What we've been up to!

Soooo.... Officially Today for our family was the last day of Summer!  (Danny Started School Today) We have had a busy and fun summer!
This Summer we decided to buy season passes to Seven Peaks Water Park.  Taelin and Brick were both still free so it wasn't too expensive.  We went swimming almost everyday for at least two hours, so I feel we got our moneys worth out of the passes! Brick and Taelin loved the Wave Pool, Lazy River, Tad-pool pond, and the Splash pool for kids.  Over the summer,Taelin has become a really confident swimmer.  She still can't do it on her own, she wears a life vest, but she understands now to mover her arms and her legs to get to places she wants to go.  By the end of the summer she was zipping from one slide to another in the Tad-pool ponds with mom and dad watching her of course.  She LOVES the slides!  They whip her around so fast, sometimes it makes her think if she wants to go again, but without fail she goes again! Brick also loved going on the slides, chilling in his tube in the Lazy River.  Brick was sooo funny.  He would walk around to all the different kids and moms who were playing in the Wave Pool and give them this cute little look and sit down by them... I think it was his way of flirting! : ) Gotta love that kid he is adorable!  Mom go to work on her tan for the first time in years and Daddy got to dive into the fake waves wishing he was at the Beach in CA!
  Our Next Summer adventure was the LUNA Family Reunion! We had a Blast this year! The weather wasn't too hot or too cold.  The sun would shine until about 3:00 and then it would start raining!!!!!  The Mud was a new addition to my experiences in Luna.  The kids loved it! Brick would run from puddle to puddle and jump in! Good thing that he was wearing a brown outfit that day!  Taelin came running back to the house one day, and slipped and landed on her face in the mud... It was Sad, but funny at the same time!
   This year in Luna, we all HAD to use the Port o Potty or the OUT HOUSE!!!!!  Ahhhh.... these both are my worst nightmares! I always have visions a a spider biting my rear or something creepy.  I finally overcame my fears and decided it was time to just do it.  So I walked over to the Out House thinking to my self what if someone walked up to it while I was in there.   There isn't a door on it, well a full door.  The existing cover is a piece of wood that is about 4 feet tall that you slide back and forth.  And just as I am about four yards away  I look up from the ground to see Danny's Cousin Corrie with a look on her face that described what I was thinking!  hehehe we both were startled and started to laugh.  Anyway, note to self, ALWAYS look from the house to see if the Out House is in USE!!!  Taelin loved the out house it had a little spot just for her.  Actually it would fit three people at the same time if you were up for it! ( GROSS!)
 Luna had much more to offer than mud and Out Houses! We went to the rogers place and shot guns, the excursion to the BOX was fun especially on the way  home! As soon as we arrived to the Box, it started to thunder and rain.  We eventually decided that we should head back and glad we did...  The river was starting to rise, making the ground muddy and hard for some of the vehicles to get out.  We had a great time.  This year we did a zip line over a pond/lake.  My sister-in-law Megan and I were talking about how we had a weak grip and were uneasy about going on the zip line.  Megan went first out of the girls and what did she do.....  she SLIPPED off of the handle bar and smacked the ground!!!!  I was next and let me tell you, I didn't really feel like going at the moment.  I finally did and it was fun, but I didn't need to do it again.  : )
   This year in Luna I walked four miles every morning.  By the end of the week, I was jogging and walking.  It is such a beautiful place down there...  Some mornings, the clouds were still on the road and when you finally got to them if would feel like mist was in the air.  I loved it, so did Brick!  Luna overall was a success this year! We all had a good time and no one in our family was sick!!!!

Our next adventure was to Cayucos California.  We try to make it out to visit my dad at least once a year.  He lives in a little beach town where it is about 65 degrees every day and Beautiful! We love going there! Our visit this year was just pure relaxation! We didn't make any plans and just went with the flow of things! We went to the tide pools, had lunch on the beach! My Step-mom makes some of  the best Sandwiches on the Planet!!!!  Watched Danny freeze in the water with my brother Michael in the ocean.  Watched the seals off the Pier, had a bonfire and smores on the beach.  We went to the Farmer's Market in San Louse, Sooo fun! It is amazing how many people gather at this Farmer's Market every Thursday! The lines for food are soo  long and well worth the wait.  One of our favorite treats is the Roasted Corn.  So delicious! This year my brother discovered GUM Alley!!! It is an alley was that over the years people have added their gum to.  The gum layer is about 12 feet hight and 2 inches thick.  It is sooo gross!!!  We had soo much fun that we didn't want to leave, but of course vacations can't last forever.  The night after we got home, Taelin had a hard time going to bed.  All of the sudden she started to SOB!  I love my Grandpa Doug sooo much.  It was so adorable! This year Taelin had a special relationship with Grandpa Doug.  Every morning when she woke up she wanted to see him and then in the afternoon, she wanted to take him some cookies, etc...  To help her go to sleep, we called and left him a message!  Needless to say we can't wait for our next adventure to Grandpa Doug's house in the Beautiful Cayucos California.

Our next and final Adventure of the Summer was to Diamond Bar, California to visit my Mom.  The first two days we spent in San Clemente in the Condo...  It is right off of the beach! The first day the shore was made up of Rocks! What happened to the Sand?  We still played and luckly rocks are some of Bricks favorite things.  We all had  a good time..  The water was still cold, 57 degrees, Grandpa Briant got in caught a wave and came out! That was good enough for him! : )  Brick would sit on the Boogie Board and when the surf would come up to us I would take him for a ride, He had fun until a second surf came over the top of his board and got him we in the face!  Taelin learned the hard way that you don't walk out to where the water is to fill your bucket, you wait for the water to come to you! She was tumbled a couple of times the first day.  Then she had me fill the bucket with water. The second day at the beach was Awesome! The Sand was back! We also found a different spot that had better waves.  This time I went into the water.  It was a blast! The waves were perfect! By the end of the afternoon thought the waves were getting so strong that I was feeling a little DONE! Getting flipped around in HUGE waves is not fun!  The rest of our Stay in Diamond Bar seemed to go by too fast! We love California and would probably live there if we could afford it!

We had a blast this Summer and are sad to see it go we had so much free time with Danny! Having him all to ourselves every morning was the best! The kids still miss him during his busy school days.  As Taelin puts it in her really sad voice "I just love my Daddy soooo much!"  The first thing Brick wants in the A.M. is some breakfast and then Daddy!  It's cute!

We are expecting our third little addition to our family! The little one will join us around May 1st 2011! We are excited! So far the pregnancy has been totally different! I get sick on and off, but not as sick as some that I know! Taelin is so cute! When I went into the Dr's office to confirm my pregnancy, Danny stayed in the car with the kids.  Taelin was scared that I was sick and had to see the Dr.  When Danny told her that I was going to see if we were going to have another baby, she got all sad and said "But I LOVE my baby Brick!"  Danny had to explain to her that we were going to keep baby Brick but also get another one! She is so assertive and cute!  We as a family are excited for this new addition and can't wait to see what it will be.  We are not finding out at the ultra sound!   Thanks for reading!