A weekend to celebrate!!

This past weekend was packed with everything from Kid's Clinics to an Angel's Game and even a day at Disneyland to celebrate the "Auntie's" birthdays....here is how the weekend went down...

Friday, July 3rd

The kids and I visited with everyone that was in town....Fredrick and his great-grandma had a fun time together!!

And she wore him out!!

Saturday the 4th of July

This was a FULL day, so I will let the pictures do most of the talking and make comments to clarify where necessary!!

Morning...

The 4th started with a trip to Home Depot for the Kid's Clinic, where Karyl made a "picnic basket/tray."

We had fun and even Freddie got an apron!!

We also got to meet up with an old friend of Greg's and mine from back in High School. Mele and her husband live out here, less than 2 miles from us, and so far we've only met up at Church a few times, but finally we were able to meet up outside of Church. She and her husband brought their 3 kids one of her younger sisters to build something too!! We had an AWESOME time with them and look forward to lots more goofing off and laughter with her family in the future!!

Afternoon...

Once we were able to tear ourselves away from Mele's family, we headed home to get ready for the rest of the day....Greg did some work in the yard and I worked on some stuff around the house. Then, when Greg was done it was so hot that he decided to "take a leap" and be the first one to try our pool. Aside from it needing to be filtered a little more and cleaned, he loved it!! Oh, and that pool cover...totally works to keep the pool warm, you will NEVER need a pool filter with one of these covers, and we rarely have to fill it since it can't evaporate through the cover!!

Karyl REALLY wanted to get in, Daddy had to convince her that it was too warm for her to swim in (yes, the cover makes it that warm!!).

Evening...

On to the Angel's Game...we met Greg's family there and it was a great game (we creamed the Orioles!!). Freddie was much better behaved than I ever imagined and he even took 2 naps (I had to wander the halls with him so he didn't hear all the screaming, but there were lots of TVs around so I didn't miss the action. He even enjoyed the Fireworks show and didn't cry once, just stared at them!!

Michael Johns from American Idol, Season 7 sang the National Anthem!

Then, they unfurled this GIANT flag on the field....

Then this GIGANTIC Boeing flew overhead in honor of the 4th!! This picture doesn't do it justice, it flew RIGHT over our seats and it put goosebumps on my arms, it was AWESOME!!

To Grandma B...sorry, I can't crop the pictures on the blog, and this was such a cute pic of Greg and Freddie....

And then there were the fireworks....one of the main reasons we went to the game on the 4th!!

Oh, and while there I got to meet up with yet another friend from High School, Melayne. We haven't seen each other in at least 6 years!! It was awesome to see her and get to talk!!

And to end the night we found the car, put the kids in their PJs and sat and watched a movie in the van. No one was going ANYWHERE in that parking lot! Finally after about 45 minutes we snaked through to the back of the lot and found the 57 freeway...which was PACKED.....then to the ever so wonderful 91 freeway....thank goodness for the Express Lanes, sorry to anyone we flew by that was sitting in that traffic!!

Sunday, July 5th

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHERYL, CHRISTINE and CARRI!!!

Here are some pics of us from the Happiest Place on Earth!!

Karyl has been wanting one of these lollipops forever but we keep putting her off...well, she went into the candy shop with Grandpa while Greg and I walked towards the front of the park and this is what we saw when they came trotting up...

Happy birthday to Greg's sisters, my favorite sister-in-laws, and Karyl's Aunties!!!

Oh, and as a side note...I had a major breakthrough this weekend, I FINALLY bought a pair of real jeans!! I finally decided I had been wearing the maternity jeans long enough...4 months after a baby is a little too long to try and pass off the elastic belly =)

Sunday naughtiness

Sunday Karyl figured out that those markers she has been playing with color on more than paper....

Luckily, through all his laughter and frustration Greg thought to take a picture so I could see when I got home from choir practice (the director in our ward had her baby early and apparently I am the new stand-in when she is gone...)

Apparently those Dora markers are washable, because when I got home to take everyone to church her hands were pretty much clean...good job Daddy!!!

By the way, keep scrolling down, there have been a few posts in the last few days and there are some great pictures!!

Oh, and I've been slacking on the Twilight quotes, mostly because I don't want anyone to make fun of me for being so obsessed with the series...but it appears it's too late, I'm already being made fun of, so here's another quote:

"And speaking of Italy and sports cars I stole there, you still owe me a yellow Porsche."

You have to love Alice!!

All Freddie wants for the 4th are his two front teeth...

And as of this afternoon, he has them!! His two bottom middle ones both poked a corner through this afternoon, which explains why he has been VERY cranky the past few days (Greg tried to tell me that's what it was...). There are no pictures because let's face it, trying to get a good look at his gums is tough without trying to keep him still enough to take a picture while keeping his mouth open...

