"It hot!"

I guess I am going to take a break today from California chronicles, due to the fact I have soooo many pictures to add to each blog and my wonderful aunt mailed my package out a few days ago and should be here soon. Our air conditioner is still not working and all the silly technicality's are ridiculous but hopefully tomorrow or Friday it will be fix in the mean time my lil guy keeps getting naked and telling me "it hot!" So here is Cooper watching Ghoustbusters and dancing in the nude...............

Califonia, Cousin, and Constant shopping

While I write this post we are currently sitting in a 91 degree house with no air conditioner and the prospect of a new one is looking bleak (thank you home warranty company.) But while I am sweating my hinny off and the kids are napping I figure I would continue on my vacation chronicles!

June 22 and 23, 2010

Have I mentioned how beautiful Sonoma County California is? The greenest part of the country that I have ever seen. Hills and mountains represent all forms of the scenery. The constant cool bay breeze is heavenly! Our first full day in California was pleasant, my second cousin's came to play and kept the kids busy. We enjoyed pizza on my Aunts new cemented back yard covered in beautiful umbrellas and nice seating area's as we ate our pizza and then played domino's for a couple hours. It was a wonderfully calm day. The next morning we awoke to huge breakfast graciously cooked my my Aunts, off to my chiropractors appt and then we came home picked up the kiddos and my cousins and head off to the outlet mall which began our shopping extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way I took tons of pictures but unfortunately I filled my entire memory card and put it on a CD while I was there so I could have a clean memory card to take pictures in San Fransisco. My Aunt is mailing me the CD should be here at the end of the week so I can actually post some corresponding pictures with each blog!

Airplanes

Day1~

June 21 2010, I flew to California with my two children......... ominous music is playing, don't you hear it???

We had a a 1:30 flight out of Midland and a layover in Las Vegas with about an hour delay and we had to change plans and then we would fly directly to Oakland. Let just say everything didn't pan out so perfectly. Although we made it to the Midland airport with plenty of time to check in potty, kiss daddy goodbye and buy the kids some juice and watch the planes fly by. We were lucky to have the early bird check in with an A boarding pass we were like fifth in line made it on the plan fairly easy found a seat close to the front for the three of us. Buckled the kids in, no one screaming. All aboard, Allison and I chewing gum Cooper seating back with a sippy cup in hand and a pacifier in his mouth. The plan lights dim and we start moving Cooper moves around gets up crawls in my lap sits down and lays back on me, we take off and to my surprise my wild little guy is peacefully sleeping on me. Allison is holding on to her lamb and I tell her to grab her bag and pull her coloring book out and colors mommy was going to close her eyes with Cooper. We sleep almost the entire flight to Vegas and wake up the last 15 minutes of the flight PERFECT!!!! We gather our things and leave the airplane make our way to the monitor to check on our next flight and we are delayed and hour and a half, boo!!!! Lets just say the terminal is horribly busy and no seats left at our gate double boo. I have one active little guy who woke up from a nap and wants to RUN!!! I get us a seat at a table across from our gate, and pull out the DVD player hoping Cooper will watch, lets just say mommy played the catch your kid before he runs in the busy hall way of a million people game over and over again. Then we played the game I am hungry for food that's on the other side of the airport and I have to hold my naughty 23 month old and my daughters hand with our carry on luggage and then walk all the way back with food. The longest 2 and half hours of my life. Fast forward to waiting in the line to get on board for 45 minutes with Cooper in my arms wiggling to get out and kicking, fun fun fun! Finally where on borard and 30 minutes of passengers have seated and where taking off and the naughty boy falls asleep again, HEAVEN!!!!!! We made it to our destination and I couldn't have been happier the worst part was over, we would thankfully have daddy for the flight back, YAY!!!!!

Fathers Day~ 2010

Three weeks ago exactly it was Fathers Day!!! I was unable to post due to our impending vacation and also because we were visiting my father in law and my step father. So I would like to dedicate this to my wonderful husband and I'll begin. Weeks before Fathers Day Richard had hinted he wanted a new phone which was important because his new job will be taking him out of town and a phone would be necessary. So I told Richard to do some research and pick out a phone, of course I gave him a budget to stay under. It didn't take him to long he busily searched the computer found the one he wanted and ordered it. So for this particular Fathers Day I woke up early with Allison. I ironed his church clothes (which I only do twice a year on his bday and fathers day only if those days fall on a Sunday) and we made Richard cinnamon rolls and had hidden a mountain dew (one of his favorite drinks) for him to drink. Made the final touches on his card and woke Cooper up to participate to wake up daddy!!! Then we got ready for Church and day field with family.

I have to say that I am one lucky girl, my husband is one amazing father to our children. I'll never forget when our daughter was born and I was just plum exhausted from the delivery Richard immediately cared for our daughters needs; changing her, hold her, talking to her. He is the type of father up in the middle of the night when our newborns would cried or fuss. He has never missed a well or sick doctors visit. He has attending every soccer game, school program nothing interferes when it concerns to his children. With my back and neck injury I didn't think Richard could step it up anymore than he already had but he blew me away with caring for Cooper and fulling both the children's needs beyond my expectations. Hope your Fathers Day was everything you wanted it to be, love you Richard!

Exhausted

I am BACK!!! We have been in Sunny California for the past 3 weeks. What a blast we had. So I have decided to recap my entire trip for you over the next few days starting with where I left off Fathers Day. So be sure to check in on a day by day recap of our California trip field with wonderful stories of days full of mommy melt downs, shopping trips, in and out burger visits, poison control call, Dr visits, a peeing horse, sand sand and more sand and many wonderful memories that were made. In the mean time did I mention I am exhausted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Richard and Richard Jr

On Thursday night Allison had her first indoor soccer game. Lets just say is was a raving success!!! Our girls the "Bumblebees" won 22-0, that's right a total shut out or as the girls Coach called the game "total domination!" To bad we are going to miss two games while we are away in California. Allison scored two goals and nearly three more, but since we are playing indoor are girls have to get use to a.......... goalie! Which made for a very interesting game, I am sure we would have scored at least ten more goals. While we were at the game the funniest thing happened a mother from the other team heard a girl calling for her mom and she looked out I guess trying to pick the right parent came to me and said your daughters calling for you so I walked to the back and saw wait for it......... not my daughter a white child with glasses? I laughed told the women that the child was not mine she replied "OH!" Which is your daughter, I laugh number 18, I receive another "OH!" and think yes the Hispanic girl with black hair that is the spitting image of her father that's my daughter! So I thought I would share a picture of the two identical twins!

A day with Daddy

What a Thursday we had!!!! Since our California trip is only days away I have been ever so busy trying to complete last minute task. And my wonderful children have been along for the ride! Today while I was out my darling husband watched Cooper while I took Allison on an errand. Richard was working on a chore that I had ask him to do "clean the bathroom" while Richard watched Cooper messing in the cabinet underneath his legs and thought nothing of it until he left the bathroom. So Richard followed Cooper into the hall where Cooper electrocuted him self trying to plug in my straightener! I am told Cooper had a shocked look on his face with a whimper then a full on burst out of tears! Shorty after we had a package delivered while Richard signed for it Cooper decided to get a snack so he continued on with this idea and pushed a chair to the counter across the kitchen pulled a knife out of the holder and climbed down opened the pantry (breaking the baby safety contraption holding it shut) and pulled out his Nilla Wafers and proceeded to cut open the package........... Lets just say this all happened not on my watch! Lets see Cooper was maybe a three months old in this picture, notice his shirt says Perfect~just like my daddy!