Junior Prom

Saturday Brianna went to her first Prom. Wow prom is a lot of work! I never realized! We had problems from the beginning, with ordering a dress online that never arrived! Also when plans keep changing and Brianna got so fed up she took charge of booking the party bus, that made it much more work! Remind me never to commit to using my credit card to book the bus! Waiting till the last minute to book the bus didn't help either and we probably called every place in orange county to find a bus to fit 40 people! Fortunately everything went smoothly in the end! 

The day of prom was fun though. We went and got her make-up done at the mall, by this fabulous guy!  We loved what he did thank goodness, and she didn't have to come home and wash it all off! 

All grown up! 

 Her date was her boyfriend Chase, yes I said boyfriend.

 I wished I was going to prom! 

 Some of her best friends

 Sam and Brianna

Half of their group. Half of them had dinner and this girl's house, which was much nicer than having to find a restaurant to fit them all! 

I guess they weren't too thrilled with the dance and don't know if they want to go next year! I am sure that will change in a year and when it's their last!

Field Trip!

James had his first "Real" field trip. They went on a bus to the Santa Ana Zoo! This was a popular field trip and all the room volunteers filled up before I could put my name down. So I was a little nervous him going on a bus without us! But we were able to meet him at the zoo and that way Jake was able to come too. We made it a family affair and Craig also joined us! 

James on the bus! He saw us waiting for him! 

When they first got there they sat to have snack. 

 Looking at the Bald Eagle

 Checking out the monkeys

 Jake and Daddy

 James and his friend Alexa

 Jake wanting in on the fun

 Jake feeding the sheep

 It was a fun day and I am glad we got to experience James' first field trip! 

Mommy's Day

For Mother's Day James' school has Mommy's Day. We met them in the church where they sung for us. It was so cute. I forgot my camera so I only had my phone, which didn't take very good pictures from that far away. :( Bad Mommy. 

 After the singing we went outside and played a bit. 

 This was up in the wall in his class. When I read it I was in shock d asked James, I make your clothes?? He said yes! Wow so impressive! This is one of my favorite things about pre-school. When they have to answer questions like that! And the cute little drawing of him and I. :) 

 This was the Mother's Day card he made me...

 With more fun answers inside! 

I didn't take a picture of it, but they also painted little heart boxes for us and put candy inside! It  was sad that it was my last Mommy's Day with James at school. Unless they do something in Kindergarten. 

I also don't have any pictures of Mother's day this year! Gosh I am getting lazy with pictures! We just had a really relaxing, mellow day. Just what I wanted to work in the garden, then we had dinner at my Mom's. Nice family day! 

NO TRAINING WHEELS!

Two weekends ago I was outside hanging out with the boys while Craig was deep cleaning the garage. SInce Jake got this new balance bike Craig has been trying to talk James into riding his bike with no training wheel. Well James always wants to try Jake's bike but James is too big for it. James always freaks out when Craig talks about taking the training wheel off. Well this day we were talking about it, Craig took them off and then I helped James in the street holding the back of the seat. Then I just let go and when James noticed I was not holding on he was SO proud of himself! 

I kept doing it with him teaching him how to start off pedaling without me holding on to the back of the seat and before we knew it he was doing it all by himself!

So proud of him! Our little boy is getting so big!

Catch Up

I am so behind on my blog I can't even believe it! We have been so busy and I have had no time to sit at the computer to catch up. 

So here is going to be some of the things we have been up to! 

RED & GOLD

This year Brianna was on the gold team and she was apart of gold drill. She was thrilled she got that part!

Here she is with my niece Andi. 

 And here a group of her friends

FIELD TRIP

James had a field trip to the Richard Nixon Library and I was lucky enough to go with him. 

James with some of his class mates

 Listening to the guide talk about Nixon and showing the kids Nixon's signature pose. 

 On our way in the presidential helicopter!

 His class in front of the helicopter

 James with two of his best girlfriends, Sophia and Alexa

 In front of Nixon's house

It was a fun day but I think they were a little too young for this kind of field trip. It pretty much went over their heads! :) Oh well at least we went in a helicopter! 

FIRST VACATION

Craig and I went on our first vacation without the kids. At the end of March we went to Arizona for the weekend to my girlfriend Sarah's wedding. We both have left the kids for one night before when we went to my girlfriend Shannon's wedding in San Diego but that was the only time both of us had been away from the boys at one time! 

James was so excited to stay the weekend at Nonni's house. All week he was asking when it was time to pack! I was glad he was excited!

Dropping them off at Nonni's. Jake was crying about something but he was excited too! 

We left Friday early morning and got there in time to catch a Angel spring training game at 1:00! 

Neither of us had been to spring training and we were so glad we went to the game. It was so much fun! And we had front row seats right behind the Angel dugout and I had no idea I bought those tickets! So that was an added bonus!

After the game we called my Mom to see how the boys were doing and they were fine. My Mom asked if either one wanted to talk to us and they both said NO! I guess that is a good thing! Made it easier on us to not have to worry about them missing us! I guess they needed a vacation too! HA! 

Laying out by the pool

I don't have any pictures of us at the wedding! 

We had a great time though not having any responsibilities for a few days! 

EASTER

The night before Easter we had Andi's Birthday dinner at my Mom's house. So all the kids colored eggs together. 

 The Easter Bunny visited our house!

 Ready to hunt for eggs...

 Found them all!

 Family picture at church

 Awe Brother love

 James, Jude, & Jake

 After church we didn't have any plans and so we thought it would be nice to go to breakfast but didn't think we would get in anywhere. Well we got into our little neighborhood restaurant Kimmi's that we love so much without any wait! 

After breakfast we went up to hit golf balls. 

 Later in the afternoon we went to Aunt Rochelle's house. 

Jade and James ready for the Easter egg hunt

 finding eggs

 Aunt Rochelle also spoiled them with goody bags!

We had such a nice Easter!