October Birthdays

Since I was late in posting September birthdays I thought I'd be a little early for the October ones. Makes it even I guess!

Happy Birthday to:
Tony-My BFF's Husband-1st
Tegan-Our niece in Chicago-3rd
And of course our beautiful
Hannah-Bear turns 11 on the 20th

Check out the 2 slide shows I got done so far. I need to do one more of the Disneyland pictures.

Sea World trip #2

Here's the Sea World pictures. Only about 20 since we just went in February. I didn't need to take as many.

The first thing we did was to feed the dolphins like we did in February but I was very angry to find out about some changes they made. Last time I went in with my Mom and the kids to take pictures. Now if you want to go in to take pictures they charge you $6. It's $6 for 3 little fish and I was only willing to fork over $12 for both kids to do it but not another $6 just to take pictures. So then Joshua decides he won't do it if I'm not there and Hannah had to go in alone (pay and then wonder where we are-which is why she has that unhappy look on her face). I had to hope she was led to a trainer that wasn't blocking my frame and use my zoom. Not how I wanted to start our day. They are basically assuming no good parent would send their kid in alone and can make some extra money there. I would think they would want the kids to be properly supervised.

We did get to see the new dolphin show called Blue Horizons which Hannah (and us) enjoyed. We saw the Shamu show again but it was not as cool as when the trainers did tricks with Shamu. I understand why they don't anymore but Todd thought it was boring.

Sea World was open till 7 but we left by 5pm-ish so we could eat an affordable dinner!

Beach Slide Show 2010

Check out the beach pictures below. It's a mix of Corona Del Mar,Coronado Island,and La Jolla. There's about 40 pictures just in case you think the pictures will never end:)

September Birthdays-Better late than never!

So, I'll admit to slacking a bit on the birthday thing. I try to do it at the beginning of the month but I was preoccupied with the vacation. Thankfully the 2 birthdays have not passed yet so I think I'm okay.
Todd's Mom-Have a great day-we love you!!
My BFF-Jen in Massachusetts. What can I say? You are someone I aspire to be like and I wish you were here to help me be a better person. I hope that when we get to Heaven we live next to each other to make up for all these years apart:)

Happy Birthday:o)

We're home

We got back from California on Sunday night. We had a fun time-of course. It'll take me awhile to put up a slide show. We went to Corona Del Mar the first day after we got to Anaheim. Hannah & Todd went boogie boarding and Joshua tried it once. It was all fun till Hannah found out she lost a Mickey earring:( Later we found a cute pair at the World of Disney Store where she got an early birthday present.
We went back to the motel and prepared for our first day at Disneyland on Monday. We were happy to be going Mon-Thurs and avoid weekends. It was much lighter crowds than last year. We used our free volunteer day on Monday and got hopper passes for the next 3 days.
Friday morning we drove to San Diego/Coronado Island. We went to Sea World one more time before our passes expired. We had to leave Sunday but made one last beach visit to La Jolla. Todd did a little snorkeling and we searched tide pools. We saw lots of hermit crabs and some anemone. We saw about 5 seals sunning themselves and swimming too.
Joshua stumps me sometimes. I told him I wasn't going in the water because it was too cold & I'm a wimp. He said he was a wimp too. I said, "you're too young to be a wimp". His answer: How old do you have to be to be a wimp? Classic Joshua!
I'm finally caught up on laundry but we still have some last minute art projects to get done for the State Fair in October. Todd will finish the management classes on Thursday. We're hoping for some good things to come from it soon!

ASU Game

We just got back about an hour ago from a Sun Devils football game against NAU. Todd got free tickets at work. They were normally $40 seats. We left after the 3rd quarter since we need to be up early. It wasn't a pretty win but it was a win. These pictures were taken before the game started. It was fun but I wish we didn't have to wake up early and that parking wasn't $20! I guess it's not bad since the tickets were free:o)