Happy 4th Of July 2012

Here's little Miss Squiggler in her Patriotic outfit. She took off the bow and kicked off her shoes and wouldn't stand nicely so I could get a good shot of her! This was the best I could do, but it still shows off her wild personality. We spent a nice day at home. My honey grilled outside. We made potato salad and Weegie baked up a storm. She made brownies using diet coke, they were yummy, cupcakes and banana ice cream that is very good! We went outside and watched the neighbors shoot off fireworks and Squiggler loved it. She is not afraid of anything, which scares the beejeebers out of her dad and I. Weegie has summer school tomorrow so we didn't want to stay out to late and I think that is why we ended up staying home. We were invited to a new place, because my aunt and uncle weren't feeling up to partying. It was still a nice 4th!

A Day at the Beach

Yesterday we took Squiggler to the beach for the first time and she loved it! We thought that she wouldn't like the sand or how the water rushes in and out, but nope she is a water baby.

My honey, Weegie, Squiggler and I went to spend a couple of nights at my bil's house and he and his family joined us. I forgot to take any pictures of them, but I did get a couple of my little niece. She is so cute and sang songs for us. LOL! She reminds me of Speedy Cheetah.

Speedy Cheetah didn't go with us because she didn't want to miss swimming class. She had a test on Thursday and would find out the results on Friday. She passed and now gets to go to the pool for the remaining summer for free. She was so excited. She has passed all the swimming classes that they offer. That girl has always been a fish, learning to swim before she was 3, she loves the water.

My honey loves this picture and wants me to post it to his facebook. I love it too! Squiggler was not afraid and kept pulling us back to the water. My honey was telling us stories of how when he was younger he spent all his time at this beach. They would ride the bus down there for a quarter. My bil remembers going too, he must have been little!

I love Squiggler's smile in this picture! She is such a happy baby and this is her natural smile. (Not one of those staged ones that she sometimes gives me.) She actually turned 20 months yesterday, but that post is for tomorrow.

Here's my beautiful niece. She drove down with us and quickly made friends with two other girls about her age. I was so worried about her in the water because she does not swim yet. It was funny to hear her and the other girls talking, they were talking about how they thought they saw a shark. They were so funny!

Speedy loved harrassing her sister while she was trying to get a tan. My older girls are so good with her. My daughter looks good in a bikini. I NEVER wore a bikini ever!! LOL! I am so glad she has good self confidence.

My sil did take this decent picture of me so I included it in the blog. My other sil challenged to write a haiku about a picture. I didn't pick a picture, but picked the memory of the day. It was the perfect beach weather and just the perfect day. I don't really like the beach anymore, I use to go all the time as a child, but I had so much fun just being there with my family. It was a great day!!!

A day at the beach

good times making memories

love my family

A perfect beach day

squishing the sand in our toes

the sun is our friend

LOL! I think I could go on and on thinking of haikus!

Hanging Out with My Girls!

My beautiful niece is visiting us from up North. We have been trying to show her around town and take her to some of our favorite sites. On Monday, she went to the beach with hubby and my 2 older daughters. Yesterday, the girls all went to Magic Mountain, and today we went to the Grove in LA. I let the older girls walk around on their own while I kept the younger ones. Speedy Cheetah can spend hours in B & N, but the older ones wanted to go clothes shopping.

At the Grove there is almost always someone famous there and we did see Jillian Reynolds from Channel 11, but my niece didn't know who she was because she is local. Squiggler and I got asked to stand on the grass area and pretend that we were interested in what Jillian had to say about the new Skechers and exercise. It was fun and they gave us a backpack for it, but I would have preferred some free Skechers. LOL! Speedy and I also saw some papparazzi taking some pictures, but we couldn't figure out who they were taking pictures of?

We went to the Cheesecake Factory to eat a yummy lunch and that is the 2nd time my niece had been there since Saturday. The first time she didn't try the cheesecake, but today she did. We had terrible service, but overall I think we had a good day. We had to be back by 5:00pm because my hubby had bought tickets months ago to take Weegie to the Dodger game. He was going to cancel, but she was looking forward to it. I stayed home with Speedy, Squiggler, and my niece. It has been really nice getting to know her. She is very sweet and reminds me very much of my own girls. I hope she is enjoying her time here. She leaves on Friday.

I didn't get many pictures, but I did get a couple. I really need to get back into taking more pictures!