Christmas Brings Out the Kid in us All!

WHo Gave that Kid a Harmonica?

OUR CHRISTMAS BASH!!!!!

We had Christmas a little early this year!

With everyone going in 10,000 different directions all the time we decided to get together on a night that worked for us!

We had So much fun !

The Paper was Flyin

The food was Yummy

& the Love and LAUGHTER Could be Heard down the Block!

(Especially when Gracie opened her Present and did a victory lap around the house!)

Guess She Liked it!

Ok So Jo has turned into The Incredible Candy Monster! I say no like that means anything, then she goes on the hunt and somehow comes up with candy every time, hey at least she's got skills.
So she finally burned through her not so secret stash of Halloween candy the other day and I removed the bucket from it's"hiding Place" under the kitchen sink. Much to JoJo's Dismay the next day she opened the cabinet to find her supply gone! It's went something like this,
Jo: Momma I want some candy .
Me: No Jo you've had enough, no more.
Jo: disappears into the kitchen, you hear creak, the cabinet opens
Jo:HEY WHERE DID MY CANDY GO! IT'S ALL GONE!
Me: Sorry JoJo no more.
Jo: GOES to pout in other room comes out later with candy from some other place, who knows where!
I told you she was resourceful ! Little stinker

HAPPY THANKSGIVING !

Fun with our Cuzzins at GreatGrandma Vasquez's House !

Kolby Got Buried in the Leaves!

JoJo, Addi, & Alexander playing in the

Waterfall.

K So my bright idea to take all the little kids outside to the park for some fresh air, ya it was all fine and well till they decieded to throw rocks in water from the top of the waterfall, Kolby (of course) threw one and hit jo upside the head, thats two! the first was at the river when his back swing got away from him, and nailed her in the tooth! owch!

All in all it was a great day 24 people , Lots food fun and laughter!

"Come What May and LOVE it! "

Now On A Lighter Note!
Ahhh ok I feel better, now that I vented!
Hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving!
I am so blessed, I love my life will all it's Craziness, and the people in it make it all worth while!
" Come What May and Love it!" When I read that talk by Joseph B Worthlin, it summed it all up, that's all we can do in this life, Trust the Lord and let rest just happen, we always come out on that other side. It's going be crazy hard and down right scary sometimes, but it's gonna happen and we can either learn from it and move forward or try to procrastinate the inevitable, either way all things are in the Lords time and we can accept his plan or frustrate it with our whining about what we can't change!

Yeah I'm Nuts FYI

It' Bella the Boxer Well Netty needed a friend! and look at that face, Yikes!

If my life were the 12 Days of Christmas it might go something like this!

4 Kids ( 3 girls, 1 boy )
2 Puppies
1 Sister
1 Ghost roommate( tiff we think she lives here)
Soccer
Full -Time Job
Teaching CTR 6
A Great Guy
Homework for 2 kids
Three Class parties
Achievement Days
3 Visiting Teaching Ladies
1 Messy House

and A Partridge in a Flippin Pear Tree!
Oh Yeah and it's almost Christmas
(and Yes I'm Fully aware that I Have 14 Items on my list! )

GO ENDLESS GOALS!

WE Are Going to Commissioner's CUP! (LO & Coach Mateo)

LoLo's team won all but one game this season, so now they get to go to the CC tournament in December, we are very proud of the girls they worked very hard! and they are training very hard to get ready for the big weekend!


Laurelle & her Girls at Closing Ceremonies with the adopted "team Mascot" NETTY!

SingN N the RIAN

This is an old pic from the first rain this fall!
My Girls are soooo cute!
They had all the neighborhood buddies over and were running a muck in the mudd and haven a blast. The simple joys of childhood! So Great.

NETTY!

She's not as Cute as she LOOKS! J/K

WE HAVE A NEW ADDITION!

IT'S GIRL!

Netty, Our Corgi/Schnauzer

We got her on Halloween Night from the Green Spot Pumpkin Patch. I took Kolby & Laurelle on the Haunted Hay Ride, after the Trunker Treat (what it sounded like a good plan at the time)soooo after the whole terrifying ordeal was over we went in the little store and their she was we were caught hook, line, and sinker, ( STINKER) I should say! AHH the joys of puppy mania! oh well it's been fun and even Addi likes her which is a miracle in it's self. So it must have been meant to be!

CTR ~ She So Beautiful !

Laurlle & Grandpa Mosher


It was a wonderful day we are so grateful that Laurelle chose to make this most important and righteous choice, she is so responsible and was so prepared! We want to thank everyone who was able to share her special day with her and make it such a precious memory! Thank you to all of you who jumped in at the last minute to save the show! I will forever be in your debt!

