Blue Angels

We left at 6am Saturday morning and drove to El Centro, California to see the Blue Angels air show. 

We spent 6 hours in hot sunny weather trying to get the kids pumped about the airplanes. The first half was a rough experience, but it was worth it in the end.

Mykala took these first three pictures. 

They were planes towards the entrance of the air show.

Jacer the Punk Racer

I love Mykala's pose here! She's so freakin' cute. :)

Hellcat and Bearcat

(I like the Hellcat - I'm a little peeved that I couldn't grab a good picture of it.)

Boom. 

 

A super cool orange rescue helicopter. 

This performance was pretty cool, and it was pretty cool that it was a female pilot! :)

Stunt Racers... the kids were saying "Go red plane! Go red plane!" 

Towards the end, they were cheering for both of them. (The white and green one won.)

 

People were in Star Wars costumes and it was pretty awesome... except this storm trooper was a little too busy texting to do her job at first. 

I figured the other guy would've scared the crap out of the kids, so I didn't even ask. :)

The kids got Blue Angels airplanes. 

Jacer's is #4 (because that's how old he is) and Kala's is #6.

They LOVED their planes and still carry them everywhere!

Fat Albert

Chad labeled this perfectly as the pouting tent.

We were "patiently" waiting for the Blue Angels to start.

Dad of the Year :)

Finally... the Blue Angels!

Jace and Kala found a friend who had a Blue Angels airplane too. It was really cute because they were playing together, orchestrating their own show while the Blue Angels were flying above us.

 We were leaving, trying to beat the crowds when this happened. I hurried as fast as I could to grab this shot... it was awesome!

We left the show amazed, excited, tired, and sunned-out. :)

Chad: "Can I help you?"

Jace: "No, I want mom to."

Chad: "Why can't I help you?"

Jace: "Because mom makes my heart happy. And some of you don't."

Valentines Party

Grama & Grampa, Jace, and Mykala surprised us with a Valentines Day party last night! They decorated the house with hearts, we had dinner, then we split up into twos and painted each other's faces. Kala and I, Jace and Grampa, and Grama and Dad were teamed up. It was really fun! We also split up into teams and played games, boys vs girls. This goes without saying, but the girls won. :)

Power Rangers

This was taken at Julian's Power Ranger birthday party. It had to have been taken in November, not August, so the dates on the camera must be wrong. I'm late in posting it because I just found it. :)

As is Tradition

Birthday Parties 2 and 3:

Saturday

A small party at Peter Piper Pizza. We did invite 3 other kids from daycare, but they couldn't make it, so it was small and very nice! We celebrated with just the Alejandro family. We always have fun with them. :)

We made Ninjago cupcakes. They were made with yellow cake to match Legos and we did all of the Ninjago colors: red, blue, green, black, and white. Jacer was so happy with them! When he noticed (as we were decorating), he clung to my leg while bouncing up and down and thanked me. :) 

His birthday cupcake was Kai, his favorite ninja at the moment.

We struggled with the theme this year. He wanted Ninjago, but it was hard to do without having everything shipped to us and needed lots of free time in order to prepare (I did have GREAT ideas, though.) And he loves Spider Man, Skylanders, Cars, Legos, and Star Wars. We ended up doing a little bit of everything and our little man loved it, of course. :)

Sunday

A party with Gramma and Grampa Lunceford, Doug, Joyce, Daisy, Gail, Butch and Carol.

Since we had so many birthday parties to do, we figured we'd just reuse the Spider Man banner.

He didn't care of course, the boy is crazy about Spider Man.

 More Ninja cupcakes! The second batch were chocolate instead of yellow cake.... completed with more super awesome Lego candles!

Grampa teasing Jacer.

:)

 

     Time certainly does fly.

Our Amazing Family  :)