Papavero Fam Bam

Daddy Daughter Dance

2010-03-03T00:00:00.000-08:00

Brielle's school hosted a daddy daughter dance this past month, and I thought it was so cute!! Elli was so excited!! She couldn't decide what to wear, so she changed like 3 times...finally when she approved of her outfit we were running low on time. I asked her are you so excited to go on a date with daddy? she told me well mom, this isnt really a date, because when you go on a date you go to the movies. I love her sooo much!! She puts a smile on my face all the time:)

They had alot of fun at the dance, they danced alot, and Elli saw alot of friends from school so spent some time with them too.

Brandon called me after the dance and said that Elli kept talking about how she wants to go on a date to the movies. She sure loves her daddy! She felt like a princess the whole night, and she couldnt have asked for a better date! I love my family so much and am so excited for alot more fun memories to come along!!

Birthday Party

2010-03-02T23:40:00.000-08:00

Its been sooo long, so Im just going to start posting about things that have been going on lately. We finally got our first house in Hesperia, CA and absolutly love it! We have made some awesome friends and love getting together with them!!

Our friends daughter who is Aisley's age had turned 4 and had a little bday party. We were told to come in pettiskirts, and she gave them cute wings and halos! They had so much fun:)

This is Jarin, who is a year younger than Elli, but they play so well together, and love to hang out!

My friend Royah, made a beautiful cake! She has such a talent with cakes!

Elli and the bday girl!

Sam and Ayes making a cute craft

We got Audrey this scooter, and the second we bought it Aisley was asking mom can i ride it...then the day of the party that was all she wanted to do was have a ride on the scooter. Audrey was nice enough to let her take a ride on it after throwing a fit about it! Thats ayes for ya!

My beautiful Brielle

Anut B's Wedding

2009-08-23T17:16:00.000-07:00

As soon as we got home it was time for Aunt B and Uncle Jeff's wedding. It turned out sooo beautiful, and Colorful! She had so many fun colors, and decorations. My kid's had the time of their lives. Elli had been talking about this wedding for months, and she truly had a blast. She felt like a beautiful princess the whole night!

This is Bran's really good friend since his was a little boy

and this is his fiance Jen. We're so excited for them!

The swing dancers! They both love to swing, and are both really good at it too so it's always fun to watch

Elli's favorite great Uncle. She's always adored Uncle Mike. It's way cute!

Our Family at the end of a fun night

Toward the end of the reception in Ut this is what i found in the bathroom: hmm lil troublemakers...

Beach House-March

2009-07-07T22:19:00.000-07:00

I know this is late, but we went to my grandparents beach house in Oceanside for a week. It was so relaxing, and fun hanging with my grandparents and my family!

At the condo's they have little activities for kid's. One of them was making flip flops, Elli loved that! And dad helped make Aisley's.

This is my sis, Keleny, trying out the surf. She did pretty good, and good for her cuz the water was freezing cold!!!

Dad and Elli spent alot of time playing in the sand..

And Ayes spent alot of time chasing the birds all the way down the beach

Aisley was so happy daddy could get some time off of work to come hang out with her!!

My little beach babes!!

Brielle loved riding her bike along the beach!

Swimming was the highlight of course!!

Love love love this picture of my chubber cheeks miss maddi!

Elli really wanted to help Grammy Dixie out on some of her sewing,she really had fun trying to help

We went to a farmers market in carlsbad and the kid's had this balloon man make them some super cool balloons.

Busy, Crazy, Life

2009-05-28T22:52:00.000-07:00

Im sure most of you know, but I thought i should let those of you that may not know that may care to know that I am 13 weeks preggers. Yup, that would make #3. Wow! Im insane, i think. No, we are excited, but a little nervous, we are just hoping that we will be blessed with a lil boy. We are also house hunting, which totally is nothing like I thought it would be in a million years, it is so frusterating, time consuming, and I have a headache from the stress everyday. Grrrrr.... I just hope we are settled by the time this baby arrives at the end of November. Sorry, but no pic's too busy, I will post some more maybe next week!

Cruise Baby!

2009-04-27T21:42:00.000-07:00

We had the oppurtunity to go on a cruise to the mexican riveria with my inlaws and extended family. We had the time of our lives! This was really the only time Brandon and I had been without the kid's, besides our two day honeymoon. We LOVED it!

We had these shirts made that said cruisin with Bumpa. Bumpa was the theme of our trip. It was so much fun to wear these, alot of people would ask us, whose Bumpa, I think Bumpa felt famous for the day. Here we are exploring the ship.

This is the first dinner on the ship. P.S. my favorite part of the cruise was the food. Amazing!

These are Brandons beautiful cousins, who reminded me of my Elli the whole time, and made me miss her like crazy.

Here's the famous Bumpa and his lovely wife Nana

Jessica, me, Braydee, Bri

There was something extra special that happened on this cruise, Jeff popped the big question.

It was fun coming into our room each night with a differnt animal towel on our bed

This was at our first stop, we were kinda excited to get off and go explore Mexico

We went snorkeling, and did alot of sunbathing on top of the boat...

On our way back, we ate a real mexican restaurant, it was very tasty!

Enjoying a breakfast before our second stop!

Brandon went fishing with his cousin for the day, I hung out with everyone else and got to go swimming with dolphins, and I also went parasailing...

On our last stop Brandon and I had fun riding quads, we got a tour of the umm, sad town. But it was alot of fun.

We went dancing every night. Let me tell you that is the funnest exercise ever!

Almost everyone was involved in karoke every night as well. But only Rick, Bran, and me were able to be in the closing legends show. Rick was Ricky Martin, Brandon, Elvis

At our last formal dinner :(

Bri and I found this friend , but it didnt compare to this other one we found

Family Picture!

All packed up and ready to go. Goodbye Carnival Spirit. A big shout out goes to my inlaws who made this trip possible, Thank you sooo much. We had the time of our lives!! And also to my amazing parents who took wonderful care of our lil angels while we were gone.

Family Pictures

2009-04-27T21:03:00.000-07:00

That is late posting of family pictures! Last summer we got family pictures taken by my sisters talented father in law. I loved how they turned out.

Here's the whole Papavero Fam minus lil Marley girl, Brit was preggers with her.

Nana and Papa with Aisley cakers, dyl pickle, and elli belli

My handsome hubby, beautiful kids, and me

The 3 cousins

Brother and Sissys-brayds,brit,bran,bri

Brit and Rick

Me and my boo!

The now Newlyweds-Braydee and Jeff

The girlzzz

Dad and Son-twinners

Fun with Friends!

2009-04-14T19:29:00.000-07:00

We have been having alot of fun with our good friends, the Youngs! Brooke is Elli's age, and Gavin is 1 year older than Aisley.

We went over to their house and made cupcakes, organic, of course (haha, i love ya iva!) The kid's played and we yaked, and Iva cooked for me yummmm i love her food!

A few days later we met up at Disneyland, and the girls had a blast. When we first got there we saw Cinderella, girls were stoked.

Brandon was able to go, so we took the younger two on some rides while bran took the older two on bigger rides. We are so happy to have met such great friends while living here in Chino Hills!

Sweet Sisters

2009-02-21T19:23:00.000-08:00

I was cleaning house, and I noticed it was quite quiet, so I started calling the girls names, no answer, so of course I start thinking the worst like ok im going to walk into the bathroom and they will be painting eachother's nails (this happens quite a bit around here), or harrasing the dog in the garage, or playing hide and go seek in their closet from mommy. But as I was looking for them, I happened to look in the backyard and found this sweet sight. Even though they fight plenty, they really are the best of friends, and really do love eachother so much. I can't even explain how much I love my little angels, they bring so much light to my life, and without them I wouldn't have nearly enough smiles, or wrinkles!

Elli's 5th Birthday Party

2009-02-13T23:05:00.000-08:00

I know I am so late on this post, considering her bday was November 25th, but I figured I would still show some pics of her awesome party

We chose to have the party at Pump it up! Elli had gone to a couple of parties there and loved it. It's this huge building with inflatable bounce houses, slides and alot more activites. I loved it especially because I didnt have to do ANY work for this...

Some of the cute party guests

My favorite shot of the day, mom in law and niece Marley

Disneyland again!

2009-02-13T22:17:00.000-08:00

We werent going to get Disneyland passes this year, but my friend told me about this new deal they are doing where you just pay 69 down,then 5 a month, which helps so much to not have to pay the whole lump sum at once. So last week Brandon finally had a day off, so we headed down and had a great day together.

