Santa Claus Is In Town

Tonight Santa Claus rode down our street escorted by the Torrance Police Department. It’s a very cool program that the City puts on – Santa’s float visits almost every street in Torrance over a two week period. We missed last year’s visit, but we were waiting eagerly for him to come tonight!

Cousin Tyler, Auntie Kamery and Uncle Scott came over to share in the festivities~

Chase loved spending time with our neighbor Max while waiting for Santa to come~

Gangnum style~


Family pics on the porch~


Neither of the kids cried – SUCCESS!

Baby Tyler didn’t cry either~

June 3, 2012

Bought patio furniture from OSH today - took Chase and Jayden with us. Chase had so much energy and just wanted to run all around the aisles and play "hide n seek". Needless to say he was very annoying to us (but secretly adorable and funny to me).

Tanner put together all the pieces - looks great! Chase "helped" him by putting all the little pieces in the leg tubes.

Mom, Kamery, Scott and Tyler came over for dinner - terri salmon, broiled artichokes, corn, roasted green beans (it's better to saute), costco pasta salad, white rice and brown rice pilaf. Chocolate malted krunch.

Chase sayings, "I can do whatever I want". (when we asked him what he wanted for lunch) "turkey sandwich - that's the grind!" (after Tanner said, "goddammit!") "Daddy, what goddammit?"

Chase seems to really love Jayden. When I asked if he wants to have another baby he said. "No. Just our baby girl". He's always playing with her ears with his fingers so rubbing it against his cheek. He always lets me know when she's crying.

Jayden still has no teeth although it seems like they're giving her trouble. Loves to gnaw on our fingers (strong jaw) and is drooling a bit. She still loves to watch Chase and no one can make her laugh as big as he can. She's going to bed around 9:30-10:30PM and waking up to nurse anywhere between 4-6am and then goes back to sleep until 8am.

Tyler seems just as big as Jayden length wise. Jayden smiles easily and is just darling. We love her so much!

Long Beach Aquarium - 6.1.12

I'm really writing this post on 7.14.15 - time flies! I can't remember any of the details, but here we are at the Long Beach Aquarium with the Robinettes.

Aidan and Chase met each other in pre-school in the Fall of 2011. Their teacher, Ms. Carrie suggested that I call Aidan's mom for a play date because they got along really well during school. Well, since I'm a procrastinator and was pregnant at the time, I never called. Thankfully, Aidan's mom, Stephanie, is more put together and arranged for us to have a play date sometime in early 2012. To date, we love hanging out with the Robinettes and it's fun to have kids so close in age to each other.

The boys had fun watching the scuba worker clean the penguin tank~

The Robinettes and Chase (being silly)~

Little Jayden is almost six months old and already sucking her left thumb (she did this since Day 1 and is still doing it today - 7.14.15)~

This is a self portrait Chase drew of himself in preschool (minus the circle). Apparently he has little eyes, a little nose, thin legs and no arms. LOL~

Desert Aire 2012

Chase was sad to leave Port Townsend on May 23rd~

However, he liked riding on the ferry boat - especially since he always kept his eye out for one crossing the waters while he was at Papa and Grandma's house~

This was Jayden's first ferry ride~ 

Eating a treat with Daddy~ 

When we got to the Seattle side, Bigej picked us up and after getting another car we were on our way to the Bigejs home in Desert Aire. Jayden spent a lot of time hanging out on the floor with Kylie~ 

Chase spent a lot of time being mischievous with Kendall~ 

Hillary is always such a gracious host. Planning/shopping for groceries and making delicious meals for us~ 

It was especially fun because the Hutchins came too~ 

The kids were so cute in their pjs watching a movie~

Chase loves to play with Jayden's ears - a trait inherited from his father~ 

In exchange for the guys going off to golf, they watched the kids one day so the ladies could visit the Cave B winery near the Gorge. It was a beautiful day and we had fun wine tasting and picnicking on the patio~ 

Hillary packed us a fabulous lunch of prosciutto, cheese, crackers, veggies and more~ 

One of the highlights was having a fire outside and making smores~ 

It was a wonderful trip! We had such a great time in Washington with all our family and friends.

Rhody Run 2012

Another year, another Rhody Run - 12k - 7.56 miles~

 

I participated this year - it's been a long time. I mostly walked~