Cydney turns 9!!

I can't believe that 9 years ago my sweet little angel was born and came into our life and made me a mother! I cannot express to you how blessed I feel to have Cydney as my daughter. She is so unique and special. I would like to take credit for all her wonderful attributes but Cydney was genuinely born an amazing person. She is mature, sweet natured,  kind hearted, soft spoken, funny, smart and talented. I couldn't be more proud to watch her mature into the beautiful person that she is becoming!!

Cydney chose not to have a party and presents this year and go to Disneyland instead! Lilly has gotten to go twice for her bday and we have always shy'd away from taking Cydney (summer crowds and summer prices!) but it was what she Really wanted this year so we saved up the money and off we went for a girls trip! So Wednesday the older girls and I headed to So Ca. We stopped in Bakersfield to pick up my friend Jen, so we had a perfect foursome for rides and off we went to Disneyland for 2 fun filled days!! The girls were super excited to ride the new "Ariels Undersea Adventure" and the revamped "Star Tours-The adventure continues" as long as see the new parade and summer fireworks!  Cydney had a GREAT birthday and we had a lot of fun!

On our way home we also stoped in Bakersfield to visit Uncle Joe and Aunt Kayla and meet their new baby cousin Jadyn who was born on 8/3!

29th Birthday

I turned 29 on the 2nd of April. Not much to say about that except that I'm now in the countdown to 30. lol To celebrate my birthday, my friend Christy from Vancouver BC, flew down and met Missa and I in LA for a few day's of fun!

Melissa and I drove down late thursday night and arrived in Hollywood to meet up with Christy about 1:30a.m. We got a good nights sleep and spent the next day shopping in Hollywood with a stop in Beverly Hills at Sprinkles Cupcakes! It took us 2.5 hours to get to Anaheim from Hollywood after that! Got to love LA traffic! We had my birthay dinner at Joes Crab Shack where they humiliated me while singing Happy Birthday to me. :)

Sat, and Sunday we spend in Disneyland, My favorite place of course! We tried to do a lot of things that Christy wasn't able to do her first time at disneyland! We had a great time, made wonderful memories and hated saying goodbye come Monday!

My BIGGEST Birthday Present was that my favorite actor Mr. Kellan Lutz himself (Emmett Cullen in Twilight) tweeted me a happy birthday message!! Thanks to my bestie for asking him to!!

All in all it was a great way for me to turn 29 :)

Lilly turns 6!

I can't believe my baby girl is 6!! Lilly is growing into such an amazing girl. She is unique and bold, always speaking her mind. I value the fact that all 3 of my girls are so different and have such interesting personalities! Lilly always keeps us laughing!

Here are some pictures from her 6th Birthday! We had a bowling party for her at Strikes! Good friends and family came out to make Lilly's day special, Thank you to each one!

Jonas Brothers Concert

For her Birthday, Cydney received tickets to go see the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato from Ashli and I! On September 17th the day finally came! She was allowed to pick 1 friend to go with her and she picked her cousin Jordan! We had SOOO much fun! It was up in Wheatland, About an hour or so away from us. Had a great drive and loved listening to the girls chat. We got there early sporting our "Joe Jonas Glases" and had enough time to pick out the swag we wanted to buy and eat before the show started! I thought Cydney was going to die of excitement when Demi Lovato came on stage. She was screaming and carrying on with the best of them. Jordan was excited too but is more of the sit back and check it out kind of girl. They both were pretty awestruck when the Jonas Brothers came out with all their fire and lights :) It was awesome! We danced the night away and all in all it was a great "first concert" experience. 

Here are some of our Favorite Pictures 

and you can check out the rest HERE

San Francisco Trip!

On April 2nd I turned 20 something..... According to my blog title... haha ok 28. I need to milk the "20 somethings" as long as I can OK! Now leave me alone!! Being that Easter was the 4th it was a bad weekend for us to do much of anything for my birthday so we decided to plan a little get away for the following weekend!

Chris was able to get Friday off and we went to San Francisco for the weekend. This was something I was particularly excited about!! We used to go to SF a LOT when we lived over in Martinez. We would hop on "BART" and 40 minutes later we were in the city for a nice date. Not so easy being at least 2 hours away now. So it's been a good 4 years since Chris and I have been able to do this which has made me sad!

