wave runners

These are our new toys a couple of '99 sea-doo's. Or as William calls them "Ski Runners". We were so excited to get them, we have wanted some of our own for a long time so we finally made it happen. This is our first trip with them. We went to Castaic Lake because it is only 12 min away. It was a great place to just see how well they actually ran. They were awesome by the way. We had a blast!! Although we probably wont be going there again they have too many rules and only a small area, with no beach where jet skis are allowed. We mainly went there just to make sure everything worked okay. The yellow one is super fast!!! The purple one has a lot of power but is nice and smooth. All in all I was very happy with them. The water was good the kids had a blast. Even peter loved the lake I brought his tube and he would squeal with delight just bobbing in the water. This is the beginning of a great summer

paintings

These are just some paintings I did that I thought I should keep a record of just because. Most of them I did for a friend of mine. She wanted some artwork for her house. The palm trees are the mural I did in my boys room. They have a bunk bed that looks like a pirate ship so I painted this on the opposite side I am most happy with the big leaves I think they look the most real. The ones of the boats are quite large. They are about 4' x 6' I did those for a special church function.

Rope Bridge

The kids were bored so I set up an old fashioned rope bridge by tying 2 ropes to opposite trees. The kids absolutely love it. Not to mention it helps hone their balance skills. There is a neighbor boy who comes over all the time and I think he loved it the most. He kept saying thank you for building this thing for us its awesome!! Thank you thank you!!.
(Don't mention it kid it was just a couple of ropes) Its the simple things that kids love the most. They asked if they could keep it up forever. I said either that or until I need the space or the ropes. They were okay with that. Now they want to build a tree house. I guess I could have fun with that as a summer project.

GQ

Here are the new GAP models for their spring line aren't they super cute? Actually its all from Children's Place but still you get the idea. This was their Easter garb. I loved the green White and purple. I had a hard

time convincing the big kids to let me take their picture so there is only one of each Oh well at least its documented. I can't believe how much everyone is growing up. I feel like I just did their Easter pictures and Peter was a tiny baby
I don't want to brag but Peter looked extra adorable, or is it just me that thinks that?

Vasquez Rocks

Our church had a family picnic at Vasquez Rocks this Saturday. It was a nice get together. I don't have any pictures of the bigger kids because they were too busy hiking and exploring. I was too busy playing also , so part of that is my fault. They had football, soccer, bocce ball, ladder ball, kite flying, bubbles and more. A bunch of boys even brought nerf guns so they had a war. That was Williams favorite part. The place was cool. If you can picture the scenery from Lion King and Lake Powell and put them together, that is what Vasquez Rocks looks like. Poor Scott got super sunburned beacuse we didn't think to put sunblock on him. All in all it was a nice way to spend a Saturday.

Eater Sunday

For Easter Sunday I got up early and made cinnamon rolls for breakfast when the kids finally woke up they found the hard boiled eggs and their baskets.. Then we watched conference. After conference we invited a family that doesn't have any family near over for traditional Easter dinner. and our own little egg
hunt in the back yard. It was a nice Easter day. A little cold for us. (I think it was 60-65 degrees) but other than that nice. When i do the egg hunt there is one special silver egg. After all the eggs are found we open the silver egg. Inside is a picture of Jesus Christ. I give a lesson to let the kids know that Easter is not about bunnies, candy and finding eggs but about our resurrected savior.
Interesting non canonized fact: The tradition of finding eggs dates back to when Mary Magdalene goes to Tiberius Ceaser and tell him that Christ has risen. He says that a man cannot come back from the dead any sooner than the egg in his hand could turn red. At that the egg turned red. So the Christian started exchanging red eggs to symbolize that Christ has risen. The hunt comes from the People hunting for the risen Christ hence the colored egg.

Splash and dash egg hunt

this Year we did our citys first ever splash and dash egg hunt. It was so much fun the kids just loved it!! They did it by age group and sent all the eggs down the giant twisty slide and they filter throughout the Whole pool. All the kids were squealing with delight. Especially Brennen and Peter. They didn't care how many they had just














as long as they found eggs floating in the water. After their time was up they took however many eggs they had and exchanged them for a goody bag from the Easter Bunny. After all the ages had their turn everyone got back in the pool for free play. Did I mention they heated the pool to 85 degrees!!!!!! It was nice. During the free play they threw some eggs back in the pool and the kids got super excited all over again. The pool also provided drinks and snack during the free play.
Brennen didn't really want to go near the Easter Bunny but Peter crawled right up to him to check him out. I think Peter thought he was a giant blanket he could use to snuggle with. Peter had caught 2 eggs one for each hand and refused to let them go. He started falling asleep and screamed when I tried to take his eggs away so I could get him dressed. I just had to squeeze his egg filled fists through his sleeves. He held onto those eggs all day. What a great way to have an egg hunt in Southern California.