easter enchiladas

for easter we had dinner over at our house. i made tofu veggie enchiladas, mexican rice, a big green salad, and fresh pico de gallo. dad brough a coconut cream pie from marie calendar's that grandma had bought, as well as chocolate cupcakes made by aunt linda, and mom brought a cherry cheesecake. addie and art brought goodies like cilantro lime dressing and artichoke hearts. i was so full that night i could barely sleep. we had a good time though. addie played songs for us on the piano and made a star-studded onesie for orion. it was good to be together as a family but we sure missed matt, amy, jarom, bella, orion, and mikie! i did have a good talk with mikie though.

darin and i are getting ready to leave again. this time we will post more road trip stories, because we'll be on the road longer this time! we will be leaving in the rain. we will see the salt flats in the rain. darin has been wanting to go to the salt flats all his life. okay maybe not all his life, but for a long time. on the way back here we drove through after dark! so here's our big photo-op and it will be raining, but that could be cool.

getting ready: dad helped me de-exhaust-smell the van and we took a drive last night to check out last minute things. darin and i have been obsessively loading new albums on my ipod. not new, but new for the ipod. actually it's mostly old stuff like u2, REM, elliott smith, erasure, red house painters, stuff i used to listen to and makes me feel the LOVE OF LIFE. that is the best for the road.

my favorite sing along album ever is joni mitchell "blue."

welp, I JUST CAN'T WAIT to get back to see the little family and hold those kids! with mom and joey on our heels, and dad safely in charge on my cats!

love to you all and happy trails.