Park N Play, Sept 5

Danny and I decided that since he was working all of the Labor Day weekend this year, we would only go to sacrament on Sunday and use the rest of the day as a family day. We had so much fun. We went to the park, as we were pulling in Sammy started to cough and ended up puking all over himself and the carseat, that is why again he is naked in these shots.

While cleaning out a couple of houses Danny has come across 2 pair of Rollerblades, one for Lolo and one for him. So he dusted them off and headed into the skate park with Kody. And Lolo has discovered she loves to skate, and even when we are just home she skates up and down the little patio we have out front.

Since dad was showing off his jumping skills, as you saw in one of the earlier posts, Kody decided he couldn't be upstaged. While I was in taking pics, Kody boasted that he too could jump over the cone. I got the camera ready, he skated down to his starting point, took off as fast as he could go...and then lept of his skateboard and jumped the cone with his own feet. What a goober, but he was right he could jump the cone, he didn't say he would do it on the board.

Sammy then decided he wanted to push his board all over. Danielle obliged him for a little while, then she got tired of him running in front of the other skaters and bikers and then he would throw a fit. This was about the time we decided we were done at the park.

So we loaded up and headed to the square to see what was going on. Sammy then decided he wanted to push the stroller instead of ride in it, which caused another fit. So Danny decided that Danielle and I could walk around why he plays in the grass with the other kids, thus elimating the stroller problem AND those that didn't want to walk around the art show anyway.

When we found them Sammy was wrestling with dad and Danielle decided she needed an airplane ride. Then each kid after her wanted one too. That is my superman, skating and jumping cones, then still able to lift all 4 kids up off the ground. What a stud!

Then we headed home for some fresh carnitas for dinner. What a great day!

Superman

Thats my superman! He's still got it!

Family Day with the Oquists, September 4

Saturday the 4th we spent the afternoon with the Oquist fam. It started with the Chino Valley JV football game to watch Justin. He is number 72, after the game started Sammy decided he needed to sit with Mike to get the low down on how the game works. It didn't last long and then he was back down playing with Lightening McQueen.

Chino ended up losing, but Justin played hard. It's fun to watch him get involved, I love going to the kids sporting events.

We then went to Mike and Janeen's for a BBQ, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm killer burgers! Then while we all digested the burger masterpieces a game of croquet broke out.
We played teams and paired up each age group. Janeen/Mike, Joe/Danny, Justin/Danielle, Tyler/Kody and Lynzie/Lolo. (Liz and I just observed) Meanwhile Sammy grabbed the last mallet and played his own game. At the football game some of the kids found a water spicket and Sammy joined them in getting wet, hence the reason why he is wearing just his diaper in all the pics.

The dad's owned the game, they smoked everyone. Sammy didn't like it when a team got down to the wickets he was playing with. He would pick up thier ball and say "NO!" and move it somewhere else. lol Here is the 13 yr old team setting up the next move.

The 10 yr olds just kinda goofed around and then couldn't figure out how they were so far behind. It was always the other ones fault.

Sammy started playing croquet-ball. He would hit the ball then throw down the mallet and run, just like in baseball. He is so fun to watch and I love how he already has such a great imagination and plays so well by himself.

Mike and Janeen just laugh and enjoy watching everyone battle it out.

One of the best things about hanging with the Oquists is that there is always laughter! They are some of the most sarcastic and teasing people. Kids included, we had so much fun and I think the croquet game was the best part of the day. Here Tyler is "helping" Danielle with her shot.

Kody is setting up, while Joe and Danny entertain everyone else, part of why Janeen and Mike observed from the side is they could catch any cheating while no one else paid attention.

And here it is the winning stroke as Joe so loudly points out to everyone! Danny and him were hillarious together being the jerks they love to be. This is where Danielle and Kody get thier obnoxiousness from. Ornery kids!

Grandma finally stepped in to help Lolo and Lynzie.

Kody gets to send "Ole Yeller"s ball away. Janeen and Mike got the yellow mallet and ball, so they became the Ole Yeller team.

Danielle and Justin ended up 2nd, they had so much fun. They have become so enjoyable to be around, who would've thought that a 15 and a 16 yr old could be so much fun. Someday the 13 yr olds will be this way too...I hope.

Sammy takes a break.

Booyah! We're number 2, we're number 2.

While we waited on Ole Yeller and the other 2 teams to finish Justin tried to take down his dad. It was pretty much a draw, Joe finally said he was done. Neither one of them hit the ground, until Danny stepped in...

Justin then decided to show Kody how strong he was, I guess since he couldn't hold his own with the dads he needed to prove he could take someone down. hahahahahahaha
After the game finally ended we headed back inside for CAKE! Then Sammy asked to watch cars and the rest of us played a game of 31. BUT the 13 yr olds decided to use the pool table as a hot wheels launch ramp. When Sam discovered them he crawled over the back of the couch and joined them. I snapped this pic before Grandma turned around and caught him.

After getting caught, Sammy just poked his head through the cushions and tried to play with the big boys.

Sammy then gets attacked by Tyler and Lynzie, what else are cousins for? We had a great day, so much fun with the Oquists. Other than some pouting by the poor poor 13 yr old boys, there were no problems and the food was great!

Ready for Church!

I ran an errand with Danny this morning before church, asked the kids to be showered and ready so we had the bathroom to ourselves to go a quick ready. I asked Kody to please bathe Sammy and put him in his brown plaid shorts and brown shirt. Here is what happens when you ask a 13 year old boy to get his little brother ready. Kody didn't know why I couldn't stop laughing and then immediately looked for the brown polo that actually goes with the shorts.