Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Christmas Trip to Disneyland
Back in January we took part in "Give a Day, Get a Day" with Disney. We made 6 blankets for Project Linus at home, never telling the girls that we would be receiving Disneyland tickets for the service. We got the tickets and waited to see the park all done up for Christmas.
Last week we loaded up the car for a road trip to the Happiest Place On Earth. Allie told us each time one of her wishes came true (most along the lines of "sleeping in a bunk bed"); must have had nearly a dozen wishes! The drive was long, but smooth. Foggy mornings cleared to warm blue skies. Short lines most of the time. Loud not so wonderful hotel that was at least walking distance to the park entrance, so the van didn't move for 2 days. We wore our Honorary VoluntEARS buttons and saw other families wearing theirs as well. Met some nice people in lines; one family in particular from Australia with 3 girls - one of them Molly - was very fun to spend nearly an hour with in line. The girls got autograph books to fill with all the characters we met that included pages with photo inserts - perfect! Now on with the pictures!
Vidia in Pixie Hollow where you are the size of a fairy.
Tinker Belle in front of her teapot home.
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Waiting to meet Rapunzel and Flynn Rider from "Tangled" was by far the longest line of the trip - at least an hour. Allie loves all things Tangled right now, so we waited.
Princess Fantasy Faire to meet Snow White...
Aurora...
and Jasime.
Mollie got her license and drove on the Autotopia.
Allie's favorite ride - Teacups!
Last week we loaded up the car for a road trip to the Happiest Place On Earth. Allie told us each time one of her wishes came true (most along the lines of "sleeping in a bunk bed"); must have had nearly a dozen wishes! The drive was long, but smooth. Foggy mornings cleared to warm blue skies. Short lines most of the time. Loud not so wonderful hotel that was at least walking distance to the park entrance, so the van didn't move for 2 days. We wore our Honorary VoluntEARS buttons and saw other families wearing theirs as well. Met some nice people in lines; one family in particular from Australia with 3 girls - one of them Molly - was very fun to spend nearly an hour with in line. The girls got autograph books to fill with all the characters we met that included pages with photo inserts - perfect! Now on with the pictures!
Vidia in Pixie Hollow where you are the size of a fairy.
Tinker Belle in front of her teapot home.
Waiting to meet Rapunzel and Flynn Rider from "Tangled" was by far the longest line of the trip - at least an hour. Allie loves all things Tangled right now, so we waited.
Princess Fantasy Faire to meet Snow White...
Aurora...
and Jasime.
Mollie got her license and drove on the Autotopia.
Allie's favorite ride - Teacups!
Monday, November 22, 2010
We have enjoyed DirecTV for a few years now. Good fun with the TiVo addition. But now we are getting ready to say good-bye. Tonight I signed up for our first Netflix trial. If all goes well we will be cutting satellite tv and watching thru our wii. News usually comes from online sources and local radio. We might even splurge for one of those boxes to pick up local channels. The biggest change is going to be the girls waking up on Saturday mornings to watch a bit of tv while we get a few more minutes of sleep. Hoping Mollie will learn some of these new procedures easily enough to entertain herself and Allie those mornings!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Pumpkin Patch Time!
We experimented with Rice Krispie Treats. Mollie's idea to make them more Halloweeny was to add strawberry syrup. So here we have our Krispie Bloody Ghosts. Not so pretty, but oh so yummy!
We finally made it to our regular pumpkin patch - 2 days before Halloween! Mollie had a chance to go to one on a field trip, but Allie hadn't had a turn yet. (I was sick when her class went along so she didn't get to go.) It was cold, windy, cloudy with rain holding off just long enough to spend maybe 20 minutes outside.
We finally made it to our regular pumpkin patch - 2 days before Halloween! Mollie had a chance to go to one on a field trip, but Allie hadn't had a turn yet. (I was sick when her class went along so she didn't get to go.) It was cold, windy, cloudy with rain holding off just long enough to spend maybe 20 minutes outside.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Want to ride on the log ride with us?
Last weekend was the first time our whole family rode on the Logger's Revenge at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz. Camerawork gets a bit messy, but the ending is cute.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Summertime Bowling
This summer the girls signed up for a bowling kids' club. We went often to enjoy the free bowling and air conditioning! Here is a little bit of one of our visits.
Friday, August 27, 2010
August
Mollie lost that second tooth! We listened to "All I want for my birthday are my two front teeth."
Allie, always having fun.
Happy 7th Birthday, my sweet Mollie!
Mollie can now read her own birthday cards.
Mollie celebrated her birthday with her first sleepover party. She wanted to do art with her friends. Mollie loves art! We filled squirt guns with paint and each girl got to paint a canvas to take home.
Scott brought home Toy Story Mania for the girls to play on the Wii. Fun!
