Mackie's Royal Party

A little late on posting this one but we had McKayla's 4th birthday a couple of weeks back and of course she wanted to have a Royal Disney Princess Party. She had a couple of friends from school that were able to make it and Papa was able to attend this year for the celebration. Here are some pics from the day. WOW 4 years old. How that time flies. Sniff Sniff

Our precious flower girl!

I figured I should post something since it has been a while~ and what better to post about then Justin and Amy's wedding since right now Brandon has gone to LAX to go get them from the airport as they have just flown back from thier honeymoon in Hawaii~ Oh yeah and also since there was just a 3.0 earthquake here which has me a little shaken up especially since I am home alone with Mackie. So hopefully this will settle my mind a bit.

So as many of you know Brandon and McKayla were in Justin and Amy's wedding 2 weeks ago. Well finally the pictures are up~ Since I didn't get to take any with the big camera and we left the little digital camera at home we all had to just wait for the photographer to do his thing. Now I know the feeling of many of our clients at work when they are anxious to see their photos. The website to view the pictures is

www.pictage.com

The will have you sign in but if you want to just use my username and password to view them that will be fine otherwise they will send you e-mails ALL the time about different promotions~ Trust me they bug!

username: anthea_99@hotmail.com
password: McKayla

Also, if you log in to my account it will take you right to Justin and Amy's wedding. Well it should anyways.

It was such a beautiful wedding! We had tons of fun and of course McKayla danced her little heart out. She was a big hit on the dance floor and certainly didn't want to dance or be seen with mommy and daddy. They just grow up so fast don't they.

Well I hope you all enjoy the pictures and will post again soon.

Love and miss you all.

Anthea

La Jolla Seabass BIG ONE

Well, yesterday was a great day. I went out of San Diego as a media person with some guys I know from Pure Fishing, which is a huge company in the sportfishing industry. I ended up getting probably my biggest fish I have ever caught – a 62-lb. white seabass.. I did a write up at this link here:

www.fishrapnews.com/news/newsArticles.aspx?x=5297

Here are some pics:

DisneyLand

Not much to say here but that we have hopefully started a new tradition of going to Disneyland on Christmas Eve or as close to it as we can get. It all started when the Crose-Dwiggins family came out to spend Christmas with us in 2006 and we planned to go to DL on Xmas eve. We had never been during that time so I think we were all excited to see the decor and different parades and fireworks and snowfall they put on for that time of year. Little did I know I would fall in love with the place at Christmas time and want to go back every year to see it. Hopefully everyone can come experience the magic of DL during the holiday season with us some year. There is nothing like it. Here are the pics from 2007's trip.

Christmas with the mouse

We're here!

Mackie and Daddy on the Jungle Cruise (a must ride in this family)

Mommy and Mackie on Pirates of the Carribean! (another must)

The haunted mansion (decked out as the nightmare before Christmas~ Totally Awesome)

It's Geppetto!

The Castle
Pocohantas!

Snow White!

Mackie and Sleeping Beauty~ Thank Goodness we got to see her~ We stood in line for an hour and a half and she was the only one Mackie really wanted to see. Someone was on our side that day!

It's a small world ~ Really cool during the holidays

Daddy and Mackie~ It's a small world! I don't know why she has that face but it makes me smile everytime I see it.

Us~ trying to take a shot of ourselves~ Not too bad

The snow that was supposed to fall~ too windy so it never acutally made it down.

Brandon and I with our snowless non existing fireworks! Thank goodness Mackie was out at this point.

The Castle so beautiful at night.

Main Street with all the lights and the huge Christmas tree at the end! Aww! How I want to go back already!

Still Trying to Catch Up

Of course I have been slacking already. I've been meaning to post our December activities and still haven't got to it. So I am going t try and double up till I get caught up. :)

First off is McKayla's Christmas recital. I am not sure if we told you about last years recital. McKayla would practice ALL the time at home and when it came down to the big day spent she spent the whole night crying in the teacher's lap. We felt so bad and wanted to get her but the teacher's kept giving us the look like "it's alright"~ She was the ONLY one crying and it lasted the ENTIRE night.

So this year rolls around and here she is practicing at home all the time and knows all the songs by heart. Brandon and I were a little afraid she was going to get stage fright again but she did great and sang her little heart out. We were so proud!

Aww! Mackie!

Our sweet "Angel"

Singing her little heart out!

Time to Update

So it's been a while and it was brought to my attention by my sister Sonia that the blog hasn't been updated in a while. (*blushing*) sorry about that! There are so many things I need to put on here so I am going to try and cram them all into a couple of posts.

First off I wanted to just mention that as I am writing this our little brother Fisher is in the operating room- we got a call a little bit ago from Bleu saying the first part of this three part surgery was completed and that he is doing great~ breathing just fine- I wanted to give the link to Bleu and Alison's blog on Fisher's forehead~ They have been updating it often so everyone can keep up with his progress. We know he is in the best of hands and will be back to his little self in no time.

http://fishersforehead.blogspot.com/

Here is the first of many activities we did during December!

Brandon's dad is part of this organization called the Rooster's~ they do alot of fundraising activities for different charities around Orange County. Every december they do a food drive that the family gets together and helps out at. Its a lot of boxes to be filled but tons of people there to help and keeping busy makes the time go by really fast. McKayla loves to help but it gets hard finding jobs that she can do and that entertain her at the same time. Well here are some pics from that morning.



Here is a pic of the usual group that goes every year. Nicole helped out last year and Nate joined us this year (He showed up a little bit after this pic)



There's Brandon! He helped out by breaking down all the boxes and cleaning up in the back area.



Mommy and McKayla~ We helped out with organizing the ramen noodles area and the McKayla had a blast opening the small boxes of fruit bars and dumping the whole box into a bigger box. She was great at that.



McKayla got bored with that job and with Nana's help took a box down the conveyor belt to get it filled with all the goodies.

Now to find the pictures for the next posting~ I'll get caught up soon...I Promise