California (Part 3)

(Finally) The 3rd and final post from our California vacation. The Beach!

California (part2)

Dennis the Menace Playground

Just a few blocks from Tiffany's house is a fun park.

There were a lot of activities for the kids to do.

There favorite was this long slide. It is made of hundreds of little tubes that role.

My favorite part was the train. This was also the scariest part because my kids have no fear. They were climbing all over this thing with out a care in the world.

Benson and I climbed to the very top to get our picture taken.

California (part 1)

When Tiffany moved to California, she made sure to let her nephews and niece know how wonderful it was there, and then told them to ask their parents everyday, "When are we going to visit Aunt Tiffy" Her evil plan worked. Kristen and her kids, me and my kids, and my Mom all went to visit Tiffany for the weekend.

It was a long 13 hour drive, and so we stuck Mema in the back to entertain the kids.

*insert evil grin here*

We made it to Monterey California very early on Friday morning. We had been there about 10 minutes, and some people came to the door and informed us of a tsunami warning. They explained that the evacuation was not mandatory, but told us places we could go if we wanted to. It was suggested that anyone with in 4 blocks of the coastline evacuate. We were 2 blocks away, so we decided to go inland for a few hours.

Everything turned out just fine, and a few hours later, we were back at the coastline to visit Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Treyton, Spencer, Benson, and Addi looking out at the ocean.

A few random pics from around the aquarium

A few more random pics from around the aquarium

Measuring up against a baby whale. None of us even came close.

Plan 2. Stacking on top of Mom to see if we were tall enough. Tiffany came the closest, but we still weren't tall enough.

The kids in front of an aquarium full of sea dragons.

Cousins from NC

Recently we had Bop and Burner's cousins from North Carolina visiting. We did a lot of fun things while they were here. One of them was we headed up the canons for a picnic.

Burner loved throwing rocks in the river

Bampa loved throwing rocks at me.

After a little snack and some rock throwing we hiked a little further and went to Bridal Veil Falls

The water up there is freezing, but Burner still loved it.

Bop and his cousins tried to get across with out having to touch the water.

Bampa and Uncle S took the older kids up a ways. They turned back when the kids were to scared to go on.

Burner sat at the bottom of the Falls, with his lower lip poking out. He kept telling me "Bampa fo'got me". It was really sad so Bampa took a special trip up the falls with just Burner.

In the end, everyone had a good time!


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Class of 2010

Bop was supposed to graduate Monday, but the unexpected snow put a hold on things. He, and his class did the graduation ceremony last night instead.

Here Bop is with his diploma
Bop, Dad, Mom and Burner

Grandma's and Grandpa's along with Aunt K and Aunt Pig were able to come cheer for him.


Bop and his 2 teachers.

Congrats Bop. We are so proud of you.

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Time with Aunt Pig

There are so many great things about living with Aunt Pig.

But one of them is the fun projects that she lets Bop and Burner, help with.

Recently Aunt Pig planted some herbs, and she was more then happy to let the boys help, and teach them a little about gardening.

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PIzza, and Games

We had some gift cards to Chuck E Cheese, so we called up Mema...


and Bops BFF, Orange...


and headed over to play some games and eat some pizza.

Bop tried out the clock for the first time.


and Burner pretended to try it out.

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We "Heart" Aunt Piggy

We all love living with Aunt Piggy.

So we decided to make her a cake.

Burner helped me mix it.


he helped me taste it
(we didn't want to give her a gross cake)

But I frosted it.

Since her nickname is Aunt Piggy, of course we made a...


pig cake.

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Apple and Orange.

We have had "Apple", and "Orange" at our house a lot more since Aunt K has being on bed rest.

I wasn't surprised with how much Bop and Orange would love this extra time together.
They love the same games, the same movies, and the have been Best Friends since they were babies


But I was surprised with how much Burner loved having "Apple" around.
He is a typical "Big Brother" to her.
He loves her like crazy and wants to play with her, and take care of her.
When she cries he brings her a sippy cup and her favorite blanket or toy.
He loves to hug her and give her kisses.
He also likes to pick on her
and tease her
and take her toys from her.

He likes to take care of her when she cries, but he is usually the one that made her cry in the first place.

Now that Aunt K has been given the okay to get out of bed and do some activities, we are excited to be able to go fun places together, and not be stuck in side because of a lack of room in my car.

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Family game night

I love playing board/ card games. I love my family. So naturally I love family game night.

Everything in my house is Orange

Bop has turned everything Orange.

We have a new phenomenon at Our House, we are calling it
"The Orange Factor"
after this little guy here.

He is my nephew, and his nickname is Orange Lemon (click here for his blog). So what is this strange phenomenon? How has Bop turned everything Orange? Here is a few examples how...

I tell Bop, " You are so silly" Bop replies " I am not silly, Orange is silly".
I ask Bop, " Do you need to go potty before we leave?" Bop replies," I don't need to go potty, Orange needs to go potty."
At bed time. I tell Bop he needs to go to bed, he tells me "Orange needs to go to bed"
He always fallow his statements with a rolling belly laugh.

I am sure you have the point.

Bop has some how made Orange a part of our everyday life.

Everything we do, he also does. Everything we can't do, Orange does. Everything Bop doesn't want to do, Orange does. That Orange is one amazing kid.

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Random Vacation Pics

I just thought this picture was cool. This is my older sister's Husband and Daughter. (Her Daughter is 9 months old)

Here is a pic of us going out to dinner for my little sisters, guy that she is exclusively dating but they don't call each other boyfriend and girlfriend because they are weird boyfriend's birthday. Did you get all that?

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Making Cookie's with Mema

The boy's love to bake. I think they love it so much because they get to eat it when they are done. When Mema (Mom's Mom) asked them one morning if they wanted to help her make cookies they were so excited. Bop was to excited to even change out of his PJ's to do it!
The best part of cookies, is decorating them!


Burner chose to use his treats like french fries and the frosting like ketchup. He just kept dipping them and eating them.
Even though he is my nephew and not my son, I loved this picture so I had to add it. My sisters son put about an inch of frosting and another inch of sprinkles on his cookie. You can't even see the cookie anymore!

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Life from a 4 yr olds eyes

Bop got this cool Vtech camera for his birthday.
I thought it would be fun for you to see what he sees.

Here is Mom and Burner
Here is his Hero, also known as Dad

okay I don't know who gave Burner the soda, but they are in trouble!

You can do fun effects with the camera.
Bop created this one.
He thinks it is so funny to have the Dino biting off his head

I created this one. I thought it was extra cute because Burner's favorite song is 3 little monkeys swinging in a tree ( I am sure you have heard it in nursery)
I didn't you to have to look at all the pics he has taken, but to give you that option I added a slide show with ALL of his pics so far.

The people in the slide show
Orange (Nickname for my older sister's son)
Bampa (Mom's Dad)
Aunt PP (Mom's little sister)
The strange guy (basically Aunt PP's Boyfriend even if they don't call each other it)
Our Family

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