A Busy Busy, Fun Saturday

Today was super busy for Mike, the girls and I. We woke up, got ready grabbed yummy choc. chip bagels to go and headed down to Anderson's Home and Garden show to drop of our satelite receiver for Matt. Mike's goal was to attract clients with sports...I think it worked! Then we ran a few errands before returning home to change Emily and pack up for her first soccer game. Pre-Game viewers in their little chairs...it didn't last!
Emily throwing the ball in, she loved doing that.

Her first game was so fun. We had a blast. Emily did so well! They are called Storm and they played Galaxy. Picture 8 children who have never played a soccer game in their lives all chasing a ball around on a field. It was hilarious. But towards the middle of the game something clicked and they all seemed to catch on really well. The way this younger group works is there are 8 players on a team and they do four on four for four quarters. We thought that Em was going to get to play 2/4 quarters, however the two times she sat out she literally had time to drink some water quickly and was called back in. And for those who don't live here, it was WARM! She was hot after the game and told us she wanted to take swim lessons! I thought that was funny! . They tied the game 3 to 3. We were laughing because the game was actually really intense to see who would score the last goal, but time ran out.

After her game, we headed back down to Anderson where the girls and I hung out while Mike worked the Home and Garden show for a few hours. Then it was home to change and walk the River trail. The river trail is 5.7 miles. Mike pushed RY and Al in the double jogger while Em rode her bike. She did so good riding all that way. We were very proud of all her sportlike efforts today. I think she'll be exhausted, especially since she's on heavy allergy meds and cough meds.

Then we grabbed chilly dogs and topped it off with the best dessert ever! For those cold stone lovers out there, they have these new ice cream cupcakes. They're 6 for $9.99. They replaced the paper cup with dark chocolate cups, then a layer of yummy cake, then ice cream topped off with a light creamy frosting. They were AMAZING! You should try them if you haven't. I guess they killed all that work we did jogging, but oh well!

And Ahh, baths and bed for the girls. It's 8:00 now. I'm loving the warm but not hot weather. If only it would last!

A Little Bit of Everything

It's been a while since I've blogged. It's funny because we are super busy but nothing blogworthy. So I thought I would combine a bunch of little happenings to create one blog.

Emily officially started soccer last week. She looks so cute and very grown up with her soccer cleats, shin guards and socks. She is having a fun time and Mike says she is actually pretty good at it, for having never played. She practices every Wednesday night, which we love because it's our only free night. And her games are every saturday at our awesome new soccer park. Her first game is this saturday. I can't wait to get some cute pictures of her in her uniform. Mike took the camera to the first practice but as you can see, she was kind of far away.

Mike takes Em to her practices and he takes Ally so he can kick a soccer ball around with her. I'm not sure who is more excited for Wed. night, Ally or Emily! I think Ally is really going to be our athlete.


Rylee is a book lover. She brings me books all day long and doesn't take no for an answer. But sometimes I can't sit 24/7 and read to her so she just started accepting Emily and Ally to read to her. I took some funny pictures of Rylee sitting on Ally's lap, (it's the only way she'll do it), and Ally can't even reach her little arms around Rylee and hold up the book at the same time. It's fun to watch.

This is Rylee's favorite, Mommy Loves Me Lots and Lots and Lots

While Mike was out of town Sunday, my mom, Jennifer, Emily, Ally, and Rylee all piled in my car to go shopping. After I picked up Jenn, I was traveling down the road and a lady turned right in front of me. I braked so hard it turned my car off. She ended up still swiping me with her car but there is little damage. I think if I hadn't have stopped in time, her passenger would have been really hurt. I would have t-boned her passenger side going about 45. Thankfully I saw her and it wasn't the day before when it was raining. But now I have to give up my car soon to have it fixed. When you have kids and all their seats and gear in the car, I hate moving it all around. Oh well!

See, nothing overly exciting going on if those are the only things I can think of. Our days are full with Softball monday, womens group tuesday, soccer wednesday, Awana thursday, soccer game saturday and now we can include Mikes baseball games on alternating week nights and every sunday! That's not including helping at ems school and all the other things I have planned week to week! I need three of me! But hey, at least we're having fun!

New Shades...No Scissors...Must Wear Immediately!

whirlwind Trip

We got more pictures with Characters in 1.5 days than we did in Disneyworld this summer in 6 days. We got Donald, Goofy, Micky, and Pluto twice!

Riding It's A Small World

Emily wearing her new Ariel costume

Totally exhausted after day 2!

While my parents were planning their vacation, my mom expressed her wish to be able to have their own vacation yet still get to have the girls at Disneyland for a day. It, of course, wasn't possible to get them down there to them without Mike and/or I taking them so off they went alone. On Tuesday, Mike and I were driving back from running a few errands and I (half joking), said, "lets just get in the car and go down to Disneyland." Mike said, "ok, lets do it." After realizing he was serious, I ran home and packed in 30 min. so we could get gas, cash and Emily and hit the road.

The girls did AMAZING in the car. Ally and Rylee are normally not big on traveling. But Rylee made not one peep the whole way. She was content to sit and read books, look out the window for cows or sleep. So much so that I didn't get her out from 1:30-8:00. Big mistake...she leaked all over her car seat and in my hurry during packing didn't pack any extra pants for her. So mom got the call to run down the street to Target for some pants!

