Old Town San Diego!

Nothing like a great meal and the best ice cream to finish off a great evening. Thanks for the suggestions Dennis and Rachelle. I probably should have put this first so it would be at the end. Oh well it's late and I'm tired. Thank goodness it's the last day of spring break! Entertaining 24/7 gets exhausting.

I don't think Samantha knows that those are some man's underwear! I always wondered how far we would have made it in the pioneer days. After walking through old town I realized probably not very far. My leg's and back were sore just after that walk.

Help Caleb he's stuck between a rock and a hard place.

The candy store. Morgan looks so sad. She must know I'm just having her pose for the picture, but she doesn't really get any.

Not the friendliest door greeter I ever saw, but under that mask I know there's someone very special! (my nephew Dylan)

I'm not sure these 2 kids can read yet, but they'll find out soon enough that the sign says Don't touch, Hot wax!

Day at the Beach!

We had a pretty quite Spring break so far so we decided to take a trip to San Diego for the weekend. We havn't been tothe beach in a long time. It was in the 70's (the weatherthat is. It hasn'tbeen 30 years since we've been to the beach.) 70 degrees for most people would be perfect weather, but for us desert rats use to the low 100's it was freezing! The water was anyway's Samantha was the only one brave enough to take a full body plunge. We mostly just got our feet wet and played frizzbee. It was free and we had a good time. Although I will be washing sand out of my hair among other places for a week! For not even getting in the water, we sure collected alot os sand.

Dennis' family met us there and joined in the fun! If your wondering about Amanda's face, she got it done at the swap meet Rachelle encouraged us to go to before the beach. It was lot's of fun, but maybe getting your face painted just before the beach wasn't well thought out. But we got a few pictures before it washed away.

Morgan wasn't too sure about this cold weather!

Look out behind you Alan!

Let's go fly a kite!

The kids are home for spring break and insist on being enterained every minute. To keep it affordable we went to the park to fly a kite! We probably had just as much fun as if we were at Disney land and didn't spend a dime. Kid's really can be easy to please if you just spend a litttle time with them. There's still 3 more days of spring break. Hopefully they'll continue to be easy to please.

My good looking man!

Nice Doggy!

Samantha just hanging around!

Cortney and her boyfriend Anthony playing catch.

My nephew Donovan

Fun at Build a Bear!

For spring break yesterday the girl scouts went to Build a Bear in the Temecula mall. Since I had a 15 passenger van I volunteered to be a driver/chaperon for the trip. I took Samantha , Amanda, Morgan and Cortney along with 4 other little girls. I actually had room for 6 more, but it gave the girl's more leg room! There were 30 girl's that went along with about 15 adults. They earned the money buy selling girl scout cookies. Thanks to those who supported girl scouts! They all got in line and got name tags then they got to chose a stuff animal.

Amanda chose a panda bear Morgan chose a pink bear!

Samantha chose a monkey! She started off naming him George.

Then it was time for all the girl's to stuff their animals!
The lady had them sing songs and scream to keep things exciting!

Of course I didn't want to be left out either, so I made one for Alan. A puppy named Heath! He plays for Mike and Tyler's favorite team the San Diego Padres.

We didn't want Cortney to feel left out either! She named her bear Zedekiah and dressed him like a marine. That's what her boyfriend wants to be when he grows up.
Amanda's Panda turned into a dog named Buddy! Morgan was the only one that didn't change her mind about the animal or name. She started and ended with a bear named Rose! The outfit however was another story. Did I mention we were there for 3 hours?

Samantha changed her mind

and George became Coconut!