Endorphins Make You Happy

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

What we have been up to in August and September.

Shea's First Day of School.

Carson's First Day of Preschool

Making a Santa flag into a dress.

Cleaning the backyard. I cut the bushes and raked this pile of stuff all by myself!

Shea messing around with Carson while he sleeps.

Carson reading to Lacey. He took her in his room all by himself! So sweet!

STRETCHING

LOVING HER MOMMA TIME!

Painting Carson's room.

Laughing

Being silly!

Carson loving his sister.

Attended Matt's sister's wedding in Newport Beach on August 21st. Enjoying the wedding reception held back in Arizona on Sept. 19

Eating McDonalds at the reception. "Classy"

Loving my chocolate covered strawberry

Dancing with Grandpa Pribyl

Staying in PJs all day because Mommy was too tired to change me after working all night. (this is how she usually is dressed with her accessories. Necklace, one shoe, bracelet and purse).

Putting ourselves down for a nap after school.....(this is where I found them after I woke up from my nap.) They were so tired after the weekend. Yes, we are trying to work on the thumb sucking. Any suggestions?

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Vacation Day 4 and 5

We ran out of camera space for these days so I don't have any pictures.

We went to Huntington beach again on Friday. We also found meter parking so we didn't have to pay $15 again. We spent about 3 hours at the beach just relaxing. We also saw dolphins this time. We ate lunch on the beach and bought some onion rings and nachos from a food stand on the beach. YUM!

Back at the hotel I swam with the kids while Matt and Lacey napped. We ordered pizza and wings for dinner. Shea and I watched a new ICarly episode. We had a nice relaxing night.

On Saturday Matt's sister Amanda was taking out her endowments at the Newport Temple. We packed most everything up the night before so Matt could join his family. I took him down to the temple which was 10 min. away. The kids and I swam at the hotel, packed up and had to check out. I took the kids to a park across the street for the temple and they played for a while.

We meet everyone outside the temple and took some pictures. I am glad he was able to spend that time with his sister and share this great milestone in her life. When they were little Matt would always play with the "twins". I know he has fond memories of taking care of them...maybe not the changing of diapers part!! haha It is bitter sweet when we all grow up and start our own lives and I am glad we happened to be in town for this. We are excited attend her upcoming wedding!

After the temple we went out to lunch with Amanda her fiance Robby, his parents and Matt's parents. We had a huge lunch!!! I tried calamari for the first time. It was so good. Probably because it was fried! We had two types of salad, pasta, bread, dessert. We were so stuffed. We left about 3pm from Newport and drove home. The kids were in a food coma slept a lot.

We had a really fun relaxing trip! AND I did get in the ocean with Carson. Well, just to my knees! AND did I mention I am so jealous of all the people exercising outside. The weather is so nice there. Everywhere you go there were Road Bikes and runners.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Crystal Cove Day 3 (Thursday)

Thursday we went to Crystal Cove state beach. It was in between Newport and Laguna Beach. We paid $15 again. This was my favorite beach. We had to hike down to the beach and no one was around. There were a few locals out running and walking but that is it. The kids were able to explore a little. We learned that seagulls will get into your bag, pull out your grocery bag, and eat a whole bag of Cheetos while you explore caves. CRAZY! We stayed at this beach for about 2 hours then headed out. We got lunch then headed back to the hotel. Lacey and Matt took a nap while I took the kids to the pool. We had dinner at the hotel that night. And then headed out to get Yogurtland again. It is a good thing they don't have something like this in Surprise. Or I would be in trouble.