My beautiful girls and I waiting for the tram or choo choo as Ayes calls it.

All the characters were out when we walked in. Elli was all set with her pen and autograph book.

Aisley is so scared of the characters, if we get her anywhere near them she will start shaking and screaming mommy no no no!!! So good ol Pluto was trying to help her out and it kinda worked. She let me hold her and get a family pic, but she had to be on the other side of Mickey.

We then headed to rides and it was one of those great days when there was no lines! Here we are on rockets, and Bran and Elli on Buzz, they aren't into the game at all, can you tell....

Elli is a great walker around Dland, but towards the end of the day, she really likes to ride in the stroller, and it normally ends up in a huge screaming, hitting, pulling hair issue, but that day they were actually being nice and sharing the stroller. I was impressed!

The next week I wanted to take my nephew to Disneyland. His parents and baby sister had been at the hospital for the past week and a half. We had a blast, Im not gonna lie though. After that trip, I realized I do not want another kid for AWHILE!

P.S.- Rob I know if your looking at this right now you are so mad, but I had to put Ayes jacket on IZ, it was too cold and the sweatshirt wasnt enough, sorry! hehe

Most of you know about my sweet niece, Madelynn, those of you that don't heres a super brief explanation of whats been going on. Jess took Maddy to the ER a couple of weeks ago. Maddys oxygen level was at 80, and she had a collapsed lung, they immediatly stuck an iv in her (she didnt even budge when they did this, she was just too sick), intubated her, put a feeding tube down her nose, and on oxygen. She had rsv and pnemmonia. They admitted her to the children's icu, where she stayed for over a week, it was a roller coaster of a week, xrays a couple times a day, her poor heels were constantly being poked for blood. Luckily Jess was able to pump and they put it through the feeding tube. They transfered her to pediatrics where she continued to get better. I will post more about her in my next post. She still looks sooo cute and chunky in this picture...

Arizona

2009-01-18T19:12:00.001-08:00

My aunt Marti, cousin Sami, and my uncle Todd...

My mom and Keleny were able to go to Arizona to go see my beautiful talented cousin, Samantha perform in a choir performance. I was so bummed I wasn't able to go and see her. She took alot of time to practice, and Im so proud of her and her hard work! Kel was showing pictures when she got back, and I thought they were so cute. ...

I think they look alot alike....

It's extremely weird to see my cuz so grown up, I remember spending every summer for a couple of weeks with them at their house in AZ. Some of my best memories were there! Just wanted to tell Sami that I am proud of you, and you are so beautiful and I love you girly!!!!!

Best of Friends

2009-01-18T17:39:00.000-08:00

It's so cute to see these cousins growing up together. They love eachother so much. Isaac calls Aisley A.K. and Aisley calls Isaac Igeck. I love how much they adore eachother.

Irvine Regional Park

2009-01-03T14:56:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, my dad, Keleny, Elli, Kaylee, Aisley, and myself went to Irvine Regional Park. We've gone here several times, and I love to go. My parents took us alot when we were kid's, so i love to take my kid's here!

Aisley fell asleep in the car a couple minutes before we got there, and when i moved her from carseat to stroller, she didn't budge. I figured I should let her sleep a little bit longer, so we could have our happy kaye kaye.

First stop was the zoo. They have a little petting farm where you can feed goats. The kid's of course loved this. Aisley was a little worried at first, but Pappy taught her how to hold out her hand flat, and she got the hang of it, and wanted more and more...

I woke Ayes up when I saw this huge bear, seriously it was the biggest bear I have ever seen. And it was very active too.

Next stop was the train. Aisley loved this, and my dad and I enjoyed listening to the history of the park, we found out it is the oldest park in California.

Next stop, the pony rides. Aisley was first. She was very worried at first and had to be holding my hand the whole time. She also kept saying, no running pony! It was so cute. She didn't understand why she had to get off though when it was over.

Kaylee's turn was next. She was sooo excited, as you can tell by her smile.

And Brielle, just like the other times we come here was out of this world happy!

We stopped by the playground after this, and then headed home. It was a fun day, not only did the kid's have fun, but my dad, Kel and I did too, remebering going there when we were younger.

Lets go hiking!

2008-12-16T14:04:00.000-08:00

The Daltons,Bri,us,and Isaac were able to enjoy a nice, FREEZING COLD hike at Mt baldy a week ago. Even though it was cold, it was so much fun!

It was a little bit of a rough hike for the kids, lots of rocks, and uphill, but they enjoyed the outdoors, and hanging out with eachother.

Ayes hiking with aunties Ba and Britty.

The first spot where there was sunlight we planted ourselves down and had a picnic. Of course the sun was gone in 5 minutes, but nevertheless we enjoyed our lunch.

After eating, everyone, but the mommy's, went exploring. Elli who was tired of waiting went ahead of everyone and ended up falling in the ice cold water getting soaked! I felt so bad for her. Brit and I helped her get warm as possible, but she was still so cold :( We thought that would be a good point to start heading back

Aisley and Dyl getting a ride from daddys!

Dalton Family!

Papavero Family!

Sisters!!!!

The 2 boys with a stick they found...they had fun together!

When we got back us girls went to see Twilight together, we laughed so hard, so cheesy but so good. Bri+Jacob Megan+Edward Brittney+Emmett or Bellas dad, haha, joke!

Christmas Tree

2008-12-16T13:50:00.001-08:00

2 Weeks ago, my dad took us to get a Christmas Tree, Elli of course was thrilled! She is so into decorating for holidays. Everyday when she gets home from school, she says, mom can I decorate some more, umm no elli we dont have anything else to put up...good thing nana hadn't put her stuff up yet, because she was able to help her.

Keleny joined us and my kid's found some Christmas tree's their size which they thought were preety sweet! Daddy met us there and Aisley would not let him go the whole time, So sweet! I love Christmas time!

Madelynn Dixie Boyer

2008-12-16T13:15:00.000-08:00

I have a new niece and I'm so excited....

Jess and Rob welcomed baby Maddie into the world December 7, weighing over 8 lbs. My sister went through DAYS of labor, she is such a trooper! She had IZ c section, and hated the recovery so she wanted to try to go natural, and her body just did not want to let that baby come out, but finally after 4 days of contractions, and several visits to the hospital, Rob met her at the hospital, after he just got done delivering his first baby! (woo-hoo) go Rob, to welcome this sweet lil girl to the world.

Brielle, Kel, and I were able to go see her at the hospital. Jess was so tired, (do you blame her?) Brielle was beyond herself when she heard that Jess had finally had baby Maddy. She was so good and careful with her when we got there. She has had some practice though, with baby Marley. Thanks Brit! hehe.

My dad, who had to work that day as soon as he heard news of Maddy and came to see his newest grand baby.

Its so special to invite a new family member into this world. Congrats to the Boyer Family!

Vote YES on Prop 8!

2008-10-26T00:23:00.001-07:00

Please vote YES on prop 8. It is very important that you do so.
Voting YES on Proposition 8 does 3 simple things:
It restores the definition of marriage to what the vast majority of California voters already approved and what Californians agree should be supported, not undermined.
It overturns the outrageous decision of four activist Supreme Court judges who ignored the will of the people.
It protects our children from being taught in public schools that “same-sex marriage” is the same as traditional marriage, and prevents other consequences to Californians who will be forced to not just be tolerant of gay lifestyles, but face mandatory compliance regardless of their personal beliefs.
Read a little from this book that is being read to 1st grader's, http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/king_and_king/book.html

Trunk or Treat #2

2008-10-25T21:32:00.000-07:00

Today we had such a fun day! We went to our ward's trunk or treat. The girls as you can see were lepords. They loved getting all dressed up...They are lucky as far as trick or treating goes this year, they get to go 4 times. Last night we went with the Dalton's and I'll be posting those pics soon. As soon as Aisley got dressed, she ran into my dad and said Pappy, look me! She was so excited.

The girl's have 4 differnt costumes, so you wont get boerd looking at my blog! haha...it just worked that way, we have alot of hami downs or however you spell that. So I didn't have to spend much at all this Halloween. I felt great about that!

Elli did not want to be a lepord girl, but because mommy is overly excited about matching sisters, i finally convinced her. As soon as I did her makeup, that was it, she was looking in the mirror, and telling me she looked so beautiful...

