Rena's preschool had a special night tonight for the kids and their moms. It was really nice to get to spend some time with Rena and have her show me all around her school -- she loved it and so did I! 
Rena and her teachers - Miss Jennifer and Miss Jill.
A picture of Rena and I that Rena drew for me at school.
.....and are ready to go to California!!
We are scheduled to be packed, loaded and on our way to San Diego on May 19th......(well, at least all of our stuff is going to be leaving on the 19th)......we will probably fly out of Peoria on May 20th.
We are looking forward to starting yet another chapter of our lives. We are excited about our new home, the neighborhood, the school district, the beach and the nice weather (and some yardwork)..........and hopefully many visitors!!
He had to ask me how to spell a couple of things (like available - which I didn't realize he already had the "a" there -- which is why it says "a available" and tomorrow - which he already had the "to" there - which is why it says "to tomorrow". He did a great job on the rest of it and now I'm just trying to figure out if this notice was meant for me or his sisters!
Cameron - 6 years old, Rena - 5 years old, Maleah - 3 years old
I even got in one of the pictures this year. With Jeff living in San Diego right now I had one picture taken with me in it so that we could send it to Jeff -- don't want him to forget that he has a wife along with those 3 kids! :)
On Friday afternoon we loaded up the van and Peggy drove us to Midway airport. The trip to San Diego went pretty good -- we were about an hour and a half delayed out of Chicago, but the kids did good entertaining themselves with some new books, coloring books and stickers.
On Saturday we spent some time looking at houses, but on Sunday it was a beautiful day and we spent the afternoon at the beach with Dad and Bonnie who drove up from Las Vegas to visit us.....
Dad actually thought he was going to rest a little bit while we were on the beach. It only lasted until Rena dumped out her bucket full of sand and the wind blew it all over him -- rest time doesn't last long with 3 kids running around!!!!
After we got cleaned up and the kids got changed we walked up to a "lookout"......
On Monday Jeff had to work so Dad, Bonnie and the kids and I spent the day at the San Diego Zoo. What a great zoo! We will definitely be buying season passes and spending a lot of time at this zoo once we are settled in the area.
Cameron loved the double-decker buses...... 
And the footsie-wootsie machines were a hit with all 3 kids.....
We all enjoyed the sky-ride.....
And we finished the day off with some ice-cream.....
We went swimming a couple of different times in the pool at Jeff's apartment. I did more sitting in the hot tub than swimming in the "cold tub" (as Maleah calls it), but luckily the girls are big fans of the hot tub also so I had them as an excuse!
On Friday Jeff took the day off and we went to Sea World. The shows were really amazing and a lot of fun to see. Jeff sat us in the "soak zone" a couple of different times, but luckily we avoided getting too wet. At the dolphin show Jeff, Cameron and Rena got pretty wet, but no one seemed to really mind and they dried quickly.
Saturday wasn't a great day with the weather, but we did get a little bit of sunshine and got out on to the beach to play one last time before we had to head home..... 
Happy Easter! The Easter bunny was able to find Cameron, Rena and Maleah even though they weren't at there own home. We had a fun morning looking through Easter baskets, searching for eggs and eating all of the jelly beans out of the eggs..... 
Unfortunately the time came when we had to head home. We had a good trip home. The flight was right on time and Peggy met us at the airport to help with all of our things and get us back to her place for the night.
We spent the night at Peggy's house and then did the 3 hour drive back to Peoria this morning. Fortunately when we arrived home in Peoria this is what we found..............a SOLD sign on our house!!!!!
We obviously knew it was sold, but it felt good to see the sign hanging there. Our next trip to San Diego will be sometime next month when we will be moving there permanently!!! 
Cameron and Maleah found some extra trikes at the preschool to have fun on.....
These magnetic things were a big hit with all 3 kids.
(Notice how all 3 of them are wearing some sort of shade of green on St. Patrick's Day. It was a big deal getting dressed this morning and finding something green. Rena told Maleah that hers was actually blue and not green, but I was able to convince Maleah that it was bluish-green and would pass for green on St. Patrick's Day!)
The girls love everything about this painting wall......paint, squirt, squeegee, paint, squirt, squeegee......over and over again!
Rena had fun riding bikes with the skeleton.
Maleah had fun with the air exhibit. You are really suppose to point the tube up and put a ball or towel over it and watch how it stays up in the air, but Maleah just liked it blowing on her and messing up her hair!
All 3 kids had fun at the pizza restaurant. Rena was in-charge of answering the phone and taking the orders and Maleah and Cameron made the pizzas, cooked the pizzas and served the pizzas. At one point I had about 10 pizzas in front of me at my table and when another mom tried to sit down beside me Maleah pointed out to her that she made all of those pizzas for her mom -- I guess she thought I was really hungry -- I was willing to share though!
We also had the pleasure of seeing our friends Stephanie and Aiden Fernandes while we were there at the museum. Unfortunately Amaya was at school, but we were happy to spend a few hours with Stephanie and Aiden!
