Sprinklers

Just the kids playing in the sprinklers on a summer morning

Video here

And a ridiculously adorable picture of Corin on the trampoline, after he shed his diaper in the sprinklers:

Star Wars Day

We had gone to a Star Wars day at the library out in Surprise, and shortly after we moved in with my parents the library close to their house had a Star Wars day as well.

Parker with a Tie-fighter pilot

And Terra:

With R2-D2

Terra and a stormtrooper

Terra with a clone warrior, or something? I don't know that well...

3 Jedi's

With one of the troopers from the Forest moon

Then they had a Jedi training academy where they shot off these little rockets and jumped around on some little number tiles and such. 

And a couple videos here:

Launching rockets I & II

Han in Carbonite

And the kids playing with their newly made light sabers.

Corin and Daddy stayed at home.

The big kids and I had fun with all the Star Wars stuff

Easter

I only got pictures of finding eggs at my parents house

Plus here's the video of finding baskets at home in the morning.

Jumping

For a little while the kids loved dropping the bean bags down from the loft to the bottom of the stairs do they could jump on them.

And here's a video of them jumping on a different day with friends.

Corin's Birthday Party

Corin turned one right before we went to Disneyland. 

We celebrated by going to parks and out to lunch with him on his birthday, but we waited until after we came back from California to have his party.

For this one year old, 'party' means the grandmas and grandpas

Eating Dinner:

Corin's smash cake:

It was perfect for him, since he loves to bite and eat crayons

 The cake for everyone else: 

Singing to Corin Video

Digging in video

All Messy: 

Opening presents.

Then we sent home the grandparents and went to bed.

Happy birthday little guy!

Roadtrip!!

At the end of September we packed up and drove out to CA with Jason's mom in tow.

Corin was loving all the Semi-trucks on the freeway:

love that chubby little pointer

Corin and Terra holding hands

The kids, excited to be in a hotel:

That night we went to a restaurant for dinner.

Here's our cute baby there.

Then headed to the beach.

It was SOOO windy. It was awful and freezing. 

The ocean didn't even seem cold compared to the freezing wind. 

But that didn't stop the kids (at first) the loved the sand and waves. Though eventually all the cold wind was too much and we had 4 crying kids on our hands!

Aria found some seaweed

And some videos of

Parker

Aria

Terra

Corin

 At the beach

Our family

 Then back to the hotel and bed so we could get ready for a day at DISNEYLAND!!!

Corin's Birthday Day

 Corin with his birthday Breakfast

Then we went and played in the playplace at the mall

And a video here

Then we went to McDonalds for lunch (in case the cereal wasn't bad enough)

While we were there, Corin tasted his first soda

He played in the playplace there, too:

And even got some ice cream:

Plus a video

Goofy Boy

Then we went to the Rio Vista park nearby.

Aria, always going up instead of down

Swinging girls

And then we cooled off by playing at the Rio Vista splash pad:

By then I was SOOOO exhausted, but the kids had a fun day celebrating Corin's birth!