Disneyland

We just took the kids to Disneyland for the morning (that is what is great about season passes, you can go for a few hours and when it gets busy you leave). Brandon took the kids on Star Tours for their first time (they are both in love with everything Star Wars right now, they spend hours together playing "Star Wars" with their action figures. Matt always wants to be Princess Leia. Good or bad?) We also met up with some friends and went of a few rides with them. They loved it and want to go again soon.

Ten Years!

Brandon and I just celebrated our anniversary. We went to Catalina Island for 2 days while Brandon's parents stayed with the kids (even the baby). We had a great time kayaking, snorkeling (at least Brandon did) and getting spa treatments.

All about Kate

Kate has had quite a summer so far. She had her dance recital in July and had so much fun and did a great job. She just started a new dance school in just ballet. She loves to dance and is doing great at it. Just before her 7th birthday she got her first loose tooth. I tried to get it out before she turned 7, but she didn't like me wiggling it. So she lost her first tooth just after her 7th birthday with me holding her down wiggling her tooth back and forth till it came out.


For her birthday she invited two friends, Brianna and Isabella, to go to the American Girl Store in downtown LA. Grandma gave her money for her birthday to buy an American Girl that looks just like her. We had lunch at the Cafe and then shopped. She was so silly during lunch she kept saying "We're fashion models and we don't drink out of straws" or other things that fashion models do and don't do. The girls had a lot of fun and Kate keeps asking to go back.

Our sweet Annie

Annie is changing so fast. We are having so much fun with her. She will be 9 months in a couple of days. She got her first 2 teeth about the same time last month. She sits and plays really well and a has been scooting around for a couple of weeks. A couple of days ago she started crawling. She hasn't done it much since the first day, but she does move all over the place mostly backwards. She can go from laying down to sitting up all by herself. I have been doing baby sign language to her and she will say all done when she is done eating and last night she waved bye bye to Grandma and Grandpa. She says dada, but I don't thinks she knows that it means daddy yet. Most everything she says starts with da. She saids diedie when she waves bye bye. Matt still can't keep his hands off her and she is starting to get annoyed by him. She pushes him away when he is in her face too much. She is such a pleasant little girl.

New Year of School

We are year round here so the kids started school in July and they off track for the month of August (a little strange to go to school for one month, but o well). Matt started Kindergarten and loves going to school everyday. He has a little bit of trouble sitting still for so long, but he is learn so much. I can't believe how much he already knows. Kate loves school and was so excited to start 2nd grade. Getting her to do homework is so easy because she loves it so much. Let hope that never changes.

Family Reunion in Oregon

We just got back from our family reunion. We left after school last Friday and flew into Boise, ID. We stayed at a really nice hotel there and then drove 3 hours to eastern Oregon Saturday morning. This was Brandon's dad's family. We were at the reunion on Saturday and Sunday. There was so much to do and the kids had a blast. I took almost 200 pictures, so you can check them out and see all the fun stuff we did. We camped out on Saturday night, which was an adventure with 3 little kids. Kate and Annie did really good and slept all night, but Matt had a little accident and woke up cold. Once he was redressed and covered up he fell asleep and slept till 10am. Brandon and I had more trouble sleeping since right after we took care of Matt the sun came up. It gets dark after 9:30pm and light at 4:30am. Monday and Tuesday we stayed in a hotel (thank goodness) and hung out with Brandon's parents and visited more with his extended family. Kate made good friends with Libby, one of Brandon's cousins daughter and had a blast running around with her. A couple of funny things happened that I want to remember, but I'm afraid they won't be very funny to anyone who wasn't there. Frank (Brandon's dad) was talking to Kate and Libby and said "Libby I'm your grandma's big brother", Libby then said "You look younger than my grandma", so Frank took out a dollar and gave it to her. When Frank's sister Tammy saw the dollar she asked about it and Libby said "I told him he looked younger than you". Tammy said "WHAT?!!" and Libby said (trying to defend herself) "He didn't make me say it, it's true". Another day we drove up to the lake in the mountain. We were on a skinny dirt road and a park ranger truck was coming toward us. We pulled over to let him pass and as he passed (very slowly) he had his window down and he nodded at us. Linda (Brandon's mom) said to Frank, "he wants to talk to you". So Frank rolled down his window and just stared at him. Well he just stared back for like 3 seconds, until they both said "what?" Then Frank said "I thought you wanted to talk to me" and the ranger said "I thought you wanted to talk to me", then they rolled up their windows and drove away. It was an awkward moment and we laughed for a long time about it. Too bad Linda didn't do it on purpose to embarrass Frank.