Meagan's Visit - Part IV

Friday night we went to 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. We walked through the shops, watched the street performers and had frozen yogurt. So much fun!

Saturday morning we went to the Farmer's Market and sampled all the fruits and veggies then had lunch in the shade. Owen was so sad that Meagan is going home today!

Tasty cantaloupe!!

Meagan's Visit - Part III

On Friday afternoon we went up to the Getty. We looked through the South and West Buildings and walked through the gardens. It was a really nice afternoon!

Statue on the front entry steps.

Playing on the lawn in the gardens.

One of the many beautiful fountains!

A picture with the "cactapuses"

Meagan's Visit - Part II

Well, Meagan will probably be home by the time you look at this, Mom, but here is part two!! On Wednesday we spent the day at Disneyland! We rode so many rides (and we DIDN'T ride some rides...ask Meagan about that one) and had a great day.

(From top): Toy Story, Bug's Life land, Teacups, Haunted Mansion.

On Thursday, we drove up to Hollywood for the afternoon; bunch of crazies up there!

In front of the Chinese Theater.

At Hollywood and Highland.

Meagan's Visit-Part I

Mom...here is your first update on Meagan's trip to see us. She is still alive, we are all still alive. Here are some photos to prove it!

Riding Owen's bike at the Strand.

On Manhattan Beach Pier

GIANT volleyball (for the volleyball tournament)

Playing the Wii

Sunday afternoon walk at the lighthouse.

Rule Breaker!!! Can't you read the sign??!?!?

We were looking for rattlesnakes after we saw this sign...not one in sight!

Rolling down the hill on the library lawn.

Don't you have such cute grandkids??

Love, Brittany

Emme's 1st Disneyland Trip...

...of many!! She seemed to have a good time (what you can tell from a 9 month old). Although, Emme is such a good baby, even if she did have a horrible time, we probably wouldn't know about it! She got to go on Buzz Lightyear, Pirates, Haunted Mansion, Winnie the Pooh-the music and colors on this one had her mesmerized-and the Tiki Room. Owen also went on Big Thunder, the Teacups & Autopia. Disneyland sure can be exhausting!!!!

Waiting patiently while the boys went on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (which Owen now says is his favorite)

The boys on the ride.

Owen and mommy on the teacups (Owen loves the teacups--we go on them everytime we come to D-Land. Scott refuses to ride them so this is just a Mom & Owen thing)

In front of the castle with mommy!

Enjoying Lunch!

Lunch is always best when you manage to get the bowl away from mommy and feed yourself!

Some Emme Stuff...

Two of Emme's new favorite things to do:

Crawl under the table and look for scraps (like Kix and Cheerios that she likes to throw from her chair)

Pull all laundry out of the basket and throw it on the floor. (She doesn't care if it has been folded or not; she's not picky!)

We are now calling Emme "Rudolph"-she fell and got rugburn on her nose.

Palm Desert

We had a great time in Palm Desert!! We spent 4 fun (and hot) days swimming, eating and sleeping...wish we could do this once a month...

Feeding the ducks outside our room.

This is Owen's way of relaxin'--he loves his music!!

All the kids get a chance to feed the koi every morning.

Scott and Owen found a ping-pong table and had fun playing (well, chasing the balls that Owen tried to hit!)

Grrrrr---Owen the shark!!

They had an adorable kiddie pool area with fountains that shot up out of the ground...Emme thought these fountains were so much fun!

Taking a break between trips to the pool.

On our last night, they had a "dive-in" movie...lucky for Owen they were showing Wall-E, one of Owen's favorite movies!!!

Hanging out while waiting for the movie to start.

Owen caught a praying mantis while we were packing up the car to go home; he wanted to bring him home with us in this cup!

Nice tan line!!!!