Family escape

Last week we got to escape for a few days with grandparents, aunts & uncle and cousins. We had a great time enjoying the beautiful weather and scenery plus the AMAZING company. 

Rendezvous

Today we ventured to Weston to checkout a rendezvous put on by some family friends. I was fortunate enough to spend lots of hours with this family during my teenage years so it was so fun to be back with them for a while just hanging out


Dipping candles 



Visiting the trading post, they created a necklace and traded for goods 



Tomahawk throwing 





Noah “traded” for this awesome giant arrowhead. He was so excited to be able to attend this today, he learned about rendezvous at school but COVID-19 canceled the field trip to visit the rendezvous held yearly in our county.  

And we are back!

Hello blog world is anyone still out there?!! 

I hope so because I have decided I miss our blog for keeping track of our life. 

How has life changed since I last blogged? Well.....

Noah was 4, he is now 10

Lily was 2 months she is now 5

Mark was a pilot with Envoy he now flies for the airbus with American Airlines.

Emily was a medical assistant for a family practice doctor she is now a medical assistant for a palliative care provider and mostly works from home.

I had thoughts of trying to catch up the last 5 years and decided that was silly so we’ll just pick up here. 

Welcome back friends! Mark, Noah, Lily and Emily 

Lets try this again....

At the end of February, before my maternity leave ended, we decided a trip was in order to visit Fifields in California. I was nervous as this was the first time flying with both the kids and Lily's first flight ever (2 month olds don't generally have much flight experience). Mom H was kind enough to drive us down to the airport which eased my anxiety greatly about traveling alone. The flight caused a little anxiety but the thoughts of parking the car, unloading everything and than getting on a bus to the terminal and finally off the bus with everything made me want to cry and not go. By being dropped off I was able to strap Lily in the stroller which left one had free to pull a suitcase and Noah was able to pull the other. We made it in the terminal with no incident ,, Mom H said I looked like I knew what I was doing even if on the inside I was panicking.
We made it to the plane, on the flight with no incident

 

Noah has always been a great traveler so him doing well on the flight was no surprise. Lily seems to have followed in her brother...so far.... and did great on the flight. I took sugar water to put on her binky so she would suck during take off and landing....it worked great!

Landed, happy and waiting for Aunt Kristin

We started our weekend of fun by getting pizza and going to Axton's school to watch Big Hero 6. 2nd time around, Noah still loved it and watch the whole thing.

Mark was suppose to join us shortly after we arrived but Mother nature had different plans and he got iced in somewhere in Texas..I can't remember where.
Saturday we had decided we wanted to visit the Giffith park observatory, we did not take into consideration that there was a star gazing party going on the night and well it was a nightmare. We ended up going to the LA zoo instead.

 Act like the animals:

 

 I sure love this best friend of mine, so glad 10 years ago I moved into her apartment and that 8 years ago we married cousins!

 

 Ever since Florida last year Noah has been in love with Zebra's, this zoo didn't disappoint and had zebras for him to  watch.

 We ended our day at the gift shop, Noah decided he wanted binoculars to take home after our fun day at the zoo.

Sure love Brevin, he was so cute asking to brush his teeth.

 Sunday we had a pretty easy going day, church & just spending time together.

 

Jayli & Lily before church

 Some cousin playtime, okay lots of cousin play time.

 Summersault practice