Adventures of last minute travel

Mr Pilot is in Pensacola for the month. He surprised me with last minute tickets to visit him for the long weekend. What kind of fun does buying your tickets last minute get you? You get flagged for security. Want more fun??! Have a lay over in Vegas & switch terminals. It'll get you that special treatment search again. Some how I cleared the San Diego TSA security with flying colors but set alarms off in Vegas. Dress me in bright orange & stamp "TROUBLE" on my forehead! My shoes came up for explosive residue. Ok, so they didn't come up with anything in SD, but your machine says something different. Um, yeah... What I really wanted to tell the lady but kindly refrained from doing (not wanting to cause further trouble) was that she figured out my soccer mom secret. Yep, folks, after I put the kids to bed I put on my robe & black heels, go into the garage & practice my bomb making techniques because I just have that much energy left over at night. (TOTAL SARCASM PEOPLE!!) Anyways, she re-x-rayed my shoes & determined they weren't super secret squirrel shoes (re: Get Smart) & let me go on my merry way. So I flew from SD to Vegas to Atlanta to Pensacola. I'm thinking Airtran is not on my list of air lines to fly again (that list is getting shorter & shorter). In Vegas they changed our gate with out any announcement but swore up & down they did announce it. Apparently they have a bad habit of doing this. The more I tell people about the experience they tell me they had one similar. It's a good thing I was one gate down. I know for sure they didn't announce it. I start talking to the couple next to me while on the plane. Turns out they (among a good portion of our flight) were suppose to be on another flight to Milwaukee to get back to NY. Milwaukee had bad weather & they were delayed. While delayed one of the toilets on the plane broke. So the flight was cancelled. They were told if they took this flight to Atlanta there would be a connecting one to NY. What did I find out once in Atlanta? Well once again my gate was WRONG. So I stood in line to find out where I was suppose to be. The guy in front of me was one of the transferred passengers promised a connecting flight to NY that night. What was there not? A connecting flight to NY. Turns out Vegas/Airtran had too many people with cancelled flights to shack up that they started sending people else where. Niiiiiice! Anyways, I made it to Pensacola safely. Security being my only adventures.

Holy earthquake Batman!!

7:49pm, 5.0, San Bernadino. That's about 3 hours north-west of here. The house swayed, cabinets rattled, & it woke the dogs up. We had a big one like this last summer. Nothing much since then. Pretty cool!!

Some one lied!!

It's not the terrible two's. It's the terrible three's. The two's have nothing on the three's. I was told four is worse, but nothing can beat this!

Wow

I have a lot of catching up to do. I haven't been very good at this lately. Not that I thought my previous blogs were brilliant or anything. ;) The past few months since the Pilot has been home have flown by. One of my New Year resolutions is to be better at keeping up with my blogs. Along with catching up on all my scrap books & craft projects. I think instead of doing a recap of the past few months I will just write a quick blurb about everyone (in no particular order).

Mr Independent: I can't believe he's 3 already!! For his birthday we took him to Disneyland the weekend before. Then on his actual birthday we had cupcakes (his request. I've trained him well) & he opened presents. We got him an art easel, art supplies, & the movie Cars. Family got him trains to add to his growing collection. He was accepted into the districts preschool program & will hopefully (if things continue to go as planned) start next week. It's only twice a week & 1.5 hours a day. The city has a 3 hour/twice a week program in the morning I am looking into, too. The district program will most likely be in the afternoon so it will all work out. He's excited to go to "big school". Now if he could just find a way to ride a school bus he'd be beside himself. His current obsessions are still his tools & trains. He enjoys helping daddy build projects.
Princess: 18 months going on 30!! That's 30 years, not 30 months, lol. She's a character. One minute total diva next all rough & tough... & covered in dirt (or food). Her obsessions are babies, shoes & phones. She loves walking around in my shoes. It's already started. I'll have to get a good picture of her with her sunglasses on, in my shoes & carrying around her purse. Her vocabulary is taking off! She has 2 dozen+ words & adding a new one almost every few days. Boys & girls are so different from each other developmentally. She's starting to show some interest in the potty. I'm not sure how serious she is about it yet, though. I have a slight hope that she will be out of diapers by summer. It would be nice but as I learned with Mr Independent, I will not hold my breathe. She loves keeping up with her brother & (attempting) doing the things he does.
Us: If you couldn't tell, I got Photoshop Elements 7 for Christmas. I'm having fun learning it. It would be nice if it came with a book. I found 2 books at the library, but they are older (PE 6). I still checked them out in hopes that I would learn something to speed up this process. Mr Pilot got to experience the rare Las Vegas snow last month. He was there for a week long "training". I think I will call him Mr instead of "the". I never really did like it. Lucky him... right before Christmas. He was really only stuck there for 1 extra day. He's gone all this month for a school. There is a good chance that I would find out this month the gender of the baby. I wanted him to be here for that so we found out before he left. It's another boy!! Due date is June 24th... 2 days after Princess. Mr I & Princess were both 2 weeks early. So it should be interesting to see what this one decides to do. The kids are both excited. Well it depends on the day actually. Princess is just excited about it being a baby. Mr I wanted to send him back but then the next day was excited. Ok, back on topic, lol. We celebrated 5 years of marriage. It was a nice evening. We went into La Jolla to walk around & then watch the sunset on the beach. On the way back to the car we got to see the section of the beach that is roped off for the seals (or sea lions??). It is "pupping" season. I really wish I had my camera. Then we went to dinner. By the time we finished dinner it was late so we didn't see a movie. Instead we grabbed cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory & took it back to the hotel & watched a movie there. IDK, that's about all on us... boring, I know. :)

The 4 legged children: They are 5 & 2.5 years now. The oldest is king & the house protector. The youngest is... well, I think he is missing a few screws, but he loves playing with Mr I. He really puts up with too much from Mr I. Mr I was really into Christmas this year. I'll save the story for another blog (I need to get my day going!!), but long story short, the dog ended up being a reindeer & kindly played along. Both are fantastic with the kids.