a hiking we will go..

we have been doing a little hike every weekend.. the weather has been so nice lately, a little chilly sometimes but nice! This hike we headed over to Azusa Canyon. We made a stop at the sporting goods store and bought our adventure pass and then headed to the hills. It was so beautiful, the water was chilly but it didn’t stop our pup  from diving in. We hiked around the stream and then headed over to the rincon trail to check out more.

Here’s our little water lovin pup

my 3 loves!

awe..arent we just adorable!

Heather was throwing a little rock in the water but doesn’t it look like she threw that big rock in just below her hand =)

My pup was very excited.. she was ready to take flight!

Heather had a blast throwing rocks in for her pup to chase

is the sky beautiful!

later that day Kev gave Heather a lesson about camber (how the wheels align) She just loves to help with anything we do! She’s a total Daddy’s girl!

we love our little adventures! its only a few hours and we get to check out all this cool stuff right near home!

Hiking adventure

 

Last weekend we headed off on a little adventure right in our own back yard.. well the hill behind our backyard anyways =) the weather was just right for a little hike up the hill and check out the view.

this is the castle Heather built for her princess barbie (I helped a little, but she did most of it) I think we may have a future architect on our hands..

we stopped to check out what may live in the little holes on the path..

my 3 loves!

what a view

its days like this that make me happy I live in so cal!

finding a new path

who knew that our stroller came with a water bowl for the pup LOL

the hike was fun for all of us and next time the stroller will stay at home.. Heather enjoyed hiking the whole hill and on the way home we stopped by a house that had the horses, they came right up to the fence to say hello. Heather and Dingo both love horses but since the owners werent out we couldn’t pet them.. Im thinking we are going to be meeting them one of these days..we have decided to take a little hike every weekend the weather lets us or at least a good walk… we take an adventure any time we can =)

Happy 2012

Happy New Year! so far the New Year is going great! We had a fun Christmas and are now ready to get this new year started! We had a little "kid friendly" New Years party at our house and surprisngly the kiddies stayed up to bring in the new year with us. (thank goodness for late long naps!) We didnt enjoy taking down the Christmas decorations but Heather made sure to let every decoration know we will see them again next year and they will be ok until then =) Its been a busy year but we have high hopes for lots of goodness for everyone.
So far this year my nieces have turned 21, Heather's good friend Zoe turned 3 and Heather and I almost conqured the extremly steep hill by our house (we are going for round 2 this weekend) Here are a few pics from Christmas, 2012 pics will be arriving soon... please stay tuned ..

Heather and Dingo were patiently waiting for Santa's arrival

Making sure the fireplace was ready for a certain visitor to arrive (Yes, we belive in child labor LOL)

Heahter loved everything about the Christmas tree, she would make sure it had water, talked to it  and just like to be around it. It did smell so good! we were expecting to have the tree decorated at the 3' high mark but she wanted everything at the top

Daddy's little helper! Heather is learning all kinds of stuff in Daddy's garage

the sky is just amazing! I love CA

Pretty nails! I found some natural low-order nail polish called piggy paint designed just for little ones like Heather, she cracked up and was sooo excited to paint her nails!

This is Alex and Andrew (cousins) dont they just look like they are plotting something!!

The boys patiently waiting for Heather to open her gift

This is Teri, Kev's best friend for.. well lets just say a really long time We were so glad she was able to be in town for the holidays!

Dingo was so excited Santa brought her a new toy! at least someone thought she was good this year LOL

My niece Jessie is silly! but thumbs up to starting a New Year!!! She'll be 18 this year so she's very happy!!

Hope you all have an amazing 2012! Think Positive and Positive things will happen!

The weather has been GREAT the past few days so that means its time for new adventures to begin....



mmm…its smells like fresh baked cookies…

Kev makes the most yummiest peanut butter cookies ever!! He has been making them for many years and this year Heather was let in on the secret recipe. I just love the way our home smells when cookies are baking. We made a few dozens to share with our friends and neighbors and saved some dough so Santa can have a few fresh baked ones =)

this is a Christmas tutu I made for Heather and a matching one for her dolly.. Heather just thought it was the funnies thing that her and her dolly matched

we are ready to bake!

Dad was teaching how to carefully crack the eggs.. don’t want any weird crunchy stuff in the cookies

Heather counted along with how many tsp of vanilla it takes for Kevs super cookies

the criss cross’ have to be just right

and voila!! you have amazing pnut butter cookies.. it was a long 12.5 min to wait for them to cook! they were sooo yummy!!! 

Have a Merry Christmas!

Its beginning to look like Christmas..

Its beginning to look like Christmas and we are all so excited! Heather is having so much fun looking at the lights and all the decorations. Two of our neighbors won awards for the best decorated homes in our city and they have snow blowing everywhere too its great! this past weekend  we went to Kev’s aunt and uncle’s house for the beginning of the family Christmas get togethers. Heather has so much fun playing with her second cousin Daniel, he’s about 6-1/2 months older than her and they have so much fun with each other. The weather was great to be outside, there was a little chill in the air but in the sun it felt great! I love California for that reason! We are just about ready for the man in red to come visit, tonight we will bake some cookies for the neighbors.. I cant wait! Kev makes the most delicious pnut butter cookies! I’ll post pics of that later =) Hope the Christmas cheer is finding you all well too.

Heather was checking out what Santa was making although it sure does look like she’s up to something…

Daniel and Heather playing follow the leader

this is what happens when you ask 2 yr olds to look up at you.. they were looking at the rocks so I said look up..I should have been a bit more clear LOL

playing tag by the tree

peek a boo.. I see you

they were patiently waiting to see if Santa may come early

it looks like they are so tall!

checking to see if Santa’s reindeer are coming….

Hope you all made Santa’s nice  list this year =) Have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy every minute with your family and loved ones and remember the true meaning of the season…

a magical day..

we headed off to Disneyland for some minnie and mickey magical fun at the happiest place on earth.. well at least in Anaheim. Heather had so much fun!! It actually wasn’t to crowded either.. its disneyland and will always be crowded but it wasn’t bad. We took the train ride around the park, which was so fun and went on a few rides and the carousel too and had lots of fun at toon town! It was a great day!
I love all the palm tress on the street
this Christmas tree is huge! wish it was real.. it would smell so good!

Heather and I went to the sky in our rocket ship. Heather enjoyed making it go up and down and I was so happy she didn’t mind being so high up
Kev and Heather at Autopia.. Heather kicked Dad out of the driver seat and took the wheel LOL
the castle was beautiful, we didn’t see any princesses though
We all had fun riding the horses on the carousel

this huge chair was at goofy’s dog house.. to bad it wasn’t soft and squishy
Heather was sooo happy to see Minnie!
Minnie was so sweet and it made Heather’s day to meet her friend
this is the next day.. we were off to have breakfast with Santa. Thankfully not everything was blown away and we were able to have some fun in the snow after breakfast
It was a great weekend! very busy but so much fun Thankfully we didn’t lose power at our house during the horrible winds but just about everything was blown around in the yard and a few neighbors lost some trees but nothing major where we were. Our family in TC was without power for 4-1/2 days, its back now. It was crazy to see all the beautiful old oaks blown down this was some crazy wind! Glad it didn’t last more than 2 days!
Now its time for more Christmas fun.. everyone is almost done putting up their lights and we can go for our walks to check out all the pretty lights!