Look Ma I Lost A TOOTH!!!!!

Yes it's Official my little boy is growing up! He LOST HIS FIRST TOOTH!

Yeah for Kolby he was very excited, and anticipating his soon to be acquired monetary compensation for said tooth, However the sleep deprived and slightly absent minded "Tooth Fairy" Kinda forgot the first night, and the second night she only had a $10.00 bill so he made out like a bandit for his first tooth. He has a second loss on the not so distant horizon, thank heavens he can cant count money, lets hope he's at Daddy's when the next one comes out! J/k Dad !

Hey there Bloggers!

Lots of Big changes, Ahh but thats life isn't!

We love being in Yucaipa again, kids are lovin Wildwood Elementary.

Laurelle's tearin it up with her undefeated soccer team the Endless Goals, and loven 3rd grade and achievement days . Just had the Big Day my BABY GOT BAPTIZED! I'm so proud of her she looked like an angel, she's so Beautiful and such a big girl. Most wonderful day!

Kolby's on his come back tour in kindergarten and couldn't be happier about getting out of school earlier. He is still creative as ever always drawing,but his big news is he lost his fist tooth the other day he feels like a big man now!

Addison is going to school at Yucaipa Presbyterian Preschool 3 days a week and loving it, she's very excited to be going to her Daddys old school and she has LoLo's teacher Ms. Teresa .
We were so glad to get her in there and she gets to be with Lauren and chance so that's a big bonus! She's writing her name and almost reading. She is also now the proud owner of her very own Library card(her prize possession weird kid J/K)


Jolie Poile, Well what can I say? She goes a mile a minute. She says the funniest stuff the latest "Ah Nuts" and I wanna Go School ! (with her backpack on her Tinka Bell lunch pail she's all set)
She loves her Auntie Tess, she loves her one on one with her when the big kids go to school cuz her aunt spoils her rotten, and doesn't make her comb her hair. She my wild Indian but she's soo dang cute, and I can't stop smiling when she around.


And me well that's a long story that I won't tell, well except to say I'M HAPPY, HEALTHY, WORKING FULL-TIME (aHHHH!), PLAYING SOCCER, and RUNNING LIKE CHICKEN WITH MY HEAD CUT OFF! Other than that life is pretty dull, oh ya and still a fulltime mother of four! minor details.

My 4 on the 4th

We started our Fourth of July festivities with a sleepover at Grandma Mosher's. We stayed up late watching movies and eating snacks, cuz thats what you do at Grandma's house you break all the rules! The next day we got down to business having some real fun with the Land cousins, swimming,playin, and yep eating some more! yummy Dutch oven potatoes, and my favorite roadkill chicken!

Laurelle built forts under the tables,one for the girls,and one for the boys, of course Lucy and Jo who were supposed to be "NAPPING" wanted their part of the action so they demolished both forts! much to the dismay of both camps!

Aaron had to work until 5 so when he made it down the hill we took off for fireworks at the Uof R

with Grandma Renner, Kaite,Jessie,Drew,&Asia! They were wonderful as always, we got to see some friends from Yucaipa , the boys {and by boys I mean Aaron,Drew &Jessie!} had ice fights and a Kolby toss, all in all we had a great holiday!

A DAY AT THE MUSEUM!

No,NO ! JOJO

AW @!$% 2 yr olds, Thank heavens they only go through it once!

Don't' know if you can tell what this is, Well let me tell you it is a 4 Foot long mural by my favorite2yr old on my freshly painted loft wall after scrubbing! And yes it's darker in real life!

Now keep in mind that just 30 minutes earlier I had been scouring a similar masterpiece off of her hands and legs from the knee down including the bottoms of her feet! I tried to make her clean it but after about 30 seconds she took off! This happened yesterday, it's a little funnier today, and of course I'm outta MR. Clean Magic Erasers! Those babies have saved my life on more than one occasion.

Ya! This was a pic from last week,but I think the Horns about sum it up how I'm feeling about this one lately! I still Love you,Good thing your so cute!

F.H>E. At the DRIVE-IN

We drove out to Barstow on Monday Nite and went to Skyline drive-in,

We saw Wallie and Narnia, The kids really enjoyed the first show but, by ten minutes into the second movie Aaron, Jolie, Addi and Kolby were out! Laurelle made it half way through before going down, Leaving me the lone die hard to finish Narnia by myself, oh well can't beat 12 bucks for to movies for all of us! usually it's like $40.00, and this way nobody gets made when your kids are to loud and if they get bored they can get up and wander around. Plus it's B.Y.O.S. ( bring your own snacks)!

