Arianna’s 9th Birthday

This year we celebrated Ari’s 9th Birthday after Riley’s Swan Lake performance since everyone was already together.  After the play everyone came over to our house for dinner and cake and ice cream for our big baby girl!!!  This year for her birthday since she was going to be going to a new school that was farther away, we decided to get her a phone so that if she ever needed to get a hold of us she could.  Or if we were running late then we would be able to call her.

Here she is with her new phone!

We asked Ari what else she wanted for her birthday and she requested swimming, Daddy’s bbq chicken and pancit.  So we had to give her what she wanted
Here she is after swimming and enjoying her food

And with her birthday cupcakes that she helped make =)  She’s such a good girl!!!

Swan Lake

The spring show put on by Benicia Ballet School this year was Swan Lake!  Riley was very excited about this because she loves the music from this show.  This play is much smaller than the Nutcraker so her parts were longer and more dancing was involved.  Here are some pictures from onstage

Act 1

Act 2

Another one from Act 2

I helped backstage to complete my parent volunteer credits so I got to hang out with Riley backstage =)
The girls hanging out together before the first act

The girls before the second act

Here she is with those who came to support her and watch her perform!
Daddy and Ari

Grandpa and Grandma

Godmother Auntie Jacquie

Auntie Katrina

Auntie Ana

And her with her teacher and the ballet director Ms. Margaret!  Riley LOVES her!

Last day of school 2012

I can’t believe how fast this school year went by!  The kids had a lot of fun this year, loved their teachers and made a lot of new friends!!!  This year is also Ari’s last day of school at Cordelia Hills forever since she will now be going to K.I. Jones to be part of the GATE program.

Here’s my baby girl at her last day at CH and her last day as a 3rd grader!!!

And here are my two girls.  Riley’s last day as a 2nd grader and Ari’s last day as a 3rd grader

Ari before class started with her friends and classmates

Riley before class started with her friends and classmates

After school I came a little early to get pictures on them with friends

Jamye, Riley and Mia

Lauren, Mia and Ari

And the whole gang of friends

School field day 2012

Every year at the girls school they have field day during the last week of school.  It just a day when the kids can have fun playing games before the end of the year is over.  Every year Dustin or I try to help so with the classes or we just come to take pictures.  This time it was just me because Dustin had to work, but I did try my best to get pictures of each girl even though they were going through the stations at the same time.  Riley’s class had started upstairs on the field and Ari’s class started downstairs on the blacktop so I had to keep running up and down to keep up with them both =/  So here are some pictures of the girls as they enjoy their field day!

Riley going through the obstacle course

Riley playing a water game

And Riley trying to throw the frisbee into a net

Riley with some friends

Here’s Ari going through the obstacle course

This one is kinda far, but you can see Ari cheering because she got 3 in a row for the tossing tic tac toe game =)

And Ari doing tug of war

And last but not least here’s Ari and some friends

Field day was a lot of fun this year and we can’t wait to do it again next year!!!

Baseball closing day 2012

This T-ball season went by pretty quickly and Nick did awesome this year!  He hit a couple doubles at some games, got a game ball and made a couple of good plays when he caught the ball.  He is so excited that this year is over because next year he is going to be playing coach pitch!!!  No more t-ball for this big boy!  Here are a couple pictures from closing ceremonies.

Before the parade and ceremony started he found his team flag

Standing with his team and their banner after they marched onto the field

Some friends that he’s played with for two straight years
Dylan and Nick

And Christian and Nick

Getting his trophy and certificate from his coach

Showing me his trophy and certificate =)

Good job Nick!!!  We are so proud of you and we can’t wait to watch you play again next season!!!

Irwin’s 80′s themed birthday

Yesterday we celebrated Irwin’s 80′s themed birthday and it was a lot of fun!  Everyone got dressed up in some 80′s outfits and surprisingly it wasn’t too hard to find things for the kids to wear!

Photo of the birthday boy with Leslee and Dylan all decked out in their 80′s gear!

Our God daughter, cutie pie Dylan in her 80′s outfit =)

We wanted to make sure we had pictures of everyone in their 80′s outfits so we took group pictures!
Here are all the guys

And all the girls

He celebrated with a nintendo cake!

And of course we had to get a family picture

I think the girls look super cute in their 80′s outfits and I got their shirts for $3 each at TJ Maxx!  We had tons of fun!  I just love themed parties!  Especially the ones where you get to dress up in

Marshmallow Fight!!!

Dustin was having a rough couple days at work so the kids decided to do something fun so that when he came home all the stress about work would just disappear  While on Pinterest I saw the idea of a marshmallow fight and I just knew the kids would LOVE the idea.  We got the kids ready with their bags of marshmallows

And made a sign that Daddy would see as soon as he got home

And from the moment he walked in it was pure craziness!  The kids and Dustin had such an awesome time doing it though =)

Here’s our video of the marshmallow fight =)