Bike Riding and Bar Hoping

We were kidless this last weekend, the boys went with their grandparents for the night. Steve and I joined up with a bunch of friends Saturday for my cousin, Daniel's birthday.

We did this last year and wanted to do it again. This year we didn't get a room so I was the sober driver for 3 people.

So off we go to our first bar and our first drink...

The girls of the party! We had a great time.One of the many buckets of beers that was consumed throughout the night and evening.

The birthday boy, Daniel and two friends having a great time!

Fun times dancing and carry on!!

Last year I took pictures of the signs of all the bars we went to but apparently I didn't do that this year. I am kind of bummed i didn't because I have no clue where we went to party! I know one of the stops was PB Bar and Grill and we also went to the wavehouse.

Can't wait until next year's birthday to do it all again!

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We had a busy weekend but oh what fun!

On Friday we went to the Zoo with Grammy and Pop. We only had about 3 hours to be able to walk around, because I had to get home for my garbage disposal to be replaced, but that was just enough time to stretch our legs and see a few animals. We went to the zoo thinking that the new enclosure for the polar bears were open but it doesn't open until the end of March, so we saw the elephants and a Jaguar, and some lions.

On Saturday morning, we headed out to my grandma's for some cleaning up and removal of some of Papa's old stuff. My Uncle, cousin Daniel and his kids, Bronsen and Braden, were out there also. Steve brought out a trailer because he wanted to have some old engines of my grandfathers for the race car. So we got that cleaned up. While everyone was working very hard, so were the 4 boys.
They each had a shovel, rake, or hoe and had to do so much work. Believe me they were just having fun playing in some great dirt! And so the work and play time continued through out the morning.
Good picture of Cody, Chase, and Bronsen. Uncle Steve was "getting" them with the end of the tape measure. Braden was the smart one he was running for being "got". It was funny!
They also found a big pile of dirt to slid up and down on. That was the best!

All of them sitting down having a snack of a cookie!

After all that fun, we went to my in-laws - for them to watch Chase and Cody while I went to a baby shower. The boys were having so much fun with Tatum that when I came to pick them up, they said "No, we want to stay here with Tatum. Bye Mom! Kind of broke my heart but, I let them stay with Grandma and Grandpa and Tatum. I guess they were really good and had a great time!

Sunday, I went to pick back up the boys and we came home to play in the sunshine! It was a beautiful day yesterday. I hope your weekend was everything you wanted!

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This weekend turned out quite fun! We went to the desert to the 48th Annual Terra Del Sol Jeep Run in Truckhaven by Salton City. The weather called for 70% rain on Saturday, so I wasn't so excited about going but we are troopers and we went along with 7 other families.

We woke up Saturday morning to very pretty blue skies and nice weather.


At this jeep run, there are over 1200 jeeps register to go onto a designated path following arrows. Green arrows to stay where it's easy driving and just hanging out kind of fun. There are other colored arrows that lead to more difficult jeeping that Steve and the jeeps went on. The rhino people, including myself, stayed on the green arrows. While going on the more difficult stuff, Kevin broke his power steering pump on his jeep. The breaking of jeeps is a very common problem when you do the kind of jeeping they do with the jeeps. So it took them 2 1/2 hours to fix this. We waited for the jeeps for about 2 hours and were watching the black clouds roll in and decided we wanted to get back to the motorhomes before the rain started. The jeeps came rolling into camp about an hour later, Kevin still broke. It was very cold with a lot of wind that night.

We woke up to it raining in the desert. The ground starting getting saturated with wet sand and we were afraid to wait much longer to get the motorhome out so we wouldn't get stuck in the mud. It was coming down in a good sprinkle.


These are the skies that tell you that it is raining. As Steve started moving the motorhome, we had to go over a little bump and the back wheels started turning and spinning, yes we were stuck. We needed a tow out of this soft sand. Here they are hooking the motorhome up to this Bronco.

The bronco got us out unstuck...Thank you!! The kids actually loved being outside in the rain and spent about 30 minutes watching underneath the cover of the rhino trying to stay dry.


