Ashley's Valley Days Diorama

Ashley and her Grandma Stone made a "Valley Days Diorama" for a school assignment. They did such a great job! Grandma's are the best!

Her diorama is a Valley Days Schoolhouse. There is a real wood (sticks from the yard) fireplace with "fire", a blackboard, coat rack (with tiny material coats and scarves), and her teacher "Master Delgado" and students. If i were to grade it she would definitely get an "A".

CJ YMCA Basketball

CJ isn't as in love with Basketball as Ash is but he really does like dribbling the ball down the court and shooting baskets.

Disclaimer: I only took pics during one game... there will be better pictures uploaded soon. Kat

Ashley YMCA Basketball

Ashley is playing indoor basketball with the Lodi YMCA. She loves it! She is not afraid of getting in the fray and grabbing the rebounds.

I didn't do any photoshop'ing to this photo... this is how the camera made it. I think it looks awesome. It makes Ash look super fast!

Bubble fun

Ash, CJ, and Cousin Auston got to play with bubbles at Grandma Stone's house. Such fun!

The kids thought that these gi-normous bubbles were awesome

I love the shadow of the bubble Ash made on the ground

CJ loved popping the huge bubbles!

Ashley Won! Woo Hoo!

Ashley participated in the Art Contest "Reflections: Beauty is..." and won! She entered in the 3rd-5th grade painting section and won for her school district! Grandma Stone helped her create this masterpiece during weekly art lessons. Ashley did such a great job!

FIRE!

So I was taking a bath last night and the fire alarms went off in the house. CJ came running into my bathroom with his hands over his ears and the smell of smoke following him. I jumped out of the bath and ran totally butt-naked into the family room where the kids had taken the brand new yummy smelling candle and proceeded to place paper and plastic things into the flame. So butt-naked and dripping bubbles i grab everything and throw them into the kitchen sink to get everything wet. Luckily nothing but a kitchen towel was ruined! Note to self: if leaving a candle unattended around children make sure you keep your clothes on... or you might just end up running around the house naked trying to put out fires!

Halloween 2009

This year i let the kids choose their own costumes (this time without any influence from me) so cute!

CJ got an "Indiana Jones Lego" game for the wii and he loved it so much that we rented all of the Indiana Jones movies and had family movie nights and watched them- including the new one Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull (with a few moments of "cover your eyes till we say stop") He LOVED watching them! He would constantly say "remember when Indiana did..." for days and days. So when I asked him what he wanted to be it was an automatic "INDIANA JONES!" So with much searching and many, many stores later we assembled a very cute costume.

CJ was adorable with his "five o'clock shadow"

Ashley chose to be Princess Leia. (I swear i had nothing to do with her choice!) We borrowed a white dress from my moms "costume warehouse", a belt from Aunt Lisa's temple dress, and a lightsaber from Cousin Bryce. She had me redo her hair 3 times till her "buns" were just right. Her candy bucket is a Darth Vader mask.

I think her favorite part of the costume was posing in fighting stances with her lightsaber.