The Black Eyed Peas

March 31st the girls got to go to their first concert. They were excited to go and the moms were even more excited. We went to see the Black Eyed Peas. I think my mom said that my first concert was The Osmonds-just a little bit of a difference. The concert was great. The BEP gave an amazing show.

The moms...

The girls...

The show....

The broken ankle

Broken Bones :-(

Well, really just one broken bone. Steve fractured his ankle playing softball and then continued to walk on it for a few days-ouch! All is better now after a surgery putting in a plate and 6 or 7 screws. The funny part was that it happened before our annual flag football game. We had some people believing that it happened at practice!

Here are Bob and Steve screwing around at the flag football game-such the comedians!

Maggie's Basketball Season

I figure if I do a post every day or two I might be able to catch up on everything we've been doing since January. Maggie played basketball for the first time since kindergarten. She had a fun season. She played with Taylor, our neighbor, and another friend, Sierra.

Here are Taylor and Maggie warming up.


I'm sure it went in...



Maggie out on the floor hustling.

Showing off her awesome ball-handling skills.

Christine and TJ, Tay's brother, very into the basketball game.

Some game action.

Sierra, Mrs. Larson, their 4th grade teacher, Taylor and Maggie. The girls were so excited that she stopped in for one of their games!

Summer!

School is out for the summer! Well....at least for seven weeks. Right now the end of July seems so far off, but it will get here before we know it. Our June is packed fulled of camps, swim meets and summer school. July will hopefully be a little more relaxing.

The last day of school, Maggie helping bring down the flags.


I think they fold them up properly once they get inside...


The new 5th graders lining up for the 6th grade "Clap Out".


Maggie and her awesome 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Larson.


Andrew and Steele.


Christine and Alexa done with their first year of Junior High!

Morning Hike

Went for a hike this morning with two friends who will soon be moving away from the desert. The saguaros are blooming now. See the flowers on the top?

Something else to check out

I know it's been forever since I've posted something. I swear that will happen in the next week or two! If you check out the website from the last post, there are now some pictures of the basketball championship also. Christine's 7th grade team won the championship for their conference!

Check this out!

I recently sent some pictures that I took to one of Christine's friends. Her dad contacted someone at the school and now a few of them are on the homepage of the junior high. Check them out here. You might have to wait a few seconds for them to come up. There are three in total.

Life

We have had an interesting start to 2010. Steve had a displaced fracture, which the doctor fixed with 8 screws in his ankle-should be an interesting few weeks of recovery around here. Andrew is going to be on a soccer team that practices way far away and one of mom's name is Buffy-I'll have to let you know about that after I meet her. Maggie, after having the same soccer coach since we moved out here, got switched this season. Christine made the junior high basketball team-yay! I'm just trying to keep everyone schedules straight!

Disneyland

We quickly learned the key to being at "The Happiest Place on Earth" at the busiest time of the year was this Nintendo DS. We were there on New Year's Eve. Waiting in line was not a big deal when we had this to keep Andrew busy. Christine and Maggie even played it. This I think was waiting in line for "Pirates of the Caribbean".


The Small World at Disneyland starts and ends outside. This is the clock outside the ride. We happened to be there right at noon.





There are some cool murals on the way into the Buzz Lightyear ride.





Andrew and Christine rode together.





Steve and Maggie rode together. I rode by myself. You can fit 3 people in those cars, but you don't want to. There are only two guns and you are supposed to be shooting at things the whole ride.



We happened to run into the Queen. She was definitely not nice. I thought she might make Maggie cry. This picture is deceiving. When she was signing their autograph books Maggie was not smiling.

Andrew thought it was so funny that Woody used Christine's head to sign his autograph!

The kids with Woody and Jessie.

All of us with Pluto after dinner.

Andrew was too tired to walk.

Christine's all-time favorite ride.

Just after midnight away from the craziness on Main Street.

We went back into the park on the 2nd. Cruella was by the entrance when we walked in.

Walking down Main Street.
The castle still decorated for Christmas.

We went into Disneyland on the 2nd to ride Indian Jones and then we headed over to California Adventure. We saw Sully shortly after we got there.

Andrew didn't want to get in with the Incredibles!

All of us with Mickey, after riding the Tower of Terror for the first time!

The Aladdin show at California Adventure is definitely worth waiting in line for...

Maggie got picked during the High School Musical Show to dance with the cast. She did great!

The girls with Cinderella.

Our second time on Tower of Terror, Christine decided to pose for the camera...such a ham! I could only get one of my hands to let go. The little boy behind Steve and Andrew were talking the whole time before we got on the ride. They were so funny talking about not being afraid.

The ferris wheel in California Adventure.

The kids were beat on our last day in the park. It was open until midnight but we took the 8 0'clock shuttle back to the hotel and had a late dinner. The girls got in the hot tub and Andrew got in his pjs. We had a great time!