Brielle was able to invite 2 friends, Taylor and Kaylee. They were the 3 musketeers the whole night, I was kinda worried about fighting or jealousy but they did so good all night and had soo much fun together. Im glad they could join us...

Kaylee was HANNA MONTANA! Kaylee is a friend from school, she is such an energetic happy girl! We have Kaylee over alot during the week, and I just love her, and so does Elli, they can just make eachother laugh all day long. Kaylee and Aisley also adore eachother, Kaylee is always looking out for her!

Taylor was ALICE IN WONDERLAND! Taylor is my really good friend, Nicole's daughter. She has been in our lives for a couple years now, and is like part of our family. She is such a sweet girl, and there's always some funny conversation I'm listening to when they are around.

We saw cute Abby from our ward there... such a cutie

This year Aisley is extremely scared of anybody with masks or alot of paint on their faces. She starts stomping her feet and crying or screaming every time she would see someone like that. Last night all the way till she went to bed she was saying mommy i scurd (scared) mommy, scary all gone? poor baby. I felt so bad for her, this is her looking at a scary one..

Nama was able to be here too, which was so much fun. Aisley loves her nama. She even got to hang out with nama in the trunk and pass out some candy to kid's, which was too funny, she felt sooo big. She was concentrating so hard and making sure she was doing such a good job.

The fun didn't end there, the girls had a fun sleepover! And of course Aisley had to be very involved! Oh, I love Halloween, but I'm going to have to bring at least half of the millions of candy the girls get to the fire station, and let the guy's have some...Happy Halloween Everyone

THE BIG ONE!

2008-10-05T23:11:00.000-07:00

On October 2nd, my daddy-o turned the big 50! My mom made a wonderful meal, and we had pie for dessert. His parent's come down from Oregon every year at this time, so it was great to have them there with us that night!

Anyone who has ever had Elli over for a bday party know's that when it's cake time, she sneaks up and tries to blow out the candles, I think my dad wanted to beat her this time...
Aisley just couldn't hold in the excitment!

Iam so thankful I have such an awesome dad! He is one of my greatest role models, and has taught me so much in my life...I couldn't ask for a better pappy either. My kid's adore him and all the time out of his busy schedule that he makes to spend time with them...HAPPY BDAY DAD! we love you

Halloween Time at Disneyland

2008-10-05T22:16:00.000-07:00

Last week, my friend, Martha, Elli, and myself went to Disneyland. We had sooo much fun! Elli made a new best friend that day, and I think Martha did too! It wasn't crowded at all, we walked on pretty much all the rides. I love all the decorations Disney has for Holidays..so creative!

Thunder Mountain, Splash mountain, Matterhorn!!

We went into the hat store, and tried about every hat on, Martha and I got a little carried away, Brielle was more into trying to get me to buy her every necklace and earing in the store..

For dinner, we went to that show/dinner place in frontierland. I was surprised at how much we laughed, it was really funny, even Elli was cracking up. Do you see that big ice cream Martha is eating. Well, the girl that took our order's name was Martha, and so her and Martha started talking about their names and was just having small talk, well our food came and there were two ice cream sundaes on our plates, and the girl said thats from Martha! BONUS...It tasted sooo good on that very hot day...

We had so much fun! I love Dland, we only have 2 more months before our passes expire :(

THANKS MOM for hanging out with Ayes!!

Family Pictures

2008-09-27T23:27:00.000-07:00

I am quite late on posting these pic's, but I wanted to show some family these. We took these pictures like a month before Cory left to Guatemala. Our friend, Lydia took them, and I am so in love with her photography skills, she's taken pictures of my kids as well, that turned out amazing.

I love how she took these, zoomed in on each family,or couple.

She even did seperate family photos, and these are some of my favorites...

Aisley was not willing to sit still through much of any of the pictures, so we didn't get much with her looking at the camera, or smiling.

Here's the cute Boyer family (my sister Jessica)

Family pictures were so overdue, and we were all pleased with the results. We were lucky to have our beautiful Grandma and Gramps visiting, so they were able to take a few shots, and I love that their holding the kid's...And we were cracking up in this picture because Lydia's husband, was trying to make the kid's laugh but it made us laugh instead, he was being so silly...

The Guys: once again laughing about markus

And then theres the girls:

And the best for last, I love this pic of my gorgeous sis Kel!

Update!

2008-09-16T21:44:00.000-07:00

Elli is doing really good with school. She wakes me up at 6:30 and tells me to get up and get ready so she can go to school. She is a total morning person, and i am so completly not...but when her cute self wake's me up and starts talking about a million differnt things that alot of times I have no clue what she's talking about, i just can't help but smile and get going. She rides her scooter half way to school, and then waits for her teacher in line. Everyday i ask her so elli what did you learn in school today, and everyday its the same,oh nothing. OK, well what did you do, oh just played. Hmm, ok well that tells me alot...but she did manage to tell me a few days ago, that she was on the "marker list" at school today, because she went down the slide after her teacher told her not to. So I said, well why didn't you listen to your teacher, well mom, I didn't actually go down the slide, I just looked at it, but my teacher thought I went down it. OK, good that makes alot more sense ell. Of course, she was trying to get out of lecture from me.

She has made alot of friend's at school, one of her friend's is Miss Kaylee. They had a playdate after school today...They went swimming..

Lots of extremly hard homework...so much coloring

Ate snacks

Figured out a tricky dora puzzle

Rode scooters

And were acting like crazy 5 year old's most of the time...

This time last year....

2008-09-03T12:37:00.000-07:00

We were able to go to the Los Angeles Temple to be sealed as a family...

It was such a long, hard, but worth it road to get to the temple. We were so excited, and couldn't believe it when we started taking our temple classes. The best part was seeing our little girls coming into the room, they looked like angels, I think everyone in that room shed a tear when they saw them come in.

We are so grateful to our parent's who have supported us all the way through our path of trials, and happy times as a family and a couple.

This is my side of the family that were able to attend: Boyers, Gramps and Grandma, Grammy and Grandpa, Cyndy Sorenson, Rachel Johnson, and Benjamins....We also had alot from the Papavero side, I don't know where the pictures are with all of them ill have to look for them. Brittney and Dyl were able to share this special time with us as well as nana and bumpa, Linford's, Lemmon's, and a special surprise for us, Uncle Mike. We were so happy to have all our family there. Our good friends, the Short's and the Thompson's were also able to join us, and I was so excited they were there....

Rick and Dylan and Isaac and Elise...too cute....

Kindergarten

2008-09-02T21:56:00.000-07:00

Today my baby started Kindergarten. I was so nervous, but excited for her at the same time. Daddy took her to the beach yesterday and was there late, and she fell asleep in the car, so I woke her up early this morning to get her showered. She was soo excited even though she was so tired. She picked out her own outfit, and daddy let her choose whatever breakfast she wanted, but all she wanted was cinnamon toast crunch. I think Brandon was a little bit happy about that!! We went outside to take picture's and everytime, I said say cheese, instead she said, it's my first day of school! She was just beside herself with excitement. Pappy stayed home a little later than normally, and she wanted to give him a kiss goodbye...

She really wanted to ride her scooter, and so we let her although she did take a few falls on her way, she was too excited to get hurt..

Mommy and Elli at the school...

Daddy and Elli...

Elli's first classroom line up...

Then the unexpected came, she started whining, and saying she didn't want to go to school, and when I asked her why she said because im scared of my teacher. I tried to explain to her she would be okay, but she wouldn't let go of my pant's the whole way to her classroom. When we got inside she found her name on her desk, and sat down, but the whole time she was pouting. Yeah, wow, total change from 30 minutes before.

Mrs. Kraft's class...

While Brielle was at her first day of school, Aisley could be found doing this....sharing her pos (popsicle) with her dadddy...

She saw me from across the hall after lunch when I came to pick her up, and was happy to see me, but told me no mommy, I cant go yet I still have class! haha, so I think all in all she loved her first day, and Im so proud of her...

Welcome to the World Marley!

2008-08-24T19:47:00.000-07:00

We've had extremly exciting news this weekend...Brittney and Rick had their baby girl on Thursday in the early morning. They named her Marley Marie Dalton. She is just the sweetest little angel. My kid's werent able to see her at the hospital, but Brittney came to the house after the hospital and when I picked my kid's up from daycare, I told them we were going to go see their new baby cousin. Brielle was just beside herself. She walked into the house, and immediatly said Marleeeeey where are you. When she saw her she got a huge smile on her face and said, oh my gosh!! can i hold her? She was so proud of herself, and kept saying look how good im doing! The whole rest of the night she kept asking if she could hold Marley. And even when we went to a barbeque at a friend's house, she was still talking about cute baby Marley. She really was so good with the baby, and made sure her neck was ok and gave her lots of kisses and loves.

