CaLi TriP ~ friday

We were able to sleep in until 9ish, which was wonderful. Today we did a tour of the StArS homes and another tour around Hollywood. We saw a ton of beautiful and expensive homes, no movie stars in person though :( We had a great time cruisin around in our 15 passenger convertible van! I think I'm going to move to Beverly Hills once I save up $4 mill for my future home. We walked around Chinese Mann Theater, looked at the stars on the sidewalk, checked out the hand/footprints, went to the wax museum and found a place that actually served COKE!!!

*chinese mann theater*

*star*

*wax museum*

*cruisin in the sweet convertible*

*my future home:)*

*my dream house (Dr. Phil's house)*

*pretty woman fire escape*

*hollywood sign*

After our afternoon downtown, we headed to the DodGers baseball game! We got rained on but we had a total blast, although the game came down to the last pitch... bottom of 9, bases loaded, 2 outs, full count and the batter gets walked to bring in the winning run :)

*Go DoDgErS*

*ballgame*

*ballgame*

*crazy girls*

We took the scenic way home and cruised Sunset Blvd and checked out all the wonderful people in LA! We made our way to the Cheesecake Factory in Beverly Hills around 11 pm and had dessert and a coke! It was super delicious, can't go wrong with cheesecake...

*carrotcake cheesecake ~ YUMMY*

Then it was off to the Ramada where we all crashed once our little heads hit the pillows!

CaLi TriP ~ thursday

My birthday weekend came a weekend early and it was a BLAST! Thanks mom and dad for helping to make my 30th a special one :)
Thursday afternoon the adventure began... Kirstin, Leigh, Chrissy and myself set sail in Lola (Kirstin's Ford Fusion)! We had to make a few stops along the way and stopped in Baker at Big Boy to eat. I highly recommend not stopping here and venture down the road to In and Out in Barstow! Thanks to TomTom we made it safely to our destination - HoLLyWooD, CaLiFoRniA :) This is where we made our home for the next few days, at the lovely Ramada on Vermont Street. We didn't get there until late so we just watched tv and crashed this night.

~Mesquite Days~

We managed to survive another Mesquite Days carnival. Luckily the weather finally cooperated for us by Saturday afternoon and we were able to enjoy the rides without wind! The kiddos loved the rides and their favorite was probably the little obstacle course with the big slide at the end. I even got suckered on going on the Strawberry ride that turns around in circles (yuck)! But we all survived and then it was on the the ferris wheel. Brooklin wasn't too sure about this one until she got going and then loved it. It helped that Alley and Ashlyn went along with us... We also enjoyed a funnel cake, tornado twister and the kids had a corndog! It was a great night and we all slept quite well :)

*The strawberry ride*

*Mason * Olivia Charles*

*Brooklin with her friends*

*Go faster (that's what B kept saying)*

*The merry go round*

*Ashlyn * Steph*

*Alley * Nick * Brooklin*

*Mason going down the big slide*

*walking on the crazy bridge*

*The crew on the fire engine*

*Swimming Lessons*

I've had a lot of people ask me about swimming lessons and I'm happy to say that Kirstin and I are both going to do them this year! We will be tag teaming it this year :)
We are planning on starting them mid June - the cost will be $40 this year and that will consist of 8 lessons 45 mins long. The 3 yr. old classes will be $30 and will be 30 mins long.
Please leave me a comment with your info and I will touch base with you when we get things figured out!

Bring on the 90 degree weather...

We are ready for summer... not really but it's going to be here in full force before we know it! It's been quite warm this week and the kids were ready to run through the sprinklers today. Brooklin was so excited to get her swimming suit on and Mason wasn't too sure about wearing the suit without the diaper. He was hilarious, he kept pulling his suit down and checking to see what was going on down there...I was laughing so hard! We can't wait for grandpa to get the pool ready - hint hint :)

FiNaLLy the garden is growing... (kind of)

Our poor little garden is finally starting to produce! I didn't think the lettuce was going to make it but it had a come back and we enjoyed some on our hamburgers tonight! The tomatoes are looking fab and hopefully we'll to start eating them soon. We also have a few squash or zuchinni starting to pop up!

HaPpY 1st BiRtHdAy JaCkSoN

I can't believe Jackson is already a year old! He had a little party at the park so we headed to Hurricane to help celebrate. The kiddos loved playing at the park and running around. We love you Jacks and can't believe how big you are getting :)