Weekenders

One of the few good things about living in the Imperial Valley is that because there is nothing to do around town, we generally high-tail it out of here as fast as possible come Friday afternoon. This weekend was extra special because we were celebrating Adrian's 31st birthday!

We woke up, packed out clothes and loaded everybody into the car in the morning and made the trek to Camarillo, Adrian's hometown, and dropped off the kids with his parents. I had coordinated with his friends to have dinner at one of this favorite old haunts in downtown Ventura, where he got up to his old shenanigans...it was quite interesting!

On Saturday, we recovered - yes, recovered - and then headed to our close friends' wedding shower where we let the boys run rampant. They had a bounce house for the kids and we literally had to drag Gabriel hands-first out of the thing in order to get him to leave.

On Sunday, we sadly said our goodbyes and then met up with our friend Sarah at the Los Angeles Fire station to meet her new boyfriend.

We got to have lunch with the firemen, went on a great tour of the station and then got to climb into the fire truck. Cameron said that he had to go talk to the Captain for a minute and when he came back, he told us that he was going to give us a ride in the truck around the block!



Gabriel was seriously thrilled. When he put the siren on, Gabriel looked at me and asked, "Mom, where's the firetruck at? Is it behind us?" It was too cute! He told us afterwards that he wants to be a fireman now.

We capped off the weekend by putting a security deposit down on a house - moving in May 1st! - and celebrated with Cold Stone. It was a great way to end the weekend.

What were you up to this weekend?