California Pizza Kitchen field trip

On St. Patricks day I took Malea and Alex on a field trip to the California Pizza Kitchen. They do really fun tours for small groups of kids before the restaraunt opens. When we first arrived they brought us all in and sat everyone at a large table and gave all of the kids small coloring books and crayons. Then they took everyone's drink orders while the kids colored. We then proceeded to wash all of the kids hands and when we returned there were personal sized pizza doughs at each childs seat. The kids then got to put the sauce and the toppings of their choice on top of their personal pizza. While the pizza was cooking we got a tour of the restaurant including the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. We got to see the workers and chefs prepping for the day. They showed us their neat machine that cuts bread in to perfect slices and then we each ate a piece of their yummy bread. The kids got to see the huge brick oven where their pizzas were cooking. Soon after the tour was over, the pizzas were ready to eat. Each child loved eating the pizza that they had created. It was such a fun field trip and the staff at California Pizza Kitchen were so friendly. The kids were also very wonderfully behaved the whole time.

Waiting outside before going in
Malea and Maddie coloring

Alex and Lizzie enjoying their creations

The thank you card we made with all of the kids names on it. The worker said it was the best thank you she's ever gotten for doing one of the tours.

Malea had so much fun

Been a long time

So I know it's been a long time since my last post, but I think that I better start getting back to blogging. I think it will be too much work to go over all that has happened in the last many many months, so I am just going to start again from right now.

Malea Boogie Boarding

As I said in my last post, our day at the beach was great. One of the most fun things was that the kids went boogie boarding for the first time. Malea absolutely loved it and we could hardly get her off of the boogie board. The waves were perfect for her and the water was warm and clear. Here are some of the pictures we got of her.

Carlsbad Beach

On August 19th we went down to Carlsbad for my cousin's sons birthday. Joey turned 7 and it is tradition that he always has his birthday in Carlsbad, when Aunt Linda and Uncle Gordon have their condo week. This was the most perfect beach day for kids. The water was warm and clear, and there were very little waves. Really I have seen bigger waves at the lake. All of the kids loved playing in the sand and the water. It is unusual for my kids to even go near the water, becasue they are always afraid of the waves. This was a totally different story. Icouldn't get them out of the water.

Alex loved the sand the most.

Here he is with his sand eye patch. He thought it was funny.

Malea and Maddie playing in the sand.

Malea and maddie playing near the water

Andrew actually walking into the water.

We had a fabulous day. Unfortunately, I had called Andrew's school and told them that he was sick and would not be attending school that day, and then that afternoon he really did get sick. At least I wasn't a liar. Poor kid was sick the rest of the night.

Easter pictures that I just found

So I know that I am way behind, but I lost my camera at my Mom's house on Easter, and we just recently found it. So here are some pictures from Easter.

Alex liked putting his feet in my Mom's pool, more than looking for eggs.

Here are the kids after their Easter egg hunt. Alex did love eating all of the candy.
Andrew hunting for eggs


Malea hunting for eggs

Andrew, Malea and Alex before church. It was such a beautiful day.

Our new house

This is one of the views from our front yard. I think that the mountains are quite lovely. I can't wait until the end of winter and spring when they are more green. Another view of the mountains.
The planter that we just planted. All of the landscaping was completely dead, so we have been working hard and still have a lot of work to do.


This is our house. We are really loving it here and it is so nice to finally have our very own home. We still have lots of work to do though.

Buying Our First Home

We have been looking for a home to buy now since January. We were in escrow once only to back out because the house had roofing problems and would be too expensive to fix. The other side refused to pay for any reapairs, and so the search continued. We finally decided to look outside of Riverside and have been looking in the San Jacinto/Hemet area. We put several offers on houses and missed out on all of them until today. We just found out that our offer has been accepted on a house in San Jacinto. The house is only 4 or 5 years old and is a 4 bedroom 3 bath home. It is on a fairly large lot in what seems to be a very nice neighborhood. Our address will be 260 Tradewinds. I am super excited. I know that escrow is a long and frustrating process, and we hope and pray that everything will go smoothly.

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