Alyssa's New Exercise Machine

Alyssa finally figured out that she didn't need a gym membership to be able to exercise...in fact the stair climber is almost always open for her to use. She even does her patented "booty shake" when she pauses to catch her breath. The difficult part now is getting her to stay off of it, or at least not to want to climb down head first. (we're still working on getting that camcorder, so the best we could do was my phone)

For Thomas 2nd birthday he decided to go to his favorite - the beach. We drove to Sunset beach, CA. I brought my surfboard to attempt to surf - got in a lot of paddling. That's okay, Alyssa looked cute on the board. After swimming and snacking at the beach, we topped it off with swimming at Grandma Lee's followed by burgers and cake. Happy birthday Tom Tom - thanks for helping Grandma take care of Alyssa when I go to work.

Greg and Helen came over to play Wii and show Alyssa the fine art of Mario Kart racing


It was also Grandpa Leighton's birthday, so we went to the cemetary and brought him some carnations - one of his favorites.

We went to Disneyland for Nate's company picnic (the only way Nate would go). We were there for 5 hours and only got on 3 rides: Finding Nemo, Space Mountain and Casey Jr.'s train ride. Alyssa got a kick out of the yellow submarine and was making all kinds of gurgling noises - maybe she was trying to talk to the fishes. It will probably be awhile before we're back to Disneyland so it was nice to get to go.

A swim at Grandma Lee's

One hot Saturday, we decided to cool off by swimming at Grandma's. Alyssa had a blast testing out the waters for the first time.

Nate's birthday and mother's day gift were tickets to Wicked. The show was fantastic and Age's new favorite music.

Cakes on fire - put it out

Happy Birthday Mommy!

We took a trip to San Diego for Uncle J.T.'s birthday. Alyssa was so excited she took a snooze on the way down. We went to Sea World and saw Shamu, sea lions and dolphins. I can't believe Shamu is still entertaining - I remember seeing him as a kid. Afterwards we went to J.T. and Britty's for some ono food. We're glad we could celebrate together. Cousin Maile graciously let Alyssa sit in her Dora seat.

We took a trip to the swap meet and Alyssa got the nifty hat - she's so happy in it.