Friday, April 23, 2010

shwam party of 2

it has been so nice outside that we decided to eat lunch outside in the playhouse. brody hasn't yet experienced eating here and was pretty excited. how much food can he shove in his mouth at one time?




that is cute they are both smiling and kind of looking enjoying their OWN food, until...
...oh look you have another nugget Maddy and I will take it. Thanks! This boy can eat and Maddy is such a lady! Loving these hot days and lunches outside.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

sending birthday wishes to san fran


we love you auntie lou! hope your 25th birthday is amazing! happy birthday and big hugs and kisses to you in san fran!

Monday, April 19, 2010

fore!!

Watch out folks- we now have a putting green and the Shwams might be yelling "fore" a lot! We walked up some big hills to get to our community putting green and park. It is at the top of the hill in Ladera and overlooks such a beautiful view. It is such a well-groomed, pretty park. Brody had his first putting lessons from Daddy and after awhile Maddy preferred to pick flowers for me. We had a fun family Sunday afternoon!

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Just another day

playin ball and ridin bikes

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Strawberry Shortcake


My little strawberry shortcake wanted to pose in her new strawberry jammies eating her favorite fruit-strawberries!

Friday, April 9, 2010

It's WILD in there

The three kiddos ready to go!

Look who our tour guide is??


Today we headed south to the Wild Animal Park with Bri and Grey. We got there early, about an hour after it opened and left when it was getting really hot and busy. It was the perfect three hours to be there! The kids loved it. We saw giraffes (Mad's fav) and lions (Brod's fav).  Brody "roared" everytime we talked about the lions- so cute! Bri and I walked our butts off, pushing a double for me, and her pushing while 16 weeks prego! Fun times! Thanks for joining us Moysas..such a fun day!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

dance party, pizza and smores = perfection


Breathtaking view

Tonight we got to go and spend some time with Mike's sister, Stacy, Steve, Jack and Hayley at the Montage in Laguna Beach. We absolutely love it there! It feels like you are in Hawaii, when you are really in SoCal.  In the summer, Mike and I take the kids there for picnics and to play on the large grass areas overlooking the ocean. It is so beautiful.  It never disappoints and this night it didn't either. It was the most perfect weather of the week.  We played in the pool, ordered Z Pizza back to the room, had a dance party, saw dolphins from the balcony, and then thanks to Uncle Steve, went down to the firepits for some yummy smore making- delicious!! Thanks Holder family for a fun night!

Jack greeting his lil cousin- these two had so much fun together playing ball in the pool

Jack read to Maddy from his Alice in Wonderland book. He is such a good little reader and Maddy didn't want him to stop.  At one point, he said only a couple more pages okay Mad. So cute!
While Maddy and Jack read, Hayley and Brody played basketball on the balcony, while listening to Hay's Ipod. You better believe that Brody had already started the dance party!

Dance party in action! Jack had moves that I didn't know existed :). What a good little dancer!

The smore making begins! Steve had the brilliant idea of taping the short wooden sticks together to make a larger one- it worked! "Are you guys from around here?" Ha!

This precious babe loved her first smore making experience. She didn't care too much for the marshmallows but was into the chocolate and graham cracker part!

Brody got to have some graham crackers, and then pretty much chilled like this while enthralled by the fire. It was past his bedtime- can you tell?


The Holder Family cozy in their robes :)

Our happy, tired, smore lovin fam! I love nights like this-
 being with my family
in a beautiful place!