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Our squirrels!!

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Some more pics!

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There were lots of babies. An interesting thing we learnt is that the San Diego Zoo and whole host of others are breeding endangered species and then sending them back to Africa!

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This was the start of our trip, we managed to get there early and it paid off! So herewith what we got to see!!

Welcome Party

We had a welcome party for my folks last Saturday. It was great fun preparing and setting up, we had a sunny but windy day and loads of fun was had by all! Of course Becca and Kaela are just stoked having my folks here!

Kaela

These are Kaela's pics! She is now our toothless wonder!!

Irish Dancing

Well these were the pics of the girls doing their Irish! Becca won 2 first places and 3 fourths in her competition! Kaela has jsut started dancing and is loving it!

Parents arrival

Goodness it has been an age since I blogged!! Sorry, it has really been hectic! Anyway this was the grand arrival day! We had an absolute blast going in the limo to fetch my parents. The girls were on top of the moon, Becca even asked for it to fetch her from school! Not!!!

OC Fair

Yesterday we went to the fair! We had a load of fun doing rides, going in a gondola over the fair, riding and elephant. After a long fun day the weary returned home with 6 goldfish that had been won by the girls!

4th of July

We had a wonderful day at an all day party ending off with fireworks. Loads of fun, sun, swimming and food and great company.

Going to Journey concert

This was a great evening out. We go to see 3 groups, Cheap Trick, Heart and then Kev's Fav: Journey! We really enjoyed our concert and came away with ringing ears for 2 days!

More beach and pool

Our summer

Well this is what our summer is about! Beach and pool!

Zoomars again!

Of course summer could not happen without a visit to Zoomars. So the girls had a fun day holding bunnies and guinea pigs and riding!

M & D Day

On Mother's Day we had a picnic and then for Father's day we went sailing. Both days were great!

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Thandi came with on the trip and really loved it! Some more shots of a place we need to visit again!

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Waterfalls were abundant after the snow started melting and real breathe taking views

Kingsburg/Yosemite

In May we got to have a weekend away! We went to Kingsburg to the Swedish festival and then had a short trip to Yosemite which is beautiful! The Saturday afternoon was spent cooling off in the pool!

Wedding

Nicole and Danny
MyUncle and Aunt, Kev and I
Nicole Kristin and me

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Traffic time in NY
Getting ready for the wedding!

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UN building

Carriage ride through Central park
Central Park
The girls with a Statue

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On the ferry to Staten Island
NY city
The Statue of Liberty

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Skyline with fascinating architecture!
Spring time is very pretty in NY!
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Ground Zero

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A statue!!

The naked cowboy is always there come snow or rain or shine!

Empire State Building

Kev and I

NEW YORK

Well yes I know I have bene awful slow in getting this on, I have my reasons!! Well we took the red eye to NY and spent the whole of Thursday with our family and helping with anything that needed doing. It was so much fun to see them all again
and hang out and spend time with them! On the Friday we went into the city and did the bus tour which was fantastic and we could get on adn off where we wanted to! Saturday was the wedding which was beautiful and a great day! Satevenign was pent catching up with my cousin and then home movies!! Sunday was spent going to church with the family and doing lunch and again just hanging! We had a great trip there and look forward to visiting again!


The cousins had loads of fun playing! MSG was our first stop and then the girls on the bus!

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Well here are our gorgeous girls running up and down and then our sand castle!!!

Salt Creek

Well today the weather was nice and warm and sunny so we decided to head to the beach for a bit! The girls had a fab time, diggin for sand crabs, fetching and carrying water, throwing the ball! It gave me a chance to sit nad read and do nothing which was also great! The other huge plus was that the beach was far from crowded.

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So this was a close up of the cheetah! Then the wolf came along! He was a huge big playful dog! So anyway the trainer asked us all to howl and the wolf howled back! Most of the trainers us the clicker system and the animals are really good with them!

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So here was Jirra the Kangaroo, who was adorable!! The next bit with the cheetah was amazing!! this golden retriever and the cheetah were put together as babies and literally have grown up together and do not like to be apart! They use the dog to teach the cheetah things! It was an amazing relationship to see!

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So the next show we went to was with wild animals! We had this red hog called Murphy from Africa , followed byan emu called Daphne who had been performing for 20 years,followed by a little Kangaroo, who was adorable and then by a Cheetah, of course the girls were really excited about that one! Lastly by a wolf!

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As our trip around continued, we saw flamingos, a Panda, although we did not get into the enclosure as the line was really long and we did not want to miss the next show, then the Koala's! Koala's sleep I think 20 hours of the day, what a life!!

Shots of the girls

Herewith the girls sitting on a hippo and then some goofy shots!

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This was my highlight! The polar bear was playing with it's pink ball and doing very interesting manoveurs, totally oblivious to the public watching it! Out of the water was another one who was lounging around and then decided to take a stroll. We were toally amazed at how Huge they are.

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After the show with the sea lions we went to get lunch adn there was this mother duck taking her babies across back to their pond, it was so cute, we then went in the Sky lift which is like a gondola to the top , so this is kind of an aerial view of the zoo!

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Well on the spur of the moment we decided to visit San Diego Zoo! WE were suitable impressed by the size of the place and also how much they try to make a natural habitat for the animals! We did not manage to do the whole zoo, but thank goodness we have passes as we would love to make anohter trip out there soon!
WE started at the first show which had 3 sea lions participating , doing tricks, also 2 Macaws flew around the stadium. The trainers are excellent with the animals!

Thandi

Thandi loves to do as much with us as possible! She just adores the girls, as you can see intently watching Becca practice her Irish, then going to the petstore with us, she loves going in the trolley! The 3rd pic is of her new playmate who lives next dorr called Maddie!

Easter Cont....

Well herewith a shot of my sis and I, then with Gloria and Chirstine, the other shots are of the girls finding their eggs! Sometimes needing assistance!!

Easter

So herewith our gorgeous girls against the apple blossom tree! The tradition here is to go Easter egg hunting. The girls have certainly enjoyed doing that and each managed a basket full! We had a lovely day at Dennis and Gloria, very relaxing, loads of food nadlots of giggles - as per normal when we are there!

How cute ae these!!

Herewith the sisters!!!

Our gals

Well here they are in the park!!

The Park

Yesterday was such a great sunny and warm day that after the homework was completed, we went to the park and the girls got to play! It is great the bond they have and they really do play well together! Kaela moved into Becca's room a few weeks ago as she wanted to sleep over but has not left yet! The 2 of them are thick as thieves!

Movie night

So this last Saturday evening we decided to watch Firehouse dog! So look at this pic then! All of the family were totally into the movie, including Thandi. She is so funny as she will watch and her head goes from side to side listening! All in all everyon enjoyed the movie!

The deed is done

Kaela thoroughly enjoyed blowing out her candles and counting how many boyfriends she had!

Kaela is 5

Well hard to beleive but Kaela is 5!! We planned her party at the Lake just down the road from us. THe day turned out to be freeezing cold but that did not deter the children from having a whale of a time whilst the adults all huddled at the BBQ! My very capable sis made Kaela's cake and that was Dora the Explorer. WE got there about 2 hours before to set up everything and make sure we had all we needed. There were about 40 of us in total! Needless to say Kaela had a great time and we finally had to give in and leave as it started to rain, so folk came to the house to watch her open her pressies! Funnily enough, the next day was warm and sunny!!

Kaela's tooth

Today was a shocker!! Miss Kaela came running out the bathrrom telling us her tooth was loose! So as you can see it came out!! This is 5 days before her 5th birthday! She is very excited and I am sure it will be the conversation topic for the whole day!!! At least it was not the front ones!!