February 2018

Celebrated Sophie turning 8 at her Glow Disco Party.

Jake went to Florida to attend his cousin Alex's wedding.

Madden's class won a snow cone party for having the best decorated classroom door.  I got to help pass out the snow cones to the kids.

A fun lunch with friends down at Park 101.

(Is it too early to arrangement a marriage between these two 💓)

Decorating Valentines Day cookies at Sophie's.

Slumber Party for these two.  They woke up at 4:30 AM and were playing silly games in bed until Jess told them to go back to sleep.

Pajamas Week at Dance class.

R.I.P 

Sunshine Ernest

May 10th, 2016 - February 25th, 2018

We found this really fun hiking trail in Solana Beach called Annie's Canyon.  

Skylar had a special Legoland afternoon with Sophie.  She actually rode her first roller coasters and we couldn't of been prouder of her.

Flag Football Begins...

During the Fall when I mentioned to Madden that I was was thinking about signing him up for Friday Night Lights Flag Football he yelled and me and said "I Don't Want to Play!!!"  Knowing him as well as I do and knowing he was would love it, I signed him up anyways.  The way he found out I registered him was from a friend from school who told him that they were going to be on the same football team.  When I picked him up from school that day, I got an ear full.  Once he calmed down I was able to explain to him more of the game and how it worked and he said, "Ok, I'll try it." 

Fast forward to now and he is absolutely loving it!!  He had his first game last week and was the MVP (well at least my MVP) of the game.  Our team is a group of first time players so we didn't come out with a W, but Madden played great.  He scored a touchdown and had the most defensive flag grabs on his team.  He had big smiles the whole game and I can tell that this is going to be a really fun first season for him.

Valentines Day 2018

This year I felt like Valentines Day just came too fast for me.  I didn't put together any cute Valentines for the kids.  Sadly, Jake was out of town so it was just the kids and I who celebrated together.  I did end up baking them a heart-shaped cake, made them their favorite dinner (ravioli's), and got them both a small box of chocolate.  They were pretty happy with it all, but Madden did say, he wished he got a lego set....typical Madden right now 😛.  

Even though I didn't go big on gifts for the kids (or Jake...my bad), I was on top of the kids school Valentines.  We went on Pinterest together and the kids found what they wanted to pass out.  It makes it tougher with the "no candy" rule, but I think we did pretty good.

I actually think we knocked it out of the park with Madden's valentines.  He said his whole class loved the whoopee cushions and wanted to play with them right away, which the teacher shut down pretty quickly.  I even had a Mom tell me how much fun her family was having with the whoopee cushion.

I was pretty excited when one of the mom's from Madden's class sent around a bunch of pictures of the kids during their little Valentines Day celebration.  They even got popsicles to celebrate all the love.

Marco and Madden.

Joey, Marco, and Madden.

Jude, Madden and Kason.

Jude, Reid, William, and Madden.