Saturday, February 26, 2011

Lori Brock Museum


A few days ago my friend Katie and I decided to take our kids to the Lori Brock Museum. We planed to take a sack lunch and spend a few hours before nap time playing at the museum. We met at about 10:30 in the parking lot and headed inside. There main attraction is called Kid City. It's a big room that has been transformed into a small city. There's a cafe and kitchen, a jail house, a construction site, a school, a fire department, a puppet show theater, a Veterinarian office, a library, a park with an "outdoor" theater, a bank, a news station, a grocery store, and in the middle an ambulance (which is Matthew's favorite)! Matthew had a lot of fun! I think he explored every part of Kid City but his favorite part by far was the ambulance! I think Jonas' favorite section was the school, he is seriously really good at identifying numbers! I was very impressed! Matthew also liked the shopping carts from the grocery store, mainly because he could run around and push them "really fast" which is something that Matthew really likes to do right now!
































After we played inside for while we headed out to the playground for lunch and some more play time. Matthew loves to be outside! He really liked the big slide that they had. He also got to play with a big outdoor xylophone, and he had his first experience with tether ball. There was so much to do and he was having so much fun that he couldn't stop long enough to eat! After we had been at the museum for several hours we packed up and said good-bye to Katie and Jonas.













Matthew had been begging to go to mam-maw's house, so we headed over to my parents house. Lilly got to take a nap, and Matthew got to spend time with his mam-maw. It was a fun filled day! Thanks to Katie and Jonas for all the fun we will have to go back soon!


Friday, February 18, 2011

Valentine's Day

This year for Valentine's Day Rick and I decided to take the family on a little trip. Sunday morning we loaded up the car and headed south. We first stopped in La Mirada where Rick's Grandparents live. Rick's grandpa just turned 85! There was a big party planed for the day before but Rick had to work and we couldn't attend. So we spent several hours at their home visiting and having a good time. Matthew really enjoyed himself! One of Rick's aunts brought over a bunch of trains and tracks. Matthew had a blast playing trains with his Great-Grandma!








We then headed over to the Red Lion in Anaheim where we were staying the night. We unloaded, then got the stroller out and went for a walk. We walked over to Down Town Disney and watched their Valentine's Day firework show. Then we headed back to the hotel for some sleep.




The next morning we checked out and headed to Disneyland! We had a lot of fun! Matthew got to see his two favorite Disney character, Lightning McQueen and Mater. He loved ridding the train!! Lilly did really well she was happy most of the day! We got to see lots of fun characters, and we also got to meet up with our friend Kimi! After spending the day at Disneyland we met Eric and Kimi at The Cheese Cake Factory for some dinner. We have really missed spending time with Eric and Kimi since they moved down south, so it was really nice being able to get together with them! We had a very fun Valentine's day and we had a blast spending it together as a family!