Aisley was also very excited about new cousin. I didn't think she would be too interested in the baby, but the second she saw her, she got a huge smile on her face and said baby! And then she saw Elli holding her and immediatly wanted to hold her too. She knew she needed help so she got up on my lap and we held her together, she kept giving her kisses over and over, and I had to watch closely because she kept wanting to touch her eyes and her mouth. She was so sweet with her and kept laughing and saying baby. But when we tried to take Marley away, she would start screaming and crying saying my baby, my baby! I said Aisley, this isnt a doll you have to let go. That part was a struggle, but it was such a sweet sight to see MY baby with her new cousin, and it made me see how big she is getting, she's not a baby anymore.

CONGRATS Daltons! We love you and are so happy for you and we are so excited about the new member of our family!

Fun times with great friends

2008-08-17T17:20:00.000-07:00

My best friend Traylene invited Brandon and I to join her and her boyfriend Alex to a fun night at The Magic Castle. Brandon and I went there once before with my sister and we had so much fun, so we said of course we'll go! Plus I just love to spend time with Tray, I feel like I never get to as much anymore. When we got there, we watched this magician do card tricks, they were so cool, some of those things I wonder how they really are doing it. It doesn't make sense...we saw about three different shows, ate some yummy appetizers, talked, and had a great time together.

The couples in front of the magic castle, we werent allowed to take the camera inside so we snapped a few shots on our way out!

Whenever we are together, we take a ton of pictures, we are just goofy that way, and we had Alex and Bran taking the pictures, so they were making fun of us the whole time, and making us laugh so hard. So we made the boys get together and pose like we had been just to make fun of them... Its so fun to get together with friends!

Cousins and Park

2008-08-16T23:19:00.000-07:00

My sister, Jessica and I took our kid's to the "duck park" to feed the ducks and to play on the playground, I also wanted to try to get a decent picture of the kid's. That part didn't turn out the greatest, its so hard to get a good picture of three little wiggle worms.

Brielle and Issac are such good little friends, they play together so well and both keep eachother in check, or at least try to. They had fun feeding the ducks together.

I snapped this picture, and thought it was so sweet!

My big girl, pretty Elli Jean! I can't even believe she's starting kindergarten in September. Time goes by so fast...thats why you gotta enjoy every second, and try not to sweat the small stuff!! She is so energetic, and fun, you just can't help but want to join her in whatever she's doing. She is always making friends anywhere we go. She will just go up to a little girl or boy and say hi friend, do you want to play, and off they go. I love my Boo bear and can't imagine my life without her sweet spirit.

haha, had to post that pic of Jess, there's a inside joke kinda with it, haha dont get mad jess :)

We love spending time with the Boyers, and are bummed that they moved down to La but are excited to go visit them alot, and have lots more fun memories...

Happy Graduation...

2008-08-16T22:44:00.001-07:00

This summer, my baby sis, Keleny graduated from high school! Yay!! This girl has done so much in high school, its crazy, she was so busy all four years of high school. She was in Choir for 2years, she is so musically talented, she also plays the piano extremly well, and has played at school, church, recitals, she was interviewed and had her picture taken for the chino hills newspaper,

it was a good paragraph on her talent of playing the piano. She was in theater for 3 years, which were so fun to go and watch, Brielle absolutly LOVED wizard of oz, that's one of her favorite movies now. She also was the head of a hiking club, where they went to different hikes around southern california. She also kept her grades up, and plan's to go to a good college. Im very proud of my sis, and look up to her very much, always have and always will. She is so strong spirited and she is so strong in the church, she know's so much about scriptures, she is an amazing aunt, who does so many entertaining activities with them, swinging,park,walks, bike rides, trampoline, chase at the park, painting, writing letters, the list goes on and on. Sometimes I have to pry Brielle off of her when she needs to get something done. Anyways, I just want her to know that she is so loved, and a beautiful girl inside and out. CONGRATS KEL!!!

Mom, Kel, Dad

Mom, Jess, Kel, Meg

Love love love this pic!

Silly sisters

Best Friends

After graduation, before Grad night. Before this we told them their grad presents were that they got to go sky diving...

Pappy

2008-08-16T22:16:00.000-07:00

As most of you know, last month we moved from Upland, living with Brandon's parents to Chino Hills, to live with my parents. It was sad leaving my inlaws house, (we have been there for 2 1/2 years), and they made me feel so welcome in their family and in their home. And I have to say, I have the most wonderful mother in law there is. I am truly blessed to have her in my life. She is one of the most caring, selfless persons that I have ever met. My kid's just love her so much and think the world of her. They adore their nana and papa. Luckily we only moved 20 minutes away, so we can still see them often.

On the other hand, it's fun to see our pappy and mum more often now. My sister and bro in law were living with them, while Rob goes to medical school, but now they are living in Los Angeles, while he goes to UCLA. Go ROB!!! My kid's are having alot of fun hanging out with their grandparents. Aisley always has had such a connection to her pappy and papa. She must find their hugs to be comforting, she is such a cuddler with both of them...

They also are lucky to have a pappy who has a motorcycle in the garage, which they both think is just amazing. Brielle is always asking my dad to give her a ride around the block, which he has done quite a few times, and boy, does she have the biggest smile on her face when shes on there with her pappy!

On this particular night, Issac, and Kel also wanted a turn too, and I tried to get Ayes on, but she wouldn't get near it, unless it was in the garage, turned off..

We love our family so much and are so grateful to be able to live so close to them and share fun times together!

Incredible Johns

2008-08-11T22:46:00.000-07:00

In the beginning of Summer, we went out as a family to Incredible Johns Pizza co. Those of you who have never been there, it is swarming with kids, but it actually has a decent food buffet. So we like going there better than Chucke Cheese. The kid's favorite part of dinner of course was not the dinner, but dessert: ice cream cones! Dylan and Aisley were going at those ice cream cones, it was funny to watch them just get covered in ice cream, must be nice being a kid! Dont worry, we normally dont let Elli eat 2 ice cream cones at a time, she was just finishing off Aisleys.
And yes I did have to snap one of Bri and Brittney chomping down theirs as well...yummy, ice cream is my favorite, its actually kinda sad to say, but i think im addicted to it, i have a bowl every night, yikes!

Here's some family pictures

Brielle & Brianna

Nana, Brielle, Dylan

Papa & Aisley

Mommy & Aisley

And here we have sleepy baby

After eating, we went over to the game area and played games for awhile. Well, the OLDER kids played one game. Its this jumping game where you have to jump over this light and you cant step on it, it goes faster and faster each time, it sounds so dumb, but it is so fun and addicting, we all did it like 5 times...

Disneyland with Taylor

2008-08-06T20:30:00.000-07:00

Brandon and I took Brielle to disneyland one last time before our passes were no good for the summer, we took Taylor, one of Brielles best friends. Dont you just love how Disneyland just makes kids soo excited and happy, they were skipping the second we got off the tram, they were just so happy to be together at Disneyland!

We realized we left something in the car, so Bran went back to get it and while he was doing that, we decieded to go in the store and try on hats and boy was that a crack up. They would just run

to different hats and say take a picture of this one too, and then aww can we buy this one...

We also were able to see Pluto, Minnie, Woody, and Jessie. I love not so busy days at Dland!

And of course we went on all the roller coasters a couple of times, Space mountain,thunder mountain,matterhorn...

Brandon and I also had alot of fun together, we dont get a chance too often to go without Aisley,so it was fun to just go with us and Elli. At the end of the day the girls were pooped.....

Its Beach Weather!

2008-04-28T19:57:00.000-07:00

I was so excited when my mom asked me if we would like to join her for a day at the beach because my dad and sister rode their bikes to the beach for a club activity at her school, and they needed our truck for their bikes. I was watching some of Ellis friends and they had such a fun time together! They were seriously in the water the WHOLE time, and they got so tired out, they were all asleep by the time we got on the freeway....

Here's Miss Elli and Miss Moe posing for the camera!

When my dad got to the beach, from riding bikes from Anaheim, he took Aisley in the water and walked all along the beach with her, it was so cute! They adore eachother!

