Bikes, Baths and Boots!

We recently bought a couple of bike seats for the kids.  Let me rewind.  Before that, we bought a nice bike trailer from Costco but Matthew throws a fit when we put him in it so that will sit for a little while.  O.k., back into the present......so we bought the new bike seats hoping that Mr. M would like it.  He does for the most part.  They are pretty cool since the kid sits in front of you rather than behind you.  Adrienne loves ringing the bell and Mommy and Daddy like getting some exercise.

ibert needs to pay us for marketing their product.  People were asking us all about them during our ride.

We stopped at a park to play.  Matthew loves the swings.

Adrienne is quite the character when she is not so shy.  Most people are surprised since they only see her in her shy state!

Now that Matthew is sitting up easily, we have been giving the kids a bath together.  They are starting to play together so that has been a lot of fun.  When I was pregnant, I had a lot of moms (that had kids close in age) tell me the exact phrase, "The first year is going to be rough, but once you get past that, they will play with each other.  That is when things get easy and fun."  It is true.  Matthew isn't quite 11 months yet but I can see how things are getting so much easier.  Adrienne and Matthew have so much fun together.  Here is them in the bath this week.

Goofy kids in the bath.

Well, since I love to plan things out well in advance, I am currently putting Matthew's first birthday party together.  It will be a Woody and Jessie western themed party (invitations to come soon.)  I bought Adrienne some red cowboy boots and told her that they were Jessie boots (since she absolutely loves Jessie from Toy Story.)  Well I expected her to refuse to wear them.  To my surprise, she loves them.  She wore them to dinner last night.  This is her this morning in her Jessie boots and hat.

Yee Haw!  Well, sort of, she didn't want me taking her picture.  The usual......

Marine World & Mother's Day

We bought season passes to Marine World this year since they were really cheap.  Adrienne loves going there so we can make it a fun weekend here and there this summer.  Adrienne and Fiona loved the water fountains.  We also went to Sienna for a Mother's Day brunch.  Sooooo good.  So much food and they do it so well.  All in all, a great weekend.  Miss Adrienne is getting a little tan from all of this warm weather.  Mr. Matthew has my skin, so no tan for him!

Waiting for the whale show to start.  A loved when the whale would spray the crowd.

Water fountains at DK, a big hit!

So different than Disney.  There were a couple people in line here, at Disney, there would be at least 20!

Cheese!

My handsome boy is 10 months now.

My adorable family, love em to pieces.

Clarksville Day

There is an area in southern El Dorado Hills called Clarksville.  It was a gold mining settlement in the late 1800's.  It is basically known as a little ghost town now a-days.  Someone owns all of the property today and 6 years ago, they got together with some volunteers to open it up.  Once a year, they host Clarksville Day.  Volunteers dress in period clothing, play music, lot's of horses and stuff like that.  We had a lot of fun.  Adrienne was dancing to the music, I wish I could have snapped some pictures of her.

Adrienne loved the music and the horses.

Mr. Matthew's first time in the backpack.  He was a happy camper.



Kenny fam leaving the fun.

Later that day, Adrienne and Daddy cooking in the kitchen.

Walt Disney World

My friend Dani drove over to hang with us for the evening.  Adrienne is her buddy!

Mr. M on the Carousel.

Getting ready to ride Dumbo.  Adrienne did not like it for the 3rd time.  You would think Mom and Dad would learn!

Daddy's little princess.  No, I did not take this picture.  I wasn't even with them.

Wow, what an weird outfit you ask?  Those are Matthew's shorts.  She went through 2 outfits that night and fit into her 9 mo old brother's shorts!

Paul will kill me for posting this pic. 

Classic family picture on Main Street.

Eyore was trying to get the strap away from Matthew.  It was all he was intersted in.

First character for dinner and she was in heaven.

Awe, Daddy and Matthew and the Crystal Palace.



This one might be my favorite.  Adrienne was so patient for each of the Pooh characters to come around.

At the Wilderness Lodge, she loved running over this bridge repeatedly.

Whispering Canyon restaurant.  She participated in the kid functions!!!!!

Mama hiding her "all you can eat" milkshake from A.  I shared with her after dinner.

Mr. M loved the characters too.

He is "The Man" to A.  No one else can compare.

Adrienne and Daddy looking at the bunny at Epcot.

She just says "Yippee!" the whole time on this ride.

A and Papa leaving the Polynesian hotel.

Hugging Donald in Frontierland.

Our ride for the week.

Sitting with Goofy on Main Street.

Paul, the kids and I just got back from a week in Disney World yesterday.  It was absolutely so much fun.  Adrienne had a great time and Matthew had fun and was such a trooper the entire time.  Miss Adrienne is still a bit timid with the rides, she doesn't like Dumbo because it goes high in the air.  It's a Small World and the Fantasyland Carousel are her absolute faves.  A new thing for this trip is the characters.  Adrienne LOVES them.  She can't stop hugging them.  Matthew likes them too.  I was absolutely petrified of them as a kid, so this is such a relief to Paul and me.  Paul's parents joined us for the weekend and the kids were in heaven.  4 people paying all attention to them.  We stayed at the Sheraton Vistana resort just outside the Disney property in a 2 bedroom condo.  It was so great, I will always stay in that sort of resort at WDW in the future.  We had so much space and it made life so convenient while we were there.  I wasn't ready to leave.  Adrienne keeps saying the same thing over and over again......."I have to go to Disneyland."

First Haircut

Adrienne has her Daddy's hair.  It is crazy and growing in all different directions.  Well, imagine if Paul's hair was longer.  I had a hair appointment today so I had Paul bring Adrienne in to get hers done as well.  I wanted her to get a little trim and also, I wanted to learn what product to put in her hair.  She was so cute.  In true Adrienne fashion, she wanted nothing to do with Katie who was cutting her hair.  She just looked sad during the whole process.  But..... it turned out really cute.  She just trimmed a little causing it to bring life to her curls and she added some light product too which was really cute.  I need to get an after picture but here are the pics while she was getting it done. 

Oooooooo new car part 2........yep again!

O.k., no we didn't go out and decide to get another car just for the fun of it.  Nearly 2 weeks ago we were in an accident.  A girl rear ended us, pushing us into the truck in front of us.  Luckily we are all fine.  I was really scared when it happened since the kids were immediately screaming (of course I am thinking that they are hurt) but luckily they were fine, just a bit scared.  Our little Fusion was totaled and that caused us to be in the market for a new car.  After being in this accident, I decided that I wanted the family in a larger car.  Well, Mama got what she wanted.  She got a brand new mini van!  Yep, they are a Mamas dream car.  If you asked me 5 years ago if I would ever want a mini van, I would have told you that you were crazy.  Well, they just make a Moms life much easier.  Every creature comfort!   We rented one in Kauai recently and I was sold from there on out.  It is a really nice car, I'll take you for a spin in my new ride!

Scene of the accident

Poor car.  It went right under the tall truck in front of us.

It crumpled so much that the insurance company totaled it.

Doesn't look like much from the back?  It felt like a pretty hard hit.

New car!