A Hug 4 The Road!

Addi &Rachel

Lo &Brenna

Kolby & His Main Squeeze Shauna!

He loves her, He thinks she's gorgeous, He wants to kiss her!

Bye Bye Blacks!

Our Good Friends, the Blacks moved to Ventura this last weekend we are so gonna miss them!
We are very happy for them though.
They have been waiting a long time for this.

Congrats Dr. Dean on your new position good luck with all those fancy new doctor clothes.

We love you all and can't wait to come for a visit.

Trever,Jolie,Addi,Brice,kolby,Brenna,&laurelle

On the Moving Van! Sat.June 28,2008

We love Great Grandma Olson

BEATN' the HEAT

Swimming,bikes, and Otter pops! it doesn't get better than that.

The kids had a blast swimming with the
Mckee kids today. Kolby swam with no floaties YEAH, Addi and Jo went off the diving board for the first
time, And nobody pooped in the pool, Success. Afterward we went back to Michelles and the kids had otter pops and raced bikes down the driveway!

LONG BEACH

We decided after 5 fun filled days of round the
clock kid contact we needed a day of adult relaxation.

IKEA can you believe it, my husband willing subjected himself to the Horror that is IKEA and it was his idea too, no prodding what a guy!

Then afterward we went down to Long Beach Harbor to the Aquarium of the Pacific. It was NOT! the place to go to escape kids but we still had a great time. We had dinner at P.F. Changs YUM!Ate way to much. We walked around the harbor drooling over the yachts, and saw a sail boat that has a Boarding school program like that movie the "White Squall" . I wonder if they take5yr old boys ! J/k.

We haven't been down there in ten years the last time was my senior prom can you believe that. Dang Aaron's getting old and I've been out of high school for ten years.

Ok so maybe I've aged a little too, lets just say he's not the only one who's found a few "not dark brown hairs" (aka grey) I know try to contain your screams the unthinkable has happen we have aged and no one even warned us it was coming. Sorry I'm rambling still in a little denial.

It was a very nice Day ! and the kids got spoiled by Grandma while we were gone. Thanks Grandma Renner!

The Blue water Resort @ Parker Az

Kolby cooling off, it was a 105, He's a little fish,when he has his skivest on that is. The hotel had a great indoor pool, with a waterslide, which he wasn't quite tall enough to ride, Zack,the Best's 13yr old son took him up there to ask if he could ride with him, and was told only if kolby could swim on his own, kolby being kolby, said oh yeah I can swim, which he can, with a life jacket on which he was NOT wearing, so down he went and under he went at the end! Thank goodness Zack came down just in time to pull him up!
I came around the corner just in time to get a halfdrownwd but enthusiastic thumbs up from my little liar!

Laurelle and Makenzie, Tube Junkies!
Girls just want have fun they tubed nonstop, screaming and laughing all the way.
They both also made and succeeded with their first attempts at wakeboarding!
We were so excited for them, bummed I have no pics I was in the water helping them and Aaron was driving. Of course now they both think they are pros and should have equal boarding time with the adults, we've created monsters.




Our First Day in Parker!
Outside our room we had a little patio that lead out to the dock, so handy, Since Aaron has to check on the boat constantly to make sure no one is hijacking it.He's just a little paranoid or protective how ever you wanna look at it !

We went with our friends the Best family, WE had a BALL. We swam, tubed, wakeboarded,and played till we dropped! and loved every minute.

Hard WORKIN' man!

Aaron's vendetta, revamping our boat trailer before our trip. This is actually the winding up stages of what we thought would be a 2 maybe 3 day project turned into 2 to 3 week project.

I wish I would have gotten pictures during the primer and paint stage where Aaron thought spray painting inside the garage with the door closed would be a good plan! He looked like a paint huffer, in his nose , on his teeth, hair, and face, eyes red and popping out of his head, hands shaking, killing valuable brain cells! Oh well the trailer looks great, and he even got our awesome new sound system completed for the trip, so he's a little slow now, totally worth it cuz the boat looks amazing!

We are on the Vacation countdown around here. One work day left for Aaron! Yeah
Havasu is calling 5 count them 5 days of fun in the sun no cleaning(yeah rite) No cooking!
Did I metion I can't wait to get out of here! A Break from life couldn't be more over due.
It's only been a week since summer started and the kids are hovering like flys (cute ones of course) and I've run out leave it to beaver summer activities. Any help?
I'm so cheap with gas at a wappin $4.30 a gallon that's $135.00 a tank and I'm Drivin Nowhere!
So What can we do at home that Twentyfirst Century kids would find appealing?
Today alone I Burned up, Lunch with Dad, the park, the Library,icecream,and the little pool in backyard. Yikes am I in trouble ? should I be worried?

