The second...Family Party!

We celebrated Avalon's Birthday with my family on Thursday night! Avalon requested Mimi's Chicken Divan and it was sooo good! I made a Jack Sparrow cake for her which was sweet if i do say so myself... She got Guitar Hero for her bday so we spent the rest of the night playing that and High School Musical "Sing it"! Some good times right there... Thank you all who came and celebrated with us!

Avalons Third Party at the Marriott!

Avalon had her B-day party with her girlfriends at the Fashion Island Marriott! It was amazing! We had the top floor suite with an amazing view of the golf course, harbor and ocean. We got the VIP treatment and even had ice cream, cookies and chocolate covered strawberries sent up free! The pool was heated to like 90 and everything was extremely nice....the girls had the bedroom and bruce and i had the living room! Mom, bruce and I spent most of the night doing quizzes in teen magazines...hilarious! There was also an area outside with couches and fireplaces so we went down around the fire and played "would you rather"... lets just say i learned alot about how 11 year olds think...scary. We went to Fashion Island the next day and walked around and did a little shopping...It was a great party and Avalon loved it!

Happy Birthday My Avalon!

Tuesday March 4th was Avalon's ELEVENTH Birthday!! I am officially an old hag!!! How in the world can I have an 11 year old?! Seriously insane. Well, she is turning into a beautiful young lady! (Oh, my gosh now I'm even sounding old! ) She had a great day with more celebrating to come...just wanted to post my lovely lady until I get the pics up...Happy Birthday Avalon!

check another one off the list...

Here's another one of my "I'm a dork" moments, that I probably shouldn't admit...but I've always wanted to ride a segway!!! I think they are awesome! We were at Disneyland the other day and it was kinda crowded so we went into the "innovations" building and they had one you could ride!!! So cool! I caught on pretty fast and then the guy let me ride down this path by myself! (Avy took these pics with her camera phone so thats why they are fuzzy) It was a short little ride but I was still excited! I know, I'm a dork.

You are all jealous...admit it.

Happy Birthday Cierra!!!

My little girl is getting so big! :) I drew this when she was 10...since I was such a good big sister I would always make my sisters dress hot and have them pose for pictures...it's a miracle they didn't turn out to be in playboy...anyways shes just as sexy now and I want to wish her a Happy Birthday!! Love you sis! Mwah!

I just wanted to say thanks....

thanks, to all of you who posted all your sweet little romantic stories, about what jems your hubbies and wives are, about the mushy stories....you all stink! I have always hated valentines day (except for the ones with my family) but the "hoping this year maybe someone will love me" is starting to get a little sad...

I'm not really hating you all....I really am glad you have wonderful significant others....at least I have Joel Mchale...

Valentines Extravaganza!

Happy Valentines Day everybody! My mom has been out of town helping take care of the gorgeous Callie...so we didnt get to have her scruptulecent v-day dinner :( so i had to try to recreate it....well i gave it my best shot. I invited my dad over here because he's been curled up in the fetal position ever since my mom left! But he got stuck in traffic for 4 hours (yikes) and was about 2 hours late, so he had a nice warmed up plate! I even made chocolate fondue that we have every Valentines Day! So delish! I love my family and I miss my mom....

Kobe, the man of our house, woke his sisters up with a kiss and flowers! He is the sweetest boy in this world!

can you feel the love?

Their real selves...especially Avalon

The beautiful Bruceatron

Valentine's Ladies

Fondue time!!! The pineapples were the best...i gained 7.3 pounds that night

Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers in concert

I took Avalon and her friend Jaclynn to the Hannah Montana concert in 3-D last weekend! Ok, it was amazing. Seriously. They have made huge improvements to 3-D! I felt like I was really there! (of course the fact that there were screaming/singing girls dancing in the aisles helped!) Call me a dork but I really do like Hannah Montana! Maybe it brings me back to my NKOTB days and I'm reliving it through my kids but it's good stuff! And the Jonas Brothers...cute, really cute. (I know I'm totally creepster....gimmie a break...)

Skate-a-Rama

Peterson Elementary had their monthly skate party today! We go occasionally, but haven't been for awhile so we laced up our skates and showed our skills!

Cashel is getting better each time we go! Oh, and don't think I didn't bust out my AWESOME sneaker sketchers skates. All the other mom's were way jealous! :)

Doing the Hokey Pokey and cha-cha slide!

Kobe was singing and dancing to every song! Totally killing me!

