In celebration of July 1st I wanted to post some of my favorite drawings that remind me of home. These drawings I did using the graph method which doesn't take real talent just a lot of patience. And it is so fun. I hope my family won't mind. I am excited to go home to Canada this month and really looking forward to seeing everyone again. I'm sad I had to miss the July 1st celebrations, we'll try to make it next year.
This is a little golden retriever puppy that we are thinking of getting. She really is so cute. Okay so the last time we got a puppy was a disaster. We ended up taking her back to the owner after a week because we couldn't handle her. But that was years ago. And it was a little dog, Bichon Frise. Well, golden retrievers are supposed to be one of the easiest dogs to train and one of the best family dogs. Very friendly and gentle. We are excited about it. When we visited the mother I was very impressed at her manners and gentle demeanor. She was also so beautiful. I'm hoping that this will get me off my butt and out the door for walks everyday.
Since we came from Canada last summer in our 17 ft U-haul we have been trying to collect little odds and ends to fill up our big empty house. When I go garage saling I like to look for steal deals. So this is what I bought today all for 35 bucks total:
Sierra loves this bouncy ball thingy.
$5.00 table for scrapbooking and drawing. It will look great in the hobby room of our new house!
I had many pictures left of our time with Uncle Jon, so I decided to post them cause it was such a fun week. We saw the temple just an hour before he had to fly home.
Disney again....
We went to Disneyland for 2 days this week and just had so much fun. We managed to go on all the rides and still have time for a couple shows and parades and fireworks. One thing that was crazy was the CROWDS!! They were awful, next time we will go in the winter. We never had to wait in line more than 40 minutes though. We were smart and used fast passes for everything that we could.
If you ask my children what they loved most about disneyland they will tell you hands down, "meet the princesses." Goodness gracious, we stood in line for 40 mintues to meet these 3 and I was wondering what all the fuss was, when we finally got in there I understood. Each family gets a personal meeting with 3 different princesses and you don't know who they are going to be until you get there. It was so so cute. Maysa just loved holding Belles' pretty fingers, she wouldn't let go of them. Sierra wished she had worn her princess dress and Elena told me afterwards that "maybe Princesses are for 5 year olds." But she still liked it. The princesses would ask them questions and my kids would just stare at them, I wish my kids weren't so shy. One princess asked Maysa what her name was and Maysa just looked up at her and said "I na know". Kinda funny.
The scantily dressed Jasmine.....
We stood in line 30 minutes to go on flying Dumbo. I didn't know till halfway thru that you could make Dumbo go up or down with your controller. I have a picture just like this when I was 10 with my sister on this same ride.
Maysa is full of expressions, she was so cute on all the rides. She would either have a happy face or a scary face. I was suprised at how many rides they let us take her on. She even got to go on the matterhorn!
I have to say how lucky we were to have Dan's little brother Jonathon with us at Disneyland. He was so helpful and the kids just love him to death. He was always running and getting fast passes for us and helping with the kids. We were lucky because we had 3 adults to 3 kids. One time I left my diaper bag clear across the park and Jon ran the whole way around the park to get it for me and then caught up with the train that we were on. He's the best, I wish we could take him with us everywhere we go!
The jungle river cruise was one of my favorite rides. I laughed so hard at the tour guides jokes, but no one else did... SIerra had a scared face on for most of the ride because everything at disney gets a little scary in the middle....
After two days at Disney we ended up at Huntington Beach. Miles of beautiful sand with no one on it but 1 lady suntanning, an older gentleman doing tai chi and us! Although after lunch, it did start to get busier. The water was definetly too cold for me but I enjoyed watching Dan and Jon boogie board the waves and the kids making sand castles. Sierra had a collection of beautiful shells, we stayed for two hours and then headed home on the busy freeways so Dan could go to work at 2am the next morning. We got home at midnight so he only got about 2 hours of sleep :(
