Home Sweet Home (San Diego- Day 1)

It is so good to be back in 75 (perfect) degree weather! We got here late Wed. night and hit up La Jolla Shores (after a quick fish taco at Rubios) all day Thurs....The kids are in heaven at the beach...they could play here forever....

Rob tackled this sand shark with his bare hands. He had an audience and everything! All for the love of capturing things! Pretty awesome huh?

JUST KIDDING...had you going didn't I! I wouldn't put it past him but it was actually dead on the shore and everyone was taking turns holding it up like they had caught it! Gabe thought it was really cool!



Tomorrow we have tea parties and retirement parties for my Mom!

I heart SD!

A Shadow Named Penny

This is our sweet little 20 lb puppy in March.....she went from this...

To this..... almost 75lbs!!!

She LOVES to be near you (esp. the kids) no matter where you are...a definite BEST FRIEND except she still in the "mouthy" stage and the kids aren't too fond of that. I have found her baby teeth around the house...thats always fun...but at least that means she hopefully will be done teething soon!!

She is near no matter where they are...watching TV...

Taking a bath...

This is where she sits when we are up in the kids rooms since she isn't allowed to come upstairs...so this is as close as she can get.

Even when we are in the garage she manages to get her head through our "cat" door to see what we are doing...so funny! I need to get a picture of her while the kids are swimming...she follows them around the pool with every move they make! It is so cute.
She is so sweet and we love ever pound of her! She will be 6mo. on Thursday and has many more pounds to go!!! She better be careful putting her head through there when she is 100 lbs! That could be interesting!

Six

Where has the time gone.... my baby boy is 6?!?! AHHHHH!!! I have been telling him for 2 years now not to get older....the kid just doesn't listen!

Even though it has gone by in a flash we have come a long way from this...

( Please ignore my swollen face, and "mask of pregnancy". That really is me after a LONG night of delivering my sweet little boy. )

to this....

He was in love with his Bolt cake. Who wouldn't be?

Thanks to Katie Rowten for this AMAZING "Bolt" cake...unfortunately my kids ate a little too much of it and look at those teeth!

JUST KIDDING!

Okay now Gabe, you REALLY aren't allowed to get any older now! I mean it!

What a Weekend!

To start things off Rob and I headed down to Dallas Friday night to go the Rangers/Padres game in Arlington with our friends Will and Emily.
Plus side...seeing the Padres 3 rows behind home plate.
Minus side...seeing the Padres get KILLED in 102 degree weather! We still had a blast!

Rob and Will...

Me and Emily...

Us after the game...see how close we were? Sorry if you cant tell due to the reflections off our sweaty foreheads!

We even got to watch fireworks! Highlight was seeing Josh Hamilton (who was on the DL unfortunately) come out with is wife and little girls to sit on the grass to watch too!

Then Saturday the great Uncle Dave and wonderful Aunt Rachel were kind enough to deliver our kids to us so we could meet up with our friends from college (and their 4 kiddos) to hit up the Great Wolf Lodge...and it is GREAT!

Here are Gabe, Dawson, Pearson and Gibson ready to go!

Syd thought she was really cool on this thing hitting the unsuspecting victim!

Rob and Kevin... waiting on everyone for dinner.

Gabe got a surprise sundae after dinner to start up the birthday celebration (his b-day is Tues).

After "story-time" at the lodge the kids got to take pictures with the wolf, Wiley.

Group pic...we forgot to do this last time we were together.

Pearson (1), Jaxon (9 1/2), Gibson(7 1/2), Sydnee(3), Gabe(6 on Tues.), Dawson (6)

Sydnee having a little too much fun with the "Hearne boys" (as she called them)...

Ready for bed...yeah right! It was a late night!

Ready bright and early for day 2 of water park FUN!

That is little head is Sydnee going down one of the kiddy slides...

Gabe found his new passion....jumping down the row of lily pads. He honestly did these about 75 times over the 2 days!

Another pic of the kids...

After this, we even got to meet up with Rob's cousin Sam, his wife and their triplets for lunch. I'm so mad I forgot to take a picture as proof!

It was a very productive and FUN weekend! When the Hearnes were visiting us in Feb. we talked about doing this. I am just so glad we did it and everything worked out that we were able to meet up. Everyone had a BLAST! It is so fun to be able to make such fun memories with life-long friends!

5 minutes after getting in the car to head home....Gotta love it!

"Girls" Day

Saturday Sydnee and I had a little "girls" day because Rob took Gabe up to some land to go exploring (BB gun in tow)...Rob just sent this to me from his phone...


We went to the nail place and I got a manicure and Sydnee got her fingernails and toenails painted. I let her pick out her colors and she decided on bright blue for her fingers and bright green for her toes...weird! Strange choice for a girl who's favorite colors are pink and purple but if anyone can pull that off it is her. She did so good sitting still. I think she was mostly mesmerized listening to the ladies speak Vietnamese. That worked in our favor...

Tenkiller

Well, even though Carrie and Wes are in Brazil...the Gotchers(Wes's parents) were still nice enough to invite us on our yearly lake trip. They have a wonderful place at Lake Tenkiller! It wasn't the same with out Carrie and Wes but we still had a blast!!!








The kids with Deryl and Cathy.

Rob has always had a thing for turtles...the highlight of the trip, according to him and Gabe, was catching 2 new pets. They are a baby Red-Eared Slider and a baby Map Turtle. They made it home in Granddad's cooler and have found a new home in the play room!

Another last...

Gabe wrapped up his first t-ball season last night. He really loved playing. Thanks to his patient, patient, patient....did I mention patient coaches who were so good with the boys!

Syd was so proud of her big brother!


Gabe and Kason

Gabe with Coach Lance and Coach Josh..those patient guys I was talking about!

This should be a poster...