One of her favorite things to do there was picking up seashells, and either giving them to me, or putting them in a bucket. She did this for so long, and was she got so involved in it, you could tell by her facial expressions, she was concentrating so hard on checking them out....

I looked up and saw her doing this, I think she thought she was our dog, Fletch for a second... dont worry as soon as i snapped the picture, I took it out of her mouth...my mom was annoyed that I even took the picture! haha...She is a beach baby for sure! She had a blast the whole time

Everyone had so much fun, and Im so happy its beach weather time again!! A few days later, we were at the mall, and this girl said oh my gosh your baby has such a good tan, I was like yeah we went to the beach on saturday. Im jealous of my kid's skin, they get tan so fast, thanks to their Italian daddy...

Easter Update!

2008-04-16T11:50:00.000-07:00

I know Im a little late on my Easter blog, but hey, better late than never, right? We had a good Easter this year, although Bran was working, we did get to go see him at the staition after church on Sunday... Every time we go to visit Brandon, they go straight for the fire truck, they love to get up there, sit on the seats, and pretend they are driving, as you can see, Aisley does not like to share the steering wheel when she is driving!!

I absolutly LOVE this picture!! It is just so sweet, they adore eachother....

And Bri and Elli messin around, this one was a cute picture for sure!

This is the night before, I knew Elli would get so into decorating eggs this year, she's such a crafts girl! She did a beautiful job on those eggs..

Brielle couldnt wait to wake up the next morning, to go see her basket, here she is with her stuff, her favorite was her Enchanted movie, which she loves sooo much, she asks to watch it almost every day. As for Aisley, she really could care less about anything in that basket, except for the crayons, which was a mistake because there are multiple "murals" all over the walls in my mother in laws house...

After getting all dressed for church we headed outside to find the eggs the easter bunny hid...this was quite cute, because they were all dressed up in their easter dresses. Aisley very quickly got the hang of picking the eggs up and putting, or throwing them in her basket, there was a few that broke because of this...Brielle was really good at finding all the harder hid eggs, and left the easy ones for ayes, she really is such a good big sister!!

This is what Aisley would do: Find the egg, then walk all the way to where she had her basket, then drop it in, this one she missed the shot, but you get the picture

Pictures with the girls and family:

Aunt Brianna (Ba): Nana and Papa:

Mommy and babes:

We also went out to Pasadena with nana and bumpa to have an easter egg hunt, and dinner, ill post a few of those on my next post....Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!!

Chucke Cheese...

2008-04-11T20:21:00.000-07:00

Annette took the grandkids, Brit, Rick, and I to Chucke cheese. Its always a fun time there! Ayes was very interested in this game, not actually playing it, but disobeying us and climbing up and going all the way to the top, then looking back like haha, when dylan saw her doing this, he started doing the same thing.

This is one of Elli's favorite games here and she does pretty good at it too, as you can see here!

Here's the babies trying to be big just like Elli....haha

Elli going crazy hitting the big red button and Dylan, looking on, thinking wow cant wait to get my hands on that!

This little ride goes around in a small circle, the babies just loved it! They each did it a few times

And this was Elli's favorite, you sit in this little seat, then turn those handles round and round and it makes the seat go up in the air, she thought it was pretty cool! And Dyl did too.....

Elli and Ayes went on the little horse together, actually Ayes wanted to go but when Elli heard, she also wanted to go, so they got up there together...and after the ride was finished, Elli was feeling ever so nice, and decided to give her sister a huge kiss on the cheek...aww how Aisley just loved that!

I walked by and saw Brittney playing this soccer game where you had to try to hit this guy who was moving around in there, and while she was playing Dylan kept sticking his hand in there trying to grab the little guy or elf or whatever it was, but it was pretty funny to watch, he was so determined to get that thing...

Meanwhile, you could find Rick doing this....haha reminds me of Brandon so much

Nana and Elli playing the water game, such a fun Nana! She even crawled all the way up to the top of the play pen....those kids love their Nana!

Look at those kids cute lil faces up there....

Elli had just come down the slide so I told her to strike a pose, and smile, well she struck a pose but said, Mommy, I really need to go to the bathroom!!! haha i was laughing so hard

The kid's had a great time at chucke cheese eating lots of pizza, playing and spending time with eachother!!

Look how happy she is! Such a good, happy lil girl!

Skate Express baby!

2008-03-07T21:36:00.001-08:00

A family pic of a family fun night!

Brandon's birthday was the 25th of January, we decided to go roller skating with Elli, Bri, Bran and me. Props to my wonderful mom who watched the ayes bug for us! It was quite the time! Brandon and I havent even been on skates since high school and Elli was so funny. She really wanted to go out there and try it but she just didn't get it, she looked so funny while trying to skate. It was cute, Brandon was so good trying to help her. He held her hand and just kept trying to teach her. She was tired so that was part of the problem. But toward the end, she was doing alot better than when we first got there! Take a look at those ugly skates from skate express! Remember those anyone?

When Elli wanted to take a break from skating, you could find her and Bri taking cute pictures of themselves...

Or you could find Elli doing this! It was really hard for her and probably tiring, as you can tell, too, she was more than ready to leave!

Thats me and Bran, when we first got on the rink it was really hard for both of us, we kept almost falling, but toward the end, we were cruisin, we even played some of the games. We had a blast, especially when we got the hang of it again, we thought we were so cool, even cooler than some of the 7th graders there! haha

Brielle and Aisley are so lucky to have such a fun, caring, loving dad who would do anything for them. It was so fun to watch them together that night!

Another Fire Day

2008-02-14T18:12:00.000-08:00

Jess and Rob came up to visit Brandon at work and show Isaac the fire truck. It was alot of fun!

Aisley loves pretending to drive and she had way too much fun driving this huge truck...everytime we took her down, she just wanted up again to drive that truck!

Isaac was a little bit scared to go that far up, so he had his mommy go with him, then he started loosening up bit!

My girls up in the fire truck...

The Papavero Family!!!

The Boyer Family!!

Bran the Fireman!

2008-02-03T15:59:00.000-08:00

Those of you that don't know, Brandon is now working as a paid call firefighter for San Berandino County Fire Department, but he does have a shift, so he work's 24 hour shifts about 10 days a month. He absolutly enjoy's it, and it will look great on his resume! It's sometimes hard because he does sleep overnight at the station, and I don't like being away from my husband for that long, but, it's what he need's to do right now, and he loves doing it!

We visit the station alot and bring goodies up to them, the station's not that far, just up on Euclid, like 5 minutes from the house! The other night, nana, bumpa, and Brandon's cousin's came to eat dinner, and I took them up to see the fire truck, and the station. They LOVED it! Especially Matt, who love's to play video games with Brandon, and vise versa! Here's Hanna, Matt and Ayes. They are the best baby helper's!

Here's Hanna, and the famous face maker right here, she has to be making a funny, weird face in like every picture! haha...Bri usually always comes up to the station with us, I think she really likes looking at the super big fire engine, right Bri! haa j/k

Daddy and his lil girl on the fire truck!!!

Yea Bri! work it girl!

Sister and Brotherly love!!!

Yay Aisley!!

2008-02-03T15:42:00.001-08:00

A few month's ago, I submitted Aisley's photo to a modeling agency, and they called me back and wanted to meet with us, so we went and they loved her! So, we got the new hire packet, I ordered her a work permit (kinda funny huh) and then we just wait to hear about audition's, so last week, her agent call's me and say's Aisley has an audition for a Huggies commercial. So we made the drive to West Hollywood, and saw ALOT of kid's auditioning. They took her in another room to see how she would do without me and of course (she is such a happy lil girl) she did a great job, they said! So today, her agent called me and said she got a call back for the commercial, she said only a few babies did!!! We were way excited, because considering this was her first audition, I didn't have too high expectations of being called back, but we did! So we are going back tommorow, so the few kid's that got callbacks can audition again, and then they will decide tommorow who gets it! So wish us luck!! haha...

Dizzy Dizzy!!

2008-01-31T18:25:00.000-08:00

Brandon thinks the funnest game ever is to put the babies on a chair and spin them round and round and then put them down and watch them try to walk, or crawl, all the women get so mad at him, but it kinda is funny, and the babies LOVE the spinning part! They laugh sooo hard and clap their hands, and as soon as he gets them down, they want right back up! So, Brandon let's them....

