2011 - Year in Review - Part 3

July brought lots of days at the beach and memories made. July also brought Hannah starting her new preschool where she has blossomed into such an independent young girl.

Here she is on her first day


Blowing bubbles off of Nana's deck on the 4th of July




July and August also brought Project Surf Camp!! For the second year Zach participated in surf camp. He did 2 camps this year and Hannah was so excited to do it too! Such a great experience for my kiddos and I am so thankful they are able to experience it. Can't wait for this years camps!



















Hi-5's while getting his award


Zach with the PSC founder John Taylor


In September Hannah turned 4 and we surprised the kids with a trip to Disneyland! They had no idea! We just put them in the car in the morning and told them we were taking a drive. They were SO shocked when we got there! Truth be told, Disneyland is one of my favorite places and I love taking the kids there.

Hannah was so excited to meet Rapunzel and Flynn Rider!


Zach asked Flynn what was in his satchel. Imagine Hannah's surprise when she got to wear Rapunzel's crown!!!


We got to see lots of characters












On Hannah's birthday we had lunch with the princesses at Ariel's Grotto. She was in heaven!!










After Zach got over his "I no like princesses" mood he tracked them down and got in on some princess love




Both days we were there we spent time at the pool. The kids could not get enough of the water slide!






Zach is a little, ok a lot, obsessed with Phineas and Ferb. Imagine his excitement when there was a dance party and he got to dance with them!!!


There were so many more amazing memories from our trip but I will stop there.

The final installment of our year in review is coming shortly. Stay tuned!

2011 - Year in Review - Part 2

June-

This June my big boy turned 7!! We didn't do a big party or anything this year, he was happy with low key. He was so happy to go visiting family, that was his birthday celebration! He was excited to get some Phineas and Ferb toys from Nana as that is his current cartoon obsession.





In addition to Zach's birthday we had a very busy month! The weekend before Zach's birthday we headed to Sacramento where my beautiful niece was graduating from high school.

My 2 princesses:


SO proud of this girl:


Mimis and her mom (Her mom taught me to drive.Many years ago!)


Me and Hannah at the graduation


We jumped at the chance to spend several days to visit family while we were up there. The first couple nights we stayed with my best friend. We have been best friends for 28 years. I was so excited to get to spend some days with her and her beautiful family and get to know her baby boy more. Sadly, we ended up with no pictures of her and I! I am always the one behind the camera.

So awesome to see our kids together:


Our guys:


Zach lovin' on Baby Chance:


LOVE this picture of our baby boys:


Suneet was trying to teach the kids how to play something on the piano. By the kids faces... you can tell what was really going on:


After a couple days there, we went to spend some time with my Aunt and Uncle and my cousins and their families. It was WAY overdue.















Hannah was on an Ariel kick that week


I got to meet my cousins baby for the first time! He is so stinkin cute!!




I think one of the most heart warming parts of our trip was seeing Zach and Gabe together. I have posted before about my cousin and her amazing boy. I loved that we both dressed our boys in orange that day! (once we dressed Zach and Gabe in the same outfit for school. 300 miles away. I posted a picture of Zach and she said "Hey ... Gabe wore the same thing to school today!!)

Zach wanted to help Auntie Dani feed Gabers his lunch and he liked giving him his drinks


Beautiful boys


June also brought the Buddy Walk but I think i will save that post for DS awareness month. June was so busy!! Stayed tuned for Part 3 of the year in review!!