Fish!

At Fish Lake, we fish!
We usually catch a lot of little perch but this time we didnt do as good as we normally do.
After getting some popcorn, we found our spot and stayed there for a few hours!
The girls love to fish and throw the fish back so they had alot of fun!!

They love the worms more than they love the fish i think!

Grace didnt catch as many as the twins, but she also cast her pole out too!!

I kept telling Kyle to smile at me, but i had my camera on a slow shutter speed cause it was dark, so I kept missing his real smile.
But I did get this gem!!

Cousins!!

Sunday morning we woke up and decided to try Coronado beach, Jerrica said it was there favorite beach. The closer we got, the thicker the fog got, it was cold! But we still walked around to get a few sea shells! It really was a beautiful beach, I think me and Kyle will be vacationing there, CHILDLESS!)

We went to Jerricas house after, to start saying our goodbyes......
I decided that since all the kids were together we needed a picture! Owen was being my model so I could get the light looking good, he smiled and cheesed it up for me big time!!

I got a few really cute ones of the boys together!!

Tay was making out with a whale!!

We were having fun on the tire swing, Me and Jakell got on there and Jerrica pushed us!!

Trueitt just being cute!

For 9 kids under 7 I think this looks pretty dang good! All but Taygen is smiling, but she doesnt smile in pictures!

I had such a great time on out little vacation, I miss my sister and the kids so much, seeing them and spending time with them kinda made me miss them even more.

The Zoo

When all 3 of us sisters decided that we were going to go to see Jerrica and the family for the boys birthday, we thought it would be fun to take all the kids to the zoo!!

It just so happened that the day we were there was the hottest day of the year!!

My little family got there right when it opened, we walked around for a while before everyone else got there!

Not to long after we had got there everyone else showed up!

We seen just about every animal that lives at the zoo, the kids were way into it at first. But as the day went on and it got hotter, and we all got hungrier, all of us were ready to go!

I think that we all agreed that the polar bears were probably the best, they were playing in the water and really cool to watch!

All 9 kids were so great, and so fun! I would have got a picture of us girls, but we had wiped all of our makeup off cause we all sweat like big Italian women!
We had 3 strollers and a wagon, 9 kids and 8 adults, it was a train!!

After the zoo we decided to all go down to "old town" to have dinner at one of Joey and Jerricas favorite Mexican places!

After driving and driving to find a parking spot, Jerrica and Joey finally called us and told us they had found us a place!
I think that one day I am going to get rich and invest in a parking lot somewhere down in "Old Town" and then charge like $20 a hour to park there!!!

Me and Kyle have to oldest kids, the rest of the kids are 4 and under, so we decided to stay and look at a few of the cool little stores that are there while the rest of the gang went back to Jerricas!

My favorite shop we went in had a ton of tea pots and loose leaf tea! I made the kids and Kyle leave so I could smell it and look with out worrying about one of them breaking something, I have a hard enough time not breaking something myself!

After looking at the shops we made our way back to our hotel room, we stayed at the Lafayette in a suit with a king bed and then bunk beds in the next room. It was a beautiful hotel, if you ever get the chance to stay there, do it!

We tried to swim, but I forgot the life jackets and it was a really deep pool. Plus we were all so TIRED!!

It was such a fun day to be with all the kids, I miss them all so much!

I think we all slept really good that night, my girls didnt move!!!

Mission Beach

After we checked into our hotel room, we decided to hit the beach! I really dont care for the beach unless they are white sands, it is way hot, the water is hot, not crowded and have a nice cool drink in my hand, (not that I have ever been to a beach like that, but I figure that is the only way I would enjoy the beach!)!!

But Kyle and the girls enjoyed jumping waves, running, getting salty and sandy, and finding sea shells! 

I took pictures and people watched, the things I really do enjoy about the beach!

Alaynna got sick of the cold water and came and people watched with me for awhile, Addison, Grace and Kyle were being crazy! 

We walked into a few little shops then ate some pizza on the boardwalk for dinner, the girls had alot of fun!! 

Owen and Hudson turn 1!!

The boys turned one year old the last part of June!
I really wanted to be there to help celebrate making it threw this last year, Jakell and my mom also made the trip down! 

Owen had got sick 2 day before the big day and so we were kinda sad he wouldnt be there but I just figured we would party at the hospital with him! 

We woke up and left the house by 4:45 AM, thinking that the girls would sleep for at least a few hours, but they stayed awake the whole trip and we only had to make one pee stop! It was a really good ride down!

After 6 hours in the car we made it! We went in and I started hugging all the kids and everyone, and then in the corner with my mom, there was little man Owen!!!
They broke him out of the hospital!!
I loved on him till Jakell took him away, but with 9 little kids running around I found another kid to love on!

We hung out, talked, watch kids run, and ate lunch!

Jerrica made cute little cakes that matched her circus theme!

Hudson bent down and touched the candle, it scared him so he cried till we sang happy birthday!

Owen really liked listening to our singing, me and Jerrica have beautiful voices when we harmonize!

Owen wasnt to into the cake, he doesnt like to be dirty!!

Hudson on the other hand doesnt mind the dirtiness at all!!!