About Me (Annie)

I feel best and am happiest while I exercise. I'm a compulsive email checker. I get stressed out easily much to my dismay. I like Christmas but HATE shopping. My favorite holiday is thanksgiving because we eat lots of good food and it's more laid back. The kids have 2 days off for Veterans day. It's been nice not to have to drive and get people dressed by a certain time but at the same rate It's nice to only have one kid for a while. I'm still learning the in's and out's of blogging. Have a great day!

Miscellaneous ( I never know how to spell that word)

So her's a couple more pics. I made a memory quilt out of our old t-shrits. It was for our anniversary. It's cool because it symbolizes two people coming together as one. It was hard to fit the pieces together, it took a lot of time but was well worth the effort. Just like marriage. I love my hubby.

More Halloween pics from the trunk or treat. We thought it was funny Sierra chose to eat an apple when she was Snow White. We have a picture of her afterwards asleep in her costume on her bed. She looks like she's under a spell. Trick or treating really wears them out. She keeps telling us she is marrying Julian the cute little boy that's a skunk. That's my friend Leyla. She's a witch in case you couldn't tell.

Our good friends the Fiorito's watched our kids for our anniversary. We went to the beach in San Clemente the next day. We also had a funHalloween. Stefan wanted to be Sierra's prince/ knight. Marcus is a Peruvian guy and I'm a scurvey pirate. No I'm a regular pirate but the kids keep singing that song from Backyardagains. What do you do with a scurvery pirate said three times and then it ends make them walk the plank. Arghhhh.We also liked going to our wards trunk or treat and decorating our trunk.

Fall pictures

It's been a long time. The blog is alive again be request from Annie's mom. Marcus has moved to Facebook. YOu can add him as a friend if you like. I'm taking over his blog. We visited Downtown Disney and went to the Lego store. The other one is a field trip the kids went on to a farm.

Last few pics

Pretty cool parade when we had floats with Jack Sparrow from Pirates, Indianna Jones, U2, Cinderella and my favorite the Oscar Meyer weenermobile.

More pictures from the Parade

They gave out Flags and Pinwheels and lots of Candy. Parades on the 4th are lots of fun.

4th of July 2008

JnJ was kind to us this year in that I got an additional holiday day for the Fourth of July weekend. So on July 3rd we went to Wild Rivers a big water park here in Irvine. The kids loved it and Annie and I really enjoyed the lazy river. They had a total kids section with slides and kiddie pools that Sierra and Stefan could ride on. Stefan and I tried one of the big mountain slides but he got denied at the top of the hill by the attendant for being too short. As we hiked back down the hill smoke started coming out of his ears as his faced turned red he turned to me and said "I could take him" I believe referring to the lifeguard. None the less it was a fun day in the sun although we got a little too much and came home with sporadic burns on spots where not enough sunscreen had been applied. This morning I went to play Ultimate with the boys and Annie took the kids to the ward pancake breakfast. After I got home and showered we went to the Lake Forest 4th of July parade. It was quite a parade lasted 1.5 to 2 hours, we were baking again in the sun but the kids loved it. We sat with the friends who just moved into our complex and later they are coming over for a barbeque and I think we may go watch the fireworks with them tonight across the street and the Sun and Sail club where they shoot them over our man made lake. Hope everyone is having a great 4th we are blessed to live in such a wonderful country, Thank you to all who have served or are serving to protect our freedoms.

Couple more pics from June

Stefan graduated from Preschool, performed in his school Circus, as a family we went to the Angels vs. Mets baseball game and cheered for the Mets but the Angels won, Stefan loves the food at the games but Sierra actually seemed interested in watching the game.  Lets post some more pictures.

July 1st 2008

one month since the last post.  quite a bit has happened.  family reunion in Utah, business trip to NYC, Annie was called as 1st counselor in the primary presidency, weather got really hot then cooled back down.  New songs worth listening to in my humble opinion Tessellate by the Tokyo Police Club, Viva la Vida by Coldplay and L.E.S. Artistes by Santogold.  Looking forward to the 4 day weekend it looks like we will go to the beach or to a waterpark, maybe have a barbeque on the 4th and watch some fireworks.  Our biggest current challenge is Sierra trying to potty train herself, she likes to poop in her pullup and then rip it off and things tend to get messy. Well lets load a couple pics cheers, Marcus.

the rest of the picts

tomorrow night for family night our ward is having a fundraiser dinner at Rubio's Mexican fast food excellent fish tacos. Rubio's will donate 20% of the proceeds to our YM/YW program. This afternoon i think we will go for a walk through the Eucalyptus tree forest that neighbors our house.  Lately the Jacaranda trees have been blossoming they produce a beautiful purple flower next week we'll try to post a picture of them.

Fun week

This past week Annie and I enjoyed a fun adventure heading north into LA to go see a rock concert at the Hollywood Bowl.  We decided to drive to Long Beach and then take the Metro/Subway so as to avoid dealing with traffic and parking.  It still took a long time and unfortunately we missed the opening act which we were excited to see a band called The National, but we thoroughly enjoyed Modest Mouse's set and R.E.M. put on a great  show they were the headliner.  We didn't get home to bed until about 1:45 after picking up the kids, so I was pretty tired Friday morning getting up for work.  Then Friday a friend at work invited me to go to the Angels game, so we went along with a Marketing director in town from Australia.  Enjoyed visiting and interacting with the lady from Australia who had never been to a Pro Baseball game before.  Saturday was an epic frisbee game my team fought back from down 15-19 to tie the game at 20-20 but we lost in the end 21-20.  Saturdays fun family activity was making California Rolls a type of Japanese sushi.  Annie did a great job for her first attempt.  Other pictures shown our a few weeks old , Stefan and I going to the baseball game.. I got a pair of company tickets at the last minute, the family at the park and sushi night. we are looking forward to seeing family in Utah next week. Hasta Luego

Memorial Day

Annie had a fun day with Stefan and Sierra on a field trip to the farm.  They got to feed the animals and ride ponies and get dirty.  Below we see Stefan and his buddies at the Father and son outing playing with light sabers. Right above the kids had a little party in the backyard watching a movie outside and eating pizza, subsequently however our portable DVD player burnt up because we played it too long on the carpet.  So word to the wise don't play your laptops or portable DVD's on the carpet they will burn up because they don't get enough air supply.  At the bottom is a pic. of the kids playing with a little doll house that my old boss from work gave to me.  I've decided to recommit to blogging as my method of journaling, so my goal will be to make an entry once per week.  As a funny aside today some of you may have seen pigs flying because I Marcus Datwyler purchased and used a power drill.  I have resisted power tools for years and we've always borrowed neighbors or home teachers drills.  The sad thing is the ceiling in our little garage is all sheet rock practically so the mission was not accomplished in finding a spot to hand our hooks to be able to store the kayak.  Annie and I spent 2-3 hours working in the garage today trying to clean out / De-junk and make it possible to park the toyota corolla inside the garage novel concept instead of out on the street.  We haven't accomplished the mission but the day isn't over yet.