6th Birthday Fun

Rylee's 6th Birthday fell during the girls Spring Break. Diesel and I woke up and went to sing a Good Morning "Happy Birthday" to Rylee. The night before Rye slept with Taylor.

Diesel decided he wanted to crawl into bed with the girls and smother them with hugs and kisses.

For a Breakfast treat I bought lots of mini doughnuts. The kids loved them! It's a rare treat!

It's tradition that the birthday star gets to pick what they want for dinner. Since it was spring break Rylee got to pick lunch too. She decided to go to Sonics for popcorn chicken. We ran to Walmart to order her cake and so she could pick out her pinata. She was so excited for her presents. She wasn't allowed to open them until Jeremy was home from work so about every hour all day long she kept asking is daddy was on his way home yet. She was very excited. Taylor had a soccer camp that night and we didn't get done will 6pm. Jer was home now so we stopped by the house to pick him up and we were off to McDonald's. That's what My Rylee girl wanted for dinner. We at there and the kids played in the indoor play house. They had a lot of fun!

Then we were finally home. And so was DADDY! Rylee ran right to the gifts. She was very excited.

She got a DS from us and Jer parents. She got some money and a movie. She has gone shopping and bought some goodies with her B-Day and put some of it on her bank account. She really like reading her cards too.

That Saturday we her 6th Birthday Party. I rented a ramada at the park and we had it there. The weather so nice and she had lots of fun.

We had a pinata. It was broken before the big kids had a chance to break it. But they still loved all the goodies inside.

It was such an nice day in Arizona so I decided to have a water balloon toss. They kids had a lot of fun with this. They kept switching partners and were able to get a little wet.

Next she had her yummy cupcake cake. As you can see it was a 6 for her 6th birthday. We tried to light the candles but the wind wasn't cooperating with is so in the end she only blew out 2 candles.

Then Rylee opened her gifts. She got lots of fun stuff.

In the end I think she had a great 6th Birthday.

Spring Chicks

I have a friend that is a photographer and she wanted to take pictures of the kids for her portfolio. How could I pass up free pictures of my kids. Plus it hadn't been done for a while so I said yes. We decided to do it by the waterfall in front of my neighborhood, the same place we had our 2007 Christmas Pictures taken. They turned out so cute. There were over 300 taken. I can't put them all on here so here are a few good ones. Or you can check out my Facebook for lots more. No you don't have to be a member to see them. Here's the link http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=63969&id=778064322&l=a01a760ac9

Now for the fun stuff ... My Spring Chicks!

California Adventures

Day 2 started with me rising and shining first. Diesel and his daddy looked so cute sleeping I had to get a shot.


We all were so worn out from the VERY long day before that it took us a little bit to get up and moving.

Once we were all ready we headed to wait for the shuttle. We waited and waited and waited. It took us about 45 minutes. A lot longer then it should have!

Jeremy's cousin Kacie and her son Owen met us for the day Sunday. The first thing we did was see the Mickey Mouse Play House Show!

It was such a big hit! Everyone loved it and participated.

Even Jeremy was entranced!

Owen just loved Taylor and wanted to be near Diesel.

They had a ton of cool things. Bubbles fell from the sky and so did leaves. Diesel loved it all!

Afterwards the kids were pumped! Here are my kids and their cousin Owen.

Next we went to see A Bug's Life 3-D Show. The little ones weren't too sure about it all but us adults LOVED it and laughed all the way through.

After Bugs life were all so hungry. We found a good food place and waited in line and waited and waited and waited. After an hour waiting to just order we waited another 10 minutes to get our damn food. During the waiting the Men (Jer and my Dad) were making new friends and watching the kids. Lunch in all too FOREVER! Once it was all done we headed over to the Bug Life Kid Zone so the kids could go on come rides.

The 1st ride was a caterpillar train ride. The line was about 30-40 minutes and the ride stunk. So not worth the wait. But the kids stayed entertained playing on the ropes and we adults took lots of pictures.

Our cousin Kacie and I

My BFF Shonna and I. Oh I forgot to mention you can drink at California Adventures Park. So the Yellow cups = Beer or Margaritas. That also helped the time go by! :)

These are our new friends. They were so nice and lots of fun!

Rylee being a ham as usual

My Taylor is such a great big sister and such a huge help. She loved watching over Owen and he adored her! Isn't he just so cute!

Rylee just loved her Aunite Sami. And Sami loved all the Lovin!

Finally on the ride!

Next we went on the Spinning Lady Bugs. The kids started getting restless. Diesel looks so cute here and fell asleep just minutes later in my arms. He didn't end up riding the ride.

Maddi hated the ride. Can't you tell by her face. It was so sad yet so funny Shonna and I couldn't help but laugh. She kept saying "No More Mommy" " I want to stop" You should see the video of her on the Matterhorn! OMG too funny!

Kacie and Owen left after the LadyBugs. But we were able to get a group shot. Diesel was asleep still.

After that we headed over to Soar'n California. My Dad and the girls had never been on it. They all loved it. Did you know it takes you through Camarillo? So cool!

By the time that was over Diesel was awake and it was time to head to Downtown Disney for out Dinner reservations at Rain Forest Cafe.

We told them we were celebrating Rylee's Birthday and they came out and sang to her and gave her ice cream when our dinner was done. She was very excited.

Diesel on the other hand was very scared of the thunder storms in the restaurant. But her liked the elephant and gorilla.

After dinner my parent left back to the hotel to get their stuff and leave back to Camarillo. We took the kids into the Store so they could get some goodies. Then worked our way back to the tram.

We stopped on the way in front of the park entrance to take pictures with the letters.

Then it was back to the hotel! One final ride on our tram

Diesel's such a monkey!

When we got back to the hotel I was so thirsty and I was out of water. Shonna and I made a walk to the liquor store then to Carl's Jr for a late night snack. I'm not sure it was the best idea. I'm pretty sure we were in the ghetto. But we had an adventure that's for sure!

We were woken up a few times EARLY Monday morning to alarms. At 6:30am I checked on Diesel and this is how I found him. It's so cute. He was so worn out. He was sleeping with Jer and I was with Shonna. I moved him back the right way but not before I took a picture.

We got up about 10am. By 10:40 we were all packed up and on the rode back to good ol' Arizona. We got home around 6pm Monday evening and had such a great time. The weather in Cali was perfect for the park and we arrived back to 80 degree temps. Already talking to my mom about heading back over the summer!

It was an awesome trip with great memories, the best kind of people and fun pictures!