DisneyLand

After our nice family reunion in the beach house we headed our seperate ways and Shawn and his family and Grandpa and Grandma Blad headed for DisneyLand. We followed and payed for it...out of our pockets! No discount tickets this time...last minute thought. We must not have broke out the camera much for this...but there is a lot on our video camera .

LEGO LAND .. Waahoo

LegoLand was awesome this year. The kids are into Legos big time this year and Jackson was tall enough for some rides this time. We just missed the Star Wars exibit that was there just two days before.

There is an area of the park called MiniLand that is crazy. Every building you see behind Jackson is made out of legos. They added Las Vegas to MiniLand this year. It was pretty cool. They had a NASCAR scene where you could race cars.

Beach House

This rental house was awesome. The kitchen was amazing. Everything was very modern. Not one piece of carpet in the whole house all tile and would.
Andrew put together his Lego set from LegoLand as soon as he woke up the next day from a long day at LegoLand.

California Here We Come

Oh the memories of Huntington Beach. Lots of time spent here with youth groups, friends, late night bond fires, after a stake dance hanging out...I love this beach.

This is the pier, we went out late one night after kids were in bed and took a walk on the beach with just Dustin, Shawn, Jess and I.

NEWPORT DUNES

Andrew Survived Kindergarten

We did not get good pictures of his Kindergarten celebration. Someone else took these pictures for me while video taped. Andrew did good. He was really shy of course but he did all the hand movements to the songs. When he went to get his certificate at the front of the stage he he was light a dart. Head down, grabbed cerificate, shook hand for a milisecond and darted off stage. Most kids walked up there and looked at the teacher in the eyes and shook or even hugged the teacher. Andrew just dreads this kind of thing!

This picture was totally forced. We made him stand next to his teachers and take a quick picture. He loved having Mrs. Gormley for a teacher and he loved Brook looking after him on the playground and in class.

Bowling

I have a lot of memories bowling with my grandmother. I love to take the kids an remember those days of her teaching me.

McCall must have loved bowling. She sang the whole time.

... and sang some more

and continued singing.

The boys' passion this year had been starwars. Can't beat garage sale Starwars books!

Special May Events

We started off the month with the annual Father's and Sons camp out. This is Jackson's second year being able to go. Our rule is if you are potty trained and a boy you get to go.

Then we had mother's Day. We started off with a wonderful breakfast, then church where they handed out calorie free chocolate bars! Dustin wouldn't let me lift a had to any dishes that day...ya it was nice. What a man!

Then there was McCall and her crazy dancing...that's always intertaining.

Of course, Dad's Birthday. We went out Tuesday night to Mai Thai and had a little family party. Can't forget dad's all time favorite, Angel food cake with fresh strawberries.

Last but not least, Jackson graduated from Preschool. We had a fun year going on field trips and learing our alphabet. Mom taught every 7th week. We had 7 students 5 boys and 2 girls.