These are their face's when he's done....poor babies

Beach Day- August

2008-01-24T13:27:00.001-08:00

This is old, from the summer, our last beach trip of the summer. We went with my family. Elli rode up with my mom, Keleny, and Cory. Cory and her were taking funny picture's on the way to the beach. Here's a few:

Cousin Issac giving kisses to Aisley!

Issac and Elli. They are so cute together, always playing so good together

Look how dark Elli get's during the summer...just like her daddy...not at all like her mommy....

Bran, Me, and the Elli bug!

Here's Aisley and me, she's 8 months here, she looks so different now, she has 10 times more hair now!

Bran, me, and Cory bein nerds..... do you see how Brandon was acting like I am so heavy he can barely pick me up.....how mean, right? These pictures make me miss my brother.... he's such a fun guy!!

And last but not least here's Cory and Issac!!

New Post!

2008-01-19T10:08:00.000-08:00

So I updated my blog about my vacation to Northern Cali, but it ended up on the second page! So go have a look!!

Zoo Day

2008-01-13T20:05:00.000-08:00

So Brit, Dyl, Bri, my kiddo's and I decided to take a trip to the La Zoo on friday! We had so much fun! We were kinda worried about taking the babies, but they were very interested and excited about seeing the animals!

We went right about naptime and were worried they weren't going to fall asleep, but they were asleep within 10 minutes on the way down there! They got a long good nap with their silky blankies, which by the way, my very talented aunt Debbie made the pink blankie for Aisley and one for Brielle too when they were born. I am so grateful for her and all the hard work she put into that blanket. They cant go to sleep without those blankies! And if you look behind the babies, you will see Bri with Elli, reading her some books on the long trip over. Such a great auntie! No wonder Elli loves her so much....

There's my Ayes in her stroller all ready to go! And Elli with a meercat in the background putting on a pretty funny show. He was just lounging with his head laid back sunbathin

Here's the kiddo's and me next to the pretty but stinky flamingos!! I remember these were always my sister jessis favorites! And of course I can't forget the preetiest flamingos's ever...

Bri and Elli next to the ginormous turtles...one was walking down the hill they really do move so incredibly slow...crazzzy

We went to a show about bird's and while we were waiting for it to start, dyl, ayes, and elli all started dancing to the fun music they had playing, they were all so cute!!

Elli was chosen to go up on stage and hide a soda can for the blackbird to find. The lady asked her to hide it anywhere on stage. So Elli said ok and just threw it in the bushes. The lady said oh ok let me just kinda fix it a lil. Anyway's so when the bird came, he found it right away. It was pretty cool. Elli was way proud of herself as you can tell....

This was cool because we could see how big this bird was. It was huge! Kinda scary!!

As soon as we went to see the seals, the zookeepers came out to feed them, and I guess in order to get their food they have to practice their tricks, so we stayed like 10 minutes just watching them do tricks, it was really cool!

Here's the babies looking at the gorilla's through the glass. It was so fun, one of the gorillas came right up to the glass and was sitting there for the longest time just looking at everyone thru the glass.

There was a giraffe family, they were so cool looking!

I like this one of Brit and Dyl

Here's Elli and me next to the huge bear!

And Bri and me, yea I know we are dorky, but whatever, its fun to be dorks! Bri was holding a snow cone and the bear was seriously staring at it and her, like everywhere she walked, he looked. Oh my gosh I was scared he was gonna leap off that rock to get the snow cone. It was creepy

Aisley says bye bye bye....

2 Years!!

2008-01-08T15:51:00.000-08:00

2 YEARS BABY!!!

So yesterday, January 7th marked our 2 year anniversey! last year both of us completly forgot all about our anniversery until the day was over, so we made sure to remember this time. Brit, Brandon's sis offered to watch the kid's so we could go out....we were so all over that! So we decided to go to Northwoods (our favorite restaurant ever)!

We both ordered way too much food, so we stopped by the house to drop off the leftover's and left again to go bowling! It was alot of fun, except for the fact that I cannot bowl....the score ended up being 144 (brano) - 47 (me)! Wow!

One of our favorite things to do is take silly, dumb pic's so after we were done bowling and playing video games, we took our silly pic's. So here they are! Anyways, it's been a great year for us. For those of you that don't know we started dating when we were 16 and we have had alot of crazy, fun, hard, years since then, but we couldnt be happier then we are now! I love him soo much and am so glad i got to marry my prince charming!!!

Family Fun August 2007

2008-01-07T12:01:00.000-08:00

Ok so i know these are months old, but they are cute so i have to post them. Brit and Dylan came down to go to the beach house and then spend another week at the house. Elli and Dyland and Ayes are all the best of friends. They had alot of fun together that week.

Dyl taught Ayes how to climb up onto the chair and rock back and forth. It was a fun activity that week.

Heres the baby einstein i got for my baby shower. The baby's loved it!

Aisley loved the pool this summer. We went alot and she's a fish just like her sister!

Ayes and cousin Dyl in their floaties at the pool!

We went to Johns Incredible Pizza Co. The babies were so funny while they were eating, they sat right next to eachother in their high chairs and they thought it was pretty funny...as you can see they were sharing food haha

I MADE Bri and her friend go on this ride with Elli... haha (they really did not want to go at all- they are way too cool for this)
Elli taking Ayes on the slide in the kid area....such a good big sister!!

And Ill leave you all with a true princess. Of course this is what she chose for her prize! Duh what else would she choose....She is such a lil princess!

Rose Parade

2008-01-01T15:41:00.001-08:00

There's a tradition in Brandon's family to go to the Rose Parade every year. Nana (Brandon's grandma) lives very close to the parade route, so we just slept over there, got up in the morning and headed out to the route. All the family was there talking and just hangin out. Elli brought her good friend Taylor, and immediatly Bri started shooting silly string at them and so the girls got her back really good as you can see.

Here's Elli and Dylan.(Brittney's son) They have so much fun together! He and his mom came down to visit all the way from Michigan...

Here's my sister in law's Brittney, Bri, Braydee...

Bran, Me and Ayes watching the parade, she seriously was so good the whole parade, she sat there and watched all the floats go by, she got especially excited when she saw the horses and the bands.

So for most of the parade the girls were really good, during a little break I got a picture of them doing what they were doing when they were boerd...Elli blowing the annoying horn her daddy bought her and Taylor concentrating so hard on pouring her orange juice in the lid, then drinking it very carefully...they were cute!

Here's Braydee and her boyfriend Jeff....

Ayes and Daddy watching the band in the parade...

The girls staring at a really cool float!

Elli dancing and clapping at the band playing the music, I think that was her favorite part of the whole parade....

When the firefighter's came by Jerry started yelling dont throw us a rose throw my son a job! It was so funny!

All in all we had a great new year and we hope all you did too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Disneyland 12-19-07

2007-12-20T12:51:00.000-08:00

Brandon and I gave Elli a Disneyland pass for Christmas, and I wanted to take her before Christmas before all the decorations were taken down. We had a blast! We walked on all the rides. The only one we had to wait in was finding nemo, and that was 30 minutes. So it wasnt too bad. Her favorite ride's were splash mountain and Hollywood Tower of Terror.

Here she is with her churro, gotta love those churro's. They are seriously the best!! And she thinks they are called cherrios.

Here's Elli with Santa Claus. Everytime we see Santa, she tell's him something different. Most of the time it is a pink guitar, but this time it was a piano.....i bet you didn't know she knew how to play all these instruments huh? pretty talented. j/k! she also asked for a silver star...Isn't this the cutest lil santa you have ever seen....disneyland always has the best santa....

Here's Santa's reindeer. She thought it was pretty cool that his reindeer were here too.

And oh my goodness, this as Elli would say is Santa's wife...She was the sweetest lady ever. She so fit the part. And Brielle took in all the sweetness from her, she kept talking about santa's wife all day...It was pretty darn cute.

And here is Elli with the Alice in Wonderland crew, except the Queen. And Brielle just had to wait for her so she could say hi to her. I really didn't want to wait there for her to get done talking to people but Brielle was so adament about it, so I did. And it was pretty funny, the queen was being so funny with her, she was trying to play her mean part and Elli wasnt too sure she liked that.

She also saw the wiked witch from Snow White, and kept telling me how nice that wiked witch was...

We went on Finding Nemo for the first time, and enjoyed that. Here's Elli in the submarine...

