Happy Sweet 16

Bobbi!

NYC, The BiG APplE, I LOVE NEW YORK

It was great to be able to back to New York once again and just experience the feeling you get just being on the street. There was so much to do in so little time, but we squeezed in as much as possible. Even tho I had only been there once before, this time I felt like I knew my way around a little. The city is so big and the buildings are literally so tall you have to look straight up in the sky to see the tops. Some funny stories to tell too. Alisha getting yelled at by the hot dog vendor because she supposedly didn't tell him she didn't want ketchup and then he refused to sell her another one. Right before she told him about the ketchup, I was just thinking, "oh, don't do it, don't do it" I kind of expected him to get mad lol. We took a double decker tour bus and it's about 2.5 hours long, so us tourists kept seeing things that we wanted to look at or places we wanted to go, so we kept saying we were gonna get off, but the tour guide guy that kept calling us " Sex in the City girls from Arizona" wouldn't let us off the bus. He kept saying we need to see everything first and then we could go back later so we listened to him and then he made fun of us (on the loud speaker of course) that we were letting a tour guide tell us what to do. The guy in the line to go to the top of the Empire State Building that kept hitting our ankles with his stroller, probably because we sorta cut him in line. Ugh that was annoying. Alisha kept getting mad that people kept bumping into her and then telling them they were rude. I was like Alisha really there are about a million people on the street, just keep walking! Hailing cabs and feeling cool when we said,"take us to 86th & Park please"....that was fun. Seeing Lady Liberty was amazing, kind of breath taking actually, maybe my favorite part. So much to say and Im sure Im forgetting some funny stories, like me on the second night, falling asleep fully dressed with no shower or anything, from being so tired (sorry Alisha) =o/

I love you NEW YORK.

Atlantic City, SHHHH !

Here we are arriving in Atlantic City in New Jersey! Yes, I, was actually on the "Jersey Shore" lol, (for those of you that might know what that means). Atlantic City was cool, Jersey was actually beautiful from what I experienced. Super soft sand and a very homey feel. We had a quick "restroom break" in one of the casinos and some of the gals who will remain nameless couldn't help themselves.....lol

Just joking, we had a little fun, tho. :)

Philadelphia, The City of Brotherly Love...

Philadelphia is a place I had never been too, nor ever really thought about going to but somehow I ended up there last week. It was all part of a planned little excursion of some spots on the east coast area. Philly was a lot of fun and the buildings were so amazing. My Philly cheesesteak could've had more cheese but hey who's complaining. The girls and I had fun running up the stairs from the Rocky movie even tho we were literally left breathless. See you later Philadelphia, thanks for having me!

My Birthday Girls

We a had kids only Happy Birthday Party for Malia who turned 4 and Lauryn who turned 2. We had parents drop off all of their friends and we played games and had a water balloon fight. Musical chairs and Limbo was pretty funny although some of the kids took their loss hard, lol . It was a great party, truly it was, but you or anyone else for that matter won't know because there are no pictures to prove it :( I had a mishap with my memory card and was unable to use it in my camera and there was no time to go get a new one as kids were coming in by the minute. My sister made a joke saying, " we aren't going to have to do this all over are we?" That was funny because about 2 years ago we went to San Diego and Sea World, the Zoo and the beach and had a great time with a million pictures, but when I got home, I accidently reformatted the memory card and lost all my pictures. I paid over 200 bucks to try to have them recovered but that failed. I was so devastated that a month later we went back to San Diego and every place else to get more pics and I even staged a few that I had remembered. SHHH don't tell Robert because he swore me to secrecy on the staging pics part. lol It was worth it for me because I got a ton of pictures that were even better because I made the most of our time!!!! Sorry for the long story, I hope I don't have to rehash that story again. ugh hard times

Happy Bunny Day !

Well, it was that time of year again, Happy Bunny Day!! Thats what we call it in our house, just for fun. As a little girl, I used to love to color eggs, so now that I have two girls of my own we all can love it together. I think I love it as much as they do and maybe even a little more. I made sure to get the eggs ready the night before that way we could be ready to rock n roll the next morning. We woke up, had a quick breakfast, and started to set up. We had a ton of fun and made a big mess but it was great. Lauryn was so amazed that the eggs were coming out different colors and Malia wanted to decorate every egg. Somehow just about all the eggs came out cracked but we didn't care, as long as they were colored that's all we cared about. Look forward to Happy Bunny Day next year!!!

So I took the girls to Mother Nature's Farm

the day before Easter for a little fun and adventure.

We hunted for eggs, ate lots of candy and took a really cool

hay ride. They were able to feed a goat and some cows, which they thought was pretty cool. Although we had to stand in line for a good hour in the hot AZ sun, it was well worth it.