Disney Date NIght

I love that quite a few friends have Disney passes, and it's such a bonus that we work together and that Garys' Auntie Barb loves taking him!! So every now and again we make a "date night' after work. Now you see why we call it "date night". I swear we are going to show this at their wedding slide show lol...
We all loved how Small World gets all decked out for the holidays

Our Disney Gang :)

An Unexpected Trip

Towards the end of October we made a trip up to Northern California for Steve's grandmothers memorial, though it was a sad reason it was wonderful to get together with family and celebrate grandma's life. It was the first trip up there in 6 years for us, and Sydney's 1st and the first time she has met some of her cousins. Let's just say they hit it off right away and boy was it noisy (3 of Annie's + 3 of Leslie's +1 of ours and rain = one crazy house) Brothers and Sisters

Steve's dad came up too.
The In-laws

The Kids (the one of very few quiet moments)

and nothing says love like a bathtub full of family :)

A Jenny Hart Wedding

My wonderful new co-teacher Sarah was married a few weeks ago, as you can see she was an absolutly beautiful bride and it was a great wedding.

The Jenny Hart Girls

Chaffey Marching Tigers

As you can see, again I have a lack of posts, one of the many reasons is marching season is in full swing and it has been a whirl wind of competitions, shows and what not...and with Tatiana being a Captain she (as in us) have more things to do. But as always we love it and do it with smiles.

Tat even preformed at the Rose Bowl at the UCLA game

Tatiana and Jose (The Passion Within)

The girls at spirit rally

Sydney's a Purple Caterpillar

Sydney has offically become a "pre-schooler" she started ast Jenny Hart as a Purple Caterpillar (3yr. old room) and has 2 wonderful teachers Ms. Laurie who shares her love of all animals and bugs and Ms. Michelle who is here "shop till you drop" fashionista sista , so in other words all bases are covered and they can tag team her and whip her into shape :) Ms. Laurie, Syd And Ms. Michelle

Sydneys' favorite thing to do at school (besides helping to feed Kobe the Gecko) is painting

and it's great to spend the morning in mommy's class

and of course the playground

Summer Catch Up

Well I totally dropped the proverbial "ball" and completely ignored the blog so now it's time to play catch-up so here is our summer in a nut shell....

We had lots of fun with friends...

Went to the beach...

Had lots of yummy lunch dates

Worked in our garden which provided lots of wonderful veggies this summer

spent plenty of time in the pool

and took many, many Disneyland trips

and started our bi-monthly library trips

All in all it was a wonderful and busy summer, thank you to everyone we were luckily enough to spend it with!!

Ontario 4th Of July Parade

We spent Saturday morning on Euclid watching the Ontario 4th of July Parade it was a fun little parade and Tatiana even marched in it.
being a silly goose

Chaffey High Marching Tigers

Tatiana in the rifle line (and she didn't even drop) Syd waving to all here "tiger" friends

Papa's 60th Birthday

We had so many celebrations in the last 2 weeks and this one was another GREAT one Papa turned 60 on the 1st so to celebrate we had a nice little party at his house in Alhambra. Complete with great family , friends and food! Papa and Grammie with all the Gran-girlsFinally an Erwin family picture

Syd and Papa dancing the night away

Discovery Science Museum

A few weekends ago we were able to go visit the Discovery Science Museum. We had a great time with the Grammies and learned all about some funky body functions in the new Gross-ology exhibit. playing a giant game of operation

Sydney also loved the Tinker Toy exhibit

and we had to check out the dinosaur quest

Tatiana even layed on a bed of nails

Ladybug Pool Party

So we waited until the end of June to have Sydney's "official" Birthday Party (we wanted to make sure it was nice and warm for the pool). When the time came for planning Sydney informed me that she was going to have a Ladybug party...so of course that's what we had. It was a great theme and surprisingly easy to do! And of course what's a pool party with out BBQ so that was on the menu. Every one had a great time and the weather was fantastic!!

All the girls hanging in the pool


it was a great turn out.

Papa and Grammie helping Sydney blow the candles out on her ladybug cake

and Sydney was so sweet she let her best buddy Casey help with the opening of her presents

Sydney K is 3

I can't believe how fast time flies it seems like just yesterday she was a tiny little bug, but now she is this beautiful,(opinionated, bossy diva) little girl. We actually have a party planned for the end of June but the day of her "real" birthday we made a ladybug cake (per Syd's request).

Dream Car

This is one LUCKY girl!! After much thought, consideration and searching Tatiana got her dream car she has always said she wanted a little Beetle but what 16 year old kid really gets the car they want the first time out. Well like I said after much thought we decided that she really did deserve it. The girl get excellent grades, is captain of her high school C. Guard and yes now has a job, so really why not. But just like any good parents it does have a price she has to pay her own insurance, gas, and maintenance, and all the while keep up with school (and those grades) and work. I think she can handle it and really just look at that face there is really nothing better that giving your child something they dream of!

Color Guard Captain 2010-2011

It's official, Tatiana made CAPTAIN!!!! She also got the seniors No-Brainer award (what can I can I love her but she can be a little ditzy) lol... So it looks like another busy, busy Band year ahead of us.

As they announced her name as captain

Yes, you are awesome!