Sunday, April 29, 2012

BBB

Jesse and a bunch of guys went to a charity function called the Triple B- Bourbon, Bones and Blues, 5 hours of it. They were all smiles when the wives showed up for dinner with all the kids. Glad Jesse got some quality guy time

Monday, April 23, 2012

Ohio!

Over the past 4 years Shane has filled up his United States Coin Map. The only coin that had eluded him was Ohio. This was killing him. He would look through my change when I got home, but only found frustration. Finally, this past weekend he was checking the coin slots in some newspaper machines, when, to his delight, he found a quarter, but not just any quarter...Ohio!!!

Friday, April 20, 2012

Who is this girl?

Apparently at school, a photographer came to take pictures of the kids. I
just about died when i saw these. Hailey hates them and claims it’s not her in
the picture. She did say she got to choose her outfit. I took a picture of the picture-
not going to order them.

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Shane is such the optimist, even while having a horrible cold sore all week.   He told Papu that he likes having a cold sore because he can’t share his food or drinks with anyone.  He told this to Kyle at school and now Kyle wishes he had a cold sore!  Maybe Shane will be a salesman!

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Hailey’s 5th Birthday(s)

Hailey celebrated her Birthday so many times this year, that when April 17th finally came she thought she was turning 6. 

The celebrations started out while Nana and Papa were here.  Shane was so cute as he carried the cake in, he was so excited for Hailey.  Hailey is wearing the dress Nana bought her for her birthday, it’s adorable.

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Then we celebrated again, while the D’Alessandros were visiting! 

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Present opening the morning before her Bday- she looks just like her brother

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The start of the REAL party –April 16th!  Picked up 6 kids from school and took them to Chuck E Cheese’s.  Hailey decided to invite some of the neighborhood kids who are a year older rather than her preschool friends.

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Hailey loves Chucky, and gets a kick out of seeing him.  We lucked out, there were only 2 other families there that day

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How old is Hailey?  Hailey thinks 10!

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Hailey won the Jackpot and wanted to show off her tickets

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We came back to the house for Pokemon Cake. Hailey had so much fun being in the spotlight. 

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Finally April 17th comes.  Papu and I took the kids to the Sky High, a trampoline place.  We had the whole place to ourselves and were sweaty dogs when we left

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Here i am about to nail one of the kids in dodge ball. 

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Just when we thought we were done, Hailey celebrated her bday at school on the 18th.  Here she is with her friend Audrey. 

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Happy Birthday Hailey!

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Easter

The D’s came out for Easter and we had a very sports oriented weekend. First morning, off to Martha’s for breakfast 

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Shane’s soccer game

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A perfect beach day.  Nat was taking a picture of the boys and Hailey decided to run in front of the camera

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9 holes at Sea Aire Golf

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Easter brunch at the Golf Club.  We had a very colorful table

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Luke with his very tough, hard ball look

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I dared Pete to get the same face paint as Hailey and he did, without hesitation

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The Easter Bunny was a comedian and maked us all laugh.  He told Pete that he was his type of guy with that face paint

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Hailey working her dessert

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The boys posing with Hailey’s pink Chihuahua

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  The girls

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Happy Easter

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Cathy and Duane- Spring Break

Cathy and Duane came to visit over Spring Break.  They got to see Hailey’s stellar performance in her Easter show and Shane’s soccer game.

We went to the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens and which had a new bug exhibit throughout the gardens that kept the kids busy.

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South Coast Botanical Gardens, we had a nice mellow visit with Nana and Papa

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Cute pictures

Just a few recent pictures of the kids. Shane's school picture and Hailey's playdate with Sophie.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Mud Run

A few neighbors joined us for a Mud Run in Irvine.  Here is Derek wearing leg warmers selling our extra parking pass to the car behind us

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Team- “I don’t think that is mud”

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There were many of these mud pits during the race, along with a waterslide, foam pit, low crawl, over walls and and through tunnels

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Jesse enjoying the mud.  It was so hard to walk in this mud, people were losing shoes and getting stuck

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Chenoa fell and some nice stranger came to help.  It looks like his handprints on her shirt

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Our team mudding it up.

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Our team was so muddy that we had very little white left on our shirts, including the camera.  I laughed so hard during the race that my cheeks (on my face) were hurting

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Another great memory