Wiggles

Here's an awesome video of Madeline getting her wiggles out with the Yo Gabba Gabba clan. She had just woken up from her nap (note the binky in mouth and messy hair) and acts almost as if she is obligated to do this; however, she does it EVERY time the video comes on. Pretty hilarious!

Swimming!!!

Family pic on top of the waterfall!

Hi mommy!!!

Sizing up the slide...

...weeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Swimming like such a big girl in her floaty!

Trying to get up the step to go down the slide again. This girl is such a daredevil!!!

Firefighter Olympics

This year, the Firefighter Summer Olympics was hosted by Anaheim Fire Department. We played softball at Big League Dreams in Chino Hills and West Covina. All of the families came out to support our team. Check out our super cool Property of Redlands Fire Dept shirts! The kids looked adorable. The guys played great and took home the bronze medal this year!!! It was a ton of fun (despite the heat).

Daddy Love

We visited Daddy at his Candle Lighters fundraiser in Citrus Plaza this morning. Madeline sure is crazy about her Daddy!!! She also loves the fire truck...

Grubbin'

We took Hillary and Isabella to dinner at Famous Dave's last night. Baby Andrew is scheduled to be delivered on Thursday, so we figured we'd treat the girls to dinner since Uncle Frank was working. Madeline grubbed down on some yummy BBQ chicken, mini-corndogs, corn on the cob, and Oreo cookies. I think she enjoyed herself...the last picture cracks me up because she is totally glaring at the woman who sat down behind us and laughed at her messy face! Gotta love miss Madeline and her messy eating!

Concert in the Park

Last night, we enjoyed this year’s first Concert in the Park at the Yucaipa Community Park. It was quite a bit different from last year when all of the kids were babies and just relaxed on their blankets while we enjoyed the music. They were a little crazy this year and wanted to be part of the action. Our usual spot on the top of the hill just wasn’t close enough, so we had to move down front and center. Miss Madeline had a blast dancing to the classic rocks tunes. She even made a friend who was willing to dance with her for a few songs. It sure was a lot of fun. We had so much fun at these concerts last year and we are all so excited to have Sunday night concerts again this summer!

Happy Fourth of July!!!

Madeline celebrated her second Fourth of July this year. We started the day swimming at the Johnstones. Unfortunately, Mommy forgot the camera so we have no pictures to share of Madeline swimming like such a big girl in the pool. She had lots of fun playing with all of the kids though and used her swim tube all day to swim around the pool by herself. Mommy and Daddy were very proud. We met up with the Egans for fireworks that night. Here she is watching some fireworks with daddy. She sure loved all of the bright colors!

She even got to hold her very own sparkler, which she thought was totally awesome!

Cuddled up with mommy watching one of the big fireworks.

More sparklers...these sure were fun!

Madeline was in awe of the fireworks and wouldn't take her eyes off of them for a second!

These sparklers are the best!

All up in the action as usual...

The noisy ones were a bit scary for her...I'm kind of glad we didn't go to a big fireworks show because she would have been horrified by all of the noise. It was perfect to just do a few big ones in the backyard and let the kids have fun with the sparklers. Plus, after swimming all day and staying up almost two hours past her bed time, Mads was pretty tuckered out at the end of the night. She fell asleep on the two-minute drive home!