"Snow" Much Fun

The whole family (and then some) went to Santa Barbara for a fun and relaxing weekend, to celebrate Steve and his younger brother Jacob's birthdays. We stayed at the Snow's . Which is Tina ( Steve Sr.'s girlfriend) parents home. It is a beautiful Mexican style hacienda hidden in the hills of Santa Barbara which is beyond description. They were so nice and welcoming and never batted an eye as 4 adults, 3 teenagers, 1 kid, and a toddler invaded their home. Thank you so much, MB and Tom for having us.

So now settle in this is going to be a long post. I may even have to break it up into a couple, but you know you love it :)

Here is most of the gang that we brought up. Steve's brothers, Justin, Jacob, and Tristan. Then of course Tatiana and Sydney. There were so many of us we had to rent a mini van to get us all up there. Okay on a side note I swore I would NEVER get a mini van or have enough kids to need one, but let me just tell you that thing drove like a dream and OMG there was so much room even fully loaded with 7 of us and all of our bags. Dare I say my next car might just be *GASP* a mini van

When we arrived Tom had made us the most delish pasta. As you can see Syd loved it so much that a fork was completely unnecessary.

This is MB and Tom our wonderful hosts. Tom is actually a songwriter and has written some very cool tunes that you may know like, He's So Shy, Chances Are, Dreaming of You, and After All, just to name a few.

Okay I know totally cheesey but I just had to snap a picture of his Emmy. He won for the music to Fame L.A. Really can you blame me how cool is this!!

Mad Scientist

Is this a mad little scientist or what.. wait no it's our little princess Sk. While exploring Grammy's obviously not so hidden treasures trove of wonderful and exciting thingy-ma-bob's she came across these Build-a-Bear glasses or as she calls them "eyes".Okay here we go this is where they go, but really they were pretty cute the other way :)

Favorites

Sydney is a very busy little girl. Here she is at her Grammy's doing some of her favorite things...

Gardening...

Talking on the phone....

playing in her sandbox with her UB (yes they got her, her very own sandbox )

and of course trying on UB's boots.

Like I said a very busy girl I'm not sure how Grammy keeps up some times.

Halloween Haunt

Okay yes Sydney is way too little for the "scary-ness" of Knott's Scary Farm but that is why she stayed with grandma for the evening and us big kids got to go out and play.

Our bud's Jennifer and Troy If you look real close the third from the right is Tatiana she was called up on stage and became hypnotized it was really cool and very weird. While "under" she hid from a stampede, and then tried to find her butt (she seemed to have lost it). Afterwards she really had no recollection of anything like I said weird...

Afternoon at the Park

The weather has finally turned and been beautiful. I just love the fall. So it was a great after work treat to walk to the park and hit the slide. It's so much more fun now that Sydney is older and gets to do more than just look at the playground. Already trying to climp up the slide

Loving the bouncy thing

here she is in action...

Dance Dance Revolution

Tatiana has always loved dancing (must come from those years of competitive dance) so even though she hasn't been in competitions for a while she still loves to shake what I gave her especially on the DDR. So anytime we are near a DDR we have to let her get her fill. This time how ever there was someone else who wanted to join... her little sis hey maybe the competitions aren't over yet :)

15 Months Already

I can't believe Sydney is 15 Months already, how time flies. To celebrate and just get out of the house ( Syd is definitely better when we are out than if we just are home. Her grammy's favorite thing to say is that with most kids when they get cranky your like never mind let's just stay home with Syd it's like hurry up let's go.) we took the girls to Knotts for a couple hours. It was so fun SK is finally big enough to hit up some Camp Snoopy rides.