Spa Day

I won a free spa day at the Sonoma Fairmont a couple months ago! It included brunch, a 1-hour massage, $75 food and beverage credit at the poolside grill, and use of all the facilities. I took 2 of my friends and we had an awesome day at the spa!! The brunch was amazing..always nice to stuff your face, then spend the rest of the day in a bathing suit! HA!

Tasha, Lisa and me in our cute robes getting ready to try and find a spot by the pool!

Thanks girls for making it such a great day! You're the best!!

Kelli's Bday

A night on the town!! Woo Hoo!!! My friend Kelli celebrated her birthday with wine tasting and a night out in Sonoma! I had so much fun!!! We went wine tasting at Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma, then had dinner & drinks. I was able to meet some of her friends who I loved! and it was a much needed night out! Thanks for having a birthday Kelli!!!

This huge chair was at the entrance to Cornerstone Gardens...fun picture spot!

Father's Day

Father's Day 2009 was really nice! Sean took Shad to his first movie, UP. I'll post pictures of that later. Then we went to my grandma's house for dinner! Sean is the best Dad I ever could have imagined. Our kids are so lucky to have a father like him..and I'm lucky to have a great husband! Happy Father's Day!! Daddy with his kiddos

What every father should be doing on Father's Day, right?!

Opening his present that Shad made for him at school.

We loved the wrapping paper, a little saw with his hand print, and it said "you're the best dad I ever saw"

Morning hugs from Kai Kai

Kaihla turnes 2!!

Kaihla had her 2nd birthday on June 7th. We celebrated her birthday the day before. I let her choose her theme this year too! We went to Partytime and I narrowed it down to a few she showed interest in..she choose Hello Kitty!! My friend Kirstin made her the most amazing cake! A huge Hello Kitty! The ears were rice crispy treats, and the head was chocolate! SO YUMMY! and looked AMAZING! We rented a huge jumpy house with a slide because Kaihla loves jumpy houses, got a bunch of bubbles, and had wonderful weather, friends and family! Thank you to everyone who helped make her day so special! Kaihla blowing out the candles!

Kaihla and mommy at the end of the party...she had SO much fun!

This cake is all for me??!?!?! Oh and Kirstin also made little mini-cupcakes for the kids :-)

Kaihla loves the "Happy Birthday" song!

Present time! She wore that crown almost the whole day! I was really surprised!

My mom and Kaihla going down the slide

Sean, Haidyn and Conrad going down the slide..Sean had just as much fun as the kids in the jumpy/slide!

Bubbles!!

Poor Shad got sick the day of her party. Earlier in the day he had a temp of 103! After his nap that day it went down to 99-100, so we decided to take him..otherwise one of us would have to stay home with him and miss the party! He was fine until about 1 hr into the party..he crashed. This picture was taken in the middle of presents..I can't believe he tried to fall asleep while there was SO much going on!!

Poor baby! Luckily it only lasted a day, and he was pretty much back to normal within a day or so! I feel so bad that he missed on a lot of the fun though.

One of those 'Father-Son' moments

Sean was going to put new mud flaps on our new car today, and Shadwic couldn't wait to help out! He loves doing car stuff with his daddy! He was involved with everything..he read the directions, lifted the car with the car-jack, got Sean the correct tools. It was pretty adorable!
Sean and Shad putting the tire back on

Tightening the lug nuts

Umm..my hands are all dirty!

"Hey MOM my hands are all dirty...COOL"

Shad using the impact wrench, with the assistance of Sean, to loosen the lug nuts!! Check out the video below..

Hiking!

One of our favorite things to do is to go hiking! Lately, well, since kids...we really haven't had much opportunity to. Yesterday my grandma watched the kids all day for us so we could go hike! We went to Sugarloaf State Park, and climbed Hood Mountain. Once we got to the summit it was pretty much socked in with fog. We continued a bit further to Gunsling rock...it was suppose to have great views. Again, it was pretty foggy, but the sun was coming thru and it was so quiet and relaxing. As we finished lunch the fog started burning off a little more, and you could see some of the view. I think it was like 2600 feet up, or something like that. The hike was a little over 7 miles..and a LOT of that was uphill!! Surprisingly today neither of us are that sore! YAY! It was a great time..I hope we get to do it more often!! Thanks grandma for watching the kiddos all day!!

At the top, over the fog!

Sean at Gunsling rock

This is where we had lunch..it was so nice and sunny, private, quite..SO what we both needed!!!

Academy Of Science

My grandma bought our family a season pass to the Academy of Sciences this year!!! Thank you SO much GG!!! We took the kids a couple weeks ago and they had such a great time..(we did too) We can't wait to go back. They have a living rain forest that is amazing, and the butterfly's fly around freely, one kept landing on Sean..( I think she had a crush on him..or his cologne!) Me and the kids looking at some bugs in the living rain forest

They also have a few areas outside to play..Shad and Sean climbed this really cool tree!

Apparently Kaihla knows ALL about the fish, and shows Shad what they're all about.. " See brubbie, fish! big fish"

Shad see's them! They really re-modeled the aquarium nicely. Lots of big fish to see

Not sure if Shad knew this Zebra was not real...didn't matter to him though

Shad and Kai riding a big 'ol turtle

They had a few ladies dressed up like "trees" , walking around on stilts, faces painted etc. Well, Shad was terrified, and wanted nothing to do with this 'thing'..Kaihla on the other hand, made a new friend. While we were in one of the stores, she grabbed everything she wanted ( like 6 things) and shared them with the 'tree' lady. She talked to her, laughed, not scared in the least (not like I should be surprised, she doesn't have much fear at all....for anything!)

Not too sure about a butterfly getting that close..cool picture though!