Easter and baseball

Kellan had a blast at his Easter party at school and his

Easter egg hunt. We sure are going to miss this school! 

Easter basket fun! The Easter bunny decided he would

get the kids ready for Hawaii with beach stuff and snorkeling sets! 

I swear this cat enjoys holidays more than the kids- always in the middle of things

we went out to look for eggs but the coyotes 

got to them first, they were strung out in the street everywhere

cuties!

then we headed to Grandma B to do an egg hunt with 

the cousins! They were beyond excited to have Nicole and the kids there 

for Easter and Brooke and her girls came up that day too. It was a blast. 

there were alot of tears when they left though.

Mia just loves them so much and is so sad they don't live closer. 

Kellan started T-ball and is loving it! 

This is how he looked before his first game and after!

Seriously so cute! He's a lefty all the way: bats left and throws and

catches left too and he's a natural. It's pretty adorable. 

of course he loves when grandmas and grandpas show up to cheer him on. 

they have pretty cute coaches, super fun group,,

I told Rick his Friday night games will have to be our dates for awhile

especially when Mia starts her golf tournaments Friday night and Saturdays! 

When I posted about Mia turning 10, I didn't say all the 

amazing things about her..

This picture below is when she came home after school and got Kellan

popcorn and sat and cuddled and watched a movie because she said he told her

he had a hard day so she wanted to help him feel better! 

Mia is an absolutely amazing writer, I mean amazing, she loves to write,

is sooo detailed and descriptive, she can write anything from non-fiction, fiction, and is now

writing poetry. So she won 2nd place in the school for her Writing Reflection piece 

about protecting the snow leapards so she got to eat pizza lunch on the stage, got a trophy,

and certificate and lots of treats.

Mia is fun loving,

her teacher says she has the most self motivation out of any kid she's ever taught

she's serious and goofy

 hard worker, loving yet sometimes harsh with her honesty ( like her mom haha)

huge vocabulary

a CAR FREAK - she can tell you every fact on any car down to the engines 

and if she doesn't know , she will research until she figures it out, 

she's creative, so smart,

 can memorize and retain like I have never seen

loves animals- we call her the animal whisperer because she can train them,

and they just gravitate toward her,

she's a really good sister when she wants to be

and very loyal friend

She's taking her SBAC test right now and

my friend the first day said, I don't know if you want to know this 

but Mia is not with her class at recess right now, she's still taking

her test, and it was 3:15 which means she was taking it from 9- 3:15

 I texted her teacher and she said yup I can stay after school if I need to

she is just soooo determined and wants to do everything perfect, I worry about her 

anxiety, she did the same thing for the next 3 tests, the last one done, 6 hours of testing

but it's her , she wants to succeed so bad , she was even willing to miss her fun field trip for GATE 

because she didn't want to miss her test, I finally convinced her to go, but she definitely had anxiety about it. I guess we will see how she does in MS and HS. 

But I do love her ability to focus and desire to want things for herself..

She's an amazing little girl! 

Spring Break

 We've had Carlsbad planned for a year 

and rented a cute little 3 bedroom condo a few blocks 

from the beach. Rick found out he had his luitenant test right in

the middle of the week so he flew home, took the test, and flew back.

So day one we were going to do the San Diego Zoo and have Rick there until noon and then catch

his flight butttt we got to the zoo and he realized he forgot his cell phone at the condo almost an hour

away, so by the time he went and got it, came back, it was time to got to the airport

So I got to do the zoo with these two for the day. 

 Well it was definitely an interesting day

I laugh and tell people that I saw more bathroom stalls than animals

that day. Kellan went poop 4 times , it was insane. There was

nothing wrong with him, he just pooped a whopping 4 times. 

At lunch I had Mia save a seat at a table so I could get in line

45 min later I'm finally at the front getting my tray for food and she comes

running with Kellan ( leaves her spot) and tells me he has to poop

I had to leave the line and start #3 poop adventure

I told my sister this is why you are married when your kids are little.

You NEED the other person! It wasn't done, we then had to go again not even

30 minutes later. It was CRAZY. I was exhausted by the end of the day. 

But the kids were still smiling. That zoo is huge, I didn't loose anyone

I checked it off my list, and I survived the hour and half drive in traffic on

California freeway back to my condo 

( everyone who knows me knows that is amazing in itself) 

I told my mom I can do anything alone , we all can, I just don't want to

I'm so grateful I have a husband who wants to be with his family all the time and

will even fly back and forth to make it happen. 

I'm also so glad he is there for the bathroom 

parties! 

 the rest of the week we spent on the beach which the 

kids loved every second of. It was a little chilly for me so

I pretty much stayed in a sweatshirt but the kids didn't care.

 we went to Aunt Bre's and got to see her new baby

ducks so that was fun and play with cousins and even got to 

see Laith's football game but I forgot to take a pic of that. 

these two had a blast! 

 my friend Ang and her family were there too 

so we got to hang on the beach with

all the kids. They had too much fun! 

 and of course eat yummy food 

IT was a great Spring Break and even better Rick

found out on my bday that he passed the first part of his 

test so awesome bday present to me! 

 then we got home and had Easter and got to be with 

Nicole's family which the kids were sooo happy about!