Whale Watching

We had been planning on going whale watching for a while. I've always wanted to take my kids, i went a couple of times when i was a kid and loved it. So we planned a day but with the weather always changing we changed the date a couple of times. Delaine planned on coming out to join us with her kids and her friends so with that we had alot of kids together to watch on a boat. Crazy! we went on a tuesday which was half price, and it became a beautiful day. cullen liked jumping around and playing with the other boys his age. sophia was out of sorts come to find out she was having the first stages of strep throat. and lily was great but always wanted a snack. We saw tons of dolphins swimming right with the boat, Lily even got excited and was pointing them out. We also got to see a couple of fin whale which are the second largest whale, and we could tell they were huge, we wanted to see his tale but never got the chance. But so awesome. what a fun day! Thats the best shot of our fin whale off in the distance. we were really excited to see him.

Some of our dolphins.
All the kids... Lily, Cullen, Sophia, Liam, Everett,
The kids lining up to get on to the boat, Beautiful day!

Girls Weekend

A couple of my girlfriends and I decided it was time for a break, so we went away to Vegas for a girls weekend. It was full of shopping, talking, eating, and driving. We all had a great time. I was so happy that James could watch the kids and I could get away, i needed it. It was good to reconnect with friends and learn more about some of them. We stayed at the Jockey Club which was right next to the Bellagio, so we went there everyday. We had dinner at Bouchon which was at the Venetian, shopped at 2 outlet malls, had lots of sweets at Serendipity, and stayed up chatting til about 2am.



All the girls...Me, jamie,cindy nicole, lara, krista, and aly

Super Cute Suns Kids

A picture we took for Valentines day for Grandma. She bought all these shirts for the kids in Phoenix and I just love them. So we took a picture for her! So cheesy cute. Two of my favs... my kids and the suns. Together!

Crazy Boys!

Had to put this video on. Paul Schultz and all his craziness. He always seems to have a crazy thing for the boyz to try. This time he had gathered up old military parachutes sewed them together attached a trash can and voila! a hot air balloon, all you need is a blow torch to blow it up. So that's what they did in the middle of the desert one day, take turns going up in the balloon and crashing down. This is James' turn, he loved it. We'll have to wait to see what Paul comes up with next.

7 kids running the Stockdale House

Our good friends the Harris' wanted a weekend away. They have four kids. Four Great Kids. But with them and our kids it makes 7. The ages went 8,7,6,4,3,almost 2, 18m. Now that is a crowded house! We had fun though! we played alot of wii, and a ton of Beattles Rock band. They went home knowing all the words to "yellow submarine" we also watched some movies, the girls made an easy bake cake for us to eat, and played outside. It was a big group so we kept it at home most of the time. The kids were so good! We couldn't believe Joshy (almost 2) would lay down to go to sleep without even a peep. James turned to me after laying him down and said "I want one of those!" After the Harris' got back Desiree said to me, "ok, let me know when you want us to take yours." I just laughed, her kids were so good, if i gave her ours she would go crazy because they are so crazy. But the kids had a super fun time. Colby and Sophia eatin up her easy bake cake.
All the kids watching "G force" Colby, Joshy, Sophia, Brooke, Maddie, Cullen, Lily.
Maddie and Sophia making Chocolate frosting for their cake.
Lunch time. we had a picnic on the floor it was much easier and funner when all the kids were sitting together.

Ga Ga for Gaga

Lily LOVES mickey and Minnie Mouse. She calls Mickey "gaga", just recently she says "minnnii". Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is her favorite show. "gaga" She also says "oh toodles" She puts her little finger to her mouth and says "ohhhh tooooddless" it's so cute. So when we went to Disneyland I had to take her to see Minnie. I didn't know how she would react to those giant mouse people. But she jumped out of the stroller and ran saying "gaga". I even had to pull her back so that we could get in line. It wasn't a bad line for Minnie. When it was her turn I just let her go and she ran straight for her. GAGA for Gaga!

Sophia's Jedi Training

One of our common places to go at Disneyland is Jedi Training, Cullen has done it many times (he always gets picked, he must get that from his dad). Sophia has tried a couple of time but i think they thought she might be a little to little. But this was her turn! i was glad that both of them got picked and even could stand together. Sophia was so excited I thought her hands were going to fall off from shaking them. She did awesome and even got to "force push" the storm troopers. Darth Vader never saw it coming. Sorry Darth no hope when your fighting the stockdale kids.
Sophia getting ready to "force Push" she got both of them!