Farmers Market, Atlantis, and a movie, Oh my!

I don't think any of us wanted to get stuck at home today, AKA our place is a mess and no one wanted to clean : ) So, after sleeping in a bit today and having a quick breakfast, we were off to the farmers market in Cerritos.

Growing up I hated onions, but I'm starting to change my opinion of them. Especially since finding fresh onions! It really makes a world of difference in the taste. Bell peppers however, are still discusting.

After the farmers market (and a shirt change since it was getting warmer) we headed over to the Atlantis play park in Garden Grove which she has been BEGGING to go to the majority of the week, ever since she was looking at old pictures and saw some from last time we were there. I highly recomend this park. I first went years ago on a field trip with work. It is fully enclosed exept for the ticket booth gate. It only costs a doller to get in and they won't let anyone in who isn't with a child. There are multiple play area, all with an under the sea/Atlantis theme, along with two pic-nic area's, hills, grass, and lots of shade. Sometimes you can even spot some bunnies hopping around. Oh yeah, there is also a super long surpent slide the curves all the way down a steap hill, I didn't get a picture of it this time though.

The green dolphin was her absolute favorite and we had to keep going back to it, even though she kept calling it a whale.

Other than the green "whale" her favorite parts of the park where at the play ground way at the top of the hill where she (ahem, James and I) collected pine cones and she got to throw them down the twisty slide. She also really liked the drinking fountains there because they are big shells!

Peek-a-boo! Or. AHHH, she's being eaten by a sea star!!!

This guy can get comfortable almost anywhere! Did I ever tell you about the time he fell asleep standing up in my parnets kitchen while resting his head on the top of a ketchup bottle that was on the counter? Beyond funny.

We did go home for a few hours to rest, and did start to clean her room, but then decided to use some of the movie passes we've received to go see the movie Oceans. Elaina was pretty excited to go to a big movie theatre to see fish and dolphins and turtles etc.

She did pretty well, even though she was probably the loudest kid in the place since she kept asking questions. She was getting tired towards the end, but said she liked it. I was pleasantly surprised by it, it had a lot of beautiful shots and actually had humorous parts. Thank heavens WAY better then March of the Penguins.

"I'm a ninja"

Last night we went out to BJ's to celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary with two of my best buddies. This is this first time in all these years, that I have been able to pin these two down to take a picture. Introducing, Claudia and Soraksa. And yes, they really are that short : )

Another reason we went out was to meet Soraksa main squeeze for the first time. Introducing John. Hopefully we will be seeing him around more often, that is if we didn't scare him off....

Yay, for family pictures. I don't have very many of all three of us together.

Elaina being her cute self.

Oh and the "I'm a ninja" was a little drawing on Soraksa's phone, it kinda became the catch phrase for the night. Fun stuff.

7th wedding anniversary 4/19/10

Can you believe that it has been 7 years?

I certainly can't, but I am so glad we have eternity to go!

$1 gone, but a memory to keep.

I really didn't want to cook last night, and James was exhausted after a training from 6pm Friday-4pm Saturday, so we ended up going to a diner by CSULB. After ordering the food, Elaina saw the big juke box and started begging for me to play music. I wasn't to sure about it, but they have a HUGE collection of music both old and new and I found a few of my favorites. So after popping in a dollar for three songs (the minimum) She really got into the oldies I picked out and started dancing around, she then dragged me out to dance too. We got lots of odd looks and smiles from the other costumers, but it was worth it to see her so happy.

Japanese Garden

Sunday afternoon, Elaina and I were playing outside. She made a bit of mess with her sand box, but while she was sweeping up the sand she kept making designes in it with the straw broom. I all of the sudden had the insperation, we should go to the Japanese garden at CSULB so she can see the rock garden there! I quickly looked up when it was open, we had about an hour and 15 min. until it closed, so we crazy fast got ready and headed over. James stayed behind to work on his internet test, but Elaina and I had a good Mommy-Daughter date.

View of the garden from the two ends.

This girl LOVES waterfalls

Well, for a change, she didn't have to throw anything off of a bridge to play pooh sticks. The fish were doing it for her by swimming back and forth.

Just some more pictures. Of course the purple flowers

were her favorite....

Really now, what trip to the Japanese garden would be compleate without feeding the Koi fish?

She brought her own quarter to get the food

The big white fish was her favorite.

She also liked the "little trees" because they were just her size.

Boy Scout service project

If you didn't know, I work for an after school program at the Elementary level. While we do have a classroom, we also have a storage shed, one of those big metal shipping containers, where we keep our large or excess supplies. I've often joked that it was such a mess in there that it should be deemed a hard hat area. It has been hard for the staff and I to get out there and clean it out between school and work schedules, so when I found out that the boy scout troop that my husband James recently became part of needed a service project, I jumped at the opportunity! : ) So this Saturday four of the boys, there leaders, and I got in there and emptied the whole thing out, re-arranged the shelves, and then organized the area's by subject.

The fearless leaders, Ruben, James, and Rudy.


I was so impressed by these youth! I didn't hear a single complaint the whole time. They were smiling the whole time and so very respectful and courteouse! Lets hear it for troop 56!

Of course there was also the goofy moments too : )

And really, what would a young men's outing be without some basketball to wrap it all up?! (Oh and James' team won all three games ; )

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

PS I unfortunately got a little delete happy on the camera and accidentally deleted the pictures of the before shot, and how much stuff they really pulled out of there : ( Just know they did a LOT of work.