Girls Nights at Sara's

I love love LOVE these girls and the nights we have been able to share together. It was probably two or three years ago that I first started coming to these girl's nights at Sara's (far left). When we first started, I think I hardly knew most of these girls, but somehow I was invited...probably by Crysta (green shirt) who is always coordinating fun stuff! We mostly laugh and sometimes cry. We almost always eat. I couldn't have imagined how much would have changed in everyone's lives since then, or the many changes soon to come. I imagine this was probably our last girl's night at Sara's (at least in California), but with these girls no matter the time and distance, I'm sure we will have no trouble picking it up where we left off. I wish all my love and all the best to these ladies. I'm excited to see where life takes them all. I am so grateful that they are my friends!! Thank you ladies! <3

 We are creatures of habit (at least on the 4th of July). We wake up early to do a Fun Run, we attend a flag raising ceremony, then go eat pancakes or french toast. If we can, we take a swim and have a BBQ, but every year (without fail) we go to the same park with the same people and watch the same fireworks year after year. I love it!!! The kids run around and act crazy until the sun goes down. And this year, thanks to Red Vines and gummy worms, they ran around 4x as fast and 4x as crazy (if my calculations are correct). The fireworks were wonderful as ever, and the finale was over the top. It was like that wolf scene in Twilight that caused seizures in the audience, so I closed my eyes a little. These are a few of the pictures of the kids acting like goof-balls, so happy to be together with cousins and such. And can I just say it was next to impossible to get a shot of Littleman standing still!!

Happy 4th everyone!!

Jamba Juice Day

I love my kids!! I love taking them to this lovely little shopping center and drinking Jamba Juice outside on a nice, sunny California day. 

It makes my heart happy. What more can I say??

In the Pool

My kids get FREE swim lessons, from the BEST swim instructor*
 *with a running shirt tan, hehe!

I'm not sure why he gives us such a good deal...he must have a crush on me or something!

The Future was Yesterday?!

 

I saw this photo on facebook this morning. Yesterday was the day that Marty McFly time-traveled to on "Back to the Future". Boy, seeing this made me feel old!