California Vacation

In mid July we packed the car and headed to California! Josh's family was having a McCusition Reunion. The first 2 days were activities to see the family. There was the park, games and meals. Then after church we headed for the beach. We stayed in the Hilton at Anahiem, Wow it was super nice. At first I was thinking I'm not a fan this is too fancy but I really loved it! On Monday we had a relaxing day at the beach and it was awesome! Our kids had so much fun and were occupied for hours, playing in the water and the sand and finding sea shells. Hailey spent the majority of her time cleaning her sea shells. Josh was like why is she spending so much time on that but that is what she wanted to do. I was a sunscreen crazy girl and applied it like crazy on everyone. Me and josh just had a few spots that we missed like a weird spot on the back of one of my legs and Josh a random spot on his back. The kids were a little pink around there eyes. I'd say we did pretty good. On our last day we went to disney land. It was pretty fun and there was really no detail left undone. It was super crowded and after a long day we decided that our kids are probably too young for that kind of thing. Our most favorite thing there was the parade they put on. We also loved some of the rides we could all go on like the Buzz light year ride and the winnie the pooh ride. Long lines were not our friends, we waited in 1 45 min line and our kids were so sad at the end of that one. I was impressed though that they had all the normal theme park stuff to eat there but they also had lots of healthy choices too like watermelon and veggies. We went to a princess stroy time which was a high light. I was also impressed with how clean the park was. We dropped a huge sucker which smashed to bits and within like a minutes someone was there cleaning it up.

                                                                                

4th of July

For the 4th of July we first went to the light parade the night before. We were a little late and Hailey and Troy were a little disapointed but still had fun. Although I think it was not too bad that we were so late because it rained and rained and rained even through most of the parade. Next year I think we'll plan to go earlier though because they did love it.  On the 4th we went Swimming with the Hakes and a BBQ.  It was fun!  The kids sure love swimming!  It is fun to see there skills they have learned so far in swim class.

Then in the evening we went over to the Kohlers and had tasty chicken fajitas and then played at the near by park and then did fire works when it got dark.  We also stayed late enough to watch the city fireworks which is always pretty impressive.  The kids really liked doing fireworks.  It was a fun and exhausting day!!

Alyssa bear Crawl

So I know there are alot of pictures but the biggest reason why I blog is for blurb books that I have made every year. I'm still trying to catch up from Hailey birth to 2 years old. I was almost all done then our computer completely crashed and we lost all of it. So now I'm starting again but doing it through a blog. Anyway, this is the crawl that Alyssa does most often and people always comment on it. Since is seems to be getting close to walking now at the end of July. What a little cutie!

Scotty's puppy visit

So Scotty came over to visit one Sunday and brought his puppy!  Must say we quite loved his little puppy but not enough to get one.  But it was so fun for him to come over so we could play with it!  My little baby looks like a gigantic monster next to his little puppy.  She had a hard time being soft.  Troy loved running around and have her chase him around.

Just thought this picture was super cute! I think it was actually from the Birthday party. Look at those super cute thighs!

Family Pictures?!?

So I thought it would be a great time to do family pictures because since it was also perfect for getting the kids pictures for their 1 and 3 year old pictures.  Well Hailey started out doing great for about the first 3 pictures. Her own,  then the silly craziness came out and she just couldn't do regular faces for anymore pictures.  That was so fustrating but I didn't realize how bad it was til I got the pictures.  Then Alyssa was done about 15-20 minutes in.  So it was a hard photo shoot.  Not to mention I took a lot of time and money picking the location and the clothes and was so excited about it all.  We still got some good pictures out of it but the photographer felt so bad.  She was like let's try again but Josh was not feeling it so I don't know maybe we'll try again in a few months.  I'm very tempted to put up one of the family pictures in our house that it cute of all of us expect Hailey is making a funny face.   We'll see...  Next time heads will roll if the silliness cannot be contained.  I love my kids!