Ended the night with watching Ponyo. Mollie would not look away for any of the pictures I tried to take.
On the day of Mollie's birthday we headed out for a family picnic and enjoyed perfect weather.
After lunch we fed the ducks. Turns out they don't mind mayo on bread.
Mollie spent time doing one of her favorite summer activities.
Allie also did one of her favorite activities.
Summer came to an end all to quickly. We had theme weeks, golfing and bowling, swim lessons, art, time with grandparents and family and friends. We said good bye to our neighbors and welcomed new ones.
And now we start the school year.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
July
Our summer has been unusually cool. Not that that's bad! Unless you are a tomato. I was so excited to get my first tomatoes I had to take a picture. Plus, if I told anyone how small my red ones were no one would believe it. So here you have it. I bought a variety called "Sweet Pea" and won't be doing it again. Picking tomatoes the size of peas is not satisfying. (Here is Aug I'm still waiting for my regular red tomatoes to turn red!)
In the back corner of the yard nothing would grow. The fence would cast constant shade. We sold the small toddler crab sandbox and Scott designed and built this box for the girls. It's full of 19 cubic feet of beach sand. Fun! Final touch with some pavers that look similar to the porch to edge the grass.
Continued Art Week with some tie dying. We did a bit of everything for the girls to dye for year-round color.
I even made some socks for Scott and myself.
The girls tried their hand at pointillism after learning about it from a children's classic art book.
Just before summer started we said good-by to our fish Jingle Bells. He had a good year with us. A couple months later we were ready for another fish. She's also a betta. Girls named her Goldie.
We have some solid dirt. It's good dirt; we can grow things. But it's solid. Scott's dad came over to push down on the front end of the rototiller to get the soil turned for sod.
Got the grass in! The yard is starting to look like a backyard!
Got the grass in! The yard is starting to look like a backyard!
In the back corner of the yard nothing would grow. The fence would cast constant shade. We sold the small toddler crab sandbox and Scott designed and built this box for the girls. It's full of 19 cubic feet of beach sand. Fun! Final touch with some pavers that look similar to the porch to edge the grass.
Continued Art Week with some tie dying. We did a bit of everything for the girls to dye for year-round color.
I even made some socks for Scott and myself.
Just before summer started we said good-by to our fish Jingle Bells. He had a good year with us. A couple months later we were ready for another fish. She's also a betta. Girls named her Goldie.
We remembered to hang the flag for 4th of July.
We also had a sports week. There were times in my parents' kiddie pool. Did some bowling. (A local alley had a free kids club where the kids could have a free game and shoe rental every day. We went a lot.) And we took our first trip to Golfland.
We also had a sports week. There were times in my parents' kiddie pool. Did some bowling. (A local alley had a free kids club where the kids could have a free game and shoe rental every day. We went a lot.) And we took our first trip to Golfland.
Almost the same picture, but I love the look on the girls. Ready to go!
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
June
Here goes - a summer recap!
The day after Mollie got out of school for vacation we left for Bakersfield to visit Darren and Becky. While we were gone our butterfly pets started coming out of their cocoons. Here is one of them after we released them into the garden.
We celebrated Father's Day altogether as a family. People traveled from all around the country and world - amazing to get us all in one place at the same time! Greg had been traveling in Indonesia and as you can see, the girls really missed playing with him.
Great Grandpa has a good sense of humor too.
During Art Week at home we tried bubble painting. I had paint in pans with dish soap and the girls laid paper on top of the bubbles they blew up. Didn't really turn out the way I had hoped, but they had fun once they figured out now to suck the painty soap up the straw.
Mollie had been taking dance classes for 4 1/2 years and was finally old enough to take part in the Big Show. The dance studio rented the Center of Performing Arts in downtown San Jose for family and friends to enjoy. She did a beautiful ballet dance to "When You Wish Upon A Star."
The day after Mollie got out of school for vacation we left for Bakersfield to visit Darren and Becky. While we were gone our butterfly pets started coming out of their cocoons. Here is one of them after we released them into the garden.
We celebrated Father's Day altogether as a family. People traveled from all around the country and world - amazing to get us all in one place at the same time! Greg had been traveling in Indonesia and as you can see, the girls really missed playing with him.
Great Grandpa has a good sense of humor too.
During Art Week at home we tried bubble painting. I had paint in pans with dish soap and the girls laid paper on top of the bubbles they blew up. Didn't really turn out the way I had hoped, but they had fun once they figured out now to suck the painty soap up the straw.
Mollie had been taking dance classes for 4 1/2 years and was finally old enough to take part in the Big Show. The dance studio rented the Center of Performing Arts in downtown San Jose for family and friends to enjoy. She did a beautiful ballet dance to "When You Wish Upon A Star."
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