First Day of School, First day of School!

 First day of first grade!  Kyrie is growing up so fast!  She was super excited to go to first grade and I meant to get a picture of just her shoes because she was way stoked to have sperry's that matched mommy's:)

 Kyrie's teacher is Patti Sherman (P.Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney. Name the movie) and Kyrie loves her, and said to me "Mom she is not too old and she is hilarious! Seriously mom... hilarious."

Sand castles

Just some random pictures of Kyrie building a sand castle.

On the rare occasion Brian is home during daylight hours we will run to the beach and play.

Sea world

 The Bunkers were in San Diego for a week!  Kyrie had a blast with Elena, Eliza, little Brandon and baby Emma (not pictured because she spent her time chillin in the stroller). We spent a day at Sea world and had fun with dolphins, Shamu, and all things "sea" related.

The kiddos playing in a polar bear cave.  Below, Kyrie begging for a sea turtle.  She watched a documentary about sea turtles on the discovery channel and has a new obsession.

At the end of the day all the kids were toast! I was toast! It was fun to have the Bunker's in town!  Hopefully they'll be moving out this way soon.

A Day at the Beach

Yesterday we spent all day at the Beach.  Kyrie had tons of fun playing in the sand and jumping waves.  We went with our friends the Hardy's and the Hanson's, who both have three little girls.  

Above Kyrie and Leah, making sand castles.

Below Mia and her mom Vikki.  

All in all, it was a great day at the beach.  We will now spend all day, today, cleaning sand out from everywhere...

4th of July

 This fourth of July our Stake had a yummy pancake breakfast complete with a visit from the late President John Adams. 

Kyrie and Brian decorated her bike for the bike parade, and there was lots of singing and tree climbing fun.  Later that evening we were able to go to a friends house with other ward members, and watch the awesome firework show put on by the city from the comfort of the backyard!

Got Talent?

Kyrie and some cute girls in our ward did a dance to "My boyfriends back" for the ward talent show.  It was adorable!  Our Primary president (who used to be a dance instructor) taught the girls the dance and they loved it and had a blast doing it.

Family Pictures

Family Pictures!

 Our talented friend Kristen Fuller took our family pictures in Old Town Temecula!

 We will have to make it a yearly thing so I will have my braces off for the next round!

 Brian had to get a family shot on his motorcycle:)

Thank you Kristen for sharing your amazing talent, and Brian for arranging the whole family photo shoot!

Kindergarten advancement

Kyrie's year of kindergarten has finally come to an end.  We refuse to call it a graduation because really, it's only kindergarten and the first of many many years of schooling yet to come :)  So we opted to call it kindergarten advancement.  Brian and I went to her "advancement" festivities where her class had prepared several cute musical numbers!  It was really fun to see her sing with all her classmates.  Kyrie has learned a lot this year! Her teacher, Mrs. Hughes, said Kyrie was such a sweetheart and always looked out for anyone having a bad day and tried to make them feel better.

The last week of school was crazy because we had moved down to Oceanside/Vista area and were still driving Kyrie back up to Menifee (about 50 minutes) for her school that started at 7:40 a.m. every day.  Kyrie was a super trooper!

We now live near the beach! Fun times for everyone!

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!