Happy Birthday Auntie Kimmie! June 3, 2008

Yes, it’s Auntie Kimmie’s birthday! We had a yummy breakfast out with the Sanvictores and Clement families then…

…we must make a cake! Clever Kimmie has just the thing.

Bunny Cake!!!

Then off to 2000 Degrees to paint some pottery! Elijah and Sadie each did a handprint (at my annoying Mama insistence) and then worked together to paint this platter. It was frustrating not to be able to see the actual colors that we picked out (the pigment comes out when they’re fired) but it will be so exciting to see them when we pick them up (talk about delayed gratification!).

Wine Country June 3, 2008

On a not-so-lazy Saturday we embarked on a picnic adventure in Santa Inez Valley- wine country. We wine-tasted and had a picnic on the lawn of a beautiful winery that had a backdrop that Hollywood couldn’t recreate (though it was so gorgeous, it made one wonder how it could be real).

The kids play with Todd- a man who embodies the spirit of childhood. They were so excited that he came to play!

After the picnic, we went to an ostrich/emu farm where the kids fed emus and we gawked at ostriches.

This is an emu- a frighteningly ugly and prehistoric looking bird. They make a low growling sound that makes the hair on your neck stand up.

This is an ostrich which, next to the emu, looks like a regal bird. We were inches from them. They are enormous, intimidating, and their movements are very strange.

Their faces are kind of pretty!

‘They run so fast!’ says Sadie, pointing some out in the distance.

Then we went to Solvang (a Danish town)- for baked goods, of course!
Then more wine tasting! No good pictures of that since it’s hard to taste wine and convince 2 kids who aren’t tasting wine that it’s fun to watch adults taste wine. However, Sadie was into the ‘nose’ and commented on a few of the scents she noted as I swirled.