Here we are in front of the huge beautiful Christmas tree....my favorite part of Disneyland at this time of year....sorry so blurry, just what happens when you ask someone to take a pic for you

After Disneyland, we went to California Adventure to watch the Aladdin show, and Elli made a friend in line and they just had to sit by eachother, and kept eachother entertained while waiting for the show to start. But she had a major probelm when she had to leave and didnt understand why we couldnt just hang out with her the rest of the night. But much to my luck she found another friend in the line of tower of terror who was her age and they kept saying hi friend and giving eachother hugs and playing. When the ride was done, Elli yelled hey friend did you love that ride...she said yes friend i did.. Kids crack me up...

Here's when we were leaving, everyone was taking pictures next to the letter's in front of california adventure and Elli just could not be left out so she went and stood by the L and some kid came up to her and said get a picture of me too. i was like oh honey can i get a picture of her please, he said no me too, and wouldnt budge so i just snapped the picture, then he wouldnt leave us alone, so i asked wheres your mommy, he said i dont know i dont have one, so i started thinking maybe i should help look for his mom, but eventually i found his aunt or something taking pics of her kids and not even worried about this other kid shes in charge of... gotta love all the many types of people that come to dland. We had a great mommy daughter date and Elli was asleep before we even got on the freeway. She was a trooper!

Elli's 4th Birthday Party

2007-12-09T14:19:00.000-08:00

THE PARTY GIRLS!!!

Brielle turned 4 on November 25th. I let her choose what kind of a party she wanted and she chose a princees party, of course no surprise there!! We got her a princess bounce house, which she was completly estatic about (i dont think i spelled that right) The whole time they were setting it up, she was just standing there watching, and completly shaking, half from being so excited and the other half from being so cold! When they were done she was so in there with Aisley and Bri, they all were laughing so hard beccause they were having sooo fun!

When all her friends arrived, they decorated princess crown and wands with stickers,diamonds , and other fun stuff i got for them...they really enjoyed that, and it kept them busy for awhile too,

Next, came face painting done by my ever so talented sister, Jessica, she did an awesome job! oh by the way in the above picture thats keleny and bri helping with the decorating of the crowns and wands....loved the awesome help! Anyways, here are some pictures of Elli with some of her friends after they had their face's painted....

Abby & Elli, friend from mum's church!

Elli & Aslyn, friend from church!

Elli & Addi...friend from church!

Rachel and Elli...friend from church!!

Elli and Chloe...friend from dance!!

Elli and Alyssa....friend from dance!!

Talent Factory Girls!!!

Aspen and Elli...friend from church!!

Hanna, Elli, Brenna...the 3 cousins!!

Elli and Taylor...the BFF!

The girls before musical chairs...

Brenna was the winner!!

Opening the presents was insane! Every single one of the girls was in a huddle so close around Brielle, I dont even know how they could breathe. They all had to see what she got and wanted her to open their presents first. It was really funny to watch.

She made a wish (out loud) that all her family could go to disneyland together and have alot of fun! It was a crazy, but fun day! She slept excellent that night by the way!

The Magic Castle

2007-11-14T17:58:00.000-08:00

On Sunday night, when we were at my mom's for dinner, Rob asked us if we wanted to go to the Magic Castle. I had never heard of it before, so Rob explained it to me...I guess you have to be a member to even go in, it's in Hollywood, you go and eat at a 4 star restaurant, then go see magic shows. Rob know's a doctor through his school that has a membership, so he got guest passes through him....We were way excited and it was sooo much fun...The perfect date night!!!

Here we are walking to the castle on the walk of fame...

and Jess and Rob...

My extremly smart (wink wink) brother in law, said ok follow me, well we ended up going down this deserted street with no light's and homeless people yelling weird thing's to us and we had no clue where we were, so he called his friend who was meeting us there and we got picked up, luckily none of us were involved in a drive by shooting or something, seriously that's how freaky it was....Thanks Rob!!!

Ok, so after we got way lost in the middle of the really bad part of Hollywood, we got to the castle, and they told me no camera's allowed in the castle, so the hostess told me she'll take some pic's before we go in, but I really wished we could take pics in the castle cuz there was some really cool things... but oh well.... here are the pics before we went in...

Me and Bran

Me and Jess

And the whole group...That wall behind us with the books, you say open sesame and it opens, then you walk into the restaurant....

Me and Brandon outside the Magic Castle after we were done...The magic show's were really cool and Brandon, Jess, and Rob both got picked to help out a few magicians....

This one is kinda a inside joke but still funny, Rob MADE us be rebels and go under this rope to get through to where we were park.....such a bad boy....haha, j/k rob, i know your gonna beat me up when you see this....haha

Love this one of Jess and Rob, they look so cute and happy....

And then here's me and Bran being dorks... I have lot's of pic's like this of me kissing him on the cheek, cheesy, right....oh well....

So once again good ol bro Rob says he know's where the car is in the garage, but he come's to find out, hmmm he doesn't after all....and jess and me are wearing heels and are soo bugged cuz our feet hurt so bad, so we finally say we are going to stay at this yellow pole and come pick us up when you find the car, so while we were waiting we got boerd and started snapping some silly pics, I told her this reminds me of high school, but we were both laughing so hard while we were taking pic's. Love my sis

We finally made it home like at 12:30, and it was the funnest date I'd had in a long time, Im so glad they invited us...and Aisley was so good for her Nana, She even took a bottle this time...Props to my father in law!!!

Johns Incredible Pizza

2007-11-14T17:10:00.001-08:00

Monday, there was no school, so my friend from my church and I took our kid's to Johns Incredible Pizza...We had a blast! Aisley stayed home with daddy while he was working because she was asleep. So it was just me, Bri, Brielle, Bri's friend, and our friends from our ward. After the kid's were done chowing down pizza, we went to play. Addie and Elli wanted to go on these little car's that go around a track a few times. They were very into it....

This is my friend's baby, Amelia...had to take some baby pic's since my babe wasn't there....

These next one's crack me up. My friend had never tryed dance dance revolution, so we gave it a whirl, and had a blast! Addie and Elli really wanted to try it, and they were so funny, they were getting soo into it, and they really thought they were doing a good job, but at the end of the game, the score was 00000... It was soo funny!

This is the last one..Look at Brielle's face and look how serious she is about this game...haha

My friend and her daughter....she was pretty good for her first time...haha

This ride took like all our tickets, but the girl's really wanted to do it, so we got Bri and Summer to go on with them and they had alot of fun on this one...it took you in the air and spun you around pretty fast

The group of girls..... Brielle, Brooke, Addie, Elli......

Last Night

2007-11-08T18:08:00.000-08:00

Last night was pretty boring, for the kid's...we are redoing the kid's room, so we were painting last night, i ended up not even being able to help because I was trying to keep Aisley out of that room and of course that's the only room she wanted in. So me and her played her favorite game (on the bed, we roar at eachother and she jumps/crawls across the bed hoping I won't get her). She get's so excited when anybody plays this with her, and she get's so happy and has the biggest smiles, so I snapped some pics while we were playing it, so ya'll could see.....

My friend got me this cute little outfit for her so I had it on her, but of course when she figured out there was something on her head, it was sooo off...

Here's my handyman Bran cutting the baseboard's for the girl's room, he's also done the whole house, he love's being involved in project's and is way good at them too!!

And here's Ayes trying to help her daddy....

While all of this work was getting done you could find Elli in Bri's room at her desk, working on her "homework", (very important). She talks to herself, or her makebelieve friend's the whole

time she is "working". This is one of her favorite things to do....SO funny...

Fun with friends at the park

2007-11-07T14:22:00.000-08:00

Today, my friend and I decided to get our kid's out of the house and take them to the park. We wanted to take them to this one I really like, but after driving around for like 15 minutes not being able to find it, we decided to go to Beryl Park, a park that we passed on our long quest trying to find the other park....ugh...so frusterating! Anyways, the boy's are almost 3, so a year younger than Brielle, but they all play so good together.

By the way they are twins: Ethan, Brielle, and Andrew....

My friend and me were sitting on this bench watching the kid's play, and these 3 boys, who were probably like 9 or something (so they should have been in school) came up to us and said move off that bench, we need to walk on it! I was like, no sorry, but we are sitting on it, then the bratty kid was like well get up, then when we are done you can sit back down (meanwhile the mom is just sitting there watching this), so i said we were sitting here so if you could just go around us please....oh my gosh!! get your kid off our back! SO annoying...we were like so amazed that they were that rude and their mom's didn't even care!

Anyways, after our great fun park adventure, we went to my friend's house and she made lunch for us, and the kid's played in the backyard for awhile. It was a fun play date. Elli love's getting together with her friend's! And I love it too, so I can hang out with my friend's too!!

