Thursday, April 9, 2009

Lillian is 5!

Lily is growing up so fast! It's hard to believe she turned 5 years old today. She can't wait to go to school next year with her big sisters and ride on the bus with them. Lily is such a sweet little girl and her smile lights up any room. She is always dancing, singing, laughing and just being her funny little self. I'm so lucky to be her mother! Love you Lily...
Happy Birthday!


Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Good Job Isabel!

Isabel is happy to say that she is an independent reader now! I think she has been for a while now but she is so glad that her school has recognized it with an award now. She has been working really hard and we are very proud of her :) The first thing she asked me was "Are you going to take my picture and put it on your blog?" You know it!
We love you Isabel!!!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Cruise!!!

Well, I'm finally getting around to posting the cruise pictures. It was so nice to finally go on a cruise again with my brother and sisters. Also this time I'm glad my parents decided to come. Sorry, this post is long but we were on the boat for 5 days (March 16-20) and the darn camera was with me everywhere we went! So....Enjoy :DThis picture was taken shortly after we arrived on the boat in Long Beach. As you can tell, I forgot to schedule my tan! Ha ha!
Chad waisting no time finding the Chinese food before sitting down to relax with everyone. I guess he can do this because he was the one in the gym every morning.
Monday dinner. There was ten of us so we filled a table perfectly. It was good times at the dinner table every night.
Jaime and Tom
Dancing after dinner at the club
On our way to Catalina.
Chad and I turning the camera on ourselves.
Jolene and Daniel....and Tom!
Jeff and Condy
All of us in Catalina. It was a nice day!
We saw Stan and Mary Crippen and we treated them like celebrities.
My superstar pose or whatever this is!
Yes, Charlie...you called?...
This is what we look like with no kids hanging off of us!
Jeff taking it easy :P
I'm so glad Jolene was cruisin' with us! This is their first cruise!
We found my parents and all of us girls took a picture. We were causing quite a scene with the people passing by!
The guys were next. Chad was goofing around but here is a good picture where everyone is behaving.
Our kissing picture. Tom took this one and made us hold the kiss forever. Hey...didn't bother me!Tuesday was formal night. Jaime's guilt is written all over her face because she was not watching her points with the french fries. I also believe she dipped them in ranch which Chad got her hooked on. Tom was shocked!Our formal attire. Chad enjoying the karaoke music and my mom ready to get up a run! Sorry mom...I should have warned you ahead of time. This is the cruise Chad! After this picture was taken, he ran up to the stage and did some weird dance and did a hand stand! Yep...that's my man!
Off the boat to Ensenada!A quick picture to show us in Ensenada (kind of)!Lovely Ensenada....and back on the boat! (all in 30 min.)Chad dancing at dinner!He was something. Our waiter told him to and I don't think he realized what he had done. Chad would also sing his lovely birthday song whenever someone was being sung to. It was pretty funny. Tom and Chad acting like the table was the tea cup ride at Disneyland. How mature guys!The last night Chad of course danced again but so did Jolene and I. It was a lot of fun because this time they did the train around the dining room. Also as you can see from this picture, I gave our waiter a well deserved tip. Everyone was laughing and Chad made me kiss him way too long because the camera was acting up!This is my birthday surprise! The other waiter made a mistake and already served me my cake so they sang to me with fruit! I thought it was cool!Thanks Chad!mmmmmmmm....yummy fruit!


Every time our room was cleaned we got a new towel animal. This one was my favorite! We had a great time eating all day, relaxing, playing around, going to karaoke, dancing all night and just having tons of fun! Can't wait to go on another cruise!

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Live Taping of "THE VIEW" in LA

I forgot my camera at home so I took these pictures from Jolene! My brother-in-law Tom heard that "The View" was coming to LA so he got 4 tickets to take Jaime to Wednesday's show. Plans didn't work out for them so Jaime asked me to invite a friend so I asked Jen to come with us. We left extremely early in the morning so I didn't sleep and picked everyone up at 2:45a.m. It was crazy but so much fun. LA was so cold that Jolene's toes were like a McFlurry but I have to say McDreamy McWarmed us all like a McMuffin! (Ha Ha...that was for Jolene!) Patrick Dempsey was certainly NOT a disappointment! Plus we were happy to see all the ladies from "The View" and receive 3 give-a-ways even though I am behind times and do not own a Wii for the game (Pixar's movie "Up") or a Blu-Ray player for the Wall-E movie! Oh well. We also got a subscription to a new Disney magazine!Jen, Me, Condy and Jolene waiting in our COLD seats before they took us to the set.Sisterly Love...Jen and I finally ready to watch "The View" The Set!

Patrick Dempsey a.k.a. "McDreamy"
Whoopi
Hot topics!
It was a lot of fun! Thanks Tom!!!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Opening Day!

It's time for softball again! We missed the actual "Opening Ceremonies" because I had a migraine but that didn't stop us from being fashionably late!It was also picture day !My sweet little Isabel is a Texas Longhorn this year :)Jolene is coaching Isabel, Carrie and Taylor. Kaitlyn is on the 10 and under team.Jaime is team mom. I try to make my girls call Jolene "Coach Eliaba" but I guess Jo Jo will do :)Cleo and I getting sun burned and not realizing it. I sure felt it the next day and I felt so bad when I looked at my poor baby with red arms and cheeks. You could even see where her headband was on her head! Oops. Cutie Katie! Her team sponsor gave them visors and sweatshirts. How nice!Kaitlyn's team...UCLA Bruins! This picture shows just how tiny Kaitlyn is next to all her teammates. They can't help but pat her on the head or pick her up and spin her around!