Tuesday, April 26, 2011

March 2011-Spring Break Monkeys in the tree!

One of my favorite things is watching all four of our kids play together in the backyard on weekends or summer days. It reminds me of when I was a kid and would build forts and roam all over my grandparents' farm with my little brothers!


The kids all love to do crafts/art projects together too. It's fun to find new things they haven't tried before like orbeez and bendaroos, and aqua sand--but nothing beats good old fashioned color crayons on paper:). Madison created this work of art for my dad who is a bird expert! It has unique relevance since we found a little bird nest in our backyard while grandpa was here!!


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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

March 2011-Newport Harbor cruising!

Doesn't chris look good behind the wheel of a boat? :). Someday maybe...Another favorite groupon activity of mine was renting two little putt-putt boats for half price and seeing the sites from inside Newport Harbor! Dad and Mom took Kennidy and Madison in their boat and later even let them drive!! Chris and I also found our dream home....

















We've had abnormally warm weather so the fish have come into shore earlier in season and so we got quite a show walking balboa pier later! We even saw two seals!



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Sunday, April 17, 2011

March 2011-Wedding bells are ringing!

How exciting that my brother Loren found the love of his life Nikki and my darling cousin Brianne said yes to her sweet boyfriend Josh! How CRAZY that they both chose the same day to marry--July 9th!











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March 2011-Mamo & Grandpa come visit!

It was their week off at the Medford Temple so we flew mom and dad down to see the girls in their Peter Pan performance and come play with us! We saw Madison and Kennidy at their jog-a-thon turned dance-a-thon!


Then Mamo and Grandpa treated McKinley and I to a mani/pedi at the nail salon. McKinley at three years old is already an expert (not sure if that's a good thing:).



Then we shopped 'till Grandpa dropped' at the mall with Carter and little McKinley (who loved every minute of it of course).







And we went on a fun adventure to the corvette diner in San Diego and a little golden spoon after.




I used my new favorite app called Groupon to book us a hot double date with discount tickets to a 'Pirate Dinner and show'.



(only sad part was Carter got sick and 'tossed his cookies' on the carpet while we were gone and our cute sitter Brooke was in charge and then the next day McKinley came down with the croup! Hasn't been our best month health-wise, Kennidy had Strep throat twice during the final weeks of the school play!)



And Mamo & Grandpa got to help our girls with Spirit Dress Up days at school all week! These were Hillbilly Day and Madison chose to wear Grandpa's old fire chief shirt for occupation day!






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March 2011-Carter finishes his first basketball season!

Carter and his basketball coach, he was awarded 'most drives to the hoop'! He looked forward to each game all week long asking every morning "mom, is it Saturday today yet?". So cute!


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March 2011-Another excuse for the moms to party!

For April's birthday a bunch of us moms grabbed a sandwich for lunch and then took our little ones to open gym. Thanks April for another fun way to spend our busy mom days:).



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Friday, April 8, 2011

March 2011-McKinley's first cavity!

Just like her big sister Kennidy, McKinley had a mouth full of cavities after her first x-rays At the dentist (even though we've been taking her to the dentist since she was 18 mos and we brushed and flossed her every night!). The miracle came when we were able to skip the general anesthesia we had to do with Kennidy and we did McKinley's cavities with only nitrous in the dentist office one week after she turned three!! I practiced with her every night-holding her mouth open for a long time while I told her I was 'scraping off the sugar bugs', and I prayed... A lot:). Doesn't this look so sad, but if course she got a reward when she was done!



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