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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Mother's Day in HB

Huntington Beach…

We celebrated part of Mother’s Day in HB. The kids were fortunate enough spend time with their Tita (Great Grandma ~ my side), Gampy (my mom), and Grandma Donna (Aaron’s mom). Jeffrey and Aaron were fortunate enough to talk to MaMaw over the phone. (Our kids are very fortunate to have 4 great-Grandparents alive)

We started the day at Tita’s house.

We had a snack and even danced a little. Jeffrey helped Tita open her present and Alexis, well, was Alexis.

We went back to Gampy’s house and watched her open her presents. Jeffrey, as always was more than willing to help. I opened my present from Jeffrey & Alexis.

After packing up, we went and hung out at Grandma Donna’s house. She opened her present, and the kids had a good time.

Please note, that we were all still in our jammies.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Weekend mornings with Gampy & Grandpa Ponce

So my parents are probably going to kill me, as they are in their jammies, but I think that my kids should know how they'd spend their mornings.

Jeff with Gampy dancing and singing. That's amore!

Mornings at my parents' house is usually the same. Get up, go to their room, hang out, have some snacks, and talk. Since my kids have been born, not much has changed, except my parents have gotten a bigger bed. I kid you not at times there can be my parents, my kids, my sister & I. Oh, did I mention the puppies? Can you imagine when Kristina has kids?!?!

Notice it's Lexi holding the box. At almost 10 months she knows what comes out of there. And NO, that is not why she is a little chunk.

This picture is of Stitch (aka Stitchy, Chee-Chee) and Alexis. Both are looking at the cookie box, not sure who will go for it first.

Every so often, the girls of the family try to have our own night out. In my case, no kids, and the husbands/boyfriends stay at home. We don’t go crazy…I’m not sure some even know how to go crazy.

Anyhow… We figured the Saturday before Mother’s Day would be perfect. So we went. I will make note, that this the second time the Rocha girls have not gone out with us. So they fell victims to receiving pictures from the fun we had.

Sandy drove (more on that later) and was in her sexy pants! We started the night at Don Jose’s and enjoyed a drink and some great Mexican food.

Only after were we at a loss of what to do.

I suggested bowling, and my Mom said no. My mom said miniature golfing, Kris said no. I swear, sometimes they’re a bunch of girls = ) We ended up going to Bella Terra. Keep in mind, Sandy is still driving. Not one of is drunk, nor buzzed. Sandy, I guess, is not familiar with driving near Bella Terra. She goes in the wrong entrance, peels out of the intersection and scares the pedestrians.

I am her co-pilot, praying err… guiding, her to the nearest parking spot. Instead of going for a spot close to the movie theatre ALL of us guided her to closest spot ahead of us in order to get out of the car safely.

At Bella Terra, there is nothing to do but shop. We head over to Kohls where I proceed to buy yet ANOTHER pair of flip flops. I know Aaron thinks I need another pair of shoes like I need another hole in my head, but I didn’t have them in brown.

After we were done shopping, we went to Coldstone. I’ve decided some people are not meant to go to there. My mom is one of them. She ended up ordering a like it – chocolate- with a cone. No fun mix-ins, just chocolate ice cream on a cone.

That is where we ended the night…

what a bunch of party animals!!!!!

Jeff's Day out

My kids are fortunate to have one of the best Aunts or Tias ever… My sister…. All the grief she gave me over the years~ she treats my kids so well, and loves them to death. That being said, Tia Kristi asked if she could take Jeffrey to the beach. Please understand that my sister hates being sandy, hates sand on her towel, and doesn’t go in the water. ( I think she just goes there to eat) Knowing this she and Bear took Jeffrey to the beach so Aaron and I could go to the movies. Jeffrey’s only request was that she would bring chewy snacks.

Off they went, and had a good time, but Jeffrey’s version of events differed from Kristina’s….

According to Kris ~ we had a good time. Your son was purple and did not want to leave the water. When it got to be too cold, he asked to go back and eat cookies. He got splashed by a big wave, but was okay.

Jeffrey with Bear or his Bair

Jeffrey’s events ~ We had fun. Bear put me on the boogie board, but I didn’t like it cause I’m too little. Maybe when I’m 3 I’ll do it. Tia gave me candy.

I’m not sure which version is true, but he did have fun.

It's funny... I wonder if this is how they kept track of him??

Monday, May 4, 2009

Nanny 911

Wow! So it's only 8:42 AM and it's already a LONG day.

Getting the kids up in the morning... *sigh* Every minute in our house counts in the morning. As a rule of thumb we make it a point to get Aaron and the kids in the car at 7:08.

That being said. Lexi is pretty easy, and has gotten easier throughout the year. While Alexis has gotten easier, Jeffrey has gotten worse. Case in point today... he went to bed at a decent time, and he got up relatively early - 6:40. I thought it would be a breeze this morning. I must have been crazy. He was awake, cranky, yelling, trying to get out of Aaron's reach - he did not want to get dressed. I could hear him screaming/arguing from Lexi's room. It was ridiculous. He was finally spanked and came to me. Poor Lexi and I didn't know what to say or do.... I put Alexis down and finished dressing and getting Jeffrey ready. It was a horrible start to the week! I put him in the car and he was fine. I e-mailed Aaron, and he said the kids were fine.

How can he go from this

to this?!?!?

Friday, May 1, 2009

The morning after

The morning after one of our parties is usually a lot of eating and resting. I mean, what else are you supposed to do after a hangover? The morning after Tia Lola’s party did not disappoint. Unless you were Kris & Bear and I… we are the only ones who do not eat menudo. We got pizza instead. We thought we were in the clear, but Elena ratted us out to everyone during the presents. She’ll learn… You never cross a Ponce! : )

We came over early and found my mom and dad in their jammies. Kris was off to church – what a good girl! Anyhow we went to Tia Lola & Tio Mayo’s. A far walk, only three houses down, we were the last to arrive.

We watched her open her presents,

we watched Sandy get stuck in a bag

gossiped (mostly about the bouffants),

and lounged around.

Alexis was her normal cheerful self, (NOT) and barely left my side. That is until she realized that people would her, and then she had them waiting on hand and foot… literally. Tia Lola with her baby and grandbabies

Javi, Sandy, Tia Lola, Karina, and Avery

Tia Lola's 65th Surprise Birthday Party

On Saturday, we celebrated Tia Lola’s 65th Surprise Party. It was very cute, as she’s always wanted one.

Apparently, she went as far as pouting around her birthday. When I called her for her birthday, she sounded happy, but a bit disappointed. Talking to Michael, she was so peeved that she did not want to schedule her annual birthday trip.

She had no clue about this. As everyone was busy planning for things, she was busy buying a gift for the fake party. She was totally caught off guard (notice the present in her hand)