Sweet 16

Well, I can't believe it but I have a 16 year old daughter now, how scary is that? Dayna wanted to have a boy/girl party of course so she invited 3 girls & 3 boys to her party. The 3 girls came, but only one of the boys, it was her favorite boy so it was good. We had everybody meet here where we had cake and ice cream. Dayna wanted a pink cake with polka-dots, we used white and brown chocolate chips and turned them upside down to make the dots. After they were done eating we opened presents. We were then on our way to Trafalga, none of the kids had ever been there I don't think so they were all excited to go. Dayna didn't want me to stay and hang out with them, I don't know why aren't I cool? So I just when in and paid for them, as I was leaving Devin (Dayna's boyfriend) put his arm around Dayna and told me not worry and that he would take of my daughter. Boy did that FREAK me out! I told them just to call me when they were done, and I left. 8 hours later they finally wanted me to come get them it was about 10pm, they were all starving so we stopped at Wendy's on the way home. Dayna said they had a ton of fun, it was the best birthday party she's ever had. On Monday her real birthday I checked her out of school at lunch time and we went to the Olive Garden, it was sooo yummy. Then I took her to Walmart , she wanted to get her nails done. She has never had nails, cause she always bites them. This nice asian guy did a french manicure for her and they look really nice. That night we had one of her favorite meals, BBQ Pork Chops and for dessert we had cherry cobbler. It was a great day. Now that Dayna is sixteen she has already been on a date, she went to MORP at the school Saturday night with Devin. They had a great time. I know they got pictures, so when we get them back I will post them.

Disneyland!

I'm sad it's over but we had a great trip to Disneyland. The first day we traveled to Las Vegas, none of us wanted to go to the strip so we stayed at a nice hotel in Henderson. The boys played in the pool and we relaxed after driving for 9 hours. The next morning we headed for California we wanted to go to the beach since it was Sunday. We were trying to get to Huntington beach since we heard it was one of the nicer beaches, somehow we got lost, but we kept going west and knew eventually we would have to see the ocean, when we finally did it didn't matter which beach it was, the kids just wanted to go. We ended up at Redondo Beach which is quite a bit north of where we wanted to go. It was kinda cold and windy there, but the kids still had fun playing in the water, even though it was freezing, Adam just wanted to throw sand everywhere. Jason wanted to be buried in the sand so Ryan and Dayna had fun doing that. Tad tryed to build a sandcastle but the tide kept washing it away. The kids had never been to the ocean so they though it was awesome. Next we headed to our hotel, some friends of ours let us use their timeshare at the new Worldmark by Wyndham, we got a two bedroom. It was so nice, not only did it have two bedrooms it had two bathrooms, a full kitchen, a washer/dryer and two flat screen tv's. The hotel has two jacuzzi's up on the roof and chairs up there so you can watch the nightly fireworks at Disneylad it was sooo coool!! Downstairs they have a heated swimming pool, two more jacuzzi's and a kiddie pool. I wish we would of had a full day just to play at the hotel, but we enjoyed it as much as we could.Monday morning we headed for Disneyland, you get in free on your birthday, but i already had a 3 day pass, so they gave me a $70 gift card to buy anything in the park, they also gave me a button with my name on it, so that the workers would wish me Happy Birthday all day, it was awesome. We went on lots of rides that day, I can remember all of them, but it's amazing how every ride is a big production. The next two days we spent in going between the two parks, my kids liked California Adventure, since they had rides for older kids, I can't tell you about all the rides, cause that would take forever, but I'll tell you about my 3 favorite ones. My most favorite was "Soarin of California" you sit in these chairs that are in front of an enormouse screen, and it feels like your flying, you "fly" over various parts of California, like the orange trees and the coolest thing is they spray something in front of you that smells like oranges, so you feel like your really there. It was awesome!! My next favorite ride was California Screamin, it huge, at the beginning there's a countdown and that you shoot up like a rocket, sooo fast! It goes upside down and everything, it was sooo coool. My third favorite ride was Space Mountain, I love how your in the dark and there's stars everywhere and you go you go so fast, I loved not seeing where I was going, it really like you were flying in space. I loved it!! We were so tired at the end of the second day, that when we woke up on the third day we couldn't believe we still had another day, our legs and feet still hurt. But we toughed it out, it was sooo worth it though. If we go again I would schedule a day in-between just to rest instead of doing three days in a row. When we left we drove to St George and stayed at a Days Inn , the kids kept saying how small and crowded it was in that room, we were so spoiled at the other hotel. We drove the rest of the way on Friday and got home that afternoon. We had such a great time, we feel so lucky that we got to go. Here are a ton of pictures we took.

My little Musician

Jason has been learning to play the Clarinet at school this year. He brought it home to practice one day. Adam kept trying to take it away from him, so we let him have it for a few minutes. It was so cute cause the clarinet is bigger than he is. He also tried to play it by blowing in it and saying ooooh, ooooh, oooh. It was so adorable I had to put these pictures on here.

MceeDees

Now that I have a toddler again, I decided to let him experience McDonalds for the first time. It's just not right if you don't. I mean lets face it, the food is pretty much bad, even the kids don't eat much, they just want to play. Jason and Ryan helped Adam go up and down the slides and crawl in and out of the tubes. He'd look out the little windows and I'd wave at him & he would smile so cute. It's so adorable, I think that's why we get suckered into going there, it's too cute to resist. Jason took some pictures of Adam.