GLENDALE CENTER THEATER

This past Saturday Megan and I had a great time going to see "Sleeping Beauty" at the Glendale Center Theater. I grew up going to this theater and have seen various plays there. It is a really cute, small theater-in-the-round. Every seat is a good seat. We went with some friends and the play was really fun. Megan had spent the whole week previous with my parents and so we met up there and then I took Megan home with me. She loved staying with grandma and grandpa and I think they loved having her there but I tell you...I was sure ready to have her home again.

Here we are at the theater, Annalee, Lexi, Taylor, Megan, mom, and me

Megan and Taylor were able to meet some of the characters and this was their favorite character; Fairy Meanie!

Here they are with 2 other fairies.

BEACH DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

We're back playing at the beach this summer! You know the goal-- wear out your kids during some of the long summer days and the beach is just the thing to accomplish that goal. It's always more fun to be with friends so here we are enjoying a great day with some friends:

Chase playing in the sand:

Max was happy there:

Parker and Zach:

I love this one of Zach and Parker playing in the surf:
Zach and Parker took a long time building this castle:
Once the sand castle was destroyed they started digging:

FUTURE BACH AND MOZART???

Megan and Zach started taking piano lessons this past fall. They have really enjoyed it (most of the time). On the day after the last day of school, they had their first ever piano recital. They both did a great job. They had to memorize their pieces and then introduce themselves and their songs to the audience. Zach played 2 songs: "Old Mother Hubbard" and "Electric Bass"Megan played " Dinosaur Stomp"

GO DODGERS!!!

On the last day of school (June 18th) we headed up to LA for a Dodger game. This is a favorite thing for our family to do and Zach has recently become a HUGE Dodger fan so we wanted to take him to a game. It was a super fun game and even better the Dodgers won.

Zach in his get-up:

All of us at the end of the game: Lori, Alex, Zach, Megan, Aynn and David

CHASE'S LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

Chase had his last day of preschool and we went for a little party! He has loved preschool and his teacher, Ms. Shirley. Here he is in the middle of the all the cute girls. He was the only boy in his class this year. Don't you think he'd look happier surrounded by all those darling girls?

BACK TO BLOGGING

Well, I have certainly had quite the rest from blogging--about 7 months. I think its time I try to get back at it. I'm not going to try and go backward right now so I'm just starting from now.

We recently had a fun mini-family reunion here. Shelley and Casey had their wedding reception at Balboa Beach and so some of the family were able to come and help her celebrate. It was lots of fun. Darcy and I learned that we have the potential to be caterers as long as people want hot dogs and chicken salad!

We had 11 EXTRA people staying at our house so we slept here, there and everythere. Here are some pictures of the kids sleeping on the trampoline: Katherine, Duncan & Megan (who forgot to take off her glasses)

And then we set up the tent-- all the cousins loved that!

Here's the group that slept in the tent: Carson, Jessica, Alyssa, Zach and Chase. Everyone did very well, went right to sleep and slept through the night. Except Chase. He came in sometime in the middle of the night to my bed, he said it was really cold out there.
How cute are these 2!? Max and Matthew getting acquainted with each other. They are only about 4 months apart.

IT'S THANKSGIVING

Prior to Thanksgiving we constantly heard Chase talk about "turkey dinner". He was so excited to have this turkey dinner he even had a song about it that he would sing. They talked about it at school and each night I would prepare dinner he would say "is it turkey dinner?" So, the prize goes to Chase for being the most excited about Thanksgiving this year.

Here are some of our Thanksgiving festivities:

We went to Chase's preschool party where each child had made a turkey hat. On each of the feathers was something they had told Ms. Shirley they were thankful for. So...most kids had stuff like family, friends, mom, dad, you know the usual stuff but not Chase. This is what he was thankful for: rattlesnakes, long snakes, big snakes, worms, and some other worms! I wonder how far down the list I would have been.

If you're thinking, that looks like a cute class of all girls--it's because it is a cute class with all girls except Chase. Can you believe he's the only boy? He doesn't even seem to notice, though.

On Thanksgiving day, we did the annual Turkey Trot in Dana Point. Alex ran in the 10K, Megan ran the 5K and Zach ran the kids run, 1K. But, Alex actually ran a 16K because after his race Megan wanted him to run with her and then after that Zach wanted to run with him also. So, I think he got in enough running for all the eating to be done later.

I'm not really sure how this happened but somehow I missed Megan coming across the finish line. I was there the entire time watching. At one point I saw an old neighbor and talked to him but other than that I had my eyes on the finish line for her. But, I missed her, I'm thinking I must have been talking with Kirt (old neighbor) when she whizzed by.

Zach was pretty proud of himself and his running! But, mostly he was excited about his medal.

Grandma Lorscheider came to visit for Thanksgiving! Here she is meeting Max.

Grandma came and made us her famous "twisties". Here she is teaching Megan how to make them. Yum Yum!

Here's Chase finally eating his much-anticipated Turkey dinner! We ate at Auntie's house and had a great time. Sara and Heidi came to play soccer here in California so their whole family came and had Thanksgiving with us! We went to a few of their games to see what great soccer players they are.

Also, our friends Cory and Paige came for Thanksgiving and Cory ran in the 10K with Alex...did I mention it was pouring down rain?? Oh, they were soaked. We later had dinner with them over the Thanksgiving weekend before they left to go back to Houston. It was fun to catch up and laugh with them!