Blast from the Past

**Due to Dell and their stupid computers that don't work, this is a very late post.

The Hu Family arrived Friday night, (Feb. 13) ready for an awesome weekend of non-stop fun -- I mean, what else would you expect from the Cardons??!?! We are PAR-TAY animals. The weekend went something like this --


The cute doughnut shop on the corner made heart shaped doughnuts for Joalea's 30th birthday (which also happens to be Valentine's Day).



After making ourselves sick on those, we headed out to the Farmer's Market - a Saturday morning tradition now. I think the picture says it all. A blast was had by all (let's just say we have a lot of kids)....



The Dad's wanted to spend some quality time alone with the kids, so to accommodate them, Joalea and I offered to spend the day at the Camarillo Outlets. After spending several hours there (we were no where near done) we met our husbands (who had gotten babysitters for the kids) at some yummy place for dinner...I never caught the name of it. It was so good and fresh. I think about going back everyday!

Sunday morning we were off to church. How do you like my cute teal doors??After some napping, we headed down to the beach for a picnic (Haylie wanted to know why we weren't keeping the Sabbath day "more" holy).
It was absolutely freezing and windy, so Hu and I stayed close to the coals to stay warm.

A cow boy came riding by while we were walking, so all the kids got a turn on the horse.

Tyson won for being the cutest little cowboy.

Thanks for a fantastic weekend, Huhtalas! We hope we didn't keep you up too late each night! Good-bye for now...

Tag

My cousin Kristina tagged me. Here are the rules:

1. go to your my document/my pictures
2. go to your sixth file
3. go to your sixth picture
4. blog about it
5. tag six people

I love this picture of my baby Katie and Trevor. This was summer 2006 when we went camping in Burney Falls. I didn't realize that the kids were so little. We had a great camping adventure that year. My brother Blake was living with us at the time, so he came with us. We learned a lot on our first real camping trip, the most important being that a five man tent refers to 5 little tiny men and no luggage.

I tag Joalea, Anona, Joy, Elizabeth, Kandis and Whitney.

Farmer's Market and Gardens of the World

We had a great Saturday. And then it all went downhill... Haylie woke up with a headache, but after a little Tylenol she was fine. So, we decided to head to Camarillo's Farmers Market that is held every Saturday morning downtown. Yummy! Fruits, veggies and some really good Kettle Corn.

Afterwards, we headed about 10 minutes north to Thousand Oaks to visit the Gardens of the World. It was very pretty....

Since we were already out, we took the liberty of taking ourselves to eat at Claim Jumper. While we were there Hayile started getting really cold...never a good sign! And then on the way home, she fell asleep.

To make a long story short, she ended up with a 104.7 degree fever (no seizure this time, lucky us) and a really nasty flu. One by one, we have all fallen. My sweet Mom came up for a couple of days to tend to us. We are slowly seeing some improvement. Haylie's been fever free for 12 hours now - after 4 days! Katie wins the award for the sickest person this hour. Aurda seems to be on the mend. Trevor is just in the beginning stages. And me...I've never been so sick in my life (although at this moment I feel like I might live).

Home, Sweet Home

Here are some pics of our casa (for you, Joalea, so you can picture where I am when I tell you that I am mopping my floor)...

JANUARY 17 -- A beautiful beach day!

We ditched packing for a few hours to go to the "Pirate Ship Park" (who knows what it is really called) and the beach. Thank you, Camarillo, for greeting us with such wonderful weather!