We still had a good weekend and just being with family and friends was fun!

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Today what Makes My Monday is being able to take Chase and Cody to their first circus! We went Saturday afternoon while it was pouring down rain and unable to much else. We didn't get very wet either from the rain.

They were very excited, but you can't tell from this picture! This is before the performance begins and they were (kind of) waiting patiently.

We actually couldn't take any pictures while the performance was going on, but the acrobatics people on the ropes were the best that kept the boys attention span. They also liked the trampoline guys and the tricks that they were doing on the trampoline.

Then this guy and this 2000 pound wheel thing came out and they were like what is that Mom? I said lets wait and see...Well, we were able to take pictures through this, but they are not very good because of the fog machine stuff in the air.

The guy is inside if the wheel here but he also got on the outside of the wheel and walked blindfolded. It made me nervous!
He's the little speck on top of the wheel. The wheel just kept going around and around with him walking on it and the whole thing would turn. They liked that also.

So right before the next to the last act Cody says "Mom, let's go." Well this is 1 hour 45 minutes into it and I thought it would almost be over, so I said one more and then we can. The next act was the motorcycles in the cage act. Chase and Cody couldn't take their eyes off of this and came home right away and told dad and grandpa all about it! They really thought that was cool. They rode around in the cage and did tricks!

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On Sunday, we attended Peyton's 5th birthday party at Peter Piper Pizza. Chase and Cody had never been there before and had a blast!

All the kids sitting down (for 2 minutes) to have (a bite) a piece of pizza!

Cody wanted to wear his hat on his face some of the time and acted like a bird with a beak...all Chase wanted was Root Beer to drink and nothing to eat.

It was a great weekend, despite the rain on Saturday...Sunday was a cold but sunny day!

6 Word Saturday

Pop's 80th birthday party is today!

Two for Twos-day

We had an awesome weekend, taking the 3-day weekend to go to the desert. Meet up with some friends, do some jeeping and rhino putting around, and the boys were riding their quads!

This weekend I didn't get a bunch of pictures of the boys together just a bunch of individual ones, but I did snap this one as they were getting ready for a put around in the rhino on Sunday.

They are learning how to put the seat belts together, so Chase was concentrating on that.

Hope everyone has a great day!

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This weekend, we spent at the desert, Glamis, with 5 other families. We don't normally go to Glamis because the jeep isn't set up for the soft sand, so instead we just took the Rhino and had a great time.
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The weather was perfect and really on the warmer side. We spent Saturday looking at big, blue beautiful skies, the boys spent a lot of time bunch of riding quads and playing in the dirt.

Chase stopping for a second for a picture. He is getting so bad at taking pictures that he gets really upset, when I take out the camera!

Cody didn't feel 100% all weekend, but he was a trooper and still had a great time. I am hoping that whatever he has will pass today. He just has no symptoms just not feeling good.

These dump trucks were ran everywhere in our circle, all the kids had a similar dump truck and it was always filled with dirt!

Chase and Cash filling up their dump truck.

We had a great time and can't wait to go back to the desert again with great families!

Happy Friday

I wish the above statement was true!

I have one child (Chase) who woke up at midnight with a 99.9 fever. Medicine is bringing it down and hopefully it will break soon!

I think I might have another child (Cody) that is coming down with it also! He is very lazy and no ambition which just isn't Cody.

We are planning on going camping at the desert this weekend. So maybe dad might be going by himself!

Wish us a speedy recovery!

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This last weekend Made my Monday!!

My weekend really started on Friday when I took the boys to school for their Halloween parade. They trick or treated with their class and paraded around with them also.


They really liked hanging out with their friends but didn't want me to leave them there and Cody stayed right by my side so I wouldn't forget him when we were going home.


Friday night, Chase and Cody stayed with Grandma and Grandpa so we could go out to a concert with ground of friends. We saw Randy Houser and Jamey Johnson at Viejas Casino.

