July 2020

July = Beach Days everyday.

Ava and Skylar

Dinner at the beach with some boogie boarding.

Both got wetsuits this summer which was a game charger for them.

Aubrey, Skylar and Lucy.

Another beach evening.

Madden, Skylar, Sophie and Mabel

Napping became a regular for Madden at the beach.

No sun, no biggie.

Skylar, Ivy, and Madeline

6 Pack.  Such a great group of friends.

I promise he went into the water.

Boogie boarding babes.

Fro-Yo after a long beach day.

Even I got in on the boogie boarding fun.

Last nap...I promise.

Summer time S'mores.

Lucy, Skylar and Madeline.

Silly BFFs.

Boarding babes.

 

Brace Face No More

 Woohoo....the big day has finally arrived for the kids to get their braces off.  They got them on at the end of September and by mid July it was time to remove them and we couldn't of been happier to see how great they looked.

Before and After

Before and After

Now we wear our retainers and wait a couple more years for phase two.

4th of July 2020

 The 4th of July is always a big community holiday.  There is the neighborhood parade, then everyone heads over to the community pool for swimming and BBQing and at the end of the night we all meet up on the large grassy field to watch the four local firework shows.  Thanks to Covid 19 (going on four months now), none of the community activities occurred.  We still made the best of it and did a smaller version of all of it.  

The kids started the morning with their own little bike ride around the neighborhood.

Then we headed over to the Rossitto's house for a BBQ and slip and slide.

The sugar soda drinks were an added plus for the kids.

Skylar and Sophie created a flag pizza.

Not quite sure what was going on here..haha!

We ended up lighting off our own fireworks in the middle of the street while the kids had sparklers. 

It wasn't the 4th that we are use to, but we still have a really nice time with our close friends.  

June 2020

Picking up in Covid hobbies.  We were so proud of Skylar for wanting to learn to ride a skateboard and buying the board all on her own.

Madden and all his buddies hit up K1 Speed.

Madden came in 2nd.

For Fathers Day weekend we flew up to Chico and got to spend time with the NorCal Ernest.  The kids swam in Grandma's pool and played a lot of card games.  It was a great being together with everyone.

Grandma came back down to Carlsbad.  We had a lot of yummy at home dinners, walked the Oceanside pier, tons of rounds of Rummy 500, one kind of not so great, but not so bad french bread, Grandma's first time back to the beach, super thin chocolate chip cookies and just a lot of laughs.

I couldn't of been happier when the pool opened back up for Masters swim.  I missed my swim buddies more than anything.

Last Day of School 2019/2020

So after thirteen weeks of what they like to call "distance learning," the kids finally had their last day of school.  It sadly wasn't their typical last day of school of saying good-bye to classmates and teachers, but we made the best of it.

We rented a dunk tank at our house and invited some of Maddens good buddies over for a couple hours to play and dunk each other over and over again.

Since Covid these girls have gotten pretty independent.  So the moms decide to have the girls bike from house to house and do different water activities.    

The girls call themselves the Eggo Waffles (I know, such a silly name).  They started off by eating eggo waffles covered in a enormous about of sugar, made homemade ice cream and had a water ballon fight.

Here the map the girls had to following.

Biker Gang!

After the water balloons they rode over to our house and did the dunk tank.  Sadly I sucked and got zero pictures or video.

The last stop for them (and Madden, he was included as well) was to Ava & Matthew's house to swim in the pool and eat chick fil-a and pizza.

These girls are ready to jump into 5th grade!

Even though it was the most random school year ever and not being able to be with everyone the kids still had a great time and are looking forward to hopefully returning to school in the Fall.