One Proud Mama

My kids ROCK!  Brag Much?  LOL 

On Wednesday Dave and I spent the morning at the kid’s school for awards assemblies because Coco and Adam both received their classroom awards for “Character Counts: Trustworthy”.  Then, last night we went to the middle school awards assembly to watch Miranda receive her award for Honors Society (Honor Roll is a 3.3 – 3.75 GPA and Honors Society is 3.75 +)  She has really studied her behind off and still managed to make the Cheerleading team and keep up with her demanding soccer schedule.  She works hard everyday and deserves all she has accomplished.

 

It is my ongoing goal to figure out how to take a decent photograph in a school multi-purpose room.  Maybe I will finally figure it out by the time Grace graduates.  LOL

Here are the pictures from AJ’s Birthday Party.   I learned that if you have your party at Chuck E. Cheese on a weeknight during Fall Break from school, it is not so crazy and less people come.  Lucky for us all of AJ’s best friends were in town and just enough kids to make it a perfect birthday party.

 

This is the whole reason why AJ wanted to have his party at Chuck E. Cheese!  The “Ticket Blaster”!  I think he got around 800 tickets in there…

 

He ended up with more than 1200 tickets from the night.  It was enough to buy a 4 inch ball… Sheech, a trip to the dollar store would have been cheaper!  LOL  But he had a great birthday.

Happy 7th Birthday AJ! 

I LOVE YOU!

HALF MOON BAY

Since the kids are on fall break from school we decided to take a day trip and head out to Half Moon Bay.
For the most part we had a good time.  We hit the pumpkin patch first then headed down town to go to this little diner that I just love, I wanted to head over to the beach but at this point one of our kids was in desperate need of an attitude adjustment (yes Coco I am talking about you!)  and Dave and I had just had enough.  So we decided to head home before tempers got out of control and the whole day was ruined.  The good news was that we never divulged our plan to the kids so they didn’t really know we missed anything.  


   
The kids just love getting their picture taken in these things. 
  
So does Daddy!
                           They are getting so big!
This is the kind of thing that we get when Daddy has the camera
But every once in a while we get one like this


 

 
…and yes we did get pumpkins :)

Overall it was a pretty good day.  Grace and AJ really had a blast at the pumpkin patch and Miranda and Coco were pretty good sports.  maybe next year we will go to the beach first then hit the pumpkin patch on the way home.

It's almost time for the First pitch of the 2010 World Series so I better go.  Go Giants! Whoo Hoo!
I'll be back soon to blog about AJ's party at Chuck E. Cheese.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

Wow, it has been over a month since I have posted.  October has flown by.  We started the month by celebrating birthdays :)  AJ turned 7 and i turned… Uh, well lets just say 29


For my birthday my friends Tina and Denell took me here for dinner.
 
Then we stopped by this place.

for a little of this

Then we finished off the night at Art Inspired Studios to CROP the night away.
On Saturday our friends the Bailey’s came over to celebrate AJ’s birthday with us.
AJ REALLY wanted to have the Scooby Doo movies (yes, I said movies… they really did make more than one LOL) Dave found three of them cheap at Target so that plus Lego Rock Band for the wii and and party with his friends at Chuck E. Cheese  we had a very happy birthday boy. 

This is what happens when you give the camera to Uncle Matt!  LOL
   
The three little sweeties working in the “Kitchen” making lots of Birthday Cake.