10.30.2010

Kate's 4th birthday

For Kate's birthday I threw her a girls princess party. All of the girls brought dress up clothes and we even had a special guest princess (aunt Kari) show up to surprise them. My nanny (who I call my "sister wife" because she is pretty much the kids' second mom) came to use her talents and help makeover the girls.  



                                                 princess pizza lunch
                                 Christine making McKenna beautiful





LEGOLAND

The day after we went to the beach, we went to Legoland . It was my first time there with Johnny and Kate, but Darren and Jules had been before. I actually liked it better than Disneyland for the ages of the kids, because the lines were shorter, and there were a lot of places to sit down and rest while the kids played. It was a really fun day!


                                                             Oh Kate!


A real police man, and a police man made out of legos


                                                            Just her size


                                                           I'm on a boat!




We also got to spend a couple of hours at the water park there. It was a nice break in the middle of the day to cool off and relax. We can't wait to go back!

10.04.2010

Family Vacation

We wanted to take the kids to the beach at some point during the summer, so we decided to head down to San Diego the first weekend in August when Darren was on vacation from work. We left on Saturday late morning and the kids were so excited to get to the beach, that we checked in to our hotel and went straight there. We weren't exactly sure where we should go, so we drove down the coast until we found a good spot (or at least what we thought was a good spot). We found a close place to park and the kids ran to get in the water. The sun was beginning to set, we set up towels and beach toys, and started eating sandwiches that we stopped and got for dinner. I started looking around at the other people there and thought "hmmm... a lot of people brought their dogs". Then it dawned on me that we were at the DOG BEACH! Yuck! The kids were too happy playing in the water already to drag them somewhere else, plus the sun was going to be gone soon, so we decided to try not to think about pee-pee and doo-doo while we were eating, and watched very closely where we walked.






The water was pretty cold, so when they got out they were freezing. Look at Kate's face lol