Field Trip!

Kyrie's First Grade class went on a field trip to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.  I don't know which Kyrie was more excited about, the park or the bus ride over. Kyrie has never ridden the bus and she was so excited to sit with her friends and she kept going on about not wearing a seat belt, apparently this was a very big deal for her.

 I think it's safe to say the kids had a blast.

Easter Happenings

Posting a little late, but here are some Easter pics.  Our Court rallied together for a rather over the top Easter egg hunt. I think the total egg count was around 900, for 7 kids.  Yep that's right each kid got about 128 eggs.  Kyrie said about half way through, "Mom, my back is really starting to hurt bending over for all these eggs!".  Wow, life is rough!

Above the girls, working up a sweat.

Before and after the Easter egg hunt we had a talk with Kyrie making sure she knew that Easter wasn't about eggs or the Easter bunny.  I know this must be super confusing we were literally throwing eggs at the poor girl all day.  But she told us she knew it wasn't about the eggs.  We talked about how Christ died for us and how He came to life again on the third day, what we now call Easter.  I know my Redeemer lives!  I love Him and know He loves me.  

St. Patricks Day Corner

Here's my little St. Patricks day corner.:)

Backyard Transformation!

 Our backyard was a pile of dirt!  Kyrie would occasionally rally her friends and take the bikes and her sand toys to the backyard only to return covered in mud. We loved working with Robert from Integrity Landscape, just had to give him a shout out!

We love our backyard! We have an orange tree, an Avocado tree, a lime tree and a tangerine tree:) I'm  also loving my planter boxes and we've already roasted marshmallows over the fire pit for s'mores.

Every time Brian would grill he would pull the BBQ out of the garage onto our driveway out front. But no longer!  We now grill on our back patio, as it should be. So for our first backyard BBQ we invited the neighbors to join us.

Ballet

 Just snapped some photos of Kyrie during ballet.  She is turning into quite the little ballerina!

Halloween and a Disney trip

 It's very hard to decide which princess you'll be, but Kyrie finally decided on Cinderella this year. When we got her costume she would go missing and I would find her wondering out in the front yard singing to the neighborhood, trying to catch wildlife, birds, mice even grasshoppers.  She felt very connected to her costume and has even been wearing it when riding her bike.

We were able to escape to Disneyland one day last week!  Of course, Kyrie wore her Cinderella costume!  

 We finally went on the new cars ride.  I've been avoiding this ride because of the long line but finally Kyrie and I decided to bite the bullet and wait for two hours and ride the new radiator springs ride.  It was a fun ride! The wait, not so much.

Labor day fishing trip

 Labor Day we rented a small power boat and spent the day fishing.  We saw all sorts of marine life, these funny sea lions that were dancing in the water, and tons of pelicans.  The pelicans would sit by our boat and wait for us to reel in any fish, then try to snag them from our line.  Kyrie kept calling the pelicans turkeys and it didn't help that she would throw crackers at them and yell, "hey turkey, turkey!"

 Brian caught what we think is a skate fish, a member of the ray family.

Kyrie also caught a fish!  She was so excited.  We let our catches go, which also made Kyrie very happy.

What a fun day!

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!