Busy Weekend with Fish, Sand and Sun!

We had a fun filled weekend! Grandma Debbie and the gang are out here for a visit. We spent Saturday at the Aquarium. We saw some amazing things! I loved the sand dollars and the shark eggs. The eggs were displayed so that you could see the baby shark inside! It was by far the coolest thing that I have seen! We also went to the beach for a good part of Sunday and I'm paying for it today. It was much cooler at the beach and a little windy, but the waves were pretty awesome. Jodi, Phil and Ryan had fun in the Ocean and I watched from the comfort of the warm sand. So now on to the pictures!


The Sting Ray pool. Look at that BIG fish!


Huge indoor aquarium.

Jelly Fish. They were BEAUTIFUL!

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all of you who are lucky and blessed enough to be Fathers!

Ryan has had a wonderful Daddy's day so far. He received cards from the kids, a pair of work out shorts and some little gadget that has a bunch of tools on it for his bike. NICE! We'll probably spend a majority of the day at the pool...

Another note: We are going to be moving, AGAIN! Tyler will start Kindergarten in the Fall and the school that he would be going to if we stayed here is not all that great. So we found a school that IS all that great and we have located an apartment that is in the district. We'll have to sacrifice a few things, but it will be worth it. As of right now, the move in date is August 1st. After we move to this new place, NO MORE MOVING FOR AT LEAST 2 YEARS!!! Seriously. When we do hit the 2 year mark, we may have enough saved for a down payment on a house. Ahhhhh, I cannot wait for that day! =)

Not a lot of words, just a lot of pictures.

Tyler and Aislynn at the park on a beautiful California May day!

Tyler at his first skateboarding lesson!

Skateboarding!

Aislynn singing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" at the school's Spring Open House.

Tyler waiting to go "on stage" at the Open House.

"You put your left hand in, you put your left hand out!"

Stay tuned! More pictures to come!

XOXO - Melissa

Caveman

Ryan is the one that gets the kids up out of bed in the morning. So he came into the bedroom and informed me that it looked like we had a caveman that stayed at the house last night. I was a little confused. Since Tyler is nocturnal, instead of going to sleep at night he has been known for taking out every toy, piece of clothing or what ever is in a box out and displaying it all over the floor. The kiddo will be up until 11pm before he finally falls asleep somewhere. I was expecting that what I was about to see was going to be similar to the normal room destruction that happens on a regular basis.

Our wonderful son, or maybe it was a CAVEMAN, decided in the middle of the night that he needed to find an artistic outlet and practice his crayon work.
Note evidence photo #1. He got really into detail with the character on the top! Hair AND ears! I sure hope that he wasn't drawing mommy and daddy. And if he was, I'm sure that I would at least have hair, right?

Photo evidence #2... Wait, maybe it wasn't Tyler. Could we really have had a CAVEMAN here in the house? So cryptic and abstract! Note the character on the left. A mistake was made and the "artist" realized that crayon does NOT erase. An "X" mark tells us, "Don't look here!".

Mommy lesson: If you do not want Cavemen staying in your home, do not leave out a big white folding table. It screams, "COLOR HERE!".

And finally, photo evidence #4. We have finally realized that this was in fact NOT a cave man, but our lovely, artistic son. Read carefully: you can make out "Ace" and then "Tyler". AH HA! "Ace" is Tyler's friend at school and my little boy can now write words! Awwwww. How can mommy and daddy be mad? It's the first official "word" other than his name that he wrote all by himself!

Anyone got some cleaning solution? Bleach? I have some "canvas" cleaning to take care of...