Wednesday, July 27, 2011

picture fun

Here is my Mary maid. haha She loves to clean. Now she does. 10 years from now, probably not. She loves to do dishes and clean with windex.
Here are my girls with Kiah playing doll house in the garage. So nice when they all play well together. = )






Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Santa Paula Camping July 2011

We decided since cousin Aaron was coming to stay with us for a while we'd take him camping. We went back up the Santa Paula, where we had been for Mother's Day weekend. We had a BLAST! We wore poor Aaron out with the kids, which helped us relax a bit. = )




Aaron got to be independent and sleep in a tent. We found out we were not allowed to have tents, but OH WELL he stayed in it anyway.

So, here is the tent setting up process.



And the finished product!

Now it was off to the jumpy for some fun!





Mary was all over the rock climbing wall. She would climb up about 4 feet and then jump down, and start all over again.



Aaron made it to the top, like a pro!


the newest thing to the campground was a zip line. I figured Aaron would want to do it. BUT, once Aaron did it Mary was all over it and wanted to do it. With the weight limit, she could not go alone. So she had to ride with Aaron. They did it 4 times! So much fun. The catch was that it was $10 a ride for one, or $15 for two at once. Oh well, it was worth the smiles on their faces.








camp fire time!!!


Marshmallow Time!!






Fun weekend camping! Already have reservations to do it again in November! Can't wait!!!!













































Beach Day With Friends

Today we were off to Ventura beach for some fun with friends. Cousin Kiah does not get to the beach, living in New Mexico. So we brought her as well. the kids had a great time. Perfect beach weather. It was great!
Below is a picture of all the kidos. Kinda hard to see, but there is Mary, Teresa, Kiah, Brooke, Gabriella, Santino, and Keane. They all had a great time playing together. So nice they are all good friends. AND, us mommies are great friends too.



Aunti Linda was helping the girls build a sand castle. So much fun, until a big wave came in and gave the castle a mote. LOL

Poor Aaron was on kid duty. He loves it and the girls love him. He is such a trooper.That's what cousin's are for!













Wednesday, July 13, 2011

It is so much fun to have cousin Kiah here in town. Uncle Jim and Aunt Linda went to go visit Steven in New Mexico and brought Kiah back with them for two months. The girls love having Kiah around. She is just 7 month older than Teresa. They all play so well together.







Thursday, July 7, 2011

Florida Friend

Today we went to visit some friends of mine, who were out visiting from Florida. Their daughter, Catalina, is just 7 months older than Teresa. The three of them got along great and played so nice together.














Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Fantastic Fourth Of July (part one) 2011

What a weekend! I took 140 pictures, so this is a two part blog posting. Bare with me!
Friday morning we were off to Merced, for the 3rd year in a row. Off to go have some 4th of July fun in the sun with friends at Lake Titykaka.


Mary and Teresa were happy to have some other girls to play with while we were there this year! It was nice for us adults too.




Playing in the motorhome is lots of fun, nice and cool. It was about 105 every day! HOT!!

Kevin was so excited to get out there and catch some cat fish! Mary was excited to use her Barbie pole too.



Kevin kept catching one after another. He threw them back each time, but he caught 4 in a row that first morning.


The proud fisherman!

Mary turned 5, officially, on the 2nd. We had to have a little celebration for her, of course.



Her favorite gift from Aunt Corie, a barbie pool.





Teresa following Nana to wherever she was off to.


Corie and Elaine




Mary was a water girl ALL weekend. The first thing she would say when she woke up, every morning, was 'can we go swimming?'

This is the beautiful lake on the property. Like a resort.


Off for a paddle boat ride with daddy.


Teresa was quite the water girl as well. She had no fear.

She had so much fun with daddy.



The girls took one break to play with play dough Teresa was sporting daddy's hat.



Jello Shot time!!! First you have to run your tongue around the ring and then suck it out. Corie and I are pro's at it!




My picture ham!