Why 2008 really IS great!

This is a picture of me and my mom and sisters and Jessica's future mother in law. We all went out to dinner and spent the weekend together for Jessica's Bridal shower. I am so excited for Jessica to get married, her Dave is so great for her and she is going to love being married! Which leads me to why 2008 is so great... I know it's corny but I love weddings and babies (they are the best things about life) so I am in heaven to be having a sister get married and TWO babies being born into our family, my sister Robyn and my sister in law Sarah are both having babies. I am SO excited for all of them. 

Dumb and Dumber

Dumb is what I looked like when I started my blog, dumber is what I look like now that you have seen me blog. Anyway I went totally backwards so if you want to read about all of the pictures go into my older posts for TOO MUCH FUN then look at all of the pictures to make sense of some of them. 

Disneyland with gram and grandpa McArthur

more Catalina...

mmmm

Is ice cream even better in Catalina? Caroline thinks so! Well I even thought I rotated this one so better luck next time.

No more monkeys Jumping on the bed...

Actually this has turned into a ritual when we stay in hotels.

On our way to Catalina

Fun with cousins

At the beach...

sorry hope you don't mind having to turn your head, I will figure this out eventually. Livi is dumping a bucket of COLD ocean water on Uncle Beetle and Livi is so sweet that it took A LOT of coaxing to get her to do this. Rangi said that is what older brothers do to younger ones.

ALL my kids cousins in one place!!!

Happy Easter!

Joshua Tree

TOO MUCH FUN...

I don't know if there is such a thing as too much fun but if there is we are bordering on it. March has been so full of fun activities that I don't know where to start or what to cut out... SO I will try to give a brief synopsis. Our passes expired to Disneyland this month so we had to squeeze in a few trips there; our first one ever with my parents which is ironic because we both live so close to Disneyland and that was a treat. Second Rangi's parents, sisters and grandma came down to Ca. and we all went to Catalina Island together, that was a lot of fun. The kids had a blast going on a boat ride and getting ice cream cones and staying in a hotel and going on a submarine ride and just being with grandma and grandpa Smart. Next was Easter and we had a special Easter surprise this year and that was Regan and Mindy coming to Ca. to stay with us over Easter weekend. My kids were just thrilled to have their cousin Annabelle stay at their house for 5 days but we did some fun stuff with them too, like going to the beach (uncle Beetle is A LOT of FUN to have at the beach) and having a great Easter Egg hunt. Lastly we had spring break where just our little family went to Joshua Tree to camp. It was so beautiful and relaxing and the kids and Rangi for that matter got to climb to their hearts content. April is going to feel so DULL. 

Bitten!

I cannot believe that I am actually admitting to this online. Last summer I refused to read a lame book about "romantic vampires". (Sister in laws you can laugh now) Anyway I have spent the last week hiding away and neglecting every possible distraction (mostly children and husband) so I could finish all three because they are seriously good! The straw that broke the camels back was when Rangi said he wanted his wife back, so I am taking a break before I read #3. I think I'll start tommorrow. Does anyone have a book recommendation that I can actually just read casually?