slow going

I have been meaning to update this blog and have good intentions, but life keeps getting in the way! I have about 15 posts from the past 5 months I want to add, but will get around to them eventually. Before the years end! Anyways, last night was out ward's trunk or treat and since we are headed out of town on Halloween and will be on a plane all day, we most likely won't get to trick or treating once we arrive to our destination. So this was our trick or treating for the year, and the kids had a great time!      

Rory was a rhinoceros and Sydney was a bee(thanks Helen for letting her borrow it!) I came up with a last minute costume, and Micah decided to once again be to cool for dressing up. Not a surprise. He wanted to be Tobias from Arrested Development(as he has wanted to be the last few years) but never really got it together. All well. As you can see our little new baby boy decided he wanted to trick or treat too, and who was I to stop him? I was going to use some blood around those arms busting out of my gut, but the kids were freaked out enough, and begged me not too add blood. I got lots of fun comments and compliments on my "costume."

 Today we headed down to Sea World but the line was looooong just to get into the parking lot so we decided to skip it since we have season passes, and headed over to belmont Park. Good choice, as it was empty, so we bought the kids wrist bands and they road the rides for 2 hours. We had a great time. It was a gorgeous day. We topped it off with lunch on Shelter Island, and the kids played Mario Kart at home. Then bed! We had a great day.

Summer 2012

Summer passed very quickly this year. Too quickly! But we had a lot of fun! Since I am still playing catch up(obviously, since it's October), I am going to condense.

                                 Sydney, Sydney, and Gage(my Sydney's future husband).

      Getting a dental check-up. Perfect teeth for both! My kids love going to the dentis(weird, right?)

                                 Bowling with Rory's friend Reaghan from school:

                                            End of the first summer session of swim:

Playing catch up! Last days of Kindergarten.

I haven't posted in months, and I was looking back at old posts, and loved being remonded of all the fun stuff from months and years past, so I need to do better and keep up with this! So I going to have lots of posts coming.
                                            We thought we would surprise the kids and take them  to a day game at Petco park. Because it was a school day, we thought we would pick Rory up from school early, and not tell him what we were doing. So Micah went over to Midland, got Rory before lunch, and told him we had a surprise. I packed lunch and snacks, and we were ready to go. Rory got it in his head we were going somewhere like Disneyland or Knott's Berry farm. We kept saying "no, but somewhere really fun! You will like it!" he then said, "what about Legoland? Sea World? the zoo? Wild animal park? " NO, NO, and NO! We finally told him we were going to a Padres game, and the little booger said"that's not fun! You took me outta school to go to a baseball game?!!"  Well we told him to get his back back, he was going back to school, and just Sydney would go. And then he heard Dad say we were getting cotton candy. Rory decided he wanted to go after all. too bad they only lasted as long as the snacks. 5 innings. all well.

 Rory's school had a carnival for the end of the year. We bought $8 in tickets and stayed until they were used. About 30 minutes. Most of that time was walking around trying to figure out which games they wanted to play. But we had fun.

                                       The Kindergartners put on a show for a Volunteer luncheon I was invited to at school. They sang lots of cute songs. My favorite part was watching Rory sing of course!

We took Mema and Grandpa out to dinner at Red Lobster:

 The last couple of days of school Rory's class did lots of fun activities. They had a picnic at a nearby park, had games out on the filed, and a movie afternoon with different "theatres" to choose from, and snacks. I volunteered for everything, and loved watching all of the kids. They were so excited the whole time! Sydney got to go to the activities, too. She took off with a groupm of first grade girls each day and I hardly saw her. She was in her element!
At the picnic:                       Sydney, Reaghan, and Monica with Rory in the back

                                         Rory and his amazing teacher Mrs. Hafer:

                                         Rory and Eric:

Easter

Easter is always a joyful time of year. We look forward to time with family, the kids look forward to candy and easter egg hunts, but we especially look forward to conference(listening to our Prophet) which happens just before, and celebrating our Savior Jesus Christ, and his atonement and ressurection. We are so greatful for Him, and for his divine love for us. He is our Lord, and because of Him, we can all live again.

We spent Saturday at my Mom and Dad's house, and Sunday at micah's parents, so it was fun seeing the whole family. Here's some Easter egg hunt photos:

                                                      Cousins from my side:

                                                    Kim Family:

                                                        Rory and his cousin Kyle:

                                            At Micah's parents house:

                                                My nephew Seth:

The past few weeks

We have been going to help my good friend Jayda out with her new twin boys Rowan and Luka every week, and have loved watching these boys get bigger and bigger! They are dolls. Sydney thinks they are anyways, and tries to hold them every chance she gets. Rory had a day off of school and got to come and play, too:

                                 Having a picnic with Rachel, the twins big sister and a good friend of Sydney.

                               We went to another puppet show in Balboa Park with Gene, Rory's best buddy.

                              All the kids with the star of the show, Benito Bunny:

                                Sydney, myself, and my sister and law Lynnette and niece Kaydence went to a ballet performance of Cinderella at the Poway Performing Arts Center. It was so fun! We got front row seats. We all got a little antsy after the first hour, since ballet isn't as exciting as a play, but it was still a fun girl's day:

                                             Sydney went to Mema's for the day, so Rory and I had a Mommy son day. He wanted to go tor Mormon Batallion, and he even got to dress up:

 He thought it was fun scrubbing clothes, but when he thought about it, it wouldn't be so fun to wash our whole family's clothes on this wash board. We are so grateful for a beautiful gas powered washer and dryer!

                                                       Joy school friends. We learned about imagination and creativity, so lots of dressing up was going on:

                                                                   The whole crew:

                                                      Making a collage:

                          

                                       Sydney and one of her closest friends Gage. Gage is one cool dude, and we love hanging out with him!

                                                  Rory at an assembly at school, he's in the blue sweater with the sour face. he doesn't look too happy.

 The whole school:

 Mrs. Lerner, the principal, who got a tidal wave of pineapple, coconut and silly string thrown on er, since the school read 400,000 pages during the read-a-thon.

                                       Sydney and Emily, who is another one of Sydney's closest friends. We have had a few movie nights with her, here they are cuddled up watching Alvin and the Chipmunks:

  Rory went to Legoland this past Saturday with Mema, so we had a fun day with Sydney going on a train ride, going to lunch at Prepkitchen in La Jolla, and riding bikes. She's pooped: