Finally some family time after all this craziness! The Marty’s minus Ashley for starters. After a fun reunion on Thurs. night, Daddy and the Marty’s headed to Big Bear while Mommy and the girls went to gymnastics for their last time with great friend and teammate Sadie then had a sendoff party for her mom and their AMAZING head gymnastics team coach whom were heading on to new adventures in South Carolina.
Mommy and the girls left to join the rest of the family in
Big Bear for a fun Saturday of checking out the town, including the showing of
the Riggs’s cabin, first time at the new zoo, exploring the shops, and ice
cream. We played Kan Jam back at Greg’s
place and prepared for snowboarding the next day. We loved getting to get
another day of snowboarding especially since we got to include Trevor. We all had fun, the weather certainly was in
our favor, and we all lasted the entire time! Kaylee took the final run with
Mommy to close out the lifts while Trevor returned his gear.
The Marty’s went their way and we went ours. Next was
Mommy’s birthday. She took Kaylee to her ortho appt. to get her retainer after
work and then it was full of thoughtful gifts and a date night to Panvimarn
with only her and Daddy as the girls were at gymnastics. That weekend we had a
last for a while sleepover with the Shoenberg girls before their big move. We
made ribs, had plenty of trampoline time, bike rides, and hair styling. We will
miss them!
The next week Kaylee got to go back to school in person. She
has such an amazing teacher and the year was going so well that all the
families in the class didn’t want it to change, but either way it was changing.
So we went with in person and we are all happy for it.
Before heading for an amazing trip to see all the family for
Spring Break Mommy and the girls took a wild goose chase to a Jersey Mikes for
lunch on the way to Ernest E. Debs Regional Park for a hike that turned out to
be quite fun and adventurous even if we spent a good 4 hours more in the car
than expected before the 7 hour road trip up North the following day.
We headed to Grammy’s house. After already deciding that we
were going to facetime Auntie Bridget when we got to color eggs, the big
surprise is that she was there!! So we all colored eggs and decorated Easter
Bonnets. Easter morning the girls enjoyed seeking out new hiding places to find
eggs and seeing what was left for them in their baskets. After the first of
many great breakfasts of the week we all headed to Staples for tech items and
Whole Foods for lunch with our Easter bonnets to spread some cheer! We took the
dogs for a walk in the neighborhood and did some homemade pasta making for
dinner that was delicious!
The next morning we went to Dixon to have such a memorable
experience for Grandpa Kim’s Military Memorial. It was so beautiful and being
with the family during that time meant more than anything. We headed to Mary’s
pizza Shack nearby to all enjoy each other and some food following the
ceremony. Afterword we went back to the cremorial site to see were his ashes
were placed and placed the roses.
The days following, Grammy gave the girls some special gifts
including a jewelry box of hers that I played with as a kid and trinkets of
Grandpas that the girls were excited to look through.
We then had delicious Ribs again, played laser tag, and
stayed way too late at the McFarlands because of all the fun we were having
even though it was a school night for Cole and Jacob. It was great to have that
time with them.
The next day we all went to see Darcie at the gymnastics
center. The girls got to get a little workout in and show Darcie their optional
floor routines. We saw Katherine and Bubba too! They enjoyed watching their
Optional team workout. Next we headed to the first little league baseball game
that we have been to in forever. We
watched Cole stand his own on the plate and pitch straight down the hole like
crazy! We loved cheering him on and watching him play!
Most of the week was spent enjoying as much as we could
being with Grammy and Auntie Bridget. Daddy helped a lot with the electronics
and we had a lot of fun having some home improvements to do. Even some plumbing
and trip to Home Depot to get a bathroom sink redone.
We said goodbye to Auntie Bridget and Grammy took her to the
airport, then we headed to Poppa’s house. MORE FAMILY TIME! We had a great
lunch with ALL the Marty’s, Poppa, and got to spend a great time with Heather
for the first in a long time. We also got to meet a new family member,
Duke. Quite a spunky Springer Spaniel.
Grammy even joined in on the festivities after getting back from the airport.
After hanging out with Grammy that night we spent a little more time helping Poppa before heading to stay with the Natal’s. When we got there Poppa put the girls to work first thing on the ride on lawn mower and Daddy to work on the computers. I don’t think any of them thought of it as much work. It was quite fun for all of us, and the property actually got mowed pretty well. The computers all configured best they could. Auntie Heather even let both the girls drive her car.
We spent the evening with another great meal (we ate well all week) at the Natal’s and played all night long. Lots of game and night light shooters. The girls had a sleepover all in one room, which is always fun. In the morning we had a waffle breakfast, then Mommy got to meet one of Auntie Megan’s friends and was invited to do a great workout at their place while the dads, kids, and dogs went for a big hike which included a fun swing before we had the long drive home.
During that drive we continued our search for a new puppy,
not expecting any different results than we had gotten in the previous months.
Mommy responded to a few inquires on the way and got a couple good responses.
We responded back and after lots of discussion and things seeming to lead our
way we somehow found ourselves heading to “almost Mexico” (Ramona, San Diego) to
“take a look at a litter of 6 puppies”. Of course we didn’t leave without one
of them. Rigby was the first one to catch our eye and the first to approach
Porter. So we took him home. He was apparently found in a ditch in Mexico and
we have no idea what kind of dog he might be, but so far so GREAT! We’ve had
some anxiety about him being a Chihuahua, but we’ll see. Took barely days to get
him potty trained and doesn’t get up more than once a night.
Daddy helped celebrate Roman’s birthday with a fun bike ride
and the girls took a short venture to the Cerritos Sculpture Garden. No Jersey Mikes
Sub’s adventure side tracks this time. We then made a Lemon Merengue Pie. Then
Sunday we had Leah over for a playdate. Even with a cast she got to go on the
trampoline, but we also walked to the cakery down the way for ice cream
sandwiches and enjoyed playing all day.
Cienna then spent the night excitedly preparing to actually
go to school that upcoming week!
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