Summer fun

I have been playing around on the computer and I changed my blog again! I really like this new template! If you want to have a new blog look too, here is where I found it.

I called this post "summer fun" because I am in denial that it is August!! It makes me sad because once August comes the summer goes so fast! I love being on summer vacation! Christine and I have declared August 1st as "National Teacher Day of Mourning!"

It sure has been a while since I have posted so here's what's been going on...
Brad and I celebrated our 13th anniversary on July 23rd. We went to Disneyland as a family and had fun. We rode the new Toy Story Mania ride and here is a pic with the 4D glasses you have to wear. You use an air gun on the ride and it is like a shooting gallery. It keep score of all of the targets you hit. Sammie scored 125,000 and beat Brad!! I scored 150,000 so I beat him too! He got 109,000.. Tee hee hee.... It is an awesome ride!



Sammie finished her 2nd session of swim lessons. She did great. This was a wonderful swimming program! She went off the high dive by herself!! Only 1 other kid did that! This kid is fearless!! I was so proud of her since she didn't even want to put her face in the water at the beginning of the first session. Now she can go under, blow bubbles and even swim a super short distance.





We just got back from a little vacation to Legoland and Sea World. Sammie loved Legoland. She had a great time going on all the rides. This was our first time there and we really enjoyed it. The park wasn't that crowded and the weather was perfect! The 2nd day, Sammie made a little friend named Audrey and we hung around with her, her sister, and Grandma the rest of the day. It was too cute! The miniland was great too. They have replicas of Las Vegas, Washington DC, New York, Hollywood... It is incredible!!


What was Sammie's favorite part about Sea World??? The Anheuser Busch Cyldesdale horses of course!! They have a place where you can take a photo with the horses and visit the barn, which we had to do twice!! The funniest part was the Clydesdale that we got to meet and take our photo with was named Sammy!!!


We did enjoy Sea World too. She loved the penguin encounter. The sea lion show was funny and we saw 2 Shamu shows as well. One was the regular Shamu show and the other was Shamu Rocks which is a nightime show. Sammie was trying to talk about it the next day and refered to Shamu "shamrock" because of the name of the show. I thought that was funny.
They had a new area that just opened called Sesame Street Bay of Play. There are some kiddie rides and a huge climbing thing that she loved. We were busy from morning till night and she was on the go with no naps at all... These past few days she has been catching up on sleep and has slept until 10:00 one day and 11:00 another day..
She has her first soccer practice tonight which should be intersting! She is the youngest one on the team and probably the bossiest!! The kids all voted on their team name. Sammie wanted to be the Mustangs because the uniforms are brown and she loves horses but she was the one who voted for every name that was suggested and then the winning name was the Tigers. ( which is also cute) She was pretty disappointed about the winning name choice. I dont think she really got the "concept" of voting. oh well..
Anyway.. I will be back soon with more pics. Blogger only lets me upload like 4 at a time ( unless I just dont know how to do it right) LOL!! I took a ton of photos.