Another FULL Weekend

This weekend kind of started on Thursday. Becky and Arek went to work up in San Jose so we took the boys for two nights in our hotel room. First time using the sofa bed! On Thursday it was crazy sock day at school.

On Friday the girls both received awards at school. Anna received the Citizenship award. Here she is with the other award winners from her class.

Anna and her teacher, Mrs. Hairrell. We are so proud of her always doing the right thing and helping others.

QiQi also received an award.

Mia received the Amazing Author award for her great thinking in language arts.

Mr. Moretti is a tough teacher but Mia is rising to his expectations.

While eating lunch with all the kids on Saturday, Joey and Dan were texting about buying tickets for the World Series game that night! 

We decided to go for it! Joey and Brittany got a babysitter to watch all the kids and we brought Mia and Anna up to their house. With all the craziness, we didn't leave Moorpark until an hour before the game. When we got here, after NO traffic, there was ZERO line of people waiting to get in. You can see al the empty parking booths in the background.

There were no lines inside either! Apparently most people get to World Series games early!

We sat in our seats just as the sun was going behind the left field seats. Lucky us as our seats had us looking right into it,

The Dodgers lost but it was a really good game.

We spent the night in a hotel near Brittany and Joey as we were going to Underwood Farms the next day.

The kids spent the first 30 minutes playing in a large sandbox. We all decided we spent too much money to do that all day!

We got through the maze!

These two are always excited to see each other.

We watched the pig races!

Buddies!

Cousins! Sort of.

Busy October Weekend

 Our busy weekend started with a trip to Disneyland, California Adventures and Club 33 on Thursday. Adults only! All Dan's siblings and their spouses! Here is the new beautiful lobby for Club 33. We stayed from morning till night.

Thanks to these guys and family connections for getting us in to Club 33!

I love this picture of the ferris wheel even though I would never dare ride it!

On Friday we attended the girls' school carnival right after school Their favorite part was getting their hair dyed!

After that we dropped Mia off at a Kids Night Out Halloween party and the rest of us went to Matt and Natalie's rehearsal dinner at Katryn's house.

On Saturday we left the girls for 24 hours with Jillian and headed down to the wedding in Capistrano. It was a blast!

Mike and Marti made it from Texas.

Horrible picture of me but it was nice to finally meet Katryn's friend Joyce and see Christy again.

The mother-son dance was to Child of Mine by Carol King - not a dry eye in the house.

It was busy weekend but so much fun!

My Birthday 2018

My 57th birthday was Sunday. I requested that we all go out to a vegan restaurant for lunch.  The one I picked also had a full raw vegan menu which, of course, is why I picked it. I forgot to take a single picture!

Afterwards we went to the park.  Grandpa Dan bought everyone ice cream sandwiches from the ice cream truck. I wasn't too happy - we just ate lunch!

The girls went off exploring on their own.

They discovered this mini gym playspace. That's when I remembered to take pictures! After a bit we noticed that it said no one under 14 may use the machines.  Oops.

A Little Normal

We didn't think we would still be in a hotel at this point, but we are, so we might as well enjoy it. We decided to have our regular Sunday dinner with Becky and family. It's been four months since they left Colorado and we've had Sunday dinner! We barbecued outside by the pool and the kids swam.

We had the pool to ourselves most of the time. A man came and used the jacuzzi after a bit and Oli shouted, "Grandpa, someone is in your pool!".

We have a very nice patio and two barbecues. Come on over!

El Dorado Park Saturdays

I am all caught up on blogging! What I find is that if I get too far behind, taking pictures is not longer a priority for me and I don't even think about taking them. So..today it was on my mind!

Lately we have been going to the dog park and archery on Saturday mornings. They are both at El Dorado park in Long Beach. Charlie has not been feeling well for a long time and he does not always enjoy the dog park. But Mia...it's one of her favorite places.  She plays with everyone else's dogs!

Anna was excited to turn eight so she could take the safety archery class. Dan took it with her. Mia and I took it a few months ago. The instructors are amazing, they fit you for all the right size equipment and give you one on one instructions and help. They are all volunteers. Amazing program! And now that we all passed the safety class we can all go to the same beginners class every Saturday morning, until someone scores enough to move on to the advanced class. Hint, it won't be me.

Mia and I picked up lunch for the hungry archers.

Today was the day! El Dorado Park also has these pedal cars. The girls have been asking over and over to rent one. We tried on Labor Day weekend but parking was terrible and the one we wanted had a thirty minute wait. Since we told them we would try again on an uncrowded weekend and there was no one at the park today we had to say yes! 

It was actually pretty fun and the girls gave us pedalers lots of breaks so they could play along the way.  Mia did a great job pedaling when it was her turn but Anna could barely reach the pedals.

When we got home Dan took the girls to see Small Foot. Boy will they sleep well tonight. I am here in the hotel alone, enjoying every minute of it.