Spring Break

These moos-taches were a last minute accessory for reading week. The kids wear book themed clothes all week and we were short on the Lorax orange/yellow day so I made them these instead.I thought they would stand out and be hilarious but turns out tons of kids' parents did the same thing.Ah. Speak for the trees!

Shortly after, my parents came and joined us for a few days in Newport.

The weather was awesome and we had a great time relaxing. We hit Dland one day and Elliet rode California Screamin' for the first time. We also consumed a huge amount of Sprinkles and Gelato Paradiso (goodnessmesoyummy).
It was really fun to play with my parents. Wish they could have stayed longer. Next time!
All week long we kept trying to get Luke to pull out his other front tooth, which was totally loose and diagonal. It wiggled when he talked and had worked it's way to the midline of his mouth.
We called him "Lucas McPhee" until it came out right when we got home. Ha!

I've also been on a popcorn kick lately. Want to hear a funny story? Well, you're going to hear it anyway.
There I was at Sur La Table getting sucked into all the kitchen goodness when I come across the gourmet popcorn brands. One of them was full of blue corn. And I think to myself, "Blue popcorn?? That is awesome! How cool would that be to have blue popcorn. How have I never seen this before? I have to try this. It will be a hit at the upcoming book club!" So I buy it.
I go home and have to pop it in my big lidded pan (because we don't have a popper) and guess what? No blue popcorn. White popcorn. Whaa? Then it hits me what a doofus I am. Blue corn does not mean it will actually pop blue. I'm an idiot.
Gullible tastes good, though. My favorite rendition of homemade popped corn as of late is to melt a couple of tablespoons of Trader Joe's salted caramel sauce and drizzle it over freshly popped corn, then adding more fleur de sel. Yes. yes. yes. Try it.
 

 

My tasty pan salted of un-blue corn.  Yemmers.