ZOO TIME

We recently went to the San Diego Zoo and had a great time. The girls and I picked up daddy from work and spent a few hours eating and cking out the animals. My favorite where the panda bears. They were so cute. You had to stand in line for a while but it was worth it to see them close up. There was a daddy and then a mommy and cub. Here is the daddy eating his bamboo. The girls enjoyed spending the afternoon looking at the animals and also liked to climb on everything they could. Here is mommy with Isabel on a Gorilla statue, though you can't see the statue , there were a lot of kids in this area. We plan to go back to the Zoo in December when Auntie Beth & Uncle Al come for a visit. The girls can't wait to take baby Ayla to the Zoo.

Day at the Museums

Last week the girls and I went to Balboa Park and visited several of the museums. Each week the park has different museums open free to the residents of San Diego. We went through 3 museums, had a snack picnic, rode on the tram around the park, and visited one of the world cottages for only $3.04 and that was for those special penny machines. We visited the air and space museum first and the girls loved all the hands on things to do. They got to sit in a small plane and aerospace vehicle. They was also very interested in the space shuttle pictures and craft that was on display. Asking all kinds of questions and also being a little scared at the space suit that was displayed(Alyssa did not like the fact that it was headless).

At the exit of the museum there is penny squashing machine that imprints a picture of an airplane on the penny and the girls just had to have. Then we decided to have a little snack picnic on our blanket under a shaded tree and take a walk around to the world cottages. There was only 2 open the day we went so we went to ck out all the beautiful and different things in them.
We then went to the automobile museum where again the girls touched all they could including this motorcycle. Not too much for the girls here but we saw some motor cross bikes and cool cars. Isabel liked the one where the doors lifted up not out and some where the motor was in the rear of the car not the front. Of course there was another penny machine here too, so the girls each picked out a car to have imprinted on their penny. Last we went to the sports museums and I have to say that my princesses did not care to much for this place . We looked around a short while then on the way out looked all over for the penny machine and there was none to be found. The girls were disappointed so we decided to go for a ride on the park tram before we left for the day. It is free to ride but we gave a tip of $1 since we were only using it for a ride. All and all we had a great day and it only cost us 20 minutes of travel time and a very small amount of cash.

Johns First Game

Johns First Football Game playing for La Costa Canyon High School, Aug 28th. #17 was very excited at starting as DB for his first game.

He started as a strong DB. Here are a few pics I took during the game. John's number is17th and they have several Jerseys. He had a great time and was on the field about 3 plays during this game. He recently went to Utah to play St. George High and was on the field about 3 plays there too. La costa Canyon is a strong team and won both games. They have games every Friday Night and are predicted to go to the finals, which means playing until Mid Dec.

Ice Cream Social

Friday Sept 5Th was the Ice Cream Social at Park Dale Lane (Isabel's New School). The girls all had a great time playing all kinds of games. Here they are enjoying some ice cream and snow cones with Isabels school mate Jessie. The girls had a great time as you see here they are danceing on the podium and this was the end of the night.

Even Alyssa joined in the fun. She bowled and got 7 pins the first roll down the lane. She also got a tattoo, played the fishing game, ping pong ball game, and the ring toss.

Here is Isabel getting her hair sprayed purple and sliding down the big big slid, which she did 3 or 4 times and loved it! She also played the bean bag toss game and bowled a strike.

The theme was the Olympics, so here is the number 1 USA mouse who got the gold!

Johns first day of Senior Year

As you can see he is the same old John we all know and love. I was really happy to get a picture of him because lately he hides his face from the camera. He must of been in a really good mood this morning. John has been practicing with the La Costa Canyon Football team since the 2nd day we arrived in So Cal so I was great way for him to meet his peers before the school year started. This is Johns senior year and we were sad to move him out of his old school right before he graduated with all his friends that he grow up with but he has shown us that he can adapt to making new friends and enjoying what this place has to offer.

He has 6 classes in all and they work on a block schedule which means he only has 3 classes a day not including lunch. Oh yea and the cafeterias out here are all out side, just tables with a roof over head. He is happy to finally be driving his 1987 Ford to school everyday and passing his written test for his Ca drivers license. Anyway we are very proud of him and are very excited to go and watch his first football scrimmage tomorrow night. He is such a ham isn't he!

Isabels 1st day of Kindergarden!

Monday August 18th .

Isabel enjoyed her first day of kindergarten. She was all dressed up with backpack and lunch box ready to go. Daddy took the morning off to share this special moment with her. We all went to see her class and meet her new teacher. The teacher first read them a story and all the kids listened very carefully since it was a story of the first day of school.

She has met many new classmates and hopes to make them her friends. The little girl in red is Sabrina and by the end of story time they were holding hands on their way to the multi purpose for some fun. After school she told me that she had such a great time and could not wait till tomorrow to come again. I just hope she remembers this when she gets into Highschool.

Natural History Museum

Last weekend the whole family went to the San Diego National History Museum. We saw all kinds of prehistoric animals and some of them were very life like. Isable of course know different and tried sitting on anything that sat still and was her height. H2O was the big theme this summer at the Museum so there was a lot of hands on thing for the kids to do. We all had a good time and it was only 20 minutes from our new home.



The girls are easy to get to sit and smile for the camera but John is another story all together. I tried several times to get him on camera and got his hand or back of his head instead. This was the only one shot I was able to get. Alyssa liked to look at all the creatures, especially the one that did not move. Here she was talking to the crane. In the beginning there was this lion on the top of this rock that the girls looked at and by the end Daddy was trying to feed Alyssa to him.