Ventura

What a fun long weekend in the beach town of Ventura. The kids had a great time with Grandpa Chavez, their Aunts and Uncles and Cousin Oliver.

Ventura Harbor





Briella and Aunt Jenny



Briella and Mommy

Sis-in-Law's
(And they're both Hispanic!!! (right Jenny) LOL)

Playing in the beach with Uncle Johnny

Grandpa, Aunt Jenny and Briella

Sharing stories with Uncle Johnny

Wrestle Mania with Uncle Johnny

My goofy Boy

Sharing the sand with Uncle Stevie

Oliver's next word will be truck!

Malibu and Botanical gardens

A fun weekend with friends from Tucson at a Malibu Beach and fun later at the Botanical Gardens.

Briella and Saryah (friends from Arizona!)

Malibu Beach


With friends at the botanical gardens




Lovely Gardens

RJ Boogie Boarding

DOLPHINS!!

Cort Boogie Boarding

RJ

Little Ladies

Miss B in the Sand

At the botanical gardens... the children's garden

With cousin Oliver

We had a great time with Auntie Sa and our little cousin Oli!

Rylan's Birthday

My big guy turned 7 in April. He wanted a Soccer Cake so this is what I came up with... and I was trying to get the "players" on the field right before we put the candles in the cake!

Making use of the snow that's left

The kids decided they needed to sled on the ice hill that's left in our front yard

Happy Birthday

How did our little girl turn 5? Seems like yesterday we were going to the hospital for her birth.

Briella wanted a "swimming cake" for her birthday dinner. So... this is what we came up with... it was fun decorating the teddy bears with swimming suits and inner tubes. The beach chairs were a lot of fun too!

Happy Birthday Girl!

Georgie brought her a real tea set... Briella's been having soo much fun playing with it.








Opening presents before school (that was a bit crazy!)

Field Trip

Briella and I joined Rylan for his class field trip to one of the high schools to see a play. This is his 1st grade teacher.

January 2009

It's been a busy month.. and not many photos to show for it.

Our family snap shot

Julie and I grew up together in the Sacramento area... here's her family snap shot with hubby Ruben and their 4 kids. (They were on a road trip.. had been to Sedona and we had them for Sunday Lunch)

Rylan on the Wii Fit... looks like he's doing the ski jump.



Miss Briella... her cowgirl hat must have not been fancy enough.. she decorated it... nice change as she's usually decorating the house and we're always pulling scotch tape off the walls.

More Snow... and it keeps coming down

3rd day of school closures... good thing we made it to the library on Tuesday... but do need to get out today.... running out of groceries... Jon said the road are terrible and hardly any visibility. The winds are terrible... snow blowing sideways, so will wait until later in the day to venture out.