Aladdin Play

Last night was Cydney's school musical of Aladdin! As I mentioned earlier in the year, Cydney played the lead role of Jasmine. She did an exceptional job, and we are SO proud of her! She worked really hard and her hard work paid off! Her and Jacob- who played Aladdin were cast perfectly for each other and they were just too cute! I took a lot of pictures in my excitement which you can check out below as well as a couple YouTube video's of her solo's! Thank you to the 32 friends and family members that took time out of their busy schedules to come and support Cydney! I am quite sure this was the most well attended play the school has had!!

ALL the pictures!

2011-06-09

Disneyland March 2011

We just got back from our annual spring trip to Disneyland! This was an exciting trip because it was Bella's first REAL time! We took her once when she was 6 months old, but obviously she doesn't remember that trip! We were really excited to share something we love so much with our baby girl for the first time!

I was a little worried going being outnumbered and all but it ended up being great. Bella did wonderful for being a 2 year old. She had patience in the lines, wasn't scared of anything and absolutely LOVED talking to the Princesses. We walked into the park our first day and she saw the castle and freaked out saying "Disney!!". That's my girl :) She was also very excited to go on Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters and Toy Story Mania being that she is obsessed with toy story!

The big girls had a blast as well. Lilly still isn't tall enough for Indiana Jones and California screaming but she had good spirits about it and enjoyed the "thrilling" rides that she CAN ride such as Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain Railroad, and Tower of Terror! Cydney enjoyed being big sister this trip and helping out as much as possible... And asking a MILLION questions!!

All in all it was a really fun trip and we can't wait to do it again of course!

World Of Color

Tuesday night we took the kiddo's to see World of Color at Disneyland. I cannot express to you how Absolutely AMAZING this show is. It is worth going alone! We were able to sit in the VERY front row so that Gabriella could be away from people, wear our Minnie Ponchos, get soaked and have an absoulutely wonderful time!!!

Visit to the Vegas and So CA!

Hmmm I think I LIKE the way that sounds... but maybe that is just me personally! ;)

Saturday afternoon I drove down to Loma Linda to visit the Paul, Kristi, PJ and Gabriella for the first time since her surgery, With all 3 girls in Tow!!!!

Sunday we had a good old sleepover for the girls, Complete with makeovers, a fashion show, wii and and Tent!

Monday we went to the Splash Pad! Bella wasn't much of fan, but what IS she a fan of these days! The older kids (and moms!) had a blast!

Tuesday we got up and headed to Anaheim! We got there about lunch time and Kristi went and picked up our picnic lunches for World of Color that night! We walked back over to dland park, sanitized a table and dug in. After that we went to see Minnie and the Princess'. I was SO excited for Bella to meet Minnie... as was she... Until she rounded that corner! She was super freaked!! Hmm... I guess we just wait to see when she is a little older! lol After that we checked into our hotel. Rested a bit, Caught the Street Party before eating dinner at Tomorrowland Terrace. One of my FAV places there :) While We ate the girls rocked out to their dance party! :) Then we headed over to CA and the girls shook their groove thang some more at the Glow Fest they have going on over there! Then it was time for WORLD OF COLOR!

Wednesday we slept in... Well everyone but Bella and I did. Then we had lunch at La Brea Bakery in Downtown Disney. I also shopped for some things for Missa and Nic's wedding. :) Then we headed out to Beverly Hills. We got a little side tract ed on the way... We decided to go find Kellan Lutz' (Emmett in Twilight) house. We knew the street because he mentioned it on the Bonnie Hunt show. We found it and were taking a couple pictures when his head popped up from behind the front fence!! Ahh! We screamed a little and drove off. Too chicken to do anything else ;) lol.

From there we headed to Sprinkles Cupcakes and Crumb Bake shop in Beverly hills to have a "cupcake off". We got our competitors and got the kids some dinner and went to a local park to let them run off some steam. Hmm. Sprinkles vs Crumb. EQUAL! just DIFFERENT! There were things I Loved about BOTH. Sadly I left the rest of mine at Kristi's!! :(

All it all it was a wonderful time spend with awesome friends. When we left thursday evening... Lilly started BAWLING, "I'm going to miss them!" :) Little Besties are starting to "get it" more and more. Hopefully we can return soon... Love you so much Vega Family! Thank You for EVERYTHING!!

Name Change!!

A few weeks ago I was contemplating a "name change" on twitter. I took polls of what people thought it should be and ended up settling on @Faithtrustpdust

Faith Trust Pixie Dust is what it stands for. Now unless you have never seen Peter Pan you probably have no clue what I'm talking about!! Now obviously I'm not talking about flying lol but something about this just really touched me. This kind of describes my life.

I get through everyday with my FAITH in God... Let alone Faith is my middle name that I adore. Trust is something that I have struggled with previously, but without it, life wouldn't be true and it is something I value DEEPLY. Lastly, Pixie Dust. Yes I know this isn't real, but really isn't life full of magic here and there? This represents sooo many things to me! I don't know what I would do sometimes if I didn't have something "magical" to take me from reality. Obviously this also demonstrates my love for Disney and TINK!!

So I decided to continue with the name change and also apply it to my blog~ I feel like it fits ME and hope you like the change! :D

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!