Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Feolo!!!

Jeana & Anthony's wedding was beautiful! I had never been to that chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes before, but I can certainly see why they picked it!!!

The girls looks gorgeous, the kids looked adorable, and did SO good during the ceremony!

I had WAY too much to drink, but had a great time!!

Here are just tons of pictures (o:

The proud groom!

I LOVE this picture!!!

The "candy bar" ( I didn't even have 1 piece of candy - boo! )

My driving buddies - Thanks guys!!! XOXO

Happy Birthday Jeana!

I hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow - filled with TONS of hugs and kisses and treats from everyone you love!!

I can't wait to see you as the most beautiful bride next weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love you and miss you tons!
We'll do happy hour as a delayed birthday as soon as you have some spare time - I'll even watch baseball with you if it happens to be on!

XOXOXOXO

Our spontaneous trip to San Francisco!

Well the weather turned out to be slightly over-cast and slightly sunny with a temp of about 50 - so not too bad! But the rest of the trip was just ridiculous. We got to the airport at 1:15 to find out our 2:20 flight was delayed until 3:30.
#1 reason that I was upset = I was JUST on jetblue.com looking to see if my mom would have a problem with her curling irons and I didn't freakin check the flight. We try to talk Kyla into going to get some lunch and coming back, but she didn't believe us that we would come back - so she talked us into going into the terminal. 5 minutes into sitting at the terminal, they announce that our flight is further delayed until 4:45! I called Robert to get him to see what kind of voucher we could get because it was a weather delay - and while he was doing that they re-announced that our flight was back to departing at 3:30 again.

#2 reason I was upset = Kyla was not understanding what was going on and begging us to please fly on the plane while I was thinking how much I just wanted to go home and throw away the $260 spent so far.

Kyla seeing one of the planes pull up to the terminal...

Excited still ........... this was before the hour we were sitting there! (o:

I know everyone has seen a plane, but Kyla took this!

We finally board the plane and then find out when we are all settled that we will AGAIN not be taking off until 4:15 and not arriving until 5:30.

#3 reason I am upset - WE FLY BACK AT 7:00 A.M. the next day. I can't get passed how this just is starting to feel like a HORRIBLE idea, and what else could go wrong.

Anxiously awaiting the take off and watching Spongebob on direct tv.

This is after the adrenaline wore off - she finally crashed out.

GOOD NEWS! We find out there is NO rain and it's actually sunny - so I start to perk up a little bit. Well that didn't last long (o: ( Kyla I might add was AWESOME the whole time - extremely patient, but you could tell it was totally taking away from the excitement... just way too much waiting for her ) We decided to take a cab because I assumed it would be the quickest way to get straight to the hotel as we were already running late.

#4 reason I get upset: He was an IDIOT that didn't speak English ( not surprised but annoyed because he had a GROSS cold ) and seemed to take 10000000 extra left and right turns and was making Kyla and my mom sick. The fare just kept adding up $25, $30, $35, $40, $45, $47.75 and an hour later, we get to the hotel at 6:30 p.m.!

Her first taxi ride ( also at the beginning of the ride )

We left the hotel and took a mile and ½ walk down to Fisherman's Wharf & Ghirardelli Square....

Alcatraz in the background....

Ghirardelli Square was pretty much closed except for the chocolate and ice-cream shop....

#5 reason I'm upset ( I Just realized that I grabbed chocolate covered espresso beans instead of raisins - GROSS! )

Pictures from Ghirardelli Square

This is where we settled for our dinner.... we barely made it because Kyla had declared that she was sooooo tired of walking just about the time we arrived there.

Which I thought was a different restaurant, but didn't realize it until we were already in and tempted by the yummy smell.

Reason # 6 I'm upset - our waiter was rude and over charged us for my mom's dinner then proceeded to give us an attitude about it. It was a white linen table cloth type of restaurant with $35 dinner prices - I went in thinking it was this great place that Robert and I had eaten at that has the best clam chower in the world!! The food was still quite good and we sat at a corner table over looking the wharf and my mom could see the Golden Gate Bridge.

My mom said the view was her favorite part of the trip, so that was good!!

For some reason my mom wanted a picture of this electric wire ran bus... She was bummed she didn't get to ride the trolley cars.

