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