The next day we went to disneyland and had a blast, although it rained all day. It isn't supposed to rain in L.A. right? This was my parents second day so they even allowed Mike, Em, and I to ride the fun rides while they went on the girls absolute favorite, It's a Small World. All the girls loved that ride, even Rylee.

We left the park at 6 to get dinner and not spend a fortune and were going to go back for the Fantasmic show but low and behold, it started pouring again. So we scraped that and went back to the hotel. Mike and I got our family season passes because we plan on going back a few times so we went for a half day the next day and of course it was beautiful. We rode a ton of rides both days as it was not busy at all.

Emily had a funny story. We told the girls ahead of time, this is not a trip where we're shopping. It's just to ride rides and have fun. But in the castle they have a princess store with dresses and accessories. Well, they had an ariel skirt and top that she was dying for. Mike told her later that day if she was brave and rode the Tower of Terror at California land that she could have it. She wouldn't do it the first day but the next morning said she wanted to. So we waited in a line before they opened and were the first on. She and I went together while Mike stayed with the girls. She was ok until we right as we're getting on but I made her get on at that point. I had been on the day before so I held onto her and told her drop for drop rise for rise what was happing. When we got done the guy told us to all buckle up again and get a free ride again. Emily started sobbing. I told the guy we needed off and he looked at me like, "no!" I then sternly said, "we want off!" and he let us off. I don't think she could handle another ride. Darn it though, it would have been fun! But she did pretty good and true to his word, Mike bought her the outfit which is the last picture on the blog.

Overall, it was a super fast trip but a ton of fun. All of our girls really had a great time!

Thoughts On TV Favorites

Since most of our friends watch the same shows as us, I thought it would be fun to write down what my thoughts are for some of the favorites. Might be fun to compare notes... Oh, and a warning...don't read if you are behind in any shows!!!

Amazing Race: If we didn't have work and kids, Mike and I would apply in a heartbeat. This show is great, especially with people like, models, hillbillies, brother/sister teams that seem more like boyfriend/girlfriend teams and of course the every season struggeling marriage/relationship that this game is going to determine whether they stay together or not! So great!

Chuck: This is one of my favorite shows. I love the chemistry between Chuch and Sarah. I just wish the would stop bringing on old and new flames. First it was Chuck's turn and now Sarah's. It's like Pam and Jim all over again.

24: Love love love this season of 24. We caught up yesterday and I'm glad we didn't watch it until then because I'm dying to know what happens and now I don't have to wait long.

Heros: This season is waaaayyyy better than last season. I'm actually really getting into it this year. Normally I have to make myself watch it and we watched 3 episodes while my mom had the girls and I wanted to watch the next one that's on tonight.

Biggest Loser: Mike really likes the new, nicer format this year. There is definilty not as much conflict as in past seasons. I actually find it a little slow. Still like it but as much as I hated icky Vicky, it did bring an element of drama. Maybe a much scaled down version of that wouldn't hurt. Also, I have to admit to being a big black team fan. I have since that one season where Jillian was working out with the "hidden" first day eliminated underdog black team. Go black!

American Idol: It's been ok so far. I'm so glad we're at the final 13, this is where it gets really good. And HALLELUAH that the annoying Tatiana didn't make it!

Lost: This season is a lot better than last season. I feel like we're getting more answers quicker. Last year it felt like they were just throwing in more senarios that confused you but didn't answer any of them at the end of the season...throw us a bone people! This year is a slight improvement.

The Office: The Office speaks for itself, it's awesome. Got to love the lunch Jim and Pam had for Valentines day. I also love what they've done with Angela's character this year. With the other set of dueling boyfriends! That's great!

ER: A little sad it's the last season, especially with all the favorites from the past coming back. But it does need to come to and end and ultimately I won't miss it that much.

Hell's Kitchen: Not too sure who out there watches that but if you do, were you as happy as I was that he sent back the 2 people voted to be eliminated and went with his personal choice of Colleen? She was a disaster each and every week. That one girl nailed it when she said..."at least Colleen's consistant...she's bad every single night." So true. I wonder what will
happen to her cooking school now?!

Survivor: As most of you know, Mike's old baseball coach, aka: coach, is a contestant on this show so we are watching it for the first time this season. It's interesting. I felt bad for Sandy being voted off but at the same time, she was the dirtiest person on that show. She was always filthy. I was just glad for her sake that she could take a shower. I felt bad for her! Tyson is by far my favorite. He cracks me up. He is hilarious and I hope he wins.

30 Rock: This is also new to Mike which we watch when nothing is on, (which looking above at all those shows I don't know when that is ever possible). It's hilarious. You should watch it if you get a chance...great cast.

Wow, we watch a lot of shows. But I don't know what I would cut out. They're all great. At least ER is going off so that will elimnate one.

The Day After

Mike, the girls and I just returned from a very fast trip to Disneyland. I'll post about that later but I just had to comment that I love the day after vacation. The girls are so content with their toys. I don't hear a peep from them. I think they are so grateful to be home on familiar territory, with their toys and their beds that they just want to sit quietly and play. They don't ask for much, they don't whine, they just play. It's wonderful! Do your kids do the same thing? I would love to know.