Mini me

My little speed skater

Avalon had some moves of her own....

Falling all the time can wear a girl out, so she spent alot of time at the snack bar...

My sweet little (weirdo) spirit...

I was in the dressing room at Target and Cashel was looking in the opposite mirror (averting her eyes from what she hopes she doesn't turn out to be) and I caught her making this face. She is always crossing her eyes all crazy and sometimes it happens when she is talking to you...talk about scary beyond all belief! Well, I pulled out the ole' mom line, "Don't do that! What if your eyes get stuck that way!?!?" So out of the mouth of my little babe comes "Then Jesus will just heal me. He heals people you know."
How can I argue with that?

Bringing in the New Year Rose Parade style!

Happy Belated New Years! For new years eve Cierra, Alfredo and i went to Pasadena for the Rose Parade! I have a friend who lives there and so we decided to take advantage! after a delish dinner we walked along the streets of the parade route...pure insanity! People who have been camped out for days lined the street! While we drove down the road we got marshmallows, silly string and tortillas with shaving cream thrown at us! We kept rolling down the windows so Alfredo would get hit! We met up with Connie, Kathy and Kathy's sister Debbie who drove down from St. George to spend the night and watch the parade! We counted down to 2008 with them and had a blast! Then they were kind enough to save us a front row spot for the morning so we didn't have to sleep on the street! Love you guys :) ! Now I can check the rose parade off my list!

Love my Conster!

The Crazyiest ones on the strip!

Theres nothing like ringing in the new year on a street corner in front of Jack in the Box!

This float was beautiful, and it had sweet Polynesian men who were practically naked following behind....oh how I love lava-lavas! I was too tired to take pictures of all the floats.... sorry folks!

Sorry.....

I know I'm a little slow....my life is insane right now...hence the blog name...I'm trying to catch up a little at a time, so be patient with me! And I'll try to comment more too! Thanks Aunt Kathy for caring about me! :)

Merry Christmas!!! We had a totally amazing Christmas...we are truly blessed thanks to family and friends! The kids got some great gifts and were very happy! My mom, dad, micah, sam, Cierra and alfredo all came to me and bruce's (oh, greg was there too!) on Christmas morning! It was wonderful except for the fact that mom and dad were totally sick :( We draw names for presents and Kimmy got me! I told her instead of one big gift I wanted a bunch of little presents so I could open alot! She did a great job! I got like 10 presents and I loved them all!!! Good job lady! :) All in all it was an amazing day!!

Waiting for all the mornings gloriousness!

So far so good...

Cashel's Zac Efron pillowcase....I get to sleep with it on the weekends...

Two happy kiddos!

Avalon among her goodies

Kobe with his stash!

Look at that load! Santa loves us! :)

Christmas eve with the family!

The Nativity doesn't get any better then this....seriously

My cute little Joseph!

Another Tradition...

The Slide show below is from Sunday night! We had our Annual Gingerbread House decorating and Sound of Music Sing-a-long! This is definitely one of my fav traditions! We all decorate gingerbread houses while we watch "Sound of Music"! We don't just watch. We sing. At the top of our lungs. Even Micah. Everyone has their special parts they like to sing the best ( I of course love them all) Since Kimmy has joined the family though ( I can't believe she still did after witnessing this tradition) I must say I love when she sings "How do you solve a problem like Marissa", the song my mom used to sing to me when i was little! :) Everyone did a wonderful job on their houses...(I tried to post everyones, but the slider was getting mad at me) We usually vote on who's is the best but everyone got sick of me winning so they stopped that!! And we even got to celebrate Aunt Kathy's 29th b-day! We had a blast! I love my Family and that we still do all our crazy traditions! Thanks to my Mom who has brought so much fun and memories to our family!! :) Enjoy the show....

The GingerBread Challenge/Sound of Music sing-along!

*Christmas Boat Parade *

It's tradition to go to Balboa and watch the boat parade! It's so fun to see all the boats and gorgeous homes decorated! My mom always brings Hot Cocoa and donuts and we get all our warm cozy gear on and stroll down the boardwalk! It's one of those things that really gets you in the Holiday spirit!

My sweet little family! :)

Ceej and I didn't even plan this! She said it matches us perfect...because she has white hair (platinum blond, same thing) and I have brown! Aren't we just the cutest?

The two little Braithwaite men! Ben was not into picture taking at the moment:)

My kids really do love each other...most of the time!

Cashel and Tio Alfredo! She is so excited they are here for Christmas!

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