Father's Day 2010

Fathers day celebrations started on friday with dinner for my dad at Spaghetti Eddies...

good times BUT we have to remember no late dinners with kiddos!

we when were saying bye bear said to grandpa "bye grandpa, love you!"

and grandpa got all choked up! so cute

saturday we headed to the beach with the Martinez' and the Luna's

papa played with the kids in the sand and the loved it...

Jino and Rob surfed...

bear surfed =)
see?!

and mama and christy actually went out and surfed a little too...

sunday after church we headed to the high desert to spend time with great papa and great nana and the rest of the fam... kiddie pool for the kids and yummy bbq sliders!

Thank you Father for blessing us with our dads/hubbies/grandparents. Bless them and teach them to be more like you everyday!

beach buckets...

enjoyed a nice day at the beach with the cousins, auntie and "auntie' samantha!

peyton did good today!!! she actually walked and played on the sand!

bear enjoyed being IN the bucket!

bear was making "oatmeal" in the bucket with water, sand and seaweeds!

peyton went it, but wasnt too happy being the meal nor was se too happy with bear

spicing her up with some sand! =/

we LOVE LOVE time at the beach!

happy birthday grandpa dean!

happy birthday to grandpa dean!

we celebrated by going to dinner at Maxx'es

then we had cake and icecream back at their place.

pottty training...

2-3 months ago i attempted potty training but gave up after like a day!

then this past monday i started again.....ready.....

and so far so good

but i do have to admit

it's h a r d!

i think it's especially hard having to teach a

BOY

first teaching him to sit

and point down

and then im gonna have to teach him to stand later

oy!

lots of accidents, which you HAVE to be prepared for...

tried diffrent things...

just undies, no pull ups, diapers for zzzz

then tried using pull-ups here and there

(which helped, buy you gotta NOT use them often cuz they get used to it and will go in it!)

oh ya and books in the potty, etc.. to keep him busy, ha

and tried different potties...

safety first potty that goes on floor in restroom

elmo potty that goes on top of toilet

and the BEST one yet-- the BABY BJORN brand!!!

it's perfect especially for boys

the bowl is bigger and it has a higher guard so the pee doesnt shoot out as much!

im on day 5

using undies and pull-ups here and there, a cheater potty in the family room, and diapers for naps!

oh ya and sticker chart, but honestly bear doesnt care too much anymore if he gets a sticker or not! oh well!

so far so good

definitely much better today than on monday!

hope he gets this down soooooon!

celebrating Karen...

Our awesome pastor lost his wife to cancer. Karen was a woman who absolutely loved the Lord and loved people. Praise God she is now home with our Father- pain free and cancer free!

love and prayers to pastor jeff and the kids...

silly sleeping bear!

i put bear is his toddler bed for his nap today.... and he was in there talking for about half an hour then it got quiet... i wondered if i should peak and if i would find him zzzzz or being naughty....

i peaked

and this is what i found!

a silly sleeping bear!

half way on his bed and half way standing up!

hee hee!

go tell it on the mountain!

bear likes to play the guitar and sing.... here's him

singing and playing "go tell it on the mountain!"

sawdust factory field trip

today we went to the SawDust Factory in Upland for a fieldtrip with our Mommy&Me school!

we worked on a lil project for papa...

mama and bear... auntie, peyton, and taylor...

bear working on his little project...
cousins working on theirs...

too bad i cant show you the finished project!

but we did have a fantastic time!

froggy bounce-y house

Today we went to visit our friend Thuy and her son Darius, but we forgot to take a picture with them! Anyhow, we met them at the Frogg Bounce House Fountain Valley for a fun few hours of b^o^u^n^c^i^n^g

they all had a blast!

here's peyton and bear...

tay and bear
brave lil peyton climbed once thru the big bouncer and even went down this slide by herself, but come the 2nd time, she needed auntie to come to the rescue! and i must say, all those slides that the kids go on or pretty steep for a little kid and can give you quite the adrenaline rush!

our friend thuy is also expecting baby girl #2 at the end of the month!

and yay for good times with thuy and darius!

