.

coming from georgia, pennsylvania and california we celebrated...

we ate...

we drank...

we had a photo shoot...

we bathed in the sun...

we talked...

we talked...

we talked...

we listened to music...

we played on our phones...

we danced...

we gazed at the stars...

we did headstands on the beach at night...

we hugged...

we cried...

we laughed...

we loved being together to enjoy these moments all for one special girl...wende leigh faulk...

happy birthday wende...

we love you.

sushi and tapas

photo shoot

saturday night dinner

deep in discussion

showing off her prettiness

has anyone seen my schlitz malt liquor shirt?

the dirty guvnah's

girls just wanna have fun

ahhh....seaside

tax day 2011

pay our taxes?

check

get outta town even though we just paid our taxes?

check check

where?

san diego!

we spent two nights at a great little motel on the ocean.  it was a super cute motel, but as we learned, was not very family friendly.  scratch that....not very family with a toddler friendly.  people were up hanging out until 2am or later but you know what?  we were so tired saturday night that we all fell asleep at 8:30pm.  funny thing....we had the best seats in the house for a wedding that took place saturday afternoon at 3:30pm.  i probably could have touched the pastor outside of our window.  i sent cashel into the shower with jason at 3:30...i figured that as funny as i thought i might be for cashel to babble throughout their ceremony, they probably wouldn't appreciate it. 

the next day we went to the safari park northeast of san diego.  it was like a zoo, it had a zoo but then it has an open, safari-like experience.  we loved it!

totally unrelated....except it's the barnes' family

 in two totally different events the barnes' family had a blast.  they were both on a sunday.

the first one above is a great place in pasadena called eaton canyon.  there we braved getting "wet foot" by crossing over a couple of streams.  cashel learned the joy of throwing rocks in water and climbing rocks.  we've since hiked in the angeles forest at a place called switzer falls.  we'll do more of this.  it's just too much fun not to.

the second barnes' family sunday venture was to disneyland!  for the second time we went to the happiest place on earth.  i'm sure there will be many, many more pictures of this awesome place.

yesterday...

we were coming home from a fun time at the pirate ship park when the following exchange occurred:

cashel: i'm robin

robin and jason both laugh

robin: i'm jason

jason: i'm cashel

cashel: i'm jason

robin: i'm cashel

jason: i'm molly

robin: i'm uncle kelly

cashel: i'm jason

jason: i'm loki

robin: i'm emma

cashel: i'm saka

jason: i'm nana

robin: i'm cashel

cashel: i'm aunt mary

woah.....this boy is smart.....later on he said:

i'm moxie

i'm telling you mary and kelly - this boy would live with you guys if he could.  he mentions someone from your family every single day.  he "drives" the car and i ask where he's going and he always says "to molly and emma's house." 

can't wait to see you guys and the rest of the family soon!  i bet after being with reagan and addison this summer he'll talk about them just as much!

just now....

jason got home just in time to finish reading to cashel before bed.  i got a hug and a kiss from cashel and as i was walking out of the room he said to jason:

i'm gonna call robin when you're done.

i looked back, a little taken aback and jason said:

he says that every night i put him down.

he he...he IS a mama's boy alright.

2.5 year old bff

cashel has a bff.  at least...sometimes he acts like he and brendan are bff's.  when they are together.  when they are apart.  our families have done stuff together.  this morning he and brendan had a hair rubbing contest with jason.  brendan noticed cashel's haircut - if that's not a bff i don't know what is.

here's some pics:

how cute!

here's two for the blog

1.  at a wedding last night jason said he and cashel spent about 10 minutes looking at the cake.  jason tried to get cashel away, but it just didn't work.  sometime during this 10 minute period cashel said to jason...."lick it dad."

2.  as jason was putting cashel to bed tonight the following exchange occurred:

cashel:  dad, i'll get bigger and be man.

jason:  yes, cashel, you will.

cashel:  then i won't have hair.

jason:  you will have hair.

cashel:  oh...ok.