Family Excursions!!!

Mulek took us on another trip... and we landed in Laguna beach....

There were rocks EVERYWHERE and the tide pools everywhere.... They were supposed to be closed but as you can see, we didnt obey those signs...

A nice fam pic but Gavins head got cut off...

Everybody in side the rock tunnel that we found....

All the boys

They caught a tiny crab

Makai even got into the water

The kids walking with daddy

The kids playing in the waves with Dad..... right before Gavin got pulled out!

View from top of the hill.... We had such a fun day and cant wait to go back....

Aniya is 4!!!!!

Aniya turned four this year, I cant believe it!! She is so excited for Preschool next year and cant wait to make new friends... And I am so sad my first little girl is gonna be in school..

We had a small celebration with cake and ice cream and a few presents from her brothers and sisters

And of course some cake

I took her out just the two of us to dinner at Macaroni Grill

and then after to go get our nails done at the salon... dont have pic of that wish I did...
At the salon she was getting flowers painted on her toes and when the lady was done the manager came by and was talking to Aniya and Aniya told her "this one is a little bit and this one is alot." and the manager started laughing and I was like what is going on and then she told me that her flowers werent even ... Ha Ha one was bigger than the other one... She is definately a girly girl.... she thinks she is a princess and is obsessed with them, if you cant tell, she is wearing her princess costum in most of the pic... (even though that thing has seen better days!)

A few new things....

Well in an attempt to catch up here is what has been going on the last month or so.....

Makai has taken up a love for skateboarding. He just watches what the older boys do and he copies them..He is so freakin smart, he pushed the skate board over to the fence so he could use the fence to stand up!

Zae is our comedian he is always making us laugh! He loves to dress up.....

The other kids just wanted their pic taken

He was twirling around Ha ha .....

One of the many reasons why I love my husband... He brought flowers home for no reason just to bring em..... love you babe!

Makai already trying to kiss the girls ....

and eating dirt.... no wonder she didnt want to kiss him!

school is coming to an end.... so they had a picnic at school. The boys entered in a watermelon eating contest...

those are some HUGE watermelons!

Kalaea hula-hooping..... she actually did it ( for like 2 spins)

and an animal show.... porcupine.... the guys got stuck like 3 times!

Playing musical chairs


We also went to Castle Park with Jason and Brittany and My mom and sister. It was super hot that day but still so fun!

Brittany and Bostyn on her first ride

This was the favorite ride of all.... They must have went on it about 7 times

Jason, Brittany, Isaiah and Aniya........ That thing went super high... No one liked it!!!

Worst Fears!

If you live here in Cali then you know last night we had an earthquake (not to big, but enough to feel) We had a long day yesterday at a school picnic with games and animals and lots of fun. So we were pretty tired when we got home yesterday especially the three little ones with no nap. So of course the bedtime routine went rather smoothly and the kids were sleeping by 8:30.
Let me just give you a little background...... I HAVE PROBLEMS! Mulek works alot of hours and alot of the time he works nights so I am at home by myself with the kids. The more kids I have the worse I seem to get... I am always running scenarios in my head... "what if we run off a cliff into some water... how do I get all the kids out of the car and out of the water, none can swim and their all in car seats" (not like we even live near cliffs or water) and "what happens if someone breaks into tyhe house?" andI have more likely ones like "How do I get to all the kids in a fire, or earthquake?" Now I actually picture myself "going through the motions" who to get first and where to go and how to get them out.. These things are constantly running through my mind everyday in every situation... ( I told you I have problems!)
So back to last night. The boys have school so I made them go to their room. I was still nursing Makai so I let the girls stay in the front until I got him to sleep and off to bed. So finally Makai is down and I put him in my room in his bed and close the door. So now I come back to the front and WHOO HOO the girls are already asleep... so I pick Aniya up and take her to her room... then I come back and I start watching the rest of my show that was on.. Kalaea was sleeping with her pillow and blanket at my feet and I was just about to take her to her room when I start to hear a loud noise just getting louder (and my neighbors were in their front yard gettting drunk and they started whoo hooing ) and then I just knew like 1 sec before I felt it... "OH CRAP, you have got to be kidding me... who do I get first..." so I get up, grab Kalaea take her and drop her off at the doorway of the boy's room, Gavin is up by then with that "Mooommm" and I told him to get Zae and come to the door (as calmly as I possibly could) then I am off to the next room, My room where the baby is all by himself... so I open the door and grab him then, go across the hall the get Aniya... but it is just about over by now... so I grab her (not to nicely I am still holding Makai) and kind of throw her into the boys room where the rest of the kids are waiting....
(sigh) It's over !
I Just about lost my mind! I couldnt get to all the kids in time! I know this wasnt that bad but what if it was.... I am just going crazy... I call Mulek but no answer... His phone died... so I call my mom and just cry.... I cant believe I couldnt get them all... she tells me its ok and I didnt need to get them all... BUT I HAVE TO BE SUPER MOM .... I JUST HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SAVE THEM ALL....
So now I am reviewing my plans in emergencies and trying to convince myself that everything will be ok and if there was a major earthquake I would have plenty of time to get us all at a safe place or at least all together...
but for now my worst fears were confermed last night.

