Zoe's 3rd Birthday

Start at the last picture!

Sutton, Cadia, Zoe, and Sophia

Had to have a picnic for lunch. No room anywhere else!

Bubbles and Silly string on the porch

Had to make a couple trips around the table so everyone could have a turn blowing out the candles.

About 10 minutes after everyone was there Zoe wanted her cake!

Back to the Crafts.

Oh the Dora Cake.

Zoe in her 10th outfit today. Of course it started with the favorite blue dress.

Cookie Decorating. I think I have 20 sprinkle containers left over.

Why have a party when we can just play in Zoe's bedroom?

Starting in the craft corner

Birthday Toast with Candle

Going on a hunt for a Dora cake.

Decorating the house the night before. 20 balloons, pink and orange streamers (she liked it), Dora plates, napkins and princess cups she is starting:) to get excited!

Reading her new books from Gigi!

On a rocket ship!

Zoe's favorite food

Christmas 2009

Mission Bay, San Diego

21780
2.98



This is our home for the month of Oct - the road trip is now essentially done. :(

We are trying to make a go of San Diego being our new home for the foreseeable future. I anticipate continuing to blog as a great way to maintain a family journal - being said, if you want to stop receiving emails about when I post, no hurt feelings if you stop "following" the blog.



The trip was a wonderful experience, and I something we will certainly never regret. The time together and experiences we had were wonderful to say the least. Missy and I are already thinking about what type of RV we will live in full time to see the rest of the country when the kids are out of the house! :)



Cheers to Toyota, the Sequoia was our first toyota, and we didn't have a single hiccup with the truck for the entire trip - what a relief. The Puma did well too, no major catastrophes either thank goodness.

Lakeside - what lake?

21450
Gas: 3.05

We crashed Mikey's driveway for two nights while we searched all of the campgrounds in San Diego for our new home.

Unfortunately I forgot to take pics of the rig along side the house.

Zoe was in heaven running around a house and having Rocky to boss around and play with.

I looked around quite a bit and never did find the lake this town should be on the side of, but, oh well, seems to be working the way it is.

Da River - Palo Verde

20???
Gas was about 2.50 - I didn't write it down exactly, but I know it was nothing big - but we feel the price climbing with each mile towards CA



We made it all of the way to Palo Verde CA - a small town on the Colorado border separating CA and AZ. Why here you ask? Well good question.
It happens to be the location of a vacation home of a dental school classmates family - and they have full RV hookups along side the house - can't beat that!!


Kes and Mikey Sr catching a snooze as the afternoon sun passes by.

Zoe doing the 'naked dance' in the good'ol Colorado river

These sunglasses were found on the sand bar - ground down so you couldn't see a single thing through them - but like any great model, Zoe still pulled them off without a hitch.

Zoe checking the cooler for more goodies.

Dr Tyler can fix just about anything with an empty beer can and some rusty pliers.

Smiles here - but neither enjoyed the life vests at all!! Zoe was hysterical wearing it until the boat stopped and she didn't have to anymore - then she asked to wear it running around the sand bar!!

These last shots are of Quartzsite - a town in between Phoenix and Palo Verde/Blythe. It has a bunch of gem mines, maybe?? Anyway, as you can see, as we drove through it was near a ghost town - but apparently for Jan-Feb the population explodes into the hundreds of thousands for the largest RV and Gem show and a huge months long flee market too. Strange, you may think, but what the heck else ya gonna do in Jan?? Really, what??