Yippee for the letter Y

It was preschool at our house again. This time it was the letter Y. The big hit was doing

Yoga with Hailey's new Kids to Yoga DVD from Grandma Newbold.

Our attemp at making Y's in the yard.

It's Dirt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spring has sprung on our street! Madison has found a new love (besides Noah), Gardening.

She and Noah cannot get enough of the dirt. When ever our friend Scott pulls in from work with a truck load of dirt Noah runs up to get Madison, they search for the perfect shovel (they really inspect them all), and then they are off.
It is a lot of digging!

Very messy!!!!!!


But these two crazy kids love it!!



We get to enjoy it all.
Madison's hard work (and Daddy's) is making our yard look great!

Easter Dinner at Grandma Di's House

After church we went down to San Diego to Grandma Di's house for Easter Dinner.

We also celebrated mine and Hailey's birthdays. Our Uncles always hide eggs in Grandma Di's yard. Blake is really into finding the hard one's.

Madison finally found an egg that she could eat!
Abby loves her new chick that Di got her. She is one cute chick!


The best part is always spend the time with our cousins!

Happy Easter

The kids were super excited to get their baskets and hunt outside for eggs. Madison was mad that Easter Bunny only left coins in her eggs and no candy. She would shake they eggs and hear the rattle of coins and say "Darn it I hate money", throw it on the ground and look for another one. You've got to love three year olds.

Looking super sweet for Easter Sunday!

Hailey's Cupcake Birthday Party

Hailey's 6th Birthday Party was a cupcake theme. It was a lot of fun to do

and the girls all had so much fun.

I made 80 cupcakes so the girls could decorate 4 each. Thank goodness they could be frozen!

Hailey wanted her cupcake shop to be called "Cupcake Cuties". The girls all went home with a chef hat, apron, sprinkles and a box of four cupcakes they decorated. Grandma Newbold made the adorable aprons. Super Cute! Grandma Di came up and helped me with the party!



Hailey's giant cupcake. Yummy!

The girls all made their own mixture of sprinkles.

The also made cupcake recipe books

Todd made a giant sized muffin tin to play toss.

We did a relay race with sprinkles (confetti).

At the end we dumped it all on Hailey!

Hailey and her cupcakes!

It was a fabulous time! Aren't they adorable cupcake bakers!

Jasmin comes to visit

Paul, Robyn and Jasmine came to Newport Beach to visit.

They rented a beach house so we went to hang out with them.Good friends catching up.
Hailey teaching Jasmine how to jump the waves.

Todd and Blake's impressive sand castle.

We took the fairy ride to Balboa Island after getting pizza.

The endless ferris wheel ride with Uncle Paul.

Happy 6th Birthday Hailey!

Hailey got a pink guitar just like she wanted! Hailey you rock!!!!!
We were camping at San Elijo on Hailey's birthday so we got cupcakes to celebrate!

Spring Break!!!

We went beach camping at San Elijo for spring break with some friends. The kids didn't hesitate to get in the water even though it was only 60 degrees. We had a blast. We spent hours at the beach and then went back to camp and had dinner all together and sat around the campfire.

Madison was really into our friends game they had up at camp. She was funny to watch.

We had a serious game of baseball going.

Hailey and Trista loved taking mud baths.

Blake and Cole hunting for lobster parts.

Blake was really into playing catch with Todd

when he wasn't catching dead lobsters or jumping in the waves.

Madison and her little buddy Trey did lots of digging the

splashing in the water.

Madison has gotten really brave running in the ocean waves.

Abby was the best beach baby. She loved crawling around in the sand and eating sandy food!

We pretty much had the beach to ourselves. This was were we set up each day for the beach. We packed are lunches and stayed and played until dinner.

We can't wait to go again next year!