Mother's Day

I had such a great Mother's day...
We started Saturday just driving around we ended up in Compton ( I know not the nicest place) where Mulek grew up as a kid. We just drove around for a few hours and talked about our childhoods and what we want for our kids. We saw a carnival at Mayfair park so we stopped went on a few rides got a few funnel cakes and headed home for a "movie night"...
It was such a nice day!

Friday after work Mulek came home with a little surprise and well I cant wait so of course I wanted it right then and he just cant wait to give it to me either so of course I got what I wanted!

I got a nice card...

If you cant read the card it says if I match what I scratch off then I win what ever it says...
And what do you know I won "all his love" awwww
WOOO HOOO!!

And in the bag was a new watch (that I have desperately needed)
And I just absolutely just LOVE it.. The pic doesn't do it justice but it will have to do (and you can excuse my laundry... at least its clean!)

I tried to get a pic of all the things that I got for mothers day... sorry kids I know I missed a few things... but I got a card from each one of the kids and a plant from Isaiah (not pictured because we planted it outside) and placemat from Gavin and Flowers and a card and my watch from mulek... I also dont have pictured what I came home to after church... a nice lunch with a mothers day cake! I just love my Husband and my kids...

I also just wanted to say a Happy Mother's Day to my mom who has raised me with love and understanding and I just hope that I can do the same for my kids!

Family fun!

Whenever Mulek get the weekends off we always go somewhere with the kids (mostly so I can get out of the house) We always want to go to new places and alot of the time we spend our weekends driving around site seeing. Mulek gets an opportunity to work in a ton of different places and he usually finds some neat places to go. So a few weeks ago he was working near a park/nature walk..
So when the weekend came he thought it would be a nice place to take the kids so off we went for a drive...

We brought some bread for the ducks...




Who weren't really as interested as we thought they might be but they did get pretty close.. Kalaea kept trying to "pet" them every time they came near so they didnt stay for too long

Then we came across these little guys..
Now when we passed I saw all these holes and I thought they were chipmunks (do they even live in the ground) anyways they were all over the place under these bushes as we passed.

They weren't chipmunks they were squirells (yes I know what squirells look like but I have never seen little teeny tiny baby ones crawl out of holes in the ground) but there were big (huge) ones and they were not scared at all! This huge one came running up to Mulek and I was freaking out I mean do squarells usuall chase you? As you can see Gavin is a bit freaked out too (because the squarell came running up and I was screaming "watch out, not too close it will bite you!")

But they were nice, they just wanted the bread so we sat the kids down and put the bread right out in front of them (I did not want them taking it from their hands) and they came right up to take the bread and then ran away quickly, so I dont have the greatest pic but I did the best I could.

I could not believe that these guys would come so close especially since my kids are not the quietest kids and they dont sit still very well but no worries they didnt care..

I could have stayed and fed these guys all day but no one else was as impressed as me so we moved on... to the playground!

Glad we get to explore the "world" and find new and exciting places to take the kids we have lots of fun, Thanks Mulek for finding all our "family spots".

Catch up (again)!

Easter and Isaiah's birthday!
Isaiah turned 5 in the beginning of April, I cant believe it! He will be starting kindergarten next Sept. I can remember when it was just the two boys and now they are so big. I dont have a pic of them coloring eggs all together, because they didnt. I had to do it in groups. The boys did it together and the girls did it together I mean could you imagine the mess.

Here are the boys starting their eggs, how fun!

It's the girls turn! kalaea checking her egg, she put all her eggs in every color so her eggs pretty much turned brown, they actually looked good.

All the kids when they were done showing off their "best" two eggs
(they all were smashed during this photo shoot ha ha)

Easter morning with their baskets (color coded, the Easter bunny sure was smart! No fighting over who's was who's)



Checkin out the goods

This was the day before, but it was the Easter egg hunt... so much fun!

HMMM , she looks a little confused

And Zae's birthday he got lots of cool things...

He also got to celebrate at school with friends. Happy birthday Zae!
Your such a sweet boy!