Henry's 3rd Birthday

If anyone knows my little guy then you know how obsessed he is with fire trucks. For the last year he has been wearing around a fire hat and fireman rain boots and every time we see a fire truck he needs to stop and see it. I found this really cool company that converted an old fire truck into a pizza fire truck. The kids could climb on the fire truck equipped with a photo booth and lots and bells and whistles and then eat pizza served from the pizza oven on the roof. What a cool idea and Henry thought it was pretty cool too.

London's 5th birthday.

We celebrated our little girls 5th birthday last month. It is hard to believe 5 years have gone by so quickly( most of the time). She decided that she wanted a garden tea party theme. She was quite involved in the party planning with a little direction from me of course. She picked who she wanted to come to the party, what food was to be served, and some of the entertainment. When I asked her what kind of sandwiches she wanted she said, tuna, strawberries and cream cheese and just cheese. When I asked her about peanut butter and jelly she replied, "those are too messy for a fancy party." We served them anyway but of course miss London did not have one. The desserts were super yummy including mini cupcakes, macaroons and cake pops per London's request.  Grandma and Aunt Meg came in for the special occasion.

Yummy food

Little girls decorating tea hats

Mommy and London

Aunt Meggie

Grandma and London

London and her friends

Tea time. Real teacups and a tea lesson. How cute.

The grandparents

London getting her face painted

and checking herself out in the mirror

Cake time

Palm desert weekend

We decided to head out to the desert for a few days while the kids were out for spring break. It was 90 degrees and so nice to chill by the pool. We met some other families out there so it was nice that London and Henry had some friends to play with and we had some adults to hang with too.

Sleeping in his carseat at the pool

London eating her grilled cheese poolside

Feeding the ducks

Enjoying a yummy breakfast

Easter

We celebrated Easter in Laguna beach. They had a cute Easter egg hunt at the Montage hotel fully equipped with a petting zoo and the Easter bunny himself. Henry wasn't so sure of the Easter bunny but they both managed to find quite a few eggs.

Big Bear Snow

Last month we went up to Big Bear which is only about two hours from here. Its amazing you can be at the beach for breakfast and in the snow by lunch. The kids played in the snow and built a snowman. They don't get to see snow very often so it was a real treat. We went with a couple of other families and stayed in a cool mountain cabin. That night we took the kids bowling which was super fun. I love the snow but it was nice to come back to Laguna where is was 75 degrees that day.

It had just snowed so there was lots to play on

We used Cheetos for the eyes and a banana for the mouth

Loving the snow

The girls

I think Henry just got a strike...lol

Chuckie cheese fun .

Last night Idell and I took all four kids to Chuckie Cheese. Nicole and Derek were out of town so we thought we would kill an evening. The kids are at the age now where they are really starting to play together.

Lunch at the shake shack

I am trying my moblie app blogger. We just finished a workout at the JCC and stopped at this cool little diner off the road of Pacific Coast highway. The kids had a burger and now are enjoying a chocolate shake. The view is insane! These are the cool things I get to do now that I am home full time with the kiddos:)

Miami Baby!

I was asking Justin in January...when are we going to go on vacation this year, where? Everybody is planning their vacation; why aren't we? I guess he didn't like the phrase "everybody" is going on vacation. So I stopped looking at flights to Hawaii or Mexico. A week later he calls me from work and asks if I want to go to Miami with the kids. He needs to interview a few managerial candidates for the restaurants and asked if we wanted to tag along. Of course I said, "sure." Well, Miami was a total blast but not the most kid friendly place. Most cabs didn't want to pick us up because they didn't want to deal with car seats or screaming kids. Many restaurants didn't have high chairs and often posted, "no kids under 12 after 6pm." Needlessness to say, we spend the days at the pool and beach and hired the hotel sitter to watch the kiddos the last few nights so we could have a true adult evening. I don't think we will be back to Miami until the kids or older or we have no kids with us...lol. It was fun though to get away as the family...

Ordering food at the non-kid friendly restaurant at the hotel

Out on the town with the family in Miami

Just hanging out at the beach

Miami has really pretty beaches

Taking taxi rides...the kids thought they were so big.

"too cool"

Trip to the everglades to take a air boat ride and see real alligators.

Nope, not even afraid for a second.

Eating ice-cream poolside.

Henry loved the Lamborghini. They were having some convention at our hotel.

Tired, after the pool.