update!

halle is the BEST baby ever!!!! we LOVE her and her perfect natured personality....she is always always happy. two days before she turned 6 months she got her two bottom teeth AND two days ago....6 1/2 months, i put her on her tummy and she rolled to her side and sat up all on her own! she was a little pro at it today and is so balanced and steady.....i better watch out...she is going to be an early walker!!

jake loves going to the pool and playing in the backyard with all his trucks... he loves to 'help' his dad in the yard and water the plants and trim the trees :)
his dad is still his best friend!!

i am playing tennis 2-3 days a week, going to the pool a lot and busy with the kids....

john is only 14 months away from completing his ortho residency!!!! he has been contacting dr.s who will be selling their practices in the next year.... he is working hard and is known at school for making scorpion retainers for his patients! (pic at the top)

cali again!

the end of april we went to cali for our third time in six weeks. john had an orthodontic meeting there so who can say no to a free trip?! the rep gave us his credit card one night and told us to go where ever we wanted....we managed to spend $120 for just two of us :)

halle and jake were angels

i don't know what i would do without jake's i pod touch

yes these people are in their undies.... and sea world of all places.... i couldn't believe it! we were laughing so hard!

this sea lion looks like mr. mudd.....kiss kiss muddly

one of two boarder checks

crazy to drive right along the mexican boarder....i wanted to see some action!!!

a first for halle

we went to the pool yesterday at the clubhouse and it was halle's first time in the pool

all i can say is she LOVED it!!!

john and jake at the pool beach.....where we will be spending our days for the next 8 months :)

easter in california

we went to san diego...again... over easter. since we have sea world season passes we decided to go there all day on friday... once again, jake was in heaven and went strong from 10 am til 9 pm! then on sat we went to the beach.....it was a little too cold for us to lay out (we are currently in the high 80's in phoenix so 65 is cold :) )

halle's first time in the ocean!!!

jake and his cousins had an egg hunt on sunday but i just recorded it so no pics!!

and we just may or may not be going back to california some time soon :)

random family pics

California 2010

the pictures are in the reverse of our trip but oh well!! we started out in vegas for two days and we had a great time staying at the bellagio. then we met my parents, grandma and kel in california and went to disneyland...jake loved it and did great all day. we stayed until 11:30 pm and jake was still going strong so we stopped at in n out. even at 1 am jake was the happiest kid and kept us all laughing! the last day with my parents we went to newport and spent the afternoon there... it was beautiful and jake loved pushing his stroller on the pier. after we said goodbye to my parents (tear) we drove down the coast on highway 1 and i LOVED it!!! the beach towns were awesome especially luguna. we have seaworld season passes so we went there 3 days in a row and jake was in heaven and asks to go back every day! we had a great vacation and the kids were little rockstars :)
jake not too sure of meeting elmo

loved the 'bounce house'

loved the 'block house'

jake on the pier doing his thang

newport

the halster

john lovin the flip

disneyland

goin strong at 1 am

checking in at the bellagio