Happy Easter

Happy Easter!!
Hope everyone had a great day. The girls and I had a really nice Easter day. We got a visit by the Easter bunny and he left some baskets for the girls. Then we hid the Easter eggs and the hunt was on...then we did it again...and again...and again..for a total of about 6 or 7 Easter egg hunts. It seems to be one of Ciara's favorite pastimes. She wished we could have Easter egg hunts all of the time. It was a beautiful day so we loaded up the bikes and the Burley trailer into the truck and went to the marina for a family ride. Ciara and Fiona really are doing well on their bikes. We rode from the Marina around to a little Beach and had a picnic and let the girls run around on the beach. Fiona almost made it all the way (about a mile I'd say) but all of a sudden just got off of her bike and started running. I think she forgot we were supposed to be riding bikes. Anyway since I was hauling the burley trailer I put her bike in the back and she rode the rest of the way home with Tara in the Burley. It was a good day all around. The only thing is we didn't go the Horse races this year like we have for the last few years. It had kind of become our Easter tradition. Oh well....next year. The girls loaded up on chocolate and cake and candy and crashed about 8 pm.. All in all it was a nice day. there are some pics I took in the slide show below.

Spring has finally sprung here in Emeryville. the Freesia and Tulips are showing off in the garden right now. I'm proud of my Tulips this year. It's the first time I have had good luck with them. Bought some bulbs at a REAL nursery this time (not Home Depot or OSH) and they really came up beautiful. There are some pics of the flowers in all their glory below.

There is a great article on Amyris in the April issue of Popular Science. No links yet but the issue is on the stands. I recommend it.

St Patricks Weekend

Life is just going by at the usual pace in our household. The girls are out the door to daycare every week day by eight and the evenings are filled with playing, taking little walks around the neighbourhood now that the evenings are a little longer, dinner and the bedtime routine. They all are doing great at school. Fiona is going to move into the Pre K 1 classroom beginning of April, she is ready to move on and is excited to catch up with some of her old friends who moved on ahead of her. Tara is really starting to become her own little person and loves hanging out with her sisters now. She loves sitting in the doll stroller and have one of her sisters push her around and they in turn love to push her around, I think she will always be the baby.
Ciara has been proud to call herself Irish this week, they put up St Patricks day decorations at school and learnt about St.Patrick and Ireland. We had all planned to go to the parade in San Francisco this weekend but I caught some nasty flu and just was not up to going. Ciara really wanted to go so Ron, Fiona and Ciara headed off. It turned out to be a lovely day despite forecast for rain and they had a great time and they all came home happy and with their pockets full of candy.