Just A Busy Family

Well, school is out now and we might have a little time on our hands to keep up on this blog. We seem to go non-stop when the kids are in school. We are sitting on the couch now, Jared is playing the video game, Kylee is reading, I'm on computer and Bob is too. LOL We are glad to have an evening with nothig to do to catch up on "down" time.
Let's see....Kylee got staight A's on her report card for the whole year of 1st grade. Jared was right close to her with only 2 B's. Jared recieved his Webelo badge in Cub Scouts this week. They are going to have a great summer of boating, fishing, relaxing, etc.etc.
Bob has been working out a lot and is running pretty regularly too. He is going to be busy with his work as usual for the summer months.
I am running to train for a half-marathon in October and am enjoying it tremendously. I have me some amazing people in the process.

Hope to get to see lots of our friends and family this year. Love to all!!!
Sorry no pics this time I havent uploaded the camera lately.

Sorry, I am a SLACKER!!!

Sorry some of these are sideways....This is a cake Bob and Jared made for the Cub Scout meeting. There was a Father/Son cake competition....bummer, they did not win, but I was amazed with the cake!!!

Kylee shares her birthday with this little boy, Dominic in her class. So they decided that they shoud make a cake together to take for the celebration in the class. This is Dominic and his mom and the Final Result of the cake.

This is Kylee in her dance class, taken with phone....not a good picture but she really does go to dance every Thursday.

These are just me an my kiddos out on a dinner date with Dad, he took the pics....wasn't in any.

This is me and my HONEY on a "no kid" weekend away. Notice the big smiles!!!!!

It's about time!!!!

Jared caught this Dorado in Cabo.

Going out that morning.

Christmas Day, Santa got him a trolling motor to go with his boat.

All the friends and family here for Christmas day.

Nana, Bob & Kathy stayed the night Chrismas eve and woke up nice and early with us Christmas morning.

We have been so busy with friends and family that I haven't had time to update. We are so enjoying the hustle and bustle of getting together with all of the people that are special to us.

A Very Special Day for All of Us.

G'pa John and G'ma Nita gave Kylee and Jared the news that we would be having lunch at the exclusive Club 33 in Disneyland. They are giving them directions on how to get into the "secret door" in this picture. It was funny because it was so loud that the kids kept saying, "what?" and I think John & Nita must have repeated themselves twenty times.

I made the kids pose with the menu so we have proof we were actually there.

We begged a passer-by to take our picture in front of the door after we ate.

This is a video of Kylee in the Ladies room at Club 33 in Disneyland. She was so excited! It was so cute.

Our original purpose of this trip was a family Christmas Celebration without the gifts, just enjoying the company of family and letting the kids have fun. We went with The Kanes's, The Williams' and the others were missed that were coming but unforseen things happened. Poppy and GG were not able to stay due to illness and Mike and Brianna were busy with their new baby. We missed them but understand that things happen to all of us. Hope GG and Poppy are feeling better soon and maybe Mike and Bri are getting SOME sleep.

Below are some other assorted pictures of our day.

We are having a BLAST in Disneyland!!!

Here are some pictures of our fun filled dayat Disneyland!!! We also got to go see Aunti Bri and Uncle Mike's Baby because she was born at the hospital just down the freeway. She is beautiful!!! Her pictures are on here too along with her PROUD PARENTS!!

A lot of stuff I missed lately!!

So this blog will be long and maybe boring for some of you. I have missed a few things lately that we have had happen or have done, so below will be some pictures and captions to show you what we have been up to. Also some of the stuff we already posted but now have better pictures of them. Thanks for looking and sharing our lives with us. We appreciate all of our friends and family!!! Love you all!!!

This past weekend we had a lot of fun things planned and things seemed to change instantly. We did have a great weekend though, even through it all. On Friday night we went to see a great friends son's championship football game. They won!! It was great! Saturday we had a family day, Jared and Bob worked on his boat and Kylee and I did inside stuff, it was too cold to be outside. Then Saturday evening we were going to a friends for dinner and Kylee instead had us take a detour to Kaiser to get two stiches in her finger. She was a MAJOR Drama Queen through the whole process. It was almost comical!! Jared was an amazing help though. Poor dad was in the shower when we broke the news to meet us in the car to go to the hospitol. Then we had great day on Sunday decorating the tree and then Sunday evenng went to another friends for a nice family dinner with them and their children. It was a Great weekend, action packed and all. Next weekend we head to Disneyland where I hope to at least get pics up nightly of our adventures.

This was from the Christmas Parade in Elk Grove on Saturday Nov. 29, 2008. Jared and his Cub Scout Troop Friends.
This was Kylee in the same parade. We went to John and Anita's and watched the parade with all our family and friends. The kids loved having everyone there to see "them".

Here are some more Thanksgiving and Parade pictures.

Here is a video of our house decorations outside. And some pictures of the inside.

We have so many things that happened this week that we never had time to put it on here so we are going to do a couple things a day over the next couple of days.
We had an OUTSTANDING Thanksgiving with lots of friends and family.
Everyone wrote on a leaf what they were "Thankful for". It was so neat to read all the things we all have been blessed with!!!



The kids and some adults rode dirt bikes on the track and a couple even CRASHED, although they got "right back on the horse" and continued riding. Like boys do!!!








We ended up with about 40 or so people. It was so fun having so many!!

Kylee was in a parade with her dance class. Here we are getting her hat on, yes she got a cute Santa skirt on later. (she did have a leotard under her shirt, no I didn't let here run around in nothing).

Jared was also in the parade with his Cub Scout Troop. They had a great float with a John Deere Tractor pulling it. Bob and Jared had a blast on this event!!! I sat in the audience and video taped and took pictures. We will add more as we can.

After the parade we went back to Johns and Anita's place for turkey soup and hot chocolate. It was great to get to visit with everyone and laugh about the "funnies" of the parade. We are just so happy to have so many amazing family members and friends in our lives. This week has reinforced the happiness we feel as we get to spend our precious lives with you all. Thanks to everyone for being a part of our lives and letting us share ours with you !!!! We love you all and wish you a Happy Holiday Season!!!!