Easter 2013

They had so much fun running around the backyard. They are such happy little friends!

Here is Max showing off his Ben 10 toy...he told me how much he loves Easter and Christmas because he gets toys and Mommy and Daddy don't have to spend any money because Santa and the Easter Bunny pay for them...yes, Santa and the Easter Bunny...you've gotta admire his consideration!

Free Day 2013!!!

You gotta love the cheesiness of this photo!!! Eric, Lia, Max, Kiri and Me

Here with some of our friends, the Chestnuts and the Bowens

Having our free lunch at Free day on campus

Hanging with our friends, Faith, Paris, Jen, Blank, Bret, Eric, myself and Max...Blank, you know who you are!!!

Me and the Kiri and Lia (left, right)...here I am sporting my Free blue chalk highlights courtesy of the girls Volleyball team and Ruth!

Max and Ethan

Max and Faith...I love these two sillies together!!!Another great Free Day!!!

Chicks LOVE Super Heroes!!! Valentine's day at preschool

Here's Max on Valentine's day, right before preschool.

I went a little overboard and made these superhero suckers...

 along with chocolate bags and

Spider man candy favors.

Ward Parties! Ward Parties! Ward Parties!

This was a Relief Society party

All dressed and ready to go to a ward party...I don't usually think they look alike...but I do in this picture!

 

The second St. Patty's day party Eric and I were in charge of...minute to win it

We asked our friend Chris to be the Leprechaun...Max with his friend Brinley...

                                                                Gotta love Max's face in this one!!!

Family shot

Fire fighter Steve , Ruth and Broden

The Leprechaun and his "friend" actually share the same birthday and have a joint bash each year and this year I printed and framed this shot for both of them!

Max and his friend Faith

That's my attempt at being artistic

Stockton with candy

Max and one of his favorite friends Lincoln playing Duck Duck Goose

Lia and Marley looking for eggs

The only one in our family without his tonsils!!!

 This was actually before Disneyland when we got the news that Max's tonsils had to be removed...but who wants to ruin Disneyland with that type of procedure...so, we decided to wait until we got back...

...and Max was none the wiser!!!

This was the day of the procedure...in case you are wondering...that is his fake smile...he was so nervous!!!

Funny boy always has to have an action figure on hand!

Making silly faces!

Saddest face, EVER!!!! After they wheeled him in, the doctor asked if we wanted to see the tonsils afterward. To which Eric and I replied simultaneously, "No" and "yes." The doctor said they were the largest he had seen from a child.

He made a quick full recovery. At first he wasn't drinking...but then I had to show him pictures of people who were dehydrated...that quickly remedied his lack of drinking.

Here he is at the peak of weight loss.

Dude, Max is 4!!!

Since we were at Disneyland for Max's birthday, we celebrated with a Teenage mutant ninja turtle party when we got back and brought TMNT cupcakes to his preschool.

                                  He was so excited for a TMNT party. Cowabunga, dude!!!!

Unfortunately, the only green M & M's I could find for the party favors were Mint!

Here's a shot of his preschool and how he got to be King for the day. His preschool teacher, Mrs. Merlee Mccort (that's what Max calls her), gave him sweatbands for his birthday and he told me that it was the coolest present, EVER.

Xin Nian Kuai Le!!! Welcome the year of the Snake!!!

I love this picture of the girls...they are so happy in this picture...b/c

their brother is torturing their soul...one of the things they love the most!!!

We had our second annual Chinese New Year's dinner. and we felt very blessed and surrounded with good friends. 

funny pics from around this time... 

California for My mom's birthday

After Disneyland, we went to California to see my parents and celebrate my mom's birthday.

Here is a picture of my mom with her favorite cake (chestnut) and all of her grandkids..in less than two years my parents went from one grandchild to five...what can I say, we're all just doing our part!! 

Showing off our Disney threads!

 

On the mini steam train outside of Fenton's ice creamery

Max is intensly diliberating his first move...it was sad, of all the parents there (and there were many) only a small handfull knew how to set up a chess game...these are sad times

Lia showed early interest...well, really, just in the destruction of it all.

Monkey Max

Max loves ice cream and was so excited when we saw Pixar's Up and I told him that I grew up going to that Ice Cream shop...it's because the Pixar animation studio is in Emeryville, Ca which is about 5 minutes from Piedmont, Ca where I grew up.

That's not really how Fenton's looks, though...

Here's Max playing on the Moon at Lake Merritt, another one of my old favorites.

But, by far the best news received on the trip was that New Kids on the block would be touring with BSB, 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men...What?!??!!!!