California McMillans

Danny and I wanted to go away for my 30th. The original idea of going to Monterey or Napa with Danny sounded fun but not the perfect. I found the perfect little cabins on the water for the entire family. I was so excited hoping it would be a relaxing weekend with a kitchen, warm shower, cute cabin with fishing, a playground, sandy beach area and enclosed camp site for the kids to roam would actually be as dreamy as it sounded. Well, it was! It was SOO fun. I loved every minute of it realizing how great my twenties have been and how great my thirties will be. Each decade truly becomes more rich and full of love as my family grows in so many ways. The weekend summed up my greatest joys...my family! No agenda, no plans, no urgency, nothing to do....just hang out with each other and do whatever we pleased or didn't please to do at the moment. This is my dream vacations. Arriving by Ferry. We went to church and left on a much larger ferry. I will post pics later. The boys, in

You go, girl. Next we'll get you a Sonicare. Scott showing me how many fizz candies he can tolerate at once. When he's older, I'll tell him about when I fit two full size doughnuts in my mouth before chewing them up.

Tyler got a Pet-Scan yesterday. Danny had the day off and it was really nice to have him with us for the morning. After Tyler was injected with radioactive technetium-99, he kept telling me he wanted two shots for his birthday. I was a little confused why he wanted shots for his birthday, so he explained he was going to give his new friends at the hospital the shots. On that note....I am an advocate for my child and feel all parents who spend a lot of time in the hospital should know that there are IV specialists. The first tech searched and searched in vain for a vein. They don't see ped's that much. My rule is one failed attempt and IV team gets called. I used to sit and watch up to three failed attempts. That can be problematic when you are in the hospital for a long time and have a lot of collapsed veins. I now spare Tyler the extra pokes and bring in the experts. Sometimes we need to wait a little longer, which I totally understand. There are serious emergencies going on a

No one knows why the term "guinea pigs" was chosen for test subjects, because mice and rabbits were much easier to come across for laboratory research. But that's just for your gee-whiz collection. Our guineas have been patient creatures for our developing kids. And here is Tyler, looking for some bugs. Here's Kira, just being cute.

On Monday we went to Vallejo Tires for some used tires for Heidi's car. Dr. McMillan, quality assurance advisor Yeah, of the four tires, two of them had screws all the way through. You can't tell on this one, but the treadwear markers were exposed.