Disneyland!

So my mom's birthday is tomorrow ... yes, it happens to be on Thanksgiving this year, so... if your birthday is on Thanksgiving you are kind of locked into what you do and what you eat and where you go. Thus last thursday {one week early} my mom picked going to Disneyland for her birthday and Bennett and I got to go too!
{gotta love it when Mom pays for you to do something for her birthday!} 
We had such a great time going to "Mickey's house" {as Bennett called it} and celebrating "Grammy"! 

Not so sure about the giant talking Buzz .... but he loved shooting Zurg! 

He was so excited to be driving! 

This was my ride for the day ... yep, I'm that pregnant!

{But really it was great to have. There is no way I would have made it thru a 12 hour day without it!}

He really liked Small World too! I think he was a little overwhelmed at first, but he continued to talk about it for the rest of the day! 

Making friends with the girl who was throwing sweet potato fries to the ducks

He has no idea what is coming ... he hasn't actually seen Pooh yet at this point! 

The Big Meeting! 

Truly the highlight of the whole day! 

He couldn't even look away for a picture! He was just so happy to be with his friend! 

Once he was back in the stroller he was ready to map out his next move .... ToonTown! 

It was about a 45 minute wait to get this picture ... good thing it's pretty cute! 

On our way to the other park for Bug's Life and Disney Junior and Brother Bear, Bennett curled himself up in a ball and just passed out! Seriously, he was down for the count! So the rest of us had a great time sitting and eating soft pretzels with cheese sauce and mochas and cookie ice cream sandwiches ... it was a great nap time!

Once we finally found a place to watch the parade we had some time to kill ... so what better time killer is there than Popcorn?!

Bennett said "Mom, two Mickies!" ha ha! Opps, I guess we never really talk about Minnie that often! 

Believe it or not, the Dumbo line was still ridiculously long at 7pm so this was Bennett's entire Dumbo experience ...

{I mean, let's be honest, it's not like he has even seen the movie ... he just thought it was cool that there was an elephant for him to sit on!}

Last ride of the day and he was so happy to go on the "Casey Train"!

He specifically picked out the Monkey car ... which was not easy to get into! 

 And to finish it all off we caught the fireworks as we were heading to the parking garage ...

This was such a fun day! 

Thanks Mom for including Bennett and I in your birthday fun! 

Happy Birthday tomorrow! 

Celebrating Baby #2

Last weekend I had a baby shower to celebrate the life of this little one that is coming so soon!
It was so beautiful and so perfect ... it really looked like a magazine!
I loved every second of it!
{I'm trying to consolidate the massive amount of pictures I ended up with... hopefully it works for you}

The decor was fabulous! I loved the bird cages!

I have ridiculously good looking friends! 

So much food that all tasted sooooo good!
{did you see how cute those bird cookies were?!}

Gifts, Gifts, Gifts!
{Check out the "Starry Night" in the bottom left corner - Unbelievable!}

There's nothing better than spending a rainy afternoon with people you love, eating yummy food and opening presents!

Thank you to all my fabulous party planners who made this day so special and wonderful!
Baby Elwer and I feel very, very loved!

Guinea Pigs and Baby Showers

This last monday Adam's work gave us a little baby shower after school got out! It was so nice and we really had a fun time and I totally didn't take any pictures! 

{Proof I really was enjoying myself} 

But after it was done and we were helping to clean up I did get a couple of Bennett playing with and talking to the guinea pigs that where in the class room.  This poor kid need a pet ... oh well, he's getting a brother or sister soon so hopefully that will hold him over for a while longer! ha ha! :) 

Speaking of baby showers, my cousin put together an amazing shower last saturday {along with a few other lovely ladies} but I don't have the pictures from that yet ... hint hint CL :) But you can see the super cute invitations here and I do have just a couple pictures to give you a taste of the fabulous-ness that was Saturday! 

More to come ... I promise! 

11/11/11

We had a fabulous day last friday! Adam had the day off and actually took the whole day off from lesson planning and test grading and power point making ... it was great!

After Grandma came over {Adam's mom} we all got our camping chairs together {for the Veteran's day parade later} and got into one car to start our day out with breakfast at The Mill in old town Murrieta. If you have never been there - you MUST go! They do breakfast only on Fri-Sat-Sun and it is such a yummy treat!

There was a lot of activity out on the street because people were showing up to stage for the parade and Bennett just couldn't stay inside any longer while we were ordering our breakfast {there was no one on the patio so we let him have a moment of independence... but just a moment}.

Look at that sweet little face ... and mullet! Ha ha!  {I cut his hair the next morning!}

Watching the Cub Scouts walking to me their "pack" {Adam did cub scouts... is that still something people do these days? I should look into it ...}

When breakfast arrived, Bennett sported an awesome milk mustache thru the entire meal!

Due to Adam's recent gout attack in his knee and my general huge-ness and discomfort we decided to leave the car parked at the Mill and just walk a few feet down the street and set up for the parade there. It turned out to be an awesome place to sit with a fabulous view of everything going on!

We spotted some friends from church just a few feet away so we all got a sweet "pre-game" show from these bouncy little boys!

Bennett also got to take their dog on a 10 foot long walk and he was the happiest thing I've ever seen! Almost made me want to get him a dog .... Almost! {We would have to move and have a "real" back yard for that to ever happen and lets be honest ... I don't want to ever move - so good luck getting a dog kid!!!}

The parade started with the annual fly over and shortly after that the fun started coming down the street right at us!

Bennett loved his front row seat! He waved and clapped thru the whole parade!

For the third year in a row the pageant people have had miss spelled words on their floats/cars. Last year I think it was the word "pageant" if I remember correctly ... ha ha! Do you see this years misspelled word?
{It's kind of funny and rather sad and makes you realize that stereotypes do exist for a reason - ha ha!}

After the parade, Grandma came over for a little bit but then she had to go home so we all took naps and then continued the rest of our day at our friends house! We had an amazing beef rib dinner with super yummy rice and potatoes and asparagus! What a treat to have fabulous food and company!

After dinner we played Pit {I lost horribly} and watched Kung Fu Panda

Bennett has got some mad Kung Fu skills he has learned from "Master" and "Pay-pay" {panda}! 

He was more than happy to show off for us all! 

Kung Fu Panda was followed with Adam's fabulous coconut oil popcorn {YUMMMMM!!!!} and Scattergories {which I totally kicked butt at!}

11-11-11 was a great day for us filled with fabulous food, family and friends!
What more could you ask for on such a "special" day?! :)