September

Here is a look at our September...

Elle had her meet the teacher day at school.

We were thrilled to find out that Ms Gisela would be her teacher!

Emma enjoys her school drop off photo shoot with mom.

We went to cheer on Ricardo at his OGHS freshman football game.

I took Elle to the Safari park and we had so much fun together.

Sweet sister snuggles.

We went to watch Taylyr cheer at the VMHS football game.

We celebrated Jacob's 10th Birthday!

So crazy that our little guy is 10.

An evening trip to Legoland.

Fun evenings at the park.

Elle started her first day of preschool for the school year.

 She had so much fun and was so exhausted and she fell asleep on the way home.

We went to watch Caitlyn cheer at the VCHS football game.

Liz and I ran the Grape Day 5k in downtown Escondido.

Elle and Ava finished their first season of soccer.

Way to go girls and a big thanks to Coach (tia) Crissy!

 We had some crazy hot days, so we took a trip to the beach with cousins.

Elle has been loving school!

Emma is still loving her photo shoots, haha.

We celebrated Tio Paul's Birthday at his fun surprise party.

We met up with some of our Seattle Family at Downtown Disney.

If was so fun to see them and they had a fun filled weekend at Disneyland.

We had a hotel dance party and jumped on beds like crazy ladies.

Doug drove a Lamborghini Gallardo.

A big thanks to Bob and Cherie for such an awesome gift. Doug had such a great time.

 We had another fun evening at the park, followed by a trip to urgent care.

Poor Elle fell off the play structure and hit her head. Thank goodness she was fine!

Emma and Elle each had picture day at school. 

Emma started the fall season of 5&6 soccer.

She loves that Doug is her coach and that she has so many friends on her team.

Ava and Elle started the fall season of 3&4 soccer.

Tio Dave is their coach and the girls are having so much fun!

We went to a Padre game.

This was Elle's 1st game and Emma's 2nd.

We all had so much fun!

 We spent another fun evening at the park and fed the ducks.

Feeding the ducks is one of Elle's favorite thing to do!

September was lots of fun!

August

Here is a look at our August...

Emma is still loving her gymnastics class.

Elle started potty training, which means she is in just chonies all the time.

 Doug and I went on a fun trip to Paso Robles wine country with our great friends Wendy, Bill and Brigitte.

We enjoyed lots of wine and lots of laughs.

 Emma got a cute hair cut for school.

Emma was excited to visit her new school and see her name on the class list.

We celebrated Andrew's 6th Birthday with a fun movie night and party at our house.

Elle loved having Tia Crissy as her soccer coach.

Emma started 1st Grade!!!

She loves going to the same school as her cousins Jacob and Andrew!

 Elle enjoyed lots of play dates with her bff/cousin Ava while the big kids were at school.

I celebrated Kristin's bachelorette party with some of my closest friends.

We had fun park nights and sleepovers with cousins.

We have loved watching Elle grow into a funny, strong, sweet and independent girl.

Elle had her 3 year check up and is healthy as can be!

We celebrated Abuelita's Birthday with a fun game night at our home.

Liz and I ran our August 5k at Kit Carson Park.

We were so excited to start wearing our Seahawk gear for the start of football season.

August was busy, fun and really good to us!

July

I am so behind on our blog! 

Here is what our busy July looked like...

Doug and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary.

We spent a day at Dixon Lake.

 We spent the 4th of July with family and we had a great time.

Went swimming at Uncle Ruben and Aunt Kelleen's.

Had dinner with the fun Newell family.

Elle was awesome at her speech therapy.

She also had a perfect check up at the dentist.

Emma took another session of swim lessons.

We had lots of fun park days with cousins.

A fun night at the Wave water park.

Elle started her first season of soccer.

 We flew to Seattle for a fun vacation!

So much fun with our Seattle cousins.

We went to Doug and Val's 20th High School Reunion!

 Bob and Cherie hosted a BBQ and we were able to see lots of friends and family.

 We rode the ferry to visit Allyson, Cagdas and Rayna at their beautiful new home.

 We went to the American Girl Store and Elle got her very own Bitty Baby.

 We went to the Space Needle and walked around downtown.

We did our July 5k and it was so fun to have Val join us.

We went fishing at the trout farm and Elle caught her first fish!

Spent a day at Juanita beach.

We were such lucky ducks and we got to spend a day on Uncle Mike and Aunt Cindy's boat.

We had so much fun in Seattle!

We were so lucky that we were able to visit so many people.

Once we got home from Seattle, our busy month continued.

Elle graduated her Speech Therapy and has improved so much.

We are so proud of her!

 We went on our annual camping trip with family.