Family BBQ

This Sunday we had a really nice BBQ with the family at Loyalty Park in Sumner. Love this park, it is just a few blocks from our house and has lots to do for the the little as well as not so litttle kids. The cast of characters included, Jess, her husband Chris and thier kids, My mom, Ron, Breanne, Mike and me, Rons sister Janie, her GF, Carmen, Harry, Ron's mom, Arriana, Liz and Curt. Everyone brought a fabolous dish to share and we grilled burgers and dogs. It was delish!

Mom, Carol, Breanne and Mike.  Waiting for the rest of the family to arrive.

Alexa and Madison.

Sissy on the bars.Liz and Curt.  Breanne, Sissy, Janie and Carmen...Grubbin!Ron and his mom. 

We had tons of fun eating, talking and playing games.  We played Badmiton, Track ball, Volley ball, and Horesshoes.  I was so sore by the end of the night I could barely walk....yup sad but true! 

"Pixar has done it again..."

Mom, Breanne, Mike and I went to see Toy Story 3 today and we all really enjoyed it very much.  The animation (3D) was amazing, they just keep getting better and better.  The story mixes comedy, drama and action.  Several moments when it had me laughing out loud! This movie was as amazing as I expected it would be and had both me and my mom crying in end! 

June 25th, 2010

Today was supposed to be a warm day.  Clouds in the morning then turning to sunshine.  Well!  Where's the sunshine!  I am still waiting! 

Work was good today was month end so was really busy the whole day.  Makes the day pass quickly and  that is always a good thing.  Looking forward to seeing Toy story 3 with the family tommorow. In 3D baby!

My friend, Tammy

One of Jessica's blog ideas was to "give a shout out" . So I am given props to my oldest friend....and I don't mean age here!  I have know Tammy longer then anyone of my friends and while our busy lives and many miles have kept us apart she is always in my heart and on my mind.  Love ya babe!

These are Original Doodles by Tammy! Could be worth millions some day.  By the way if I ever get a TAT it is going to be this little girly saweeet!!

Dog Wash

Since today was a beautiful day I decided to wash the dogs.  Niether of which is a big fan of water. 

 

Soaping up Ebony.

Brutus thinks he is safe...little does he know that he will be next.

Cleaning the undercarraige.

Rinse!

Not at fan...she really does not like water much.

All clean.

Now it is Brutus's turn. 

All clean.

Happy dog! Loves when it is all over.

The eyes have it.

Today was eye day for all of us except Breanne.  She did not want to try the new eye place here in town and decided instead to go back to Pearle.  Or at least she is supposed to but I will bet the within a few weeks times she will come to me saying "Mommy...would you make me an eye appointment at your eye place" Mark my words! 

So Ron, Mike and then me all met with Dr Laura Toepfer at Sumner family eye care today.  We really liked her and thought she was very thorough, nice and helpful.  New prescriptions all around.  Ron really needed new glasses with distance and reading as he has officially reached the old man can't read crap stage of his life.  Mike's prescription actually improved!  And mine was tweaked ever so slightly.  Becasue I have Diabetes though they HAVE to dilate my eyes to check them and man did that suck.  From about 4-7:30 I was so blind.  Now things are slightly more in focus but still not back to normal.  Both Ron and I are getting regular bi-focal lenses.  My old lenses were progressive bi-focals and I did not like then at all.  I just could not adjust to the 3 different vision fields.  So YAY! Old people glasses....guess that means we are officially in the old people club now! Ugh!

9/21 Our last day at WDW and our adventure home.

So here we are on the last day of our Walt Disney World adventure.  We want to get an early start as we will only have a few hours to visit parks before heading to the airport.  We decide today will be Animal Kingdom as we did not get to spend much time there and Mom want to get a Dinasour for Jack.

Got some pics outta the way.  The picture with baby Simba is one that Breanne had been waiting for.  It was on her must have list.  This was to be a very quick visit.  We headed straight to the Dinosaur ride so mom and I could hit the gift shop.  Ron, Breanne and Mike went on the ride while we shopped.  We listened to this really good african group of musicians and then our time was up... :(

We hoped the bus back to our resort to wait for the Magic Express to take us to the airport.

On the bus  ride to the airport the skies open up and it begins to rain like crazy.  We are also treated to thunder and lightning.  We arrive safetly at the airport only to hear that all of the flight to Atlanta are delayed due to weather.  UGH!  Sonow we have to decise if we want to just stay the night in Orlando or hang out at the airport hoping to get on a flight.  We ultimatley decide it is better to get to Atlanta when there is a break in the weather and stay the night there.  So after a 4 hour delay we are on the plane to Atlanta.  The flight was uneventful and soon we are looking through the airport hotel directory trying to decide where to go for the night.  We choose a random hotel and go outside to wait for the shuttle.  As it turns out the place that I so wisely selected is not only in the "hood" of Atlanta it is undergoing construction!  I am not being a snob either the hotel staff told us.."Do not go out at night, this is a really bad neighborhood"!  NICE!  So we ate dinner at the onsite restaraunt, got our compimentary overnight pack....yes you see ALL of our luggage was in route to Seattle, and went to bed.  The next day after our continental breakfast we crammed into the hotels shuttle van like sardines and headed back to the airport.  This time we boarded our flight with no delays and were on our way home.

This was our cozy Atlanta hotel room. 

So our trip comes to and end.  We had some highs and some really low lows. But just like the pain of childbirth the bad times seems to be fading in my memory and the good times I hope will  be the memories that are long lasting!

A Father remembered. Happy Fathers Day Dad.

My dad and mom on there Honeymoon.  Weren't they the shit!

Dad Washing his car at our house on Kraft Ave. North Hollywood CA.

Easter Eddie, Dad and Me.

Me and my dad. Think I was 9 in this picture.

Dads 50th birthday party. 

Dad with his Father, Art and his mom Esther.

Chilin with our kitty scout.  He was a big softy at heart.

My wedding day 9-3-2000.

I love you dad and I miss you. 

9/20 Day 8 part 2 Magic Kingdom

Back at the Magic Kingdom we found a Photopass photographer and got some pictures in. 

We looked around some of the shops on main street and toured the Town Square Exposition Hall.  This is mini-museum, which includes a display that pays homage to the early days of the motion picture industry. There are also large cut-outs of movie scenes that you can pose with for cute photo ops! Which of course my kids did!  Ron took advantage of the Air conditioned theatre that was playing cartoons and decided to sit down and put his feet up.

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After playing around in the expo hall we headed out to Main Street. Just in time to meet this guy!

We listened to this very funny marching band stopped for root beer floats and after much grumbling decided it was just too hot to stay at the MK any longer.  Back to POP for a dip in the pool.  We had no plans for dinner so I called the dining reservation line to see what was available at DTD.  Luck would have it we could get into Planet Hollywood.  Off we went to the bus and over to DTD.

Dinner at planet hollywood was delicious.  I think I got ribs! Brea got this amazing BBQ pulled pork sandwich, Mike got ...a Cheeseburger but I can't remember what mom and Ron had.  For desert we had Key lime Pie, Strawberry Cheesecake and the kids split the HUGE brownie sundae.  They though they would not be able to eat ANY of it but nearly polished it off it was soo good.

After that great meal we enjoyed a very nice walk through DTD listened to some of the live music, did some shopping and took a few pictures on the way back to the bus.

Love this lego family even better with my own thrown in the mix!