Tuesday, December 31, 2013

2013 a year in review...

Happy 10th Birthday Mia

Merry Christmas

Cutie cousins in jammies

Christmas Cousins

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Merlins Magic & Comedy Dinner Theatre

Happy Halloween

Congratulations Sandra and Aaron

Love these girls!

Halloween Hotties (aka teachers...)

Darlene and I

No longer a Brownie... Now a Girl Scout Junior

Monarch Magic Celebrates Butterflies!

Baseball, baseball, baseball...

and more baseball

Kids Games

Summer Concerts at Pacific Amphitheater

Summer Concerts in the park

Family Picnics

Fourth of July

Jen & Jen

Daddy Daughter Dance


Annual 3/1 5K Run/Walk

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Urban and Growing Organically

Growing a sustainable organic garden in a small urban setting and teaching the kids that they can really grow food anywhere is a life lesson that I hope they can pass down to their own children.

easy steps grow your own organics

For me gardening provides a break from my fast paced days filled with school (me teaching it), homework, soccer, girl scouts, or baton, etc... It gives me a much needed stress reducer! Seriously, I even had to stop writing this about 20 times to answer a million questions from the kids...


the two garden boxes are overflowing

It also provides our family with fresh food that has not been grown with pesticides and chemical fertilizers while supplementing our food budget. Buying Organically isn't always cheap!

buy organic varieties of these 10 fruits vegetables

Monday, May 6, 2013

Art Class & Burgers!

Yup, those two don't usually go together...

Well Huntington Beach has an awesome street fair on Tuesday evenings called Surf City Nights. Farmers market, street vendors, music and community! It reminds me of when I lived in Monrovia and the Friday Night Family Festival in the middle of Old Town Myrtle Avenue.

That is what brought us to 2nd Floor.

Well actually Kids eat free on Tuesday Nights did. And a Bonus...

Kids get a free art lesson too!

Also the art teacher Kevin McMahon is super awesome and patient with the kids.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!!

We spent a whole week reading Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, and The Lorax. Our class enjoyed celebrating the silly adventures created by Theodor Seuss Geisel an American writer, poet and cartoonist.