We took the kids to Disneyland on the last day of school we had a great time

Aaron took Kolby and Laurelle on splash moutain they waited and waited and waited, but it was worth it they got soaked, and I had fun taking Addi & Jo on a bunch of rides while we waited!

Aaron also won the lottery for the tea cups, ok so it was more like they begged an I just flat out refused I Can't stand that ride.

He was so brave, Green but brave, why is it that kids aren't the least bit phased by those rides

but us "Old Farts " can't hack em', and yet they can't ride without us, go figure. AW the joys of parenting.

YEAH! ADDI IS TALL ENOUGH FOR THE BIG RIDES AT DISNEYLAND!

She Was so excited to ride Star Tours for the first time.

Addi says: Were we really in space?

Mom : Yeah was it fun ?

Addi: Yeah that was my first space flight !

Kolby & Mrs.Bermudez

kolby's last day of kindergarten!
They preformed "THE LITTLE RED RIDDING HOOD"
He was a squirel and did the acorn dance. After the play They gave all the kids awards for the area they excelled in during the year, Kolby off in his own little world decided he didn't want to wait around for his Name to be called so he marched up front and snagged a metal and that was that. When his name was finally called in the last group recognized for thier art work( big surprize!) he was nowhere to be found ! Kolby? Kolby? Where is Kolby , Has anyone seen Kolby Mosher?
They Had a nice BBQ afterward for the families. We love Our new school !
Laurelle Had a movie and game day in her class.
We have been so blessed this year with outstanding teachers, Our Kids have learned so much and I'm excited to say with a sigh of relief that they all will be moving on the next grade.
Except Addi who thinks she got ripped off beacuse she stilll has one more year of preschool and thinks she should go to Mission Crest now! With everyone else!

The reading corner

Laurelle and Lucy having a quiet moment, It so cool to have a kid old enough to read, I never thought that would happen but time goes so fast. We love Grandma Mosher's new family room and kitchen. The kids love having free regin over Grandma's house again and she loves no more construction!

We're so Glad when daddy comes home!

The kids listen every night for the garage door to go up then they bolt downstairs to tackle Aaron as he comes through the door then the relentless begging for ponyrides and tickling begins.


He caved to their demands last nite then decided to test his strength beneath the weight of not 1,not2, but 3, yes ladies and gentlemen 3 not so little girls! Then for the crowd pleaser he did it while walking not crawling!To which Jo replied" gidee up horsee". What a Guy ! After such an extraordinary feat he collapsed on to Addisons bed, at which the support slats gave way and the mattress fell through. Don't worry folks it was all part the act. We fixed the bed, but not before addi said"Daddy you broke my bed , you shouldn't do that!"

breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa

We went to spring house for breakfast and some hot coco to shake the chill after Laurelle's last soccer game they have the best pancakes! the have electric trains that circle on an overhead track around the whole restaurant, Kolby of course noticed they weren't running. He flagged down the waitress and asked her get them going. Of course like always he got his way!

GO Cougars!

Lauerlle is rounding up her first soccer season this Saturday!

She has done awesome, she played Goalie, which she was fabulous at, until two weeks ago.
She found her niche as a forward she's an animal. So proud of our Girl !
I Signed on as team mom. What was I thinking , Trophies,pizza parties,and home made Banners. Not to mention eight weeks of freezing weather, with the whole gang on the field every Sat. Morning by 7:30am ! OH WELL! it was worth it we have all made friends and had a great season, and the Grandmas have been running back up at the games when they can.

Laurelle an the girls from her team at their pizza party! 12 7 year olds,pizza, punchingballs,Cake,and unlimited soda refills, oh my! All I can say is whew it's over and I need a nap !

Mashmallows Rule!

Kolby's our little firebug! If you can burn it he will and even if you can't he will try!

noiticed the tosty-ness of his marshamallows he's way to good at roasting for his tender age! Heaven Help his scout leaders.

Camping=BAD! Marshmallows=So Good!

We went camping a few weeks ago, to Lake Perris.
It was a blast we set up in the dark, forgot the choclate for the s'mores,and our air mattress spung a leak in the middle of the night. But other than that it was great!
The next day we spent on the water, Uncle Greg joined us for some wakeboarding.
The weather was great and the kids had a great time collecting catapillars, ladybugs, and buterflies! So cool ! We all got some sun and had a wonderful day!

Joining the Blog World...

So I have decided to finally join the blog world! since Scrapbooking is a lost cause these days and everyone is so busy, we hope to stay more connected this way!