When those teeth really become obvious we'll put pics up, until then, we're just excited and slightly shocked that he has broken his first of many teeth!! Way to go Freddie!!!

Manic Monday

It was Greg's day off today, so of course this morning Greg worked on the shed and our neighbor came over to lend a hand...we still joke that he's only doing it to make sure that his side looks good, but he has been a HUGE help and is such a great guy. Whenever he sees Greg out working he throws on some shoes and comes over to help out in whatever way he can!!

Yesterday Greg put the trim around the door and under the roof...now all that's left is some fill-in work and painting the thing. It's going to be two-tone gray and it will look great with the pool cover!

Next, we just have a few cute pictures of Fredrick...the orange jumper was from Sunday, and the other picture in red is him in his carseat yesterday. He is getting super-good with his hands and is learning to put stuff in his mouth!

Before anyone jumps to conclusions, this is NOT another car...I repeat, we DID NOT buy another car!!

We went to a Dr.'s Appointment today in Mission Viejo (it's official, my gallbladder's days are numbered) and as we went to park, this car caught my attention. Not because of the great color, but because this is my first car. No, it's not just the same model or color...this is actually my first car, same license plate and all. I had seen it driven around before, years ago after I traded it in, I even got to talk to the owner once. The reason this is so significant is because the dealer I traded it to was supposed to scrap it since the frame was bent (my dad crashed it once and it was never fixed properly...). I told the new owner that years ago and he didn't seem to care.

Anyways, this is my first car. I saw it and couldn't believe it..I had to take a picture and Greg thought I was losing my mind. I think if we didn't have to be in an appointment in a few minutes he would have gotten back in the van and driven off!

So, enjoy the pictures...it was a nice stroll down memory lane seeing it. That car was good to me and I can't believe it's still running. It's a 1992 Chevrolet Cavalier RS, it was a great car and a lot of fun in High School.

What the?? Now there are 4 dead??

OK, so we had our 3 celebs that died...Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson...

Then yesterday I get on the computer to check email, pull up MSN and I see in the headlines that we have another death. I think I was more stunned and saddened by this last one moreso than any of the other ones...Billie Mays died yesterday!! His poor wife found him dead at home! I loved watching his Pitchmen show on the Discovery Channel and his OxyClean commercials were a trademark staple of the past years!!

So, RIP to Billie Mays, and our family's prayers are with his family. He was a fun guy and seemed like a decent person. I feel sorry for his poor wife! I have never purchaed OxyClean, but I may go buy a small container just to try it out in his honor.

Oh, and this morning, Karyl was in the kitchen with me while I was filling up her water cup and in the other room was one of his commercials playing...out of nowhere she stops what she was saying and repeats the tagline from the commercial "KaBoom....the power to get out touch stains" or whatever it is he says in the commercial!! It cracked me up that she randomly decided to repeat that!! We do own some Kaboom, although it doesn't work that well....

UPDATE: So we completed our second trio of celebrity deaths this weekend....before Billie Mays we had an beautiful actress named Gail Storm and a comedian from back in the day named Fred Travalena.

Maybe this will be the end of the deaths?? It's the start of a new week so we never know!!

Lowe's Kids Clinic...and Saturday Shed day!!

YOU ARE WARNED...THIS POST CONTAINS LOTS AND LOTS OF PICTURES!!!

Uncle David got a new camera (a SWEET Nikkon D90) and he has been taking lots of pictures of the kids...because it's a more "professional" camera, he can get shots that we can't and they are awesome!!

Today at Lowe's they made pirate ships that even had a retractable plank for your toys to "walk the plank" on!!

Are these kids not the cutest...the last pic of Freddie was Uncle David's favorite for the day!!

We have such beautiful children...how could you NOT want to just snuggle up with them??

And here is a pic of the shed this morning...they got the window in and are working on the door right now. It looks like a little house with the twirly vent on top and the skylight!!

Last Saturday...and 4 months today!!

Alright, I know this is a week late, but it's been busy around here and I just haven't had the patience to sit and wait while the pics upload...so here are the pics of the shed from last week and some pics of Karyl and Freddie in their matching Hawaiin outfits...so cute!! Oh, and Freddie officially is 4 months today!! Where does the time go??

Here is the shed with the roof and all accessories on.

Greg and our neighbor working on the twirlybird vent thingy (and yes, that is the technical name as far as I'm concerned). Greg joked that the only reason our neighbor came to help was to make sure his side looked good!!

Here they are all cute and matching. Greg has a matching shirt and I have a matching dress (that almost fits me again!!) and even Grandpa has a matching shirt (see below) and we even found out that aunt Christine has a matching skirt!!

And lastly, this is an updated picture of Freddie from about 10 minutes ago. He is napping and pulled the burpcloth we lay under his head up over his head (my guess is he was snuggling with it!!), so precious...can you believe this little guy is 19 pounds and only 4 months old as of today!?!?!