^^^b^o^u^n^c^e^y^^^

happy 2nd b i r t h d a y bear!!!

for bears 2nd birthday we had imediate family over for cake and icecream, but

before that we had to get our lil o place cleaned up and the weeds pulled out, and bear looooved playing in the garden and helping...

he was so excited to get his cake, sing happy birthday and blow out his candle!
he likes cake, but not chocolate...

time for presents! he got tons of fun stuff and even a toddler bed!

guitars!

basketball!

happy 2nd birthday bear!

bear is a m a z i n g!!!

we are so blessed by him. he talks sooo much and is all over the place. we are so blessed with how he has grown and developed! praise God!

zoo fun

the day before bears 2nd birthday we took him to the LA ZOO!

he was super excited that he ran to the first exhibit!

we found the playground and he found this alligator, or is it a crocodile?!
loved the giraffes!

and take a look at the zebras....

papa, mama and the bear...all tuckered out!

bear and grandma mia...

hopefully we'll have more zoo visits to come!

yay! happy early birthday bear!

Mexicali...

(sorry but i posted the pics from the end to the beginning on accident! i'll redo the order later!)

anyhow, i had the awesome opportunity to go on a one-day trip to mexicali with a group from my church... it was a m a z i n g!

here's the pix starting from the end... oy...

the taco stand we had dinner at.. mmmm!

some of the people at the outreach...
recruited into face painting... and guess what- i absolutely loved it because I was able to use my rusty spanish to ask the if they knew of Jesus' love for them!

adam- leading worship in spanish...

the clothes piles....

more of the outreach time...

more face painting...

gabe and adam with the kids... teaching them some songs about Jesus's love...

the beginnings of the set-up...

awhhhh the kids...

this was the church that we were working with.... now, it's all rubble from the earthquakes...

right next to the rubble is the "new" church... and outdoor worship area...

we dropped off supplies here that they requested...

the loading up of all the cart loads from costco in mexicali...

here's a graveyard we passed by while waiting for all the cars to cross the border...

the team for the day!

one last stop before crossing over the border...

I was so blessed to have this opportunity to go and minister! it totally ministered to me!

Dear Jesus please bless the lives of those people we ministered to that day and may the come to really know You in a personal way....

mama's day...

we celebrated mama's day a little early...

we headed to the beach with the auntie rossy, uncle jino and the girls and some friends.

the boys surfed...

while bear enjoyed the sand...
and hanging out with cousin tay...

and with a little hat....

i guess i forgot to take a pic of me and the other mommies!

that night we had dinner for my mom at Lucille's

then on Sunday afternoon we had "lunner" with papa's family!

yay for mommie's day!

bears balancing bouncy balls!

bear does a lot of cute little random things that i forget to take pictures of, but i finally remembered! at first he only had two balls up and then when the ball would fall he would tell it "no, dont do that. i told you!"

then before i left for bible study i saw that he had 4 balls up!

hee hee what a silly and cute bear!

d u c k s... quack-quack!

today we went to the park with auntie and cousins

and even nicole and itty-bitty baby hannie!

the kids played in the sand, and on the slide, and

they even got to feed the duckies bread!

bear liked the duckies a lot! he kept getting real close to them

and he even chased them around the park...

peyton and bear...
come back duckies!

so i decided to go further down the hill, closer to the duckies by the water with tay and bear

and lo and behold bear is running toward the duckies and tay is too, kinda

then i see two duckies going at it with wings flappin and heading in our direction

and bear heading in their direction

they come at us

i run left busting up in laughter

tay runs right and screams bloody murder up the hill

and me still bustin up

and bear sees tay and does the same thing

i could not stop laughing

and poor tay- she really was scared

she screamed-cried all the way to her mama up the hill by the playground

and this all happened in front of everyone!

hee hee

too bad no one got it on video!