The Apple Doesn't Fall Far

Rylee was in time out and this is how I found her after walking in to ask her if she was ready to be good. She is just like her daddy. He can find something fun to do in even the most boring places and so can she! She did have both feet on top before I went to get the camera.

Waterworks is open!

I love when Waterworks opens each year. The girls have an absolute blast and they're exhausted come bedtime. Plus each year, they're a different age so it's really fun to

see who loves the water each year. Emily is, and always has been, about a 45-60 minute girl. After that time frame she is ready to towel up and sit on the sidelines and just watch. She also isn't a daredevil. She is still too short for the adult slides and is quite content with that. We only have to fight her on wanting to spend the whole time in the lazy lagoon, which Ally and Rylee don't care for due to them having to wear a life jacket.

Allyson loves the waterslides. She also loves to go fast. Mike pushes her down the slides pretty hard and she flies. She gets a kick out of it, even though I worry that we're going to get in trouble.

Rylee loves every part of waterworks. She can't get enough of the water. She also loves all the slides in the kiddy area. My favorite for her is the froggy slide because I don't have to walk up any hills to get her to the slide and then run down as she's sliding and meet her at the bottom.

Can't wait for school to get out and meet all of those moms out there who got season passes too!

2009 Championship Trip

San Francisco Giants game the first night of vacation.

Mike and I at the Stadium.

Our first night there, and our first Farmer's banquet of the week.

Sheryl Crow giving a concert for Farmers.

Tuesday night, during the Sheryl Crow concert.

Our last night in Palm Desert, the formal awards night.

Padres Stadium for SD vs. SF game. You can see our hotel was super close,

it's the Marriott to the left of the stadium.

Friday afternoon Mike and I returned from our very relaxing trip to Championship. This years destination was Palm Desert. Joel and Leslie's family own a house in neighboring Palm Springs so they came along for 3/4 of our trip. We had a lot of fun and were able to relax by the very hot pool, trying to get a little tan for the summer. There definitly wasn't as much to do as the previous years but we still enjoyed ourselves. We started in S.F. for a Giants game, then made our way south to Palm Desert. Then after the convention we went down to San Diego and watched the Giants lose, again, in the 9th inning. But it was still fun to go to a new, different stadium.

Finally, Something To Blog About

I have Jack and Bella this morning and generally the kids play and I don't hear from them. So I didn't think anything of it while they were upstairs playing and I was downstairs watching tv while I folded the laundry. As I'm coming up the stairs, I look into the girls room with their laundry. I immediately notice the broken lightbulb and the lamp on the floor. I thought I had seen all four kids happily playing in the loft. Until I look up that is. There, standing on the girls dresser as happy as can be, is a bleeding Rylee. Both her hands are red. The walls have red, a picture on the dresser has red, the dresser has a lot of red. She doesnt' even care that she is cut. She is just happy to have climbed onto the dresser and be playing. The only time she cried even a little was when I dare put a bandaid on her. She pulled both of the attempts of bandaids off. So she is now in the tub until her finger clots.

During all of this I have little kids to keep out of the room while I'm trying to get the bandaid on Rylee. As soon as I say, "don't go in the girls room" they all have to rush in there of course. So I get the first set of bandaids on Rylee and start to clean up the big peices before she pulls it off. Then I redress the bandaid, vacum the little pieces, fix the lamp and stick her in the bath before more blood gets everywhere.

I'm just glad it wasn't Jack or Bella! I would have posted pictures but both of my cameras batteries were dead.

Mike came home and saved the day with the reminder that we had liquid bandage.

Lame Reasons Why I Haven't Blogged

1. I have major pregnant brain. It gets way worse with each pregnancy. I'll think of a good topic to blog about and forget what it was 10 minutes later.

2. We've been so busy I haven't touched my camera in a long time.

3. When I do remember my camera, I can't use it because it's full and the battery is drained. There a two little girls in my house (not naming names, Emily and Ally), that like to pose their animals and dolls and snap away. I'm talking 50+ pictures. I honestly don't know when they're doing it. I think it's the middle of the night. I'm always with them. I caught ally red handed the other day. She was bold enough to grab it while I was sitting next to it, turned it on and started to take a picture. She literally looked at me like, "what?" when I reprimanded her.

4. We lead very busy, but not very exciting lives. You really don't want to hear what I have to say. That's what facebook is for. Short little notes of the boring things that I do.

Mike...you need to set up the blogging olympics again. We are all slacking and in major need of of a boost!