Christmas at Dana and Brooke's lovely home with my parents in town for a visit! The kids had fun doing a gift exchange!
I think the adults had even more fun stealing gifts away from each other!
The kids and I were invited to meet up with my dad, Dana, Brooke, Eva and Enzo for the annual balloon festival! It was a fun, new experience for us!
Auntie Abs celebrated her 26 birthday with us! She is such a big part of our life and helps us so much, we had fun creating a special basket for her special day!
We had so much fun while my parents were in town! Dana took us to a special place for the BEST brunch we have EVER had!!!
We were blown away with the huge variety of food, and very much enjoyed the company!
This visit, we didn't let our mom sneak away without blessing all of us with her famous egg rolls! This was Lori's first time enjoying them, since she has lived in San Diego most of my mom's egg rolling days.
The day before my parents flew back to Michigan, we shared one of the most spectacular places with them.
Gorgeous...
Finished the visit off with some silly at Smash Burger!
Apparently the silly didn't leave with my parents! lol
Ryan and I are working on incorporating more "us time"
We are still going to Wednesday hooping at the ocean and loving it! The kids are learning more and more. We love our visits with the people of the community and all kinds of friends who meet us there! Merrick and I love playing frisbee, and Rowan and I play hacky sack with some pros as well!
Walt is the man who brings the hoop to the ocean! He is a cross between my dad and Uncle Kenny! Every week he brings Kierce the books full of comics! He loves showering her with things. Of course I am saying, where are those things going to go???
Many times the Hare Krishna people set up a tent right by the hooping on Wednesday's. They let the kids play little instruments along with their chanting. The kids have fun, and respect their spiritual supposition.
One of my friends took the kids to a place called the Corvette Diner. This is how you leave!
The kids and I were surprised by a friend of ours by the opportunity to visit Legoland for pretty cheap. We had a great time!
As you can see, Merrick and I had a blast on a bike ride to Fiesta Island. He rode on the tag-along bike which attaches to my bicycle. This allows him to take breaks when he needs to, gives me an even better workout, and allows us to go on longer bike rides without a single whimper from this little guy!
We had our bags packed with his remote control boat, and his remote control dirt car. We had so much fun playing with his boat, the hopped back on our bikes for our beautiful ride home to meet back up with Ryan and the girls!
One of our strangest moments in OB. We still don't know who was in this morph suit. The kids and I had fun trying to figure out all kinds of scenarios about why anyone would wear a morph suit!
Merrick and I had a blast at the Birch Aquarium. I was blessed to be able to chaperon his school field trip there. Merrick is a hands on science kid, so this was the perfect place to visit!
Meet our newest adopted addition to the family, Indiana! He is actually our neighbors dog, but comes to visit frequently and we love helping to take care of him when our neighbor and friend Alex, needs help.
One weekend, we decided to be a little crazy and hike up Cowles Mountain! The girls raced ahead of us, while Merrick did great, but rode up on his dad's shoulders much of the way. Boy, what a view at the top!
A little, or a lot of Valentine's love <3
To celebrate the 100th day of school, Merrick and I folded 100 paper airplanes! We were both tired after this adventure :-)
Go Rowan!
Rowan's school had a mustache day this winter. Since I ride bikes with her and a group of kids, she talked me into wearing a mustache as well! I also had fun making a shirt full of funky mustaches for her to wear.
The two people behind all of The Merricks craziness! Actually, there is only One person behind all of this fun!
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