Summer

Petting zoo at Beacon Hill Park
This is how my mom's dog Cocoa was walking so she could see the animals.

At the Lake on one of the few hot days so far.

I am not sure what she was doing but I couldn't resist the bum shot!

More summer fun.

Jumping on the tramp with the sprinkler under it.

Mini golfing while mommy was recovering from "the accident".

Ryan beating me up because I couldn't fight back.

The weather has not been so great this trip so we took advantage of the sun the hour it was out today.

Painting Baba's basement

Baba decided to paint her basement before they put in the new carpet. So she gave the kids an old t-shirt, a roller and a wall. They had fun. Aidan had more paint on himself after than the wall.

Muscles, or something like that!

Fun times at Baba's.

My kids love this trampoline. They are out there all day and their favorite part is jumping off the deck onto it. Aidan Knievel even mastered the art of trick jumping!!
Yes, she is a princess.

Best climbing tree ever in Beacon Hill Park.

We try to get a picture in this tree every time we come to visit.

Canada Day was super fun, even though Logan fell asleep during the firework show!!

Disneyland on my birthday.

Tower of Terror

My mom, me, Logan, sister Taylor, Aidan. I think I was more scared than the boys.
Emily entertaining herself in a line. The lines were not too bad at all, the longest was maybe 20 minutes. Most were only about 5 minutes.

Yeah for Mickey, we didn't even have to wait in line to see him, he was walking around so the kids just ran up and walked beside him.

Pirates!!!

I was recently in a musical with our community theater called The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree. I obviously was a pirate. It was a lot of work, big time commitment, but so much fun.

The kids loved it, they came in costume and pretended to be pirates also.

It was a dinner theater. We served chicken, pirates pie and a salmagundie, which was a salad with a bunch of different toppings.

Great picture of Aidan hamming it up.

I love my kids!

Never ever give kids a can of foam soap unsupervised.

Crazy kiddos

So I was trying to make dinner and the kids were playing in the front yard. All the sudden I hear "Mom, Aidan is gone" So I run outside and am looking around calling his name while Emily is being so clever not to give his hiding spot away.
I was a little mad they played a trick that almost gave me a heart attack but it was super cute also.
On his way back down a spider landed on him and he freaked out so bad he almost fell out of the tree. Mommy now has a new rule about no tree climbing!

Emily likes to Bling herself out. She does it all he time. This is how she came out of her room after I told her to get dressed for school.

This is what we compromised on. And no I did not tell her to pose like this, she is a superstar all by herself!

Easter morning

The Easter Bunny must be tall because Daddy had to help them all reach the eggs!
My very skinny Logan.

Checking out the loot!

Yes Aidan's hair looks like this or even worse every single morning.

Easter Egg Hunt from H*!#

The kids may look happy here but don't let it fool you. We woke up early Saturday morning to head over to Bakersfield, almost an hour away. We were very excited for the huge Easter egg hunt that we had to buy tickets for at $2 a person. The doors were suppose to open at 8am with activities and games going on until 10am when the hunts were suppose to start. Well we got there at 9 thinking we would have plenty of time to enjoy a couple of activities before the hunts. HA... when we got there they still had not opened the gates and there was a line about a mile long to get in. We went to the end of the line and waited.....and waited.... meanwhile the line continued to grow behind us another mile long I think. At 9:20 the line started to finally move....slowly. We got through the gates at 9:50, just in time for the hunts to start... or so we thought. Once inside it was total chaos. There were no signs or people telling you where to go, just many, many confused looking people with cranky children who had just waited in line for far too long. So we walked around and noticed there was a large group of people swarming around this one area so we checked it out. Yeah, we found the egg hunt! We stood by all the people and waited... and waited. Meanwhile our children were getting pushed and stepped on by so many parents trying to get their children to the front. We stepped back and called our kids for fear of their life and limbs. We decided there had to be a better way to get to these eggs so we walked all the way around to the other side of the field hoping the hunt would not start before we got there. There were other people over here also but not as many and not as pushy... or so we thought. By now it was 10:30 and we were all just waiting with the swarms of other cranky people. Finally an announcer started talking on the mic and telling us that the hunt was about to start but only one hundred kids at a time. "Everybody please stay back and wait your turn" Turn??? Were we suppose to have a number... what did we miss? We looked around at all the other confused looking people who also had no idea what this guy was talking about. All the sudden a mother runs out to the field and starts picking up eggs. Well this started a mad rush and everyone was all of the sudden pushing to stepping on people to get these stupid little plastic eggs. Aaron yelled over the noise, "Stay with Emily, I've got the boys." Our kids did manage to get a few eggs each miraculously. Emily was only about 3 feet from me and I had an egg between my feet. I called to her "Emily I have one here for you" Out of nowhere a mother comes and attacks my legs and grabs the egg. Holy mother of... crazy lady you can have it just get away from me. About 20 seconds after it had started it was done. Breath. So everyone was now sitting in different places sorting their eggs, I was trying to locate the boys and Aaron. Emily was walking around about 10 feet away when she accidently dumped half her eggs out of her basket. I still don't know where the people came from but there they were picking up her eggs and running. It all happened so fast she didn't even have time to react. Finally we found the boys and went to find a safe place to sit. There was not even candy in the eggs, just stickers and coupons for free kids meals etc. I guess in one egg out of the 7000 was a ticket to the Jonas Brothers concert so apparently that is what everyone was after. There were kids crying everywhere because they did not even get one egg while others were walking around with baskets full. It was so sad. There was still activities going on and since we did nothing but wait in line before the hunt we let the kids do a couple of them. Aaron went and ran their baskets out to the car and when he came back said there were still people lined up outside who did not even get through the gates in time for the egg hunt. This was put on by three different radio stations who obviously don't know how to organize. Later that night on the news was a big story on how horrible it was and that the newspaper and channels had gotten hundreds of complaint calls. They had only planned for 1500 people and over 3000 showed up. Well the tickets could be purchased starting a couple weeks before at Vallitix. We bought ours just a couple days before. They could easily keep track of how many they were selling and when they reached 1500 they really should have stopped. Overselling by a couple is understandable but they were really just trying to weazle as much money as they could.
After the hunt we waited in line for an hour and a half for them to get their faces painted.

Of course Aidan was spider-man.

Logan asked the lady to paint something she had never painted. This is what he got.