Pixieland August 26, 2009

The week before school started Dustin and I took the kids to Pixieland because I had promised I would buy Riley a rainbow sno-cone before summer was over.  The kids had such a great time and the place is so little that they were able to ride all the rides and even eat the lunch I had packed for them in less than 2 hours!  The kids were able to ride all the rides and it wasn’t crowded at all.

The kids favorite part was all the bunnies that were running around.

The first ride Nick wanted to go on was the airplanes of course.  So Riley decided to ride with him and Ari hung out with me and Laci.

Then Ari and Riley rode on the dragon roller coaster

I love their faces!!!

They also rode the teacups, the frog jumper, the cars, the train and the Merry go round.

Nick looks like such a big boy here

And I can’t believe how long Ari’s legs are getting!

And my tiny Riley

After they ate the lunch I packed for them they had sno-cones before heading home.

The girls with their rainbow ones

Nick with his blue one

And Laci being bored in the stroller :/

I can’t wait till Laci is bigger so that she can go on some rides also.

Movies August 26, 2009

Over the summer I took the kids to the movies every week because they would play kid movies for free!!!  The kids loved it and it got us out of the house.  They weren’t newly released movies, but they were movies that the kids liked.  Here they are with some of their friends that would join us.

Nicky

Ari and Kaylani

Riley and Genevieve

Sophia

And Laci

I think that this will be something that we will do next year as well!

Ari and Riley’s 1st concert August 25, 2009

Arianna and Riley went to their very 1st concert to see The Jonas Brothers!!!  Since Verizon was one of the sponsors of the concert they gave tickets to some employees.  Dustin’s friend got them and didn’t have kids or anyone that wanted to go so he gave them to Dustin.  And it was perfect because he had 3 tickets so it was enough for the girls and Dustin   The girls were so excited when Dustin told them they were going to see the Jonas Brothers!

Here they are making posters to bring

Arianna

Riley

Showing off their posters

*sisters*

They are so excited to go!!!!

Dustin and his girls at the concert

And of course the Jonas Brothers

They had such a great time and I can’t believe they are going to concerts already!!!  We have years more of this so I hope Dustin is ready…..LOL

Alameda County Fair July 19, 2009

Every year my sister and BIL ask us to go to the Alameda County Fair with them and we usually never do because when they go Dustin is working.  But this year he was able to get someone to cover for him at work so we were able to go!!!!  The kids and I were sooooo excited that we were finally going to go.  The Sinning Family also joined us for a little while.  The first thing we did was look at all the farm animals and then we headed over to the mini railroad stations.

Nick over by the farm animals

Here’s the kids after looking at the mini railroad stations (minus Laci and Josiah)

Next we headed over the Kids Land where they had all the little kid rides and some crafts and activities.  They all wanted to ride the rides so we got all the kids unlimited ride bracelets.  Then they rode on every ride!  Here they are on a couple rides

Girls on the Carousel.  Nick rode it too, but he never looked at me for a good picture.

Dustin and Nick on a Dumbo type ride

Dustin with all the kids (I love the look on all the kids faces)

On the swings ride

Nick’s 1st roller coaster with Daddy

Everyone on the roller coaster

After riding most of the rides we decided that it was time to eat lunch and rest for awhile because it was sooo HOT!!!  We found some tables in the shade and all got our own food.  Then we all got Icee’s!

After lunch we went to the exhibit buildings since they all had air conditioning.  We went through all three buildings and bought way too many things…..LOL.  But they did have some really neat stuff in there though.  After about an hour the kids wanted to go on the rides again so we headed back to the Kid Park.  More pictures of the kids on rides, doing activities and hanging out.

Ari on a boat ride

The kids watching a dancing show

They had a craft area with drawing tables, markers and paper and they kids LOVE to draw so we hung out in the shade while the kids colored

Riley being cute

Nick coloring

Ari working on her masterpiece

*sisters*

Trin, me, Laci and Jacqueline

Laci and Daddy cooling off in the shade

Riley wasn’t done with her drawing so while we waited for her Arianna and Nick went on more rides with Jaime and Ana.

Michael Jackson’s Balloon Ride

A teacup ride

After they rode all the rides they wanted to we headed back towards the main carnival area.  When we got there we saw a CRAZY ride and a couple of us decided to ride it.

Here’s the ride.  It was 140 ft tall and spun around.  It was scary, but fun too!

Before going on the ride

Joston, Ana, David and me

Apparently while I was on the ride Nick started crying and kept saying he wanted me   I think he was scared for me because they said they heard me screaming every time we went past them.

But I tried to wave at the girls every time I went by.  Here they are waving at me

Here we are all after the ride   We didn’t die……LOL

And Nick with his Mommy.  He didn’t let go of me for like 10 minutes!!!

Here some of them in the Fun House

Then they went on the slide

Dustin, David, Jaime, Joston and Ana

Everyone all together……actually all the kids.  Mama was the one that took the picture

Thanks again for taking us Trin and David!  Hopefully we will be able to go again next year and hopefully it won’t be as HOT!!!  We had a lot of fun

Super Franks July 18, 2009

Last week we headed up to Super Franks to meet with some friends.  The kids love that place and I really wish there were somewhere like that around where we live.    We had a ton of fun and Dustin took some pictures of the kids so I could chat with my friends.

The kids playing dress up

Ari wearing a police outfit

Nick and Riley were firefighters

The also really LOVED the slide!  They kept going down over and over again!

*Look at Nick’s tan on his legs from swimming all the time….LOL

After awhile we headed downstairs to the new jungle room.  The kids loved going down the inflatable slide!

Next we headed to the gym and the kids had such a blast playing on the plasma cars, but I was nursing Laci so I didn’t get any pictures.  And Dustin was too busy riding the plasma cars with the kids so he didn’t take pictures either.  I think he comes with us just so he can ride the plasma cars