Sunday, May 24, 2009

Disneyland


Well I promised our Disneyland pictures would be coming and now I delivered. There are a lot, I just couldn't choose which ones to leave out.

Thanks Mom and Dad to footing the bill for the whole family. As one of our last things to do together as a whole family before we move to Ohio, my whole family met in Disneyland. My sister came out from Utah with her family and the rest of us came down from the Bay Area. What a great trip and a fun time.


DAY ONE

In the car on the way to Disneyland for the first day. In order to get free parking we had to take a pass holder in the car. So some rearranging of seats was always a necessity.

The classic photo.

We took the train around the park to Tomorrow Land.



In the Nemo Submarine ride.

Waiting to meet Tinkerbell.

Kali thought she would try to smell the big fake flowers.

Kali liked the fairies wings. She wasn't too sure about meeting them up close and giving them hugs. You could tell she kind of wanted too, but at the same time was too scared to.

Bristol and Tink


On the way to Snow White's wishing well Kali fell asleep.
Bristol singing into the well. We had to visit it since she had a Snow White dress.
Sleeping Beauties castle. Bristol has never even seen the movie, but I guess she knows that the queen is scary. So when we were getting to the part of when the queen is coming she just kept screaming, "get me out of here". She wasn't a very big fan of the castle, which she would remind us each day when we would be by it.
The carousel.
Riding on Dumbo with Dad. Thank goodness Dad was willing because these rides somewhat make me want to vomit.
We took Bristol on the Pirates of Carribean. She wasn't too hot on that ride either. So the whole ride she buried her head in my arm and plugged her ears. By the end of the ride she was asleep.
DAY TWO
California Adventure. We hit up some rides in the park and played in the water. We then headed over to Disneyland during the parade to wait in the princess line. We were told it would be shorter during that time. Which it was, we only waited an hour and a half versus two and half hours.

However, the wait was worth it to see the joy on Bristol's face when she met the princesses. Bristol with Ariel

Jasmine and Bristol.
Kali once again was not too sure about the characters. But Bristol was all about hugging and taking pictures with them.
Bristol with Belle. She was really wanting to see Cinderella, but was still overjoyed with the princesses she saw.
DAY THREE
Back to California Adventure to hit up a few more favorite rides. Then we decided since it was hot to have them play in the water again. It is hillarious to watch them run around in water that randomly would shoot up from the ground.
Bristol would get cold after a while, so she would lay in the sun to warm up.
We turned the corner and low and behold there was Cinderella. We had to grab a picture really quick because she was about to leave.
The Tea Cups. We barely even spun the tea cup, but after we got off and were waiting in the Alice and Wonderland ride Bristol said to me,"Mom I threw up". I looked at her and sure enough in her hand was some upchuck. While I was contemplating what to do she sucked it back into her mouth and swallowed it. Gross I know, it almost made me want to vomit.
Right before the fireworks our last night Mickey came walking by and so we were able to take a picture with him.
AHHH, Disneyland the happiest place on earth. We were tired and worn out but it was a great family vacation. Once again thanks Mom and Dad we had a blast. We are so grateful we were able to go before we move across the country.

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Monday, May 18, 2009

The Woes of Kali

So Kali is my always on the go baby. Every second I turn around she is getting into something else or climbing on top of something. So here are two recent mishaps. The first happened this last Monday. She of course was climbing and was standing on the kitchen chair and leaned over the back of it and down went the chair and Kali. The mark on the middle of the bump (which it later turned into a scab) is the grout line on our tile. It was the biggest goose egg I think I have ever seen. My poor little girl.

Mishap number two: Kali got into the markers. Nate was supposed to be watching the girls while I was out in the garage switching the laundry. I got back in saw Kali. The funny thing was that Nate was sitting right there on the computer, but didn't notice anything. She had colored her hand practically solid green and then she was sucking (yes sucking) on the tip of the marker, hence the green mouth. All I can say is thank goodness for non-toxic markers.

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P.S. We just got back from Disneyland today and so more pictures will come in a few days.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

The whole month of April

Finally some Easter pictures. So I wanted a cute picture of them together in their Easter get up but Kali was not cooperating. So I have some ones of them separately.




This was the only one of them that I got together, but of course the wind did not cooperate this time.
Hunting Easter eggs.

My dad retired from the San Jose Fire Department in January after a little over 36 years of service. So my mom threw a retirement party for him in the middle of April. It was perfect weather and you can't go wrong with good weather, good food, and good company.
Nate enjoying the conversation.

The party

The jump house. My parent were pretty smart, since they knew it was going to be a family affair with lots of kids they rented the jump house. It kept the kids busy for hours. There was even a slide that the kids would go down inside of it.
Bristol and her cousin Collin.
The weather was so nice and warm and the pool was so tempting.

I made the mistake of not packing a swimsuit for Bristol. She refused to wear anything else but "a girls swimsuit". So my mom has this suit with floaties built in that after a half an hour or so Bristol thought that it would suffice.
Bristol with her cousin Blake patiently waiting for ice cream.
Bristol taking good care of her cousin Asher.

We then went to Utah for Nate's sister's graduation from BYU. We had a great weekend there and were constantly going from one place to the next.
Trying to entertain Kali during the ceremony. She liked taking pictures and then looking at them.
Nate's sister Jamie getting ready to accept her diploma.


The family with Jamie after graduation.
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