Beach in Smith River, CA

On Thursday we left to go up to a wedding in Smith River, CA, right on the border of California and Oregon. We stayed in a small Motel right on the ocean. The boys loved playing in the sand, putting their feet in the water (Jackson actually got knocked over by a wave and got soaked!), and looking for shells and rocks to bring home to Bunny for her birthday!

Mommy and Bella on the beach

Daddy's little girl!

Donovan (not sure what the pose is about, LOL)

Jackson with a shell he found

Daddy remembered the sand toys, FUN!

BOYS!!

Don't you just love those adorably dirty faces!?!

Martina McBride concert

On Friday we went to the Concord Pavilion (just cant bring myself to call it SleepTrain, LOL) to see Martina McBride in concert. We got lawn tickets, and took a picnic. It was a lot of fun, but we missed not having Corey with us ):

Mom and Dad

Bella with Grammy Bunny

Papa Bob, Jessie, and the kids

Bunny and Jack

my beatiful girl

The opening acts were Chris Young ( the pictures didnt turn out of him) and Jack Ingram. Both were really good.

Martina was AWESOME!!!!

The kids all fell asleep by the time Martina went on stage. LOL

I held a sleeping Bella while Bunny held a sleeping Donovan.....

and Jack crawled into his sleeping bag, that lump is him (:

What a fun night (minus the walk to the car which was not fun with grumpy sleepy kids) I will definetly have to check out who else is coming there and take the family again!

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