Starting Fresh

I haven't been the best blogger for the past few months so instead of back tracking I have decided to start fresh for the year. Anyway!!!

We took a quick trip to the coast, well quick as quick can get with 4 kids. The kids loved playing on the beach and they all got in and played in the water... CRAZY!!! I love watching them run in and out of the water with their big smiles. After 2 days of playing on the beach we headed home.

I love our cute little kids and love to see the excitement in their eyes when they enjoy such simple pleasures.

Family Picture- 2010

ok so it has been awhile since I have blogged, it is to far back to catch up but I will just start from here. Our family of 6 was able to take some great pics in the almond orchards we have here in fresno. Here is 1 pic of our family that turned out good.

My Little Wild and Wet Animals!!

I love, love the towels that have animal hoods. It all started when my sister got a lion towel for Clayton for Christmas when he was our one and only. Then I have always tried to find cute towels for every child I have had. So Ella is a cute Flamingo, "mingo" as Cade would say. Then Cade is my little frog, and finally I just found Ryder his little puppy dog towel. I love these babies sooo much and they are so cute in their towels.

CADE TURNS 3

Cade our third child, our bright red head, our sweetheart, our goofball turned 3. I can't believe how fast it has gone by. He is such an amazing addition to our family. He is always on the go, he keeps me busy, he keeps me on my toes. He laughs so much and he makes us laugh.

We were able to go to Pump it Up for some jumping fun. He had a lot of fun.

Then we went to the Island Water Park were he loves to swim and go on the slides. We had a full fun day. He fell asleep on the way home at 5:30 so he had great day.

4TH OF JULY

We had a fun 4th of July. Our church always has a pancake breakfast and the kids are able to decorate their bikes and have a parade.

My poor kids, trying to take a group picture with the sun soooo bright. So this is the best I got but I love it because it is so appropriate for the time.

10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TRIP

Robert and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. We were blessed to have a long weekend thanks to my parents who watched our kids for4 days and 3 nights. I think they were exhausted by the end of the weekend but we were so thankful they did that for us.

We headed to the central coast for a cool fun weekend. We started out by getting some great In N Out food. What is vacationing without pigging out a little?????
(by the way this vaca is all self portrait or timer pics)

When we got there we checked into our hotel then headed to the San luis Obispo farmers market. It was a lot of fun and there was great food and awesome music.

During our vacation we were able to go running together. We ran in the hills behind Cal Poly, it was a great run and fun to run with my hubby.

We were able to go to pismo and enjoy the beach and some awesome clam chowder. Walking around pismo is always fun and the weather was great.

We went for a walk on some trails and found my future beach house!!!

One day we went to Morro Rock and there are no restrooms there so I had to go behind a rock. Robert thought it would be funny to take a picture.

On our last day we went to Hearst Castle, the first time we went we had 3 kids with us, we were so worried they would touch stuff they weren't suppose to we didn't get to see a lot of the details. This time was unreal, that place is so crazy and amazing.

This was our last picture of our vacation. We had a lot of fun and can't wait for our next vacation together.

FIRST HAIR CUT

So Ryder finally got his first hair cut, well actually it was about a month ago but I am behind in my blogging. He did a great job and he looks so much older.

RYDER TURNS 1

We had a great birthday for Ryder, it was a jungle theme and we had great family and friends come to celebrate his 1st birthday. We had food, games, a bounce house and of course cake. I can't believe our baby is 1 it always goes by so fast. We love our little Ryder and we had a great day to celebrate his life.

One of our good friends made the cakes for us, he did a great job. Check out his fan page on facebook... Cakes by Brew.

Ryder loved his cake, it was fun to watch him eat it.

We played a couple of games inspired by Minute to Win It. 1st we had oreos on your forehead and you had to get it in your mouth without using your hands. Then we had 4 kids who had a tissue box the first one to get the tissue out of the box one at a time was the winner. It was fun, lots of laughs.

Ryder loved his presents.... (i don't know what the deal is but this pic refuses to go straight)

BIKE RIDING ADVENTURE

BIKING THE FRESNO TRAILS...

My mom, myself and all 4 kids had a great idea, lets go ride bikes together on the trail. Clayton rides really good, Ella just learned to ride her bike without training wheels (it took her 2 minutes to learn, a natural athlete), We had Ryder in the back pulling him with my bike and my mom had her beach cruiser we were good. Well, we thought we were good, I didn't mention Cade because he didn't want to ride with Ryder he wanted to ride his "bike" as well but he doesn't have a bike yet he has his spider man hot wheels that a neighbor gave him. He loves it but he can go as fast as his little legs can peddle but doesn't move very far. We went one direction on the trail and made it slowly but semi surely to the park, needless to say we had to call my dad to come pick us up. There was no way we would make it back. It was eventful but still fun. I think it is time to get Cade a bike.

Trying to load all of the bikes and carriers in the cars!!!

Our attempt at a group pic with the timer, almost good but I blocked Ryder.

And we are off.

Ella rolling through.

Clayton posing for me with the amazing background.