Go America!

On the beach in Santa Monica there was this great memorial for all of the lives lost in Iraq, thus far. They had a cross representing every life and they also had each name listed. While Dave was in Iraq in 2006 he lost 6 guys, so we found their names and paid our respects. It was nice to see the memorial but also very daunting!

Brother Visits

Ok, now onto the last of the visitors, yep 4th week in a row! Jason and his girlie friend, Shannon, came to get a break from the masses amounts of snow they had been having in Spokane. Shannon kept saying she wanted to see the ocean because she felt so landlocked in Spokane, so of course, I delivered! HAHA! We did some sightseeing with them also, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, & Santa Monica. We drove to Hollywood, did the tourist stuff there then got in the car and drove down Sunset Blvd. I guess we saw a bunch of famous places but I couldn't tell you. Shannon knows all of the names of everything & she was our celebrity watch person all weekend, she would let us know when there was something famous. Although I do believe we drove by one of Madonna's homes, it was huge! We also went to the Santa Monica Peir and rode the famous Ferris Wheel, I took Brandon on it, he loved it! Oh yeah we also went to the wax museum on Hollywood Blvd, some of the people look really good and others were really bad. Although the ones that were good were kind of creepy to look at for awhile because you felt like they were looking back at you. Another great vacation for me.

Once they left I was a little sad because that meant all my visitors had come and I had to get back to my normal routine of hanging out at the house. It may sound like a lot but I enjoyed everyone's company and it worked out perfect, no ones vacation overlapped with any one else!

Thomas the Train

After my sisters left, the next weekend Nana came into town and yes this is the 3rd week in a row that we had company. I found out a few weeks earlier that Thomas the Train was going to be in town, so Nana was nice enough to buy tickets for all of us to ride. The really fun part about the day was we didn't tell Brandon anything it was a complete surprise, we told him we were just going for a car ride, once he saw Thomas the look on his face was priceless! The day was really fun but unbelievable hot, I think it got up into the 90s, which is really hot for mid April. I even had to give Isa little sips of water to keep her hydrated.

All in all another great day!

Cast Off!!!

Brandon finally got to get his cast off but I think he was a little disappointed to get it off. He was definitely afraid to move his arm after the cast was removed, it still hurt because it had been so long since he last straightened it. Also the stench under that thing was one of the worst things I have ever smelled and his skin was all dead and flaky. Needless to say we came straight home to get in the bath. YUCK!

EASTER 2009

Easter this year was great because it was very low key and non stressful. We had all the usually stuff, laying around in pj's for most of the day & egg hunts galore. We have Brandon put grass in his basket and hide it the night before, the Easter Bunny then finds it, fills it, and re-hides it for him to find in the morning. Brandon also hid Isa's basket this year. After he found both baskets and played with all his new stuff we went outside to have an egg hunt. Dada took all the eggs that were filled with goodies and hid them outside while we waited inside. We did that pretty much all day long, until I ran out of new places to hide the eggs.

Overall it was a great day because Dada was home all day and we just got to hang out as a family! :)

Sister Trip!

The next wave of visitors I had were my two lovely sisters and my beautiful niece. They came into town a day after my parents flew out, so I was lucky enough to make the lovely trip to LAX airport 4 times in two weeks--WOO HOO! Both set of visitors (my parents & my sisters) were great to have but this week I knew was already going to be very tiring, fun but tiring! We are literally on the go every day except the first day they were here! They arrived late Sunday morning on the drive back we stopped in Malibu to have lunch at the famous Neptune Cafe (it's in a bunch of movies) then continued our trek home. Monday we hung out around the house and the beach (it's only 2mi from the house) all day which was nice. Tuesday we went shopping at the outlets and then the mall, we all know how tiring shopping can be and how much I absolutely love it expecially with no $$$$! Wednesday was the most fun but also the most tiring, we went to Sea World-Woo Hoo! We had to leave the house by 7am because it is a 3 hour drive from here and of course, we wanted to get the full day of fun in, so we stayed for the closing firework show therefore we didn't get home until after midnight. They next day, Thursday, we were able to sleep until 9 but then we decided to go to the LA Zoo but I exited off the freeway to early so we took a slight detour into Hollywood. We drove around Hollywood Blvd took pictures of all the dorky sightseeing stuff, then finally headed to the zoo. After we got back from the zoo we decided to dye Easter eggs because Easter was the Sunday coming up. It is now Friday which was the day they flew out, so we got to make the beautiful drive again to the worst airport ever, LAX!!

Again it was alot of fun to have them here and have some company but it was definetly one of those vacations you needed to take a whole extra day to catch up on sleep and I am sure they would say the same! :)

Amma & Papa Visit!

My parents came to visit us for their spring break which was actually the week before Brandon's started but I was nice because it was like we had an extended break. While they were here we mostly stayed around the house and relaxed. Of course, they spoiled us while visiting like always and, of course, we all loved it! My mom even went to school with Brandon one day so he could have some Amma time, which he still talks about today. My dad even bought a big piece of wood and some wood horse stands to make a train table for the set they bought for Brandon over Xmas, that was great Papa time! The one trip we did make was to the Long Beach Aquarium, Brandon loved that, he was just asking to go back! They had all kinds of ocean life and we were even able to touch a shark, pretty cool. The Aquarium is set up really nice because they have it split into rooms based on the different types of climates you would find around the country. They also had tons of hands on stuff!!! Overall it was a great trip and always nice to have company.