Kyrie's birthday celebration

Kyrie's magical 6th birthday!

There is only one place to have a magical birthday... Disneyland!

First stop, the castle for a quick present, a Tinkebell outfit, complete with with a set of wings.  Next stop a visit to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique behind Sleeping Beauty's castle where the Fairy God Mother's deck you out like a Princess for the day, and bedazzle you with Pixie dust.

Ariels Grotto, lunch and a visit with the princesses.  One word...awesome!

Kyrie and her white chocolate seashell, she said she could here the ocean!

We had to stop at Pixie Hollow to meet her latest obsession, Tinkerbell.  They were instant best friends!  Kyrie had an amazing birthday and kept saying all day that it was the best day ever!  We love that little girl and are so blessed to have her in our lives.

Kyrie won Snow White's heart by asking her how her seven boy's were doing.

Kyrie and her new best friend.

A visit from the Lynton's!

 Leslie, Jared, Mason and Lilly came to town!  We went to Disneyland, of course!

 Mason's face on the picture below is epic.  I think that pretty much sums up how he felt about splash mountain!

 The kiddos showing us how cute they are in their bug eyes.

 We spent a day at the beach, the weather was perfect.  Not quite hot enough for me to get into the water, but that's not saying much.  It has to be be a good 90 before I feel like jumping into the ocean. 

 Kyrie loves Lilly and now that Lilly is gone Kyrie has been having severe Lilly withdrawals.

 Another day at Disney!  All the kids wanted to dress up.

 Come to find out Disney now owns Marvel so even Mason's spiderman attire was Disney.  Who knew, right?

 Lilly, such a cute snow white.

 Crazy pose on Screamin!

 Darth Maul staring down Kyrie and Mason who are seated in the front. 

We had fun with the Lynton crew as always.  Thanks for coming to visit!

Disney/California Adventure with the Stone Family

Dad, Mom, Reed, Emma, Jacob and Nathan came down for a whirlwind Disneyland/California Adventure visit during spring break. I stole these pictures from Emma.  We didn't go with them to Disney on Monday, but because they don't have a blog I felt the Disney part of the trip had to be shared:)  My camera battery didn't charge so I didn't have any pics of my own of California Adventure.  Lame I know.  But once again I just stole them from Emma.  Maniacal laugh. Wah ha ha.

Love this picture!

 You have to look at Nathan, Reed and Jacob in the back row who planned some pretty original poses for this picture.  Nathan is intently studying his map of California adventure map, Reed is sipping his empty capri sun that he blew up on the first drop, while Jacob is talking on his cell phone.  All of these poses took great talent under the extreme circumstances that these guys were under, what with all the adrenaline and the dropping....wow, I tell you what, wow;)

Mom was very brave and went on California Screamin 2 times!  Kyrie rode with Nona to help her be brave.  

 Kyrie latched on to her aunt Emma and would not let go.   All through California Adventure Kyrie just wanted to hold Emma's hand, or hang on Emma, or hug Emma.  Thanks Emma!

For those of you who haven't heard Reeds cackle laugh screech, it is something you won't soon forget!  Jacob and I were trying our best to scream on the ride California Screamin because that is after all the name of the ride, but we found ourselves laughing uncontrollably because all we could hear was Reed's cackle/screech laugh.  Oh, good times. 

 We ended our day at the Rainforest cafe in downtown Disney.  Yummy!  

Thanks Mom and Dad for everything!  We had so much fun with you guys and loved having you down here!

Easter

  The Easter bunny came for a visit Easter morning. 

Of course Easter isn't about the Easter bunny.   I asked Kyrie,  "Now you know Easter isn't about the a bunny who leaves eggs full of candy, right Kyrie?"  and she replied "Mom, it's about that Jesus was not in the tomb in 3 days"  I then asked "why wasn't He in the tomb Kyrie, remember how He was hung on a cross and He died for you and me?" Then she said "Cause mom He's alive again."  I started to cry because that's what I do now I cry about everything, and I said, " You're right, He is alive."  I know that my Redeemer lives and I am so glad my sweet 5 year old knows that too.

Hiking

We found this little waterfall that isn't too far from where we live so were decided to drive to the trail head and take a hike.

It's just a small waterfall but it was fun scrambling down the rocks to get to these pools of water at the middle of the waterfall.

We stopped here and ate lunch, took off our shoes and waded in the water.

Kyrie showing off her strong muscles and the war wound on her knee from the hike up.

It was such a fun little hike.  I'm sure we'll be doing it again.