Mother's Day Tea

Jackson's kindergarten class had a Mother's Day Tea for all of the Mom's. The kids were so excited to have their Mom's there. It was such a fun day!

Mommy and Jackson (the necklace he is wearing is a cute little heart he made in class that he gave me later in the day!)

His placemat

bringing me my sparkling water

bringing me my food

my wonderful treats

reading his paper about why I am special to him

Jackson with the portrait he drew of me

"My mom is special because she tuc me in"

and the picture of me, beautiful huh!

American Express

When we were in 8th grade Jennie and I were chosen with the other 12-13 year old girls on our scynchronized swimming team to go to Hollywood and film a commercial for American Express. The commercial only ran a few time but was definetly an experience I will never forget. It was so much fun! Well a few weeks ago Jennifer Stofiel emailed me a copy of it that she had put into a file on the computer. So here it is.....

Our 6th Anniversary

On March 30th Corey and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary! Thank you, my love for the wonderful years we have spent together and the many more we have to look forward to!

Making Easter egg chocolates

Grammy Bunny bought a fun kit to make Easter egg chocolates with the kids. They each got to make there own egg by chosing which color chocolate they wanted and then painting it in the mold. After we filled the eggs in with the rest of the chocolate, and then they got to eat the one they made.

Grammy Bunny with Donovan as Kailey watches

Jessie with Alexis, looking underneath at what her egg looked like

Grammy Bunny with Megan

Grammy Bunny with Jackson

the finished eggs

San Francisco

We had alot of fun in San Francisco. We took BART in to the city, then walked to Pier 39 where we had lunch at Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co, rode the merry-go-round, then finished with sundae's at Ghiradelli. YUM!

view from pier 39 of the San Francisco bay

Dave, Corey, Kyle, and Daniel

Kyle in Forrest Gumps shoes with Daniel next to the suitcase

Daniel and Lucy

Bella got her first french fry, which she loved

the kids meal came in cute little boats

Jackson on the merry-go-round (action shot as we are going around)

Donovan

getting off the ride

First BART train ride

We have friends visiting from out of town, so on Monday we decided to go into San Francisco for the day. The boys have never taken a ride on BART (bay area rapid transit) before so they were very excited about taking the train.

Corey and our friends buying tickets

Jessie with Van and Jack on my lap to look out the window

Jack

Jessie and Van

CCC Friends

On the way home we made one last stop in Raymond, California to visit some old friends Brandi, Casey, and Kyle. Brandi, Kyle, Corey and I were all in the California Conservation Corps together. That is where I met Corey 10 years ago. We had so much fun seeing them and watching our kids play together! Kiera, who is 6, would have held Bella the whole time if we had let her! Braden, who is almost 4, is right in the middle of my boys ages. Brandi and Casey have 5 acres, so the kids had a blast going wild on their beautiful property.

Kyle and Corey

Brandi and Jessie

Corey, Casey, Kyle, and Van

Kiera holding Isabella

Kiera brought out her stroller she uses for her dolls and pushed Bella around in it

Braden on the tire swing

Kiera helping Donovan on the swing

Jack with his elephant Allie along for the ride

Jack and Van with Braden on the top

How many kids can we fit?

Kiera

Braden

This is what happens when you get 3 toddler boys together

Lots of mud!!!

Uncle Steve and Aunt Judy

While in Nevada we were able to go to dinner one night with my Uncle Steve and Aunt Judy who live in Las Vegas.

Aunt Judy, Uncle Steve, Jessie

Judy covers alot of the shows and openings around Vegas. Check out her reviews at Las Vegas Round the Clock

Steve has his own buisness too check out Trippervision

Chuck E Cheese

On Sunday the 17th we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese. They needed to run around and get a bunch of energy out after being at the hospice so much.

Alexis, Jack, and Van

Jackson and Donovan having a blast!

Alexis having fun too!

playing air hockey

Jaden with Bob the builder

Mommy and Isabella

Aunt Katie and cousin Jaden