Modeling Yo Gabba Gabba hats

Parker busted out all the hats that were in a bin in Chritian's office. Yo Gabba Gabba hats, AquaBat hats, some of the gabba hats a grandmother stitched...cute huh?

I had to try one!

Jackson was brave enough to try.

Hat #1

Grandma stitched this Tootee hat

and this one - Foofa

Here is an AquaBats one

Brobee hat

Yo Gabba Gabba

Dustin hooked up with Parker while we were in Anaheim, CA and he invited us over to the Yo Gabba Gabba office. We saw where Christian and the gang come up with all the crazy ideas. Their offices were pretty cool. They were not filming so we did not go to the studio were they film. They had just moved a lot of the props from the office too that we could have seen.





Jackson and Andrew were able to ride the skateboards that the characters use on teh showes.








Christian's office






The kids were able to site infront of the charaters that are brought out in a boom box at the beginning of each show. They are the original molds. The kids touched a few of them with Parker holding them. It made me very nervous because McCall wanted to keep picking them up. We took a quick picture then closed it up.

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.