We decided to drive the "long" way in and avoid the Giants opening day traffic and go across the Golden Gate Bridge. Chris had never driven this way so it was a nice little drive! The weather was GORGEOUS!! We visited the Walt Disney Family Museum at the Presidio when we got into town and it was just AWESOME!!! If you ever have a chance to go, you must! I was a little bummed that we weren't allowed to take any pictures but it was def worth the trip over there!! They told us it would take us about 2 hours to go through and I thought to myself "no way" when I heard that but sure enough... about 2 hours later we found ourselves exiting!

After we left the museum we decided to be a little "touristy" and do things that we had never done even though we had lived in the bay area most of our lives! We drove down Lombard Street and after we checked into our hotel and walked around a bit we rode the Powell St Cable Car over to Ghirardelli Square. Yes we had never done either of those things!! lol

Saturday we met up with Nic and Melissa and my childhood friend Derek and his wife Tahnee for lunch at Joes Crab Shack. Derek and I grew up together in Madera and he is now an awesome photographer! He did pics of my girls in July and is going to photograph Nic and Melissa's wedding. They were meeting up in the City that day to shoot some engagement photos! After watching the Bush Man for a while, We had a fun and embarassing lunch (that involved me doing the hula for my bday thank you Melissa) and then headed our seperate ways.

Saturday night we went to the Giants home night opener at AT&T Park! It was the first game the Chris and I have gone to alone in probably over 5 years! I love going to games. I love the atmosphere, smells, sights and sounds. Especially with the views of San Francisco Bay in the background! It was especially awesome because we got to see the ceremony for Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum recieving his CY Young award for the 2nd year in a row! The game was dissapointing as they lost and we had some exceptionally annoying fans around us, but all in all we enjoyed the time together!

Sunday we had a nice drive home and got to enjoy dinner and a movie before we went home to the girls who were really happy to see us! It seemed like Bella's vocabulary expanded over the weekend and she babbled all night telling us all about HER weekend!

Here are some pictures of our trip!

San Francisco Trip!

Lilly turns 5!

On Sunday, Lilly turned 5 years old!! I just can't hardly believe that my sweet girl is 5. So much has happened in the past 5 years! She was our ray of light in such a dark time and has continued to be. She is so different from her sisters. We are never surprised by the things that come out of her mouth! A while ago Chris made up a statement based off of a Twitter page that we like to follow "Overheard at Disneyland" except he likes to say "Overheard at the Crain House" aka "Ohatch" because of all the little funny things that we overhear or catch Lilly saying! She consistently makes us laugh and brings a smile to our face. She is such a good little AND big sister. We are so blessed to have her in our lives!

Lilly decided that she didn't really want to have a party this year and there wasn't really anything that she "wanted" for her bday either... so we thought we would take the money we could have spent towards a big party and presents and do a quick girls trip to Disneyland. When given the choice, she chose the dland option! So I pricelined a hotel and off "Auntie Missa" and I went on our first ever girls trip with ALL the girls!! It was a little trying having a 1 year old in the POURING rain but we managed!! Bella is def glad to be home! She is very different than the other 2 and does NOT want to be confined to a stroller! She in Miss Independent and wanted to be down and walking! Which she didn't understand why she couldn't do that in the rain! lol
All in all we had fun and I think Lilly had alot of fun for her birthday trip. She got to have breakfast at Goofy's Kitchen for her Birthday and get a Rockstar Makeover at Studio 365 with Money she saved up in her piggy bank!
We had a stressful drive home, the storm they were expecting rolled in early and we got stuck in it... flooding, wind, pouring rain... it was CRAZY.. but thankfully we made it home safely! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Lillys 5th Birthday Trip!

Benihana

Sat June 13th was Melissa's (Wifey!) 23rd Birthday! Nic (her sweetie) Missa, the girls and I packed up and went to Benihana to celebrate! The Girls absolutely LOVE this restraunt.... Esp Lilly. She asks to go here ALLLLL the time! I thought it would be fun to bring the camera along and take a few pictures!
Chef Lilly:

Missa, Nic and Bells:

Me, Missa and Bella:

Chef Cydney:

Our Chef "Enrique" lol :

Making "Chicken" fried rice!:

MMMMMM Shrimp!:

VOLCANO!:


Happy Birthday Missa!:

"And now we sing a special birthday song for Melissa":

Make a Wish!:

All of Us minus Bella: