Our little golfer

Ty completed his second year of golf school over spring break at my parent's club. He really loves all sports that he tries and we love that he enjoys them all so much.

Practice makes perfect.

Luke had to get in on the action too.

Ty showing Mason some skills.

This is Ty with Weston. His grandparents used to live next to my parents. One picture is from 2006 and the other from last week. Ty couldn't wait to be old like Weston to go to golf school too.

Working on his putting skills. He had a blast!!!

A little more San Juan

On Friday we went to tour El Morro and it was beautiful, right on the ocean, a storm rolling in, good history, so much fun.

You could literally see the rain coming at you.

One of the lookout points. El Morro guarded the entrance to Old San Juan for the Spaniards until the Spanish-American war in 1898 where is was defeated by US warships.

The history on the island is so interesting & we really enjoyed it. Hopefully we can bring the boys back some day.

The end of Charlie's Angels was filmed here and while we were there Johnny Depp was there filming 'The Rum Diaries'. Our boat Captain told us so many movies are filmed there because it can look like the Caribbean, New Orleans, Cuba....etc.

On another note, getting into my car on April 22 and the temp reading 115 in the shade????? It's a bit to early for that!!! What happened to spring?

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Last Monday Eric and I took off for our first official 'vacation without kids' since our honeymoon, minus a few nights here and there to Temecula or Vegas in the past 8 years. Without my parents, Emily & Iven, I would have never felt so comfortable leaving my boys for so long. We went to San Juan and had a FANTASTIC time. We ate wonderful food during romantic dinners, saw beautiful sights, walked along the ocean, and took our time with everything. It was truly a great week and reminded my that I'm married to my best friend.
Old San Juan is a beautiful city that reminds me a bit of New Orleans with pretty pastel colors.

Most of the streets are cobblestone and end at the ocean which lends much to the charm. We met such nice people from San Bernardino to New Jersey to New Zealand and the locals could not have been nicer and always wanted to point us in the direction of their favorite restaurants.

One of the sentry lookout points at the wall that surrounds Old San Juan, it was built in the 1500's.

Enjoying the local fare of beans & rice with some Bacardi cocktails our first day. I have come to find a new appreciation for Bacardi....

....hence we couldn't leave the island without a tour of the largest rum distillery in the world...Bacardi. To get there we had to take a ferry, a taxi and short tour but at last...the sampling area seen above, built to symbolize their mascot-the bat.

A view of El Morro, a fort built by the Spaniards in the 1500s to protect San Juan from attacks. This was taken from the deck of our 'boat ride' which started out to be a 'fishing trip'. No fish on fishing trip=expensive boat ride. It was pretty though and our captain loved to talk so we learned quite a bit about the island.

Eric checking things out....more photos to come.

Happy Easter!!!

On Sunday Ty & Julie went to church and then we all went to my parents and had a lovely egg hunt at their house and then went up to the club for a hunt and brunch, and they were not afraid of the Easter Bunny this year which was a big plus. My kids are now official egg hunting wizards after all of the hunting they have done in the past few weeks. The loved that the Easter Bunny came to our house too and chewed most of the carrot we left out.
One of our attempts at a family photo.
Lukie & the Bunny

Oh the anticipation, Ty had figured out ahead of time that there were lots of eggs hidden in the golf carts (we get awfully creative in CA)

Another family pic...

Mason looking particularly cute while searching for eggs.

Finally!!! A great pic of my & my boys!!! I love it!! Cali was even posing too! (Ty was at church so missed the photo op)

My Mommy & Me. Love it. How lucky am I to have her so close????

The boys showing their loot.

Mason on a sprint to find another egg at my parents house. What a fantastic day! I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

2009 Easter Party

Last Sunday we had 40 of our closest friends over for our annual Easter Party. The weather was great after the terrible wind storm and we all had so much fun.

Some water play.

My and my best girls, Julie, Vern & Tash.

The kids getting ready for the egg hunt, a bit irritated at all the pictures we all had to take...

Mace & his wonderful Julie.

Ty and two of his faves, Peyton & Zachy.

Mace & Luke & the neighbors, Tristen & Nic.

Mace & Luke and their girl Drew. Oh yeah, she loves them!!!

It's always key to compare Easter basket bootie.

Our crazy street at play time.

Some wind and some fun.

We had quite a wind storm last Friday. We had some chairs end up in trees...

A playset blow over into our casita....

Fences between a few yards collapse...

And our tiki bar ended up roofless... the wind also took our grill and tossed it into the grass, scary!!! Thankfully we have Iven and some great neighbors who had everything put back together in no time.

Friday Eric went with a few other teachers and 100 kids to a track meet north of Pasadena, he took Ty too who had a blast and was bouncing off the walls all day!!! Here he is hanging out with Chuck.

Chilling with the kids.

Julie says Ty looks just like this boy...maybe a bit!!

He was in heaven all day with all the attention. Eric said he would take off with kids and come check in every hour or so, he could not have had a better day!