25th Wedding Anniversary

We went down to Brianne and Phil's house last night for Bill and Sandy's 25th Wedding Anniversary party. We had so much fun with everyone. We don't have a lot of family left around here but the ones that we do are fun to be with.
Bill and Sandy at the party.

Aren't they cute?????

Bill and Dave.

Brianne, Sandy, Alex and Bill. There was so much food and it was all so good.

Megan and Alex.

Jami and Justin.

The whole family. Brianne, Sandy, Jami, Phillip, Bill, and Justin.

They are all so much fun to be around. We had a great night at the party. Congratulations on 25 years!!!!!!!

Retirement Party

We spent last weekend at Lloyd's retirement party over at Heidi's house. It was so much fun. It was a surprise party and he really had no idea so it was a lot of fun to see his face when he got there.
Lloyd and Marie. The food was so good. :)

We got to burn some of his ties from his working days. Jacob got to pick out which one he wanted to burn and throw it on the fire.

Alex and I in the kitchen.

Marie, Lloyd, Cliff, Heidi, Oma, and Jacob. The whole family!!!!!

Heidi and Oma.

Megan and Mike.

We had so much fun at the party and the weather turned out to be really nice. Hopefully Lloyd starts enjoying his days off soon.

It comes to an end....

We had such a fun week in California. It is always so much fun to arrive and not fun at all to leave. It is such a bummer that we are all spread out so far. We really need to figure out how to get Illinois, California, Nevada, and Washington closer together. :)
A family photo before we all start to cry.

Stefanie, Stacy, and Gimi. We are missing Tami and Kari. They are still in Illinois.

Stefanie, Peggy, Stacy, and Gimi. Peggy got to stay and visit one more day before she was heading back to Illinois.

The Herren family. They are so much fun to hang out with also. The kids all get along so great. The cousins really enjoy each other.

Once Peggy and Megan start crying it's all over. They make everyone follow. :)

Mike and Megan on the airplane heading home. They took their own picture.

Alex and I were sitting behind them. We had a fun flight home. Alex was in a weird mood and just kept laughing at everything.

We had such an awesome vacation and can't wait to get to see everyone again. Who knows where we will all meet next.

Thanks to Stefanie for letting us stay with them and to Peggy and Gimi for coming to visit us also.

See everyone again soon!!!!!!!!

Last full day

Today is our last full day on vacation in San Diego so we decided to get in all that we could. We went to the pool, had a BBQ, and went to Old Town San Diego. Just like the rest of the week we had a great time.

We got up this morning and Rena and Maleah had dressed themselves in matching dresses. Stefanie didn't seem to happy that they had matching clothes since we always said we would never do that to our kids but she didn't buy the girls these dresses so it is ok that they match.

Gimi, Paul, Taylor, Mark, Ryan, Haley, Scott and Peggy all arrived at the house around 11:00 am. We sat and talked for awhile and then headed to the pool for swimming and a BBQ.Haley was excited to get to go swimming.

Peggy and Cameron are testing out the water.

Peggy, Stefanie, Gimi, Paul, and Steve are watching all of the kids swimming.

Taylor, Mark, Ryan, and Haley resting after swimming.
We went down to Old Town to eat dinner and check out the city.

Alex, Cameron, Megan, Haley, and Ryan.
This is everyone at dinner. Here we go around the table...... Paul, Gimi, Stefanie, Cameron, Jeff, Rena, Maleah, Megan, Ryan, Haley, Alex, Scott, Mark, Taylor, Peggy, Mike, Stacy and Steve is taking the picture. Oh, that was a lot of work. Scott, Gimi, and Paul after dinner.

Alex and Megan, excited for another picture.

We have had such a good time on vacation. As always we have gotten to enjoy so much of our family that we don't get to see alot of and we have gotten to go and do so many fun things. The only thing better would have been if Tami and Kari's families could have joined us. We will try for that next year!!!! :) We get to spend one more morning with everyone tomorrow and do a bit more swimming and then we are headed to the airport around 3:30. I am sure, as usual, Peggy will start to cry and the rest of us will follow. One of these days we will get the hang of leaving without anyone shedding a tear.

Sea World

We made it to Sea World on Thursday and had another full day of fun. We were kind of lazy in the morning so we didn't get there until about 11:00 but we still had plenty of time to see everything that we wanted.
This is the best sign that they have.

Alex, Mike, and Megan sitting in the soak zone for the dolphin show. They definately got soaked.

Alex is a bit damp and the show was only half over.

Megan and Cameron on the flying fish ride.

Maleah and Stacy on the flying fish ride. Maleah was in charge of the controls.

Stefanie and Cameron waiting for Shamu.

For a mere $177.00 you could stand in freezing cold water and feed the dolphins. This would be all of us watching the crazy people that actually paid that much. You will notice that none of us are doing it.

Cameron, Rena, Maleah, and Stefanie waiting to watch the dolphins.
We had another great day with everyone. Tomorrow we get to see the Herren's and Peggy again.

The week is quickly coming to an end and no one here to too happy about that!!!!!

A day at the pool

We spent the day at the pool at Stefanie's house. It is really nice and has a BBQ and everything. The kids enjoyed being in the water and the adults enjoyed some cold beverages while watching them.
We had to unload all of the water toys from the car so they would have something to play with in the water.

Mike was in charge of the BBQ and he did an excellent job. :)

All of the kids got out long enough to enjoy some hot dogs and potatoe chips.

Stefanie and Cameron after lunch. I think he was trying to get her to go in the water with him.

Megan and Rena are showering after they are done swimming. They are so lazy that they had to sit down.

It was another great day in San Diego. The sun was shining and we all had fun hanging out at the pool and relaxing for the whole day!!!!! Off to Sea World next......

Day two at the Happiest Place on Earth

We made it to the second day of our fun at Disneyland. We got there at about 8:30 and we were all ready to spend another full day.
We walked through the front gate and Goofy was waiting for us. The kids were excited to see him and he was nice enough to let us get a picture.

Everyone jumped on an old firetruck to make their way down main street. My Dad and I walked with the stroller and everyone else took the ride.

There they all go around the corner.

Mike, Alex and Cameron waiting for us to decide what to do next.

Stacy, Bonnie, Maleah, Megan, Rena, Kate, and Stefanie.

Bonnie and Kate.

The boys got to make their own double ended light sabers. They were both so excited. We went over for some Jedi training as soon as we got done making these.

After a few hours at Disneyland Mike, Alex, Cameron and I made the long walk over to California Adventure. Everyone else stayed behind to see the Disney Princesses. They had to wait 2 hours to see them but the girls said it was all worth it.

Cameron and Alex found Pluto.

Kate, Megan and Alex found Sulley then. They were doing a good job finding all of the characters today.

After a long day of rides and warm weather we decided to find a spot and wait for the light parade. We needed to have an ice cream break while we waited though. Everyone had smiles on their faces after that.

They waited all day to get to have ice cream.

We ended the day at the light parade and then we went to a few shops by the trolley and we headed back to the car. We got back to Stefanie's house around 1:00 am and went to bed. I think all of our feet were hurting by then and it was nice to know that we weren't getting up at the crack of dawn today. We sure did enjoy the last three days.