We were sad to send the Garcias off on their airplane. Someday we hope to live minutes away instead of a planeride. Naya drew this sweet picture of the friends.

Disneylandia

It's been about 6 months since our Disney passes expired. We made a Disneyland chart together and both the kids worked really hard by going the extra mile to fill in their spaces. Thankfully, the day before the Garcias arrived- they FINISHED!!!Rio loves spinning rides especially the Teacups!
A little freaked out in the Finding Nemo Submarine.
Autotopia
Beating the heat and looking quite concerned.
That's me with 5 children! Zoram's sister- Keily Bookstaber and family met up with us at Disney. One of our favorite things to do is grab a Pineapple Dole whip and watch the Tikki Room show.
Watching princess story telling time with the gang (Addi, Landon, Naya, Belize & Mia (minus Rio, Mari and Miles)).
Learning how to dance like gentlefolks at the princess coronation ceremony.


Tikki room- love this boy!

Trying to pull the sword from the stone.The Carousel is also a kid favorite.






As we are getting ready to go on the Dumbo ride, i notice Belize is putting her mouth on things and then sucking on her hand. I say, "Belize, why do you feel the need to put things in your mouth?" She shrugs her shoulders and replied, "I guess God just made me this way." She cracks me up!

His giggle is SO wonderful!

Disclaimer: I do NOT, nor have I EVER claimed to speak Spanish (I took French in highschool!) Also, if you listen at the end you can hear Belize yell, "Rio, you're making me feel LEFT OUT!!!!" She was having a breakdown in her room.

Belly update

I believe this is around 25 weeks.And this is around 27? I don't know, i'm not very good at keeping track until the end when I'm feeling like a pregasaurus and feeling very desperate. So far everything is fantastic, Mayan is moving like crazy and although I'm a little on the tired side, I have no other symptoms except for some occasional heartburn and I get really hungry but can't think of a food to satisfy the craving- very frustrating. Remember when I lost patches of tastebuds with Belize?- that was weird.

Next things, next, we took a walk to Handel's Ice Cream.

The Garcias are here! The Garcias are here!

The Garcias are our most best family friends from Seattle EVER! The kids have been skyping eachother for 4 months regarding this vacation. Zoram and Brannon have been best friends since elementary school, luckily Zoram married one of the most amazing women on this planet so the tradition has continued. First things first, we went to our beach at Ave. I.


Mari was terrified of the seaweed and wouldn't cross it without an adult- she thought it was crabs and screamed and screamed (we all laughed and laughed- aren't we terrible parents?)


Keri was a trooper and sacrificed her 7 month pregnant body for this special vacation.

Dias de las Madres

A while back my Aunt Thomalee sent these gorgeous Mexican wedding costumes (Jayden & Kaylee wore them), I knew then I needed to save them for Mother's Day gifts. They were a little big but that just means more pics in a year or two.

Oh aren't they going to love this picture when they are teenagers? Funny kids!