Eating Sushi For Uncle Treavor's Birthday!!

Matty and Abby were so excited when Uncle Treavor wanted to take them with him for Sushi. On his actually birthday we had Me N Ed's the kids other favorite food. Matty and Abby both love the rolls. They experiment, more Abby than Matty. Matty loves crab and when he found that California Rolls are mostly crab he was hooked! The food came before I was able to get a picture with Uncle Treavor and the kids. Once the food came they were all about the food and not the pictures.
Matty showing us he can use chopsticks.

Abby wanted more than sushi tonight so she also dined on chicken and rice. She's a fork and fingers type of girl.

Last Beach Day With Friends

Every Monday during the summer of group of Mom's sometimes Dad's meet at Bay and splash and play in the water and sun. It was sad to realize that this was going to be the last one before school started and summer was almost over. The kids loved going to the beach and playing with their friends. They would always remind me that it was Monday and it was beach day. We look forward to next summer for Beach Days to start again.
Anne telling me not to take her picture. This is just for you Anne.
Abby loves building sand castles. Many times this summer this is all she did at the beach.
Matty loves ships and a little boy brought one and let him play with it. He was in heaven.
Abby running and playing with Corine with the boogie board.
Matty and Will building a sand castle ride on the edge of the water. They worked on this for a long time.
Stopping for a picture while working on their sand castle.
Deborah always was such a good sport and would have a water fight with all the kids. All the kids against her. She was always drenched.
Abby was always in the middle of the water fight. She giggled the whole time.
This is towards the towards the end of the water fight and you can see Abby is still there with her bucket full of water.

Splashing Away

We are so lucky to live by the beach and when we can't get to the beach we are extra lucky to have a pool right in front of our house. If Matty and Abby could they would spend their life in the pool. They love to swim and play in the pool. There are many times there are tears because they don't want to get out. Even though they have been in for over 3 hours. Daddy has been working on swimming without floaties with both kids. We planned on putting them in swim lessons but before we knew it the summer has come and gone. They both are doing very well with Daddy teaching them. We are going to enroll them in official lessons later this year. Matty loves to jump in and try to get toys from the bottom of the pool and making big splashes. Abby just loves to be in the water. I have 2 water bugs and they have always been that way.


Daddy Matty in the pool.
One of the first times Abby trying to swim without floaties. She was not to happy with the idea at first. Now she loves it.
Matty and Abby swimming away int he pool.



First the jump and then the splash. Matty loves jumping in and making waves as he says. Abby seems to always be around him when he does this. Both of the kids love swimming. It is so funny when there are other people in the pool Abby will tell them from our window that that's her pool and not to mess it up. Funny little girl.

Fun At The Park

Matty and Abby love to go the park. Any park is fun for them. Matty likes to go to and make new friends. When we pull up he tells we were are all the kids so I can play with them. I try and take them to the park a couple times a week since we only have a small backyard and they love it so much. At this trip to the park Matty made some friends that were his age and they decided to dig a hole. He told a little boy that came up they were digging a hole to the North Pole so they can go and visit Santa and asked if he wanted to help. They dug a pretty deep whole. When Matty stood in it was up to his waist. Abby loves to play on the slides and if there is swings it's over. Abby loves the swings so much that she want's me to stand and push her the whole time. We are so lucky to have some many parks that are near us to play at.





Abby loves to climb to the top, though sometimes she gets to the top and wants me to come and save her because she's scared.


















Matty hiding from Abby.




















Abby sliding down the tallest slide at the park.











Matty working on digging his hole to
visit Santa Claus.

I Will Start Again

Life has been really busy between work and family my blog has been put to the side. One reason I can never get on computer without Abby all over me and I would get flustered and never get finished. I feel bad that I haven't been blogging since this is how I am recording what is going on and what the kids are doing. So after a long break I am going to start again. I decided that I am going to start with current stuff and when I get time go back and add from the missing time. This way I'm putting up new stuff and adding old stuff. So my plan is this week to add new posts this week.

7 Years Old Today

Dear Drew,
Today you would of turned 7. Where has the time gone. It seems like yesterday that you blessed our family. Like every year we celebrated you on your day. Your brother and sister love you even though they never met you here on earth. They will know you. Abby sees your picture and tells me that's our baby Drew, Mommy. Matty will ask me questions about what you are doing in Heaven. Matty also said that we had to have a chocolate cake because he knows that it's your favorite. Not a day go by that we don't think about you. We miss you so much. I long for the day that I can hold you in my arms. We miss you so much and we know that you are having a Happy Birthday in Heaven!!
We Love You!!



Matty and Abby with Drew's Cake.

Pismo

My brother was getting married in Pismo and it was at a little inn and we thought we might not be able to take the kids so.... We asked Jessi if she wanted to go to Pismo and watch the kids and then have some fun hanging out. We then asked Melissa and Tony if they wanted to go and a fun filled weekend we planned. Good thing Jessi came to watch the kids because the morning my brother got married it was raining and so it was good for them to stay at the hotel and have fun with Jessi. We took the Johnson's to our favorite and the best clam chowder place Splash Cafe on Friday with my parents. After the wedding on Saturday we headed over to Morro Bay. As we were walking we found a Pillow Pet Store and Jessi(who is 17) and Abby were in heaven. We ate a yummy dinner at Dockside. We hung out in around Pismo all weekend and it was a nice and relaxing weekend(even though it rained almost all day Saturday). As we were driving back Sunday Abby and Matty wanted to know when are we going to Pismo again. Andy and I love Pismo we went there alot when we lived in Fresno. So we told the kids that we would come back soon. It was a fun filled weekend.


Jessi and Abby walking on the pier.
Abby with Mommy and Daddy on the pier. Matty was off with Grandma and Grandpa exploring downtown Pismo with them while we walked out to the end of the pier.