Tanaka Farms
We went to Tanaka Farms this morning. What a great time we had. My special moment was when Nicole said she had a really good time with me. Almost put a tears in my eyes and of course she got hugged and kissed to death. Anyway we went on a tractor ride through the farm. We stopped and got to taste veggies. The first thing we got was a Maui sweet onion. The kids smelled it but wouldn’t try it. They sure liked carrying it around though. The kids got to see the bananas growing on the trees. The next veggie was purple carrots. I had never seen a purple carrot. And if you think that was weird we got purple and yellow green beans. We also got some broccoli. Then it was time to get off the tractor and pick strawberries. It was funny to see what the kids would do. Nicole wanted to pick all the strawberries and loved filling up her and Justin’s baskets. Who knew she would like to pick them that much. Nicole had to fill up Justin’s basket as he was too busy eating them! It was a great morning, hot though. The kids were dirty and covered in red strawberry. The messier they are I guess that means the more fun they had! After we met daddy for lunch. It was nice. They showed him all their veggies. We had a nice lunch together outside. But we threw away the veggies as we thought they were done. Nicole wanted her onion. She kept on saying she lost it. We didn’t want her to think she lost it so we told her we were hungry and ate it.On the way home we stopped at Costco to get a pizza as we were having friends over for dinner. You would think after all this activity they would take a nap, nope. So they watched a little TV so I could get a break. After we played in the futon room for a while, strung beads. Then we set up the race car set in the living room. We played in the living room for a while then had a snack. We went upstairs and played up there as well. Then Paula and Krista came over with their kids. We played all over the house, living room, family room, futon room, outside. The kiddos had a great time. Nicole was a little screamy at dinner. We all had pizza and the kids had mochi balls for the first time (Japanese ice-cream dessert). Of course they loved it. We showed our friends the kids big kid beds, so the kiddos even had fun playing upstairs. It was a little crazy with all the kids but it was fun! Then we have the kiddos a bath and lots of books. Nicole was carrying around two of her baby dolls and said she had twins. Justin is looking taller than Nicole again, I think he grew more. Justin was so tired tonight that he almost fell asleep on me, so sweet.
