August 31, 2012

back to the beach for one last time before school starts up.

last night, when i told dashiell that we'd be going to the beach for one last time, he was a bit sad.

he asked, "but will we be able to go again next summer?"

when i told him yes, of course, we can go back every summer if he wanted to...

he let out a "yippee!"

 look what dashiell wrote in the sand for me:

 then of course brennan had to do it too.
but dashiell didn't mind =)

we took a bike ride over to loma park (next to kennedy es) with the boys.

then they played hide and seek for a few rounds.

still working on making sure that they boys ride on the far right hand side of the road and not on the middle yellow line (which is what dashiell wants to do!)

August 30, 2012

(blogger wouldn't work yesterday...so I'll try this again later...there are legoland water pics on my other computer to upload)


after returning from legoland, derek took care of the boys while mom and i headed out to dinner - just the two of us.
we ate at friday's (we walked there) and sat at the bar because they had 1/2 off appetizers and drink specials.  =p
i wanted to eat a burger specifically, so it still worked because we got some cheeseburger sliders, along with mozzarella sticks, chicken wings, and spinach dip!
we watched about half of the ucla season opener on tv, too!

 look what dashiell wrote for me, with multiple smileys!  =)

 i guess he took a screen shot of it, too.

August 29, 2012

spent just a few hours at the beach today, in between cleaning my classroom and working at KEY.

the kids were good, for the most part =)

there were hardly any people there, which made it nice and quiet.

 we took a break to eat some spam-wiches and watermelon/cheeze-its

 towards the end of our stay, the boys were playing quite well together!
a great way to spend the afternoon =)
*sigh* back to school next week!*

August 28, 2012

so i totally forgot to take any pictures...
jared and tyler nam were on matt's football team last year (they aren't playing anymore)
but their mom, leila, and i have become friends.
they also have an older brother, bobby, who will be an 11th grader at chs...

August 27, 2012

met up with my high school classmate, yvette and her 2 kids this evening

we took a walk to target to get some icees, which seemed like a good idea, until none of my kids ended up wanting to eat theirs =/

 back at her parent's house...

 brenny trying to pet their dog, a shiba inu

August 26, 2012

finally made my way back to my classroom to put things back in place.  worked on it for about 2+ hours, and only got the rear of the room finished.  help!

and take a look at these new building identifiers.  this one is on the south wall of my room.  

they are all over the school.  

it makes me think i am watching the show FRINGE.

went to watch the bourne movie with derek, and look who i found in our bed ;-)

August 25, 2012

August 24, 2012

last few rounds of uno with grandpa before going through security

(where we saw jake, dashiell's classmate from wittmann in line!  they were in polson for the last month visiting grandparents!)

cypress pop warner pep rally
midget team

August 23, 2012

last full day of our vacay in MT...

after lunch and naps, we headed to splash montana (mountain, as brenny calls it)

 the day was pretty warm, but there was a breeze, which made it a bit cool when you weren't immersed in the water

 unfortunately the waterslides and the lazy river were CLOSED!
odd, since school lets back in next week, and there were lots of kids around =/

 dashiell jumped unexpectedly!
oops.  beheaded!

 after the water park, we headed over to pizza hut for some yummy pizza
the kids ate lots of cheese sticks AND 2 pieces of cheese pizza each!

 then we headed over to u-swirl yogurt, which was quite yummy.
apparently their motto is 'worth the weight'
which at first sounded weird to me...umm, you want me to weigh a lot by eating your yogurt?!
nah...it's basically self-serve and you pay by the weight of whatever you put in your bowl.  you can load it up with whatever kinds of toppings you want.
so of course, dashiell had chocolate yogurt with all sorts of chocolate toppings:

 brennan chose white (vanilla) yogurt with brownie bites, m&ms, and rainbow sprinkles:

 then after skype-ing with gramma and zoe, grandpa and the boys took a few rounds with the bikes (while i watched)