My Life... It's a little messy, it's a little crafty, but it's all good.

Monday, November 1, 2010

THEY WON!!!!!!!!!

I am so happy that it brought tears to my eyes. I wish my brother was alive to see this but I know he was watching from above. I love you Jason! HUMMMMM BABY!

Friday, October 29, 2010

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!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

More Big News...

This has been quite a week for the Truhes.

First I found out that I made the Design Team for my favorite Scrapbook Store.

Then we found out that Miranda made the 6Th grade cheer team for her school.

Hooray for Miranda!

Way to go!

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Family Update—a very long post

I noticed that it has been quite some time since I have updated about the family. So here is our summer wrapped up in one post.

I think the last thing I wrote about was the last weeks at school for the kids. It was a little sad for me this year because Miranda is done with Garin Elementary. She got to participate in the annual 5th grade kick ball game with the teachers (the teachers won… AGAIN), the 5th grade BBQ and also a 5th grade party that some of the parents put together. It was a lot of fun for her but sad for me. I can’t believe my baby is a middle schooler. Here are some photos of her last days at Garin.

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Coco and AJ enjoyed their last days of school as well. They won a date with their principal to the yogurt shop at the school carnival. They had a great time.

After school on the last day we headed down south for some summer fun. Our first stop was Legoland in San Diego, then the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Then we had to stop at the Mouse House and spend some time with the big Cheese. :) That is always fun! We met up with my long lost friend Val and had dinner at Down Town Disney. Our friends the Bailey’s joined us as well as my fellow soccer mom Rhonda and her daughter Kylie. It was Ky’s first time to Disneyland. It was a long drive both ways. High altitudes are very dangerous for Grace because of her heart condition, yes even the Grapevine is too high for her, so we have to take the coast. Whoever said it is nice and relaxing to take the coast has never done it in a van with four kids. LOL On the ride home Grace was driving Miranda crazy saying “sissy, what’s your name” over and over and over, it must have gone on for hours. Miranda was ready to jump out of the window.

Grace just loves the Small World ride. This is AJ during our third time on the ride… LOL not his cup of tea

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I wish I would have taken more photos on this trip. I didn’t get any pics of my friends Chaundra, Val or Rhonda. :( Well, I guess that means we will all have to go back for mine and AJ’s birthdays :)

The last day of vacation we let the kids hang out at the hotel pool for a while before packing up the car and heading home. We stopped at the Madonna Inn on the was home, I just love that place. One day I will stay there in one of the theme rooms. The kids we not nearly as impressed with the place as I was at their age. Oh well, I guess they won’t be staying there with me someday.

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It was a great vacation but we were all really exhausted when we got home. No time for rest though… It was off to the Theatre! Grace and AJ had their dress rehearsals the morning after we got home. The day after that was the performance then the day after that was soccer! Geez, we needed a vacation from our vacation.

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I am sorry that there are not more pics of AJ. He was just NOT into the whole thing and down right refused to let us take his picture. needless to say he did NOT sign up for Hip Hop again this year.

So other than some soccer tournaments we pretty much laid low for the rest of the summer.

Miranda turned 11 the first week of school so we let her take a few friends out for some fun the week before school started. I forgot my camera (I know, I know) so the only pics I have of this are on my phone so if I ever figure out how to get them from the phone to the computer I will post them. They are on FB so you can see them there.

BACK TO SCHOOL

Megan, Miranda and Bryan heading to Middle School orientation. I still can’t believe they are in Middle School

Kindergarten and 1st grade are the only grade that still get to have a “Sneak A Peak” It’s too bad because the kids really love that. This is AJ with his new teacher Ms. Newton

The kids heading off to the first day of school.

Miranda and Megan have gotten their picture together on the first day of school every year since Kindergarten! I will locate all of them and post soon.

GO GIANTS! GO BUSTER POSEY!

Every year Gracie’s cardiologist takes all of his patients to a Giants game. This was the first year we were able to go. I was worried because it happened to be just a few days after school started but Dave’s saved the day… again :) We had so much fun. Grace and I got to go on the field and we met Will Clark. We go to see Buster Posey up close but didn’t get to meet him. Grace now LOVES to watch the Giants play on TV and Buster Posey is her favorite player. She always asks if we can go back “to that place with Buster Posey” She even talks about him in her sleep.