My Parent's front yard

We have been helping do alot of home improvement projects at my parent's house.

Corey and I fixed the sprinklers in the front planting area, and my mom and I chose the plants (daylilies, lantana, and purple fountain grass)and planted them. I forgot to take before pictures, but here are some afters.

My mom and I planted some Lily of the Nile around the front olive tree, and Corey has reseeded the front grass to help fill in the dead spots.

Before

After.... the grass is finally starting to fill in, and is sooooo much greener

On the side Corey fixed the grass again by filling in the low spots and reseeding it, and Mom and I planted rosemary and a bouganvilla.

Before....when Corey was fixing the grass

After

Birthday Cake

Here they are blowing out their candles and Bella eating her first birthday cake! Or maybe I should say playing with her first birthday cake!

here she is eating her cake, the video is a little long (4 1/2 minutes) but worth it, she is just so darn adorable!

(video to come soon when blogger will let me download it!)

she got one wing of the butterfly all to herself!

off to the bathtub

a view of the mess she left

What a cutie!!!!!

Minature Golf

After we opened up presents for their birthday's we headed to Antioch to play Minature Golf. We all had tons a fun! Papa Bob was the winner with a 49. He had a hole in one on the course, and got another hole in one at the 18th hole to win a free round of golf!

Corey helped each of the boys with their swings....

after a few holes we gave up and just let them do it the way they wanted LOL

Bella hanging out watching us

Bunny

and here is how Donovan golfs, this was actually one of his better holes, usually it took about 30 hits to get it in!

Birthday Presents!!!

On Sunday we celebrated Jackson's 5th birthday and Isabella's 1st birthday.

Jackson showing off his Nemo card

opening up a word world moon sand kit

Donovan got to open a present up too...

because you need 2 water guns to have a water fight!

Papa Bob helped Bella with her presents

which she loved

such a happy girl!

Here is a video of Isabella opening up her presents, she is such a talker now!

Birthday Cakes

Here are the cakes that I made for Jackson and Isabella.

Decorating a butterfly for Bella

the finished butterfly cake

A big 5 with flames (not the best flames, but not bad for my first attempt LOL) for Jack

Jackson is 5!!!!!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful baby boy! Jackson turned 5 on Monday, and we celebrated with a 2 presents and a cake. Saturday we will be having a party with family for Jack and Bella, who turns 1 on the 7th.

transformers from Mom and Dad

a Doctor Seuss book with 5 stories from Grammy Bunny and Papa Bob

NHRA drag races in Sonoma

On Sunday we were able to go to the drag races in Sonoma. It was so much fun!

The boys and Papa Bob took turns sitting in a Cory Mac dragster.

Daddy and his baby girl

Here is one of the races. Start....

middle....

and finish!

Bella playing with Donovan's dragster

And this is what happens on the drive home after a long day out in the sun. LOL

Bella is walking!

Bella has been crusing along the furniture since the begining of May, and many times since then has taken 1 or 2 steps at a time. Well today she realized she could do more, and started walking across the room! We are so proud of her, and she is definetely proud of herself as you can see by the huge smile on her face! Here are a few short videos.

she went from walking on her knees.....

to walking across the room

What a fun day!

On Tuesday Grammy Bunny and I took the kids to Tilden Park for a picnic, a ride on the steam train, and to the Little Farm to feed the animals. After we drove down to UC Berkeley where there are casts of dinosaur bones in the lobby of the Life Sciences building. There were 2 full dinosaur skeletons set up, and 4 skulls. The boys loved it, although they thought there should be more dinosaurs, LOL. All in all it was a wonderful day!

Picnic in Tilden Park

Grammy Bunny made us sandwich's and decorated the bags for us (:

beautiful Bella having a bottle....

and eating some crackers and cheese

Bunny and Donovan

Jack