Favorite Foto Friday

We went to a water park in CA this summer with the Lloyd Family. I never posted any pictures so here are just some of the fun moments captured on film. We had a blast, can't wait to go next summer!! Mikayla was unstoppable, our little 3 year old was going on all the slides they would let her go on, she had no fear! She can already swim so I did not worry too much, she is definitely the "fish" in the family!! This first pic is of Mikayla on one of the bigger water slides in the park, she was almost too small for the raft!

Here is Brendan, Haley, Madison and Mikayla, Haley is trying to catch the water on her tongue!

Brett and I absolutely loved going down the slides as well, it was fun to act like kids again!!

These last couple of pictures are of Mommy, Daddy and Haley, the picture of the slide is a little blurry but we all agreed it was our favorite slide! We called it the toilet bowl because the slide spit you out into a great bowl like thing and then funneled you into a pool. My stomach dropped every time but I loved it. Brett loved it too but did not like carrying that huge raft up 4 flights of stairs (quite a workout) so we did not go on it as much as we would have liked! Mikayla was too little to go on this one, she was very upset she could not join us, next year!

UNLV Football

Ok, so I don't know if it is a known thing or not but Nevada does not have any professional sports teams due to gambling and betting being legal in the state. I just recently learned this so I don't know the particulars all I know is we do not have a local pro team to root for but we do have college ball and that is really big here. Being that UNLV is the major school here in the Valley most everyone is a fan and boy does it show!! Brett planned this family night and we decided to give a game a try and see how all three kids do, what a blast!! We were full of school spirit wearing Red and white, the girls loved wearing the jersey tops and red and white beads!! Brayden along with the two girls stayed awake and alert the entire game. They cheered their little hearts out! It was a good game to, going into overtime with UNLV ultimately winning by a touchdown! Mikayla liked watching the mascot run around, she called him Cinderella boy because he reminded her of the King in Cinderella. I still do not know exactly what the mascot is, I know that sounds silly but we could not figure it out. Neither Brett nor I attended UNLV, I will have to look that one up!
Here are two sports fans for you!

A young UNLV fan!

At the end of the night, everyone was tired. Mikayla and Brayden were practically out the second their head hit the car seat. Haley on the other hand refused to give into sleep and turned into a zombie!

Family Night Out

Tonight Haley's school had a fund raising event at Chuck E. Cheese. As neglectful as I feel I have been lately, reading that Twilight series my sister got me started on, I decided to take everyone and have a fun "family night out". Brett was working and not able to be their, we missed him, however; I'm pretty sure he did not miss CEC!

Yummy, pizza for dinner, it beats Thursday's leftovers at home even if it is CEC pizza!!

Haley was the first to get in and drive with Chuck E. Cheese!

Brayden did not like the experience at all. He would not step foot next to that car the rest of the night!!

Mikayla drove with Chuck quite a few times. She loved getting the picture of herself, this is her posing for the camera that takes the picture of the driver with Chuck E. Cheese. We left with 5 pics of Mikayla alone!!

At the end Chuck E Cheese came out and danced with all the kids. This is Haley and Mikayla doing the Hokey Pokey!! He threw out a whole bunch of tickets but Mikayla and Haley walked away with only a handful, all the "big" kids trampled everyone in their way to get all the tickets they could. This made Mikayla very upset and it took her a little while to recover and enjoy the rest of the evening! What a fun night!

Bunny Goes To School

Mikayla is really settling into her new "school" routine. Her favorite part of preschool is Thursdays when the class has show and tell. Every week a new letter is introduced and the children are encouraged to bring something to show and tell that starts with the letter they learned that week, this week it was "B" and Mikayla brought "Bunny" to school with her! Mikayla loves Bunny, she was so excited to bring her to class with her, Bunny even got to ride in a car seat (after we dropped Haley off at school), and Bunny did not have to go into the usual bucket of show and tell goodies, bunny got to sit in one of the chairs I was told!! We love Bunny and we love ABC School!

Favorite Foto Friday

This FFF is a tribute to Mikayla, she had her first day of Preschool Tuesday.Here she is not even one month old yet!
Boy, has she lived up to this description, she is still very much so our little (not baby any more) diva!

Mikayla one year old! Where has time gone, it feels like this was just yesterday!

Ready, Set, Learn...It's My Turn!

Finally, Mikayla's day has arrived. She went to ABC Preschool today. She is in the same 3 year old class that Sydney, Haley and Cara were in when they were 3! I think she was a little nervous, last night she mentioned to me that she thought 20 children in one class was too much, I asked her how many kids she thought should be in her class and she said 3! This morning waiting in line to sign her in she was not too talkative and did not want to socialize with any of the other "students". She stayed right by mommy and daddy and Brayden too!

Here are two of her three teachers, the one holding the clip board is new and I can not remember her name, but the other is Ms. Terry, we know her from previous years. When I picked her up 2 hours later she was full of energy and said she liked school and wanted to go back. She also made a new friend named Abby. I heard from the teachers that their are only 5 girls in the class and 15 boys. Ms. Terry said all the girls stuck together, girl power!! We went to McDonalds for a special 1st day of school lunch with Cara and Aunt Tammy, it was packed, we weren't the only ones with that "bright" idea!




At the end of the day she was worn out and even had a blister on her foot. What hard work preschool is! And, still she managed to not nap, she was tired and laid down to watch her Barbie movie but did not fall asleep. She did however fall asleep early tonight at around 6 pm! Sweet dreams my preschooler!