Grandma's House

Since Wayne was going to be gone all day, we decided to go to Grandma's house. (Grandpa was working) We had lunch outside in the patio and then headed on over to the park to play.


Elsie mostly hung out in the stroller, but then decided it would be tons of fun to piggy back on Kya's swing.









At one point Seth and Kya had climbed WAY up to the top of this tower to hang out before plunging down the long slide. I must admit I was a bit freaked out, but they did great!

Elsie wore herself out and slept for a bit, while the other two relaxed with Grandma.


Then we went back to Grandmas and played in her fountain. Kya was a big helper and refilled the water for her. Then they decided to have a water fight before dinner.



We just love going to Grandmas house. It is always so much fun!

Heat Wave = Water Fountains

Since it has been so stinkin' hot here (103 degrees at 6pm), we decided to go to Victoria Gardens to meet up with a few of my girlfriends so our kids could play in the water fountains. Kya absolutely refused at first to go anywhere near the fountains and preferred to hang out with us moms and our babies. Eventually, she caved and ended up having a fabulous time. She said that she wants to go back ASAP! Seth was also a little timid, but as long as he was near mommy or daddy, he would go in the water and enjoyed himself some. Elsie was quite content on hanging out and watching the big kids. :)

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mom's. We had a very relaxing day. First I woke up to a clean kitchen and living room, along with 4 bouquets of flowers thanks to Wayne. Next, we went to church and then to lunch. Lastly, we went down to my parents house where the kids played outside. My brother and his family also came over for hamburgers, tator tots, fruit salad and ice cream.
Elsie and Grandma

Mommy and her loves

Cute Family

Mowing the lawn

Yesterday, Wayne decided to go out an mow our front lawn as it was getting way too long. He prefers to use the hand mower vs. the gas mower because he says it gives him a better work out. Well, Seth decided that he wanted to be a big helper and assist daddy in mowing. He got a big kick out of pushing the mower. Of course, that meant Kya had to give it a try too! I just hope they get this much enjoyment later on when mowing becomes one of their chores.

I'm Baaaaaack!!!!!!!!!!

I have been MIA for so long, that I don't know if anyone still checks out my blog. Let's see....what have we been up to the last month..... I will start with my oldest child, Kya. I started to notice back in November that she seemed a bit delayed with her speech. So I called our school district to have her evaluated and they were not able to get her in until March of this year. We found out that she is delayed and now she is getting speech therapy once a week. She loves the individual attention and calls therapy 'school'. We are now waiting to get an appointment for her to be evaluated by the school psychologist to see if she qualifies for pre-school. Please keep her in your prayers, as I am hoping she can go to pre-school because I know she will LOVE it and I believe it will be very beneficial to her. Wayne and I are starting to see a big improvement in her speech already and are very thankful. It is so fun to see Kya growing up. She loves to play 'mommy' and imitate the things Wayne and I do with Elsie with her baby dolls. As you can see by the picture below, she decided that her baby needed a nap, so she placed her on her chest and covered them both up with a blanket. Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder who does that? She also learned how to swing on a big girl park swing this month. She still doesn't mind going on the baby swings, but has a great time on the other too.




Now onto Seth. His big news is that he pee'd on the potty! He tells me constantly that he has to go pee, but unfortunately I don't always get him to the potty chair in time. It looks though that he will be fully potty trained by Summer! He is also becoming such a little dare devil. He has no fear! He will climb the tallest slide at the park, try to walk under our horses and attempt to run with the big kids. He cracks me up with his charming self.



Elsie is of course growing like a weed. She rolls all over the house getting into the other kids toys and even tries to sit up on her own. She started cereal and I can't say she likes it too much. She especially isn't fond of peas! LOL She does love her sippy cup and has even been known to steal Seth's. Now that she is getting more active, Seth and Kya are not treating her so much like a baby and I can see the fights beginning to happen already.







Wayne and his band had an audition a couple of weeks ago to perform at the San Diego Fair's Gospel Celebration. They will be one of like 10 groups to play on June 28. They will also be playing at the Orange County Fair on July 18. Go see them if you can. You can also check out their website at www.southlandmusicministries.com

Not much new with me (Jennifer). Still raising 3 beautiful kids, being a wife to Wayne and going to my MOP's meetings & activities. I am happy to say that I have gotten back into Scrapbooking once a month with some awesome local ladies. I hope to have Kya's baby album done by October, so that I can then begin Seth's.