Jamey Johnson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBk07l2aKrE

You can watch the video here of his current song. If you like older type country music, this is a great concert. They played a total of 3 1/2 hours. It was a great show. Jamey has a awesome voice. Randy Houser has a sound like Waylon Jennings. We had a great time didn't get home until 3am. Yes, 3am!! We were so tired! We hadn't been out that late in a long time.

Saturday morning we had family pictures taken with Steve's brother's family. I can't wait to preview them and to show you them. We have had this photographer for the last 2 years. She took 600 pictures of us in 1 1/2hour. But we were so tired from being up until 3am, we made it through it and smiling the whole time!

Of course, trick or treating was the highlight of Chase and Cody's weekend!! We partied over at Mike and Leslie's house before the trick or treating began. Had a great time talking and hanging out. It didn't seem like many people was out this year as in years pass. So don't know what was up with that. But still had a great time!

Us out trick or treating!! Chase is a race car driver and Cody a Superman. I didn't bring a stroller with us because I thought that they could walk the block that we went around. I carried both of them at the same time throughout a quarter of the block. The other half of the block one was carried by someone else or rode in the only wagon that we brought for 10 kids. I guess next year we will have 10 wagons and no one will want to ride in them. We live and learn. We still had a great time. Of course they got more candy then they will ever be allowed to eat.

I hope everyone else had just as good of a weekend as we did.

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On Friday, I had a contractor/friend come and put up shelves in the garage. I was so excited to have this done. Here is my garage before, well before the shelves went up. It was a disaster before this with junk all over those white shelves. I went through and threw stuff away and then it looked like this:

I put a bunch of stuff in Rubbermaid containers and tried to organized some of my stuff.

But after my shelves were up and in place, I had so much fun organizing the containers on the shelves and my garage has so much room. This has all of my containers with Easter, Halloween and Christmas stuff in them.

The other side of the garage. This side has a bunch of containers of old clothes from the boys. I still don't have the heart to get rid of them yet, but I am sharing them with my cousin, so that has relived some of the room. But as the boys grow I will just have more clothes too store.

I also had some shelves put up on the wall in the boys room. Gave the boys room a new look. Now I just have to find some stuff that con go on the shelves that the boys won't touch! I need some other decorations in the their room, it's still a work in progress!

Making my house more organized ans decorated - totally Makes My Monday!!!

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On Friday, Chase, Cody and I went to the zoo. We brought along Pop and Grammy also and boy did we have a great time!!

Chase and Cody were so excited to spend the day with Pop and Grammy that everytime Chase wouldn't see Pop he'd say "Where's Pop?". Pop was always right behind us.

Here are some of the pictures from the day.






Chase's favorite animal.


Pop even did a lot of the pushing of the stroller for me. The boys loved it when Pop was pushing the stroller.

On Saturday, we had lunch with grandma and did some stuff for her at her house. The boys played with trucks and brooms int he dirt at her house. And on Sunday was just a relaxing day, where the weather really turned into fall type weather.

Hope everyone had a great weekend, and having a great weekend Makes my Monday!

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We had a busy weekend. Friday even we went to a friends house for delicious pork ribs. They were so good, and so lucky we were able to have dinner with them and thier family! Chase and Cody even got swim a little- they were thrilled about that!

Saturday was Steve's company picinic with was about 2 hours away in Long Beach. We had a great time. Weather turned out perfect. The boys played in the sand, had cotton candy, and snow cones. So of course it was a great day for them! I was able to meet a lot of people that Steve works with and everyone is just so nice!

Saturday night, we took the boys and met some other friends at the local speedway races. Steve wanted to check out his compatition for his race car. But also we watched our friends 13 year old son win his race! Cole is a diffently a great race car driver and has a wonderful future in front of him. He started on the pole and never let anyone pass him!


Bad picture of the cars that Steve will be racing in.

Chase watching intensly the race cars!

On Sunday, Steve and I celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary!! I attended a baby shower for a cousin. She is having a boy after having 3 girls (1 set of twins)!! She received many cute brown and blue clothes!! Steve kept the boys and they played in the garage and washed the yellow jeep. Getting it ready of desert season!!

Being it was such a busy weekend, really Makes My Monday!!

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