Revolution of Love

Revolution of Love

Do small things with great love.

{pretty, happy, funny, real} vol 43 & 7 Quick Takes (8/17/12) Mash-up.

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~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~


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As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been away from blogdom for two weeks. It’s been super busy here and blogging was the first thing to fall to the wayside. However, I am itching to get back and I have a small window of opportunity so I’m doing another {pretty, happy, funny, real} / 7 Quick Takes Mash-up. Enjoy!

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Part of the reason I was so busy is that I was enjoying the company of two of my sisters who drove up from So Cal. I loooove when they are able to visit us! The first evening they were here we had a girls’ night out and went to see The Dark Knight Rises. Loved it.

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It’s a little fuzzy since it was taken in the dark but you get the idea. šŸ™‚



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The second day we took the kids to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, one of the kids favorite places to visit, especially Andrew.

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Walking on Cannery Row in Monterey.




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Sharks at the Aquarium.




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Can you spot Nemo?




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The kids at the play area of the Aquarium.




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John-Paul having fun on the slide.




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Matthew tries on a Nemo costume.




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My munchkins.




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Bella and Andrew with my sisters Jacinta and Bridgette. Bella looks so much like my sister. I’ll sometimes catch myself calling Bella “Jacinta” by mistake. (Thanks to the girls for letting me post a pic of them on the blog. Not everyone wants to plaster their images all over the internet. Go figure. heehee)



We also had a beach day, which made all of us happy.

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The kids at play.




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Bella and I with my sisters Jacinta and Bridgette.



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John-Paul, as usual, could not step out of the door without his books.

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We were finally able to convince him to put them down long enough to play in the sand.




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Andrew loves sharks so we thought it would be funny if he took a picture with the Sharkman on Cannery Row.



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Okay, I know it is no way near Halloween but these are too funny not to post.
I went to Costco this week and they already had their costumes out. Andrew was dead set on being Spiderman and when I saw Costco had them a lot cheaper than other stores, I knew I had to get it now while they had his size. John-Paul wanted to be a super hero as well so he picked out Captain America. I think they are hilarious.

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John-Paul and Andrew



I was looking for a super hero costume for Matthew that didn’t have a mask and this Thor one seemed perfect, right down to the hammer.

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Love those muscles. LOL.



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Lastly, tomorrow is my birthday! I will be 35…again…and again….and again….and…you get the picture. šŸ˜‰ However, Brian has to work late tomorrow so we celebrated last week while my sisters were here. They brought up a gift basket from my family filled with items they knew I would love – Itunes gift card, stationary, journal, notepads etc. The best part of the gift, though, was the card in which they all signed and wrote little notes to me. It was so sweet it brought tears to my eyes. I miss them so much!

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Since the girls offered to babysit, Brian and I were able to go out on a lunch date. Woohoo!

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I finally got that pizza I was craving with tomatoes, roasted peppers, garlic, chicken and feta cheese. Yum!




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We topped it off with a shared dessert – peach cobbler with vanilla bean ice cream. Mmmmm.



Have a great weekend!

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