Aren't they so stinkin cute?

Northern Cali Vacation

2007-11-02T12:08:00.001-07:00

About 2 weeks ago, my mom, sister, nephew, me and my kid's loaded up the car with carseats, and luggage, and headed off on a 10 hour drive (yes, it was tons of fun) to northern california : paradise, and chico, to go to my cousin Mark's wedding...We stopped in Bakersfield to sleep at my aunt Jana's house, so it was only 2 hour's the first day...As soon as we got to my aunt Cyndy's house, she told us to go in the backyard to her pumpkin patch and pick some pumpkin's. It was so cute. My cousin Ryan had his kid's there too, who are around Elle and Aye's age, so it was fun to watch all the kid's get excited about the pumpkin's

This is my cousin Tanner, who Brielle followed around pretty much the whole time.....which I'm sure he just loved...but he was a great sport, he's 7....

After being in the house for awhile, waiting for the wedding to start, I decided to take the kid's to the park (even though it was freezing outside)...It was the preetiest park i have ever seen, Paradise is such a beautiful place, tonz of trees everywhere...

Aisley always has the biggest smile on her face when she goes on the swing! She's so cute...

Tanner wanted to push her the whole time...so sweet

Elli and her favorite big cousin...Sami (my cousin)

This is the bride, Angie, Mark's new wife, Elli was so funny with her. She kept asking if she can take picture's with her, she followed her everywhere, danced wherever she was dancing, upstairs to get something, I mean everywhere, Finally I had to tell Elli to stop cuz she needed some time to herself...

My babies taking a break at the reception...

And more of my cousin's that Elli loved hangin with

I really like this one of my mom and Elli. She really love's my mom. Aren't both of their eye's amazing! They even look alot alike...

My bestie and ayes...

Janae was dancing with Aisley and she thought that was so funny as you can tell...

Here's my cousin Andrew dancing with Sami, nothin but fun time's when family is around!!

Here's the groom, Mark with cousins (all the same age): Jessica, Carrissa, and Rachel! It was fun for them to see eachother because they were all the same age so they all hung out growing up!

My cousin, Brent and me...When he was a baby, he was seriously mine, I loved him so much, always wanted to hold him and take care of him, I spent alot of time with him....It's so funny how grown up he is now...Such a sweetheart!

Here's my boy (well actually, Jess's boy) Issac, I just love him so much and he was asking me to get him out of the swing, and I said sure, if you say cheese for the camera, and look how cute that cheese turned out!

The kid's must have thought they could read, cuz the found this rock with some writing on it, and they stood there for the longest time pretending to read what was on there. It was pretty amusing!

And there's the mum and Elli, best of friends! She love's her mum so much, and she was playing with her grandkid's for a long time at the park....Gotta give my wonderful mom a shout out for helping out with the kids so much on that trip, it's always alot harder when the daddy's not around to help out, but she did an amazing job! So grateful that I have such an amazing mom!

Aisley and Aunt Jess just chillin at the park! It was seriously so beautiful there!

So as we were at the park, Elli saw some kid's and her friendly self, went up to them and asked what are you doing, and lucky for her they asked her to play along, they had like a balloon shooter, that shot these balloon's in the sky then it came back down and you had to catch it, she had soooo much fun doing this for a long while, and in the meantime made such good friend's with this little girl who was 5, they played for a while after that together!

We love getting to see our extended family, and we had a great time. We love all of them so much! Congrats to Mark and Angie! The kid's did ok in the car but they were definitly excited to get home.....of course Elli jumped right on in to her swimsuit, and put not only a princess crown on her but one on her sister too!

Halloween Night!

2007-11-01T13:41:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was a long day for us. Us girls, woke up in the morning and went to Uncle Rob's school. (UCR) He's in his second year of medical school. They needed my kid's for example's for physical's. It was really cool. Im way proud of my bro cuz med school is so long and takes up so much time, and just alot of way hard work, he's doing such a good job!! It was fun seeing him in his white jacket, looking like a doctor. He also dressed up for Halloween, and I thought it was the funniest costume I've seen this year....And yes this is his REAL hair!!

We rushed home, got Elli ready for her preschool party, and she was off. She had a blast at her first Halloween school party. After that, we went straight over to our church for trunk or treat, for hot dogs (eww), and nachos, haunted house (which Elli screamed the whole way thru), lots of fun games, lots of candy, and then we were off to our friend's house, the King's. Addie and Elli are good friend's so they had alot of fun trick or treating. My friend made some amazing chicken taco soup, which sounds way more appatizing than those boiled hot dog's, right? And we didn't get home till 10:30, so it was a late fun night! And Aisley liked her first halloween, mommy and daddy gave her a sucker, which she devoured.

Claire and Brielle...

Somebody asked if Aisley wanted a balloon, so I said sure, O my gosh this balloon was the highlight of her night, she kept putting her mouth up to it and talking to it because she liked how it sounded like it was echoing....she thought it was so funny and kept doing it.....

Mommy and Aisley...

Here's Ayes and Brandon, in front of the excursion that my mother in law decorated. She always does a good job of decorating for trunk or treat each year....

I love this one of Aisley and her daddy, Aisley is a daddy's girl all the way...They were both laughing so hard...

All in all we had a GREAT halloween, and we were happy to be able to have our daddy around this year, luckily he got off early enough (he's been working in the backyard with his friend's masonry company). I want to leave you all with a picture of the cutest cow you'll ever see!!!

Trunk or Treat

2007-10-28T13:31:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was trunk or treat at Mum and Pappy's church in Chino Hills. This year Brielle was a cowgirl and Aisley a cow....

Brielle invited her good friend Moe, they were so cute getting ready, they couldn't wait to get their hair curled and makeup on, and they kept looking in the mirror saying how beautiful they both looked. Listening to little kid's conversations with eachother cracks me up....
This is the 3 cuzzies on the Crompton side, Issac, is Jessies son who is 1 1/2. He was so funny, he saw the tale on Aisley's cow costume and started pulling it saying tail tail....it was so cute...They all have big blue eyes...I love it!!!

These two girls are Brielle's age and are her friends from her mum's ward, Rose and Abbie. They were very cute together...They were all running around playing chase weaving in and out of people, sometimes almost knocking someone over....It was fun to watch though....

Fun times at the Pumpkin Patch

2007-10-27T14:43:00.000-07:00

Today Elle, Bri, Ayes, and me went to the pumpkin patch down the street. It was alot of fun!!! It was sooo fun to watch Bri and Elle go down the huge slide. They both had enormous smiles on their faces and were laughing so hard. They both got matching scrapes on their elbows going down too. They also went on this maze thing and had a blast...They are the best of friends. Bri is such a good auntie. Elle just loves her to death.

Really old, but good

2007-10-22T13:39:00.000-07:00

This was Elle posing like always before her very first primary easter activity... and Aisley with her big blue eyes. she was
4 months.

I wanted to post some cute pic's of our fam at easter last year....i know, way old, but still way cute....haha elle was sooo cute, she was helping her cuzzie issac find eggs...and loving every minute of it! I love holidays with my kids they are getting cuter and cuter as they go by anyways heres some pics of easter 2007!!This is also the day pappy taught Brielle how to ride a bike.That green bike was mine when i was her age. One of the wheel's fell off when she was riding it, so good ol pappy got out his tools and made her a new one, and elle of course is always wanting to help, with her candy and basket nearby of course...Brielle with her basket...don't worry I don't always dress her with nice church socks and shoes, I just didn't want her easter dress to get ruined while looking for eggs..Mum and Aisley My nephew, Issac Todd with his baseball egg he found....Uncle Cory and Ayes...The 3 sisters...Meg, Kel, Jess

Elle & Ayes Blessing Day

2007-09-01T22:29:00.000-07:00

Today was a wonderful day in our family. Brielle, 3 and Aisley, 6 months were blessed by their dad, Brandon. We had been waiting a long time for this day and it finally came!!! Alot of our family was there, and afterwards we had yummy taco salad at my mother in laws house. Elle was so good while she was getting her blessing, she didn't even make a sound and she thought it was very special. Aisley got a little fussy towards the middle, but Papa (Brandon's dad) said when she looked at him she stopped fussing.:) which is probably true considering she is papa's girl!! She gets a huge smile whenever he walks in the room. Anyways, the blessing's were incredible and we were very happy!!