We took a cab back to the hotel about 9:30 and as Kyla walked in she said: "Boy it's good to get out of these shoes and of my feet!!: LMAO!!!

Here is us clean faced with pj's on getting ready to play war with her new SF playing cards.... lights out at 10:45

( she then cried for her daddy and I had to call him and wake him up to get her to fall asleep )

**** Seriously - how cute is she!?!? ****

3:58 a.m. - my mom wakes me up saying: OMG Shannon, the shuttle is going to be here in 2 minutes!

#7 reason I am upset; our shuttle comes at 5:00 - she was an hour off! (o;

We get down in time for the shuttle which comes at 5:20!

#8 reason I am upset ( see above!! ) lol

The shuttle driver then drives 15 miles an hour to another hotel to pick up people and leave us sitting in the van from 5:25 until 5:45! We pick up yet another person and then get to the airport by 6:00 a.m. if you can believe it. I asked him when he was driving so slow if something was wrong with the van! he didn't find it ammusing. Our plane left and got back on time, but not without the very very very close to throwing up Kyla almost not making it without tears.

#9 reason I am upset: I lost one of my wedding bands. )o:

All is well though, and I am glad to be home! My baby girl enjoyed herself thoroughly and Robert declared that he "forgot how much work it is" keeping the peace at the house all th time. YA THINK!?! <----- totally made the whole trip worth it!

Easter Egg hunt

Saturday we had some friends over for a bbq and although they were there for 7 hours, I didn't manage to take even one picture? What's that about? I could have really gotten some good ones too!!

Sunday I took the kids to an easter egg hunt and brunch - There was the cutest idea for a craft and the kids couldn't get enough of it. They had egg shaped card board cut outs all prepared and tons of stuff to decorate them with. Unlimited supplies of glitter, paint, glue, stickers, beads, colored cotton balls, and tons of other stuff. I imagine they loved the freedom of getting to do as they wanted with the supplies, but either way, they loved it.

Kyla played a game where she carried a hard-boiled egg back and forth across the grass with a spoon, and the boys did the easter egg hunt ( Kyla declared herself too old for that one for some reason ) LOL

This weekend was filled with Robert working, me playing A LOT of baseball, the kids doing a lot of fighting and loving, and a great bottle of wine!

These are just some pictures from the easter egg hunt and the kids wearing their new "motorcycle helmets"

Baseball!

I keep forgetting to charge my camera battery, so I don't have any pictures - but I really wish I did... not that I know how I would have taken them since my hands were occupied...

The other day the kids and I played in the backyard for over an hour. Kade's obsession with baseball continues, and he just keeps getting better and better. Papa has really been working with him to make sure he always throws over hand, as I swear before he seemed to think he was the pitcher on a girls fast-pitch team by how he threw the ball back to you!

He can't really hit off of a tee very well, he just prefers to have the ball pitched to him and I would say he averaged hitting at least 15 out of 20 "pitches" This is a soft bat and a plastic ball - I'm afraid what a real bat and ball would do in my backyard..... we've already lost 1000 balls over the fences.

Anyway getting to the story part:
I was pitching, Kade of course was hitting, and Kyla was the catcher... or fetcher which is more appropriate. She had a little basket that held the balls and as he hit the bunch in the basket she would run around and pick them up and put them in her basket. She would then throw them to me one at at time, and I would in turn pitch them to Kade. This was very assembly line-ish, that is though EXACTLY how Kade likes to be. He wouldn't even hit a ball until Kyla was back in her place.

After each hit, it was so cute Kyla would say one of the following praises:
"wow Kade that was awesome!"
"Sweet hit Kade!"
"HOLY COW Kade, you are so good!"

It made my heart melt. He had the biggest smile on his face, and he would answer every time with a prompt and proud: "THANK YOU Kyla."

I would ask him: " How in the world did you do that?! " when he would hit it really hard over the roof or something, and he would answer calmly with a shrug of his shoulders: "Easily"

I feel so bad when I need to stop and go in to start dinner or well just stop. An hour of baseball ( which is NOT my ideal sport ) is about all I can take.... I know horrible mom, but I get bored )o:
Kade however would stand in the same spot until it was time to go to bed. I can drag him away sometimes to play basketball or ride his bike here and there~

That was my proud moment of the week!
Oh yeah, and my kids were in bed by 9:00 1 day this week and by 8:30 another day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!