November 19, 2008 Sesame Street Live

Thanks Moops for inviting us to go see Elmo in "real life" with you! It was the BEST!

Bye Taylor! Novemebr 15th 2008

Reagan, cousin Korrin, & cousin Taylor.

We went to a big good-bye party for the Andersons in AV. We'll miss you Taylor. We're sad to see you move to Idaho. The benefits of having a dad with lots of siblings is that Reagan had lots of cousins her age. These are just the ones that are her exact age.

Crazy bath time

Reagan came running out of the bath the other night screaming, "Mommy, mommy look at my horns." It's always a party with dad in charge of bath time.

Yes, it does rain in "sunny California"...

...but only for about 30 minutes. I swear we have winter sometime during the year. I am starting to wonder if we'll have it this year though. It's been sunny and in the 80s and 90s for the past 6 months straight. I don't mind renting forever to be able to live in this wonderland!

Happy Halloween: October 31, 2008

The day started out with some good 'ol pumpkin pancakes. Later that day we met at our house to go to the Halloween Street Fair on Main St. (The Blads, Christensens, Kochs, MacDonalds, Moores, and the Watkins)
Weeee! The princess goes flying down the slide.
Things got crazy crowded but oh so much fun.
The petting zoo was a Ragu favorite.
Daddy and Ragu shots some hoops together.
Then back to our house for some Lou's pumpkin pie and peach pie (of course). Reagan opted for her fav, an ice cream cone!

To top it off we had to play one of Brock's childhood favorite games. As you can see poor Chels didn't quite come out the winner and had to go "fish" out the quarter from the flour. I don't even know if this crazy Apple Valley game has a name.

Trunk-or-Treat HB 7th Ward

On our way to Trunk-or Treat. Reagan's buddy, Sierra, came with us.
Lovin the cake walk. After Reagan's number was called and realized you get a cupcake she played about ten more times.

" Trunk-or-treat, smell my feet."

Whooohoooo! Reagan and her buddy Addi.

Just the girls

Oh so yummy. After a hard night of playing it's nice to just sit and chill with your buddies and enjoy some of the good stuff. Anna Bananna, Reagan and Ikey.

I'm a fairy!

I told Reagan at first she was a princess b/c I forgot that her costume was really a fairy. Now when I say she is a fairy she always corrects me and says, "No mommy. I'm a princess!"

Icing Halloween cookies with our buddies, the Moops

Icing cookies is the best!
Reagan digging into her awesome cookies that Jodi made us

Happy Halloween!

Reagan's First Field Trip...Tanaka Farms

Reagan's first field trip October 23, 2008
Here we are at preschool about to get on the bus for Reagan's field trip. She was more excited to get to ride a bus with all of her friends than go to the actual farm. I guess that's the Ebmeyer in her. For some reason those Ebmeyer's think riding a bus is like getting to ride in a space shuttle. Although, I do have to say, we always have a lot of fun with all the fam on Ebmeyer Charter rides!! Thanks uncle Bru!
" Just picking veggies for tonight's salad, Mom."
"You're right Mom. I like petting the animals. They're not that scary!"
Reagan got to pick out her very own pumpkin

"Yes on 8! Protect My Family!

Reagan wants to remind you to get out to vote on Tuesday, November 4th! Protect Families! Yes on 8!

FHE at the Pumpkin Patch

Me and my best girl

My baby is growing up!Reagan's first Halloween. Wow, time flies! I wish she'd stay little forever!

Halloween fun with the "Moop" girls
Why, hello there!
It took a little coaxing to get Reagan up on her "horse". She made sure she could get on the white one and then finally agreed to it.
Reagan and her buddy Ike
Reagan is having the time of her life. There is nothing greater than having someone to chase her, especially if it's daddy.
Good 'ol Daddy! Always up for fun. I've gotten to the point in my pregnancy where I've become boring compared to daddy b/c I have to tell Reagan that my belly is too big to carry her a lot. I've had some back pains too and I must be using this excuse and others all too much b/c now when Reagan doesn't want to do something she says, "Mommy I can't walk to the car by myself my belly is too big." She even told me the other night that she couldn't finish her broccoli b/c her back hurts. She went over to the freezer and said, "Mommy can you get me your ice pack please?"

Halloween Party at the Lombardi's

Reagan is making her first gingerbread man or "scary house" as she calls it.
What better way to celebrate Halloween than mixing in a little left over 4th of July fireworks. The kids were loving it!

Santa Ana Zoo

At the Santa Ana Zoo with the Blads.

These monkeys were so cool. They made the craziest sounds. You could hear them clear across the Zoo.

I am a Child of God

This is definitely Reagan's favorite song. Her obsession for is has gotten so bad that we have to listen to it over and over in the car, mind you there are 50 other songs on the CD. And when we get in dad's car she always tells me "No mom. We have to go in your car. Daddy doesn't have Child of God"(we only have the CD in my car). So the other day after the tenth time of having to sing the song with Reagan, Brock says to Reagan, "Why don't you try to sing it by yourself". I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when she actually did it. She should know it by now, after all of that, but we were still shocked and definitely almost in tears!!!

1, 2, 3...

You can tell we play hide and seek a lot. Reagan seems to only associate counting to ten with playing hide and seek, as demonstrated by the closing of the eyes while counting. Either that or she was hoping her dinner would hide so that she didn't have to finish eating it.

Halloween Preview

Getting ready for Halloween this year has been so much fun. Reagan is soooo excited. It's been a lot of fun decorating the house, looking at decorations around the neighborhood and making fun Halloween projects. She loves to tell everyone that asks and doesn't ask that she is going to be a princess for Halloween. We even have knocked on all the doors in our house and have had a few mock "trick-or-treat" run throughs. I think she's got it down. She can't wait to fill her pumpkin pail full of candy. She even had to put on her costume the other day to give it a dry run. I think she's ready!

Preschool

Reagan is showing off her Halloween project.
As you can see Reagan is taking quite well to preschool. Who wouldn't when you can play as much play-doh as you want?

Bucking Bronco

How lucky is Reagan...to have such a great daddy who will play with her to her heart's content. Most mornings before work Reagan begs for some last minute fun. Here's one of her favs.

Vacation to "The Entrada" St. George, Utah Sept. 24-27, 2008

"Welcome to the Entrada"

Hiking down to the volcano tubes

Just chillin at the pool with the ladies

Adam and Brock are enjoying the "private cave" in the pool a little too much

Riding "motorcycles" as Reagan calls them
Watching Les Miserables at Touacan....Amazing! I think the boys cried more than the girls! WWhat great daddies!

Spending the day 4 wheeling....thanks Blad for hooking us up!

Hiking Snow Canyon
Reagan jumping in the pool

At the "Plantation"...... Hurricane Rocks!
The kids loved this jeep. We couldn't get them off it.

Thanks Ryan and Steph for putting together an amazing trip. It's another one for the books!