Fun Family Flashback Fotos

San Diego Zoo

Annual passes to the San Diego Zoo. Overall assessment is...superb.


Ella wanted to act like a money most of the day. Easy for me to "pretend".

It's Fall Ya'll

I LOVE FALL! love...love....love...fall. And of course a Cali fall is not as beautiful as the rest of the world's fall...but I still love it. In fact I took a canyon drive near our house to work one day to avoid the traffic, and I had the most wonderful drive. I was so happy all day! I was able to enjoy many beautiful sites (orange groves, shapely hills, open fields, NO TRAFFIC). It was wonderful, and I love this time of the year along with all its fun festivities.

We were busy this year with:

Trunk or Treat at church and the Chino Hills Shoppes:

Snow White & Baby Duckie

I found Ella's snow white dress on clearance after Halloween last year for about $5, with my coupon, and was so excitied for the great deal we got. Well Daddy found the matching snow white shoes, that light up while you walk. So she HAD to get those, which of course cost about $24. So much for the deal I got, but she is a Daddy's girl & was a princess for Halloween (blah! not my favorite, but what she wanted).

My Dad's B-day and family Halloween Party:

Donuts on a string. Carving Pumpkins.
Treasure Hunts.
Costumes.
Dad's witches brew (homemade root beer, bubbling from the cauldron).
AND Ella's 2nd costume (OUR pick) Jack from Pirates

Tom's Farm (pumpkin patch):
Oak Glenn:

Time Out For Women

So I had so much fun this last weekend going to "Time Out For Women" in Riverside with a lot of my Ontario friends.

It was refreshing and uplifting. And fun to hang out with all my old friends. This is not a good picture and a lot of our friends who were there are not pictured here (Genvieve, Tribble's, where did you go?)

Janell thanks for planning and getting the tickets for us. I am totally down with Vegas next year!

Smorgasbord of an update

Our Puppy dog boy.


Ella and Ashylyn Okamoto at Build-a-Bear and Rain Forest Cafe. Thanks Vanessa for a wonderful and fun day (the twins loved it!). These two are so much alike, wild, crazy, and FUN!



Chino Hills Shoppes Water Fountain (Makenzie, Ryan, & Asher)

Daddy and Asher...my VERY sick boys chillin together.

Asher's 1st Birthday

It wasn't that shocking, just a small family get together.

And our crazy BOY!!! He is ALL BOY too. From climbing the shelves, into the sink, in his toy basket (see below), we have found him in the pots and pans cupboard with the door shut. On this occasion I ran and grabbed my camera so we could get a picture of him climbing all the way up the ladder which daddy left out while painting.

Ella doing her DAILY crafts (doesn't it look like fun to clean all of this up?) She is obsessed with crafts.

Christmas Story memories (I CANT GET UP!) he literally fell flat on his face and really couldn't get up. So why he is crying Ned and I are hysterically laughing...it WAS funny.

And her next favorite thing, cooking. She LOVES making a mess, I mean, helping me cook. Here she is making a pizza.