Mommy's Birthday

Today, is our mommy's birthday. When we woke up we sang her a happy birthday song and we gave her the cards we made for her. She said she loved it and gave us big hugs and kisses. Mommy said she spent her birthday morning with Tita Tina and Amilie. They ate breakfast, played and went shopping, ate lunch and then picked us up from school. When she got to school, we sang happy birthday to her again. When daddy got home, we took mommy to Acapulco for dinner. Lola and Lolo joined us! We ate some yummy food! Mommy ordered her favorite: Sea of Cortez (it's fish with butter-wine sauce! Yummy). Daddy ordered his usual, Tapiquena Steak. Jojo ordered pizza (go figure) and Brianna ordered what else, Mac N' Cheese! Lolo ordered some meat on a stick and Lola ordered the same thing as mommy. All the food tasted so yummy to our tummies. After dinner, the servers at the restaurant surprised mommy. They sang Happy Birthday in Spanish and brought her a flan as her birthday cake. Jojo got to blow the candle for mommy, When mommy finished eating her flan, she got to open some presents. Lola and Lolo gave her a purse, and a blouse. Cousin Amilie got mommy a small Coach purse. Daddy and us got mommy a sweater and a blouse. We hope mommy had lots of fun for her birthday! She told us that on Saturday, her best friend Corina is going to take her for a girls day out. We love you mommy!

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Travel Town Fun

Mommy and daddy took us to Travel Town today to attend Jacob's 3rd Birthday party. It was so much fun! His grandma made a big Handy Mandy pinata and Felipe pinata. They were sooo cute!
We got in line to hit the pinata and when it was Joseph's turn, he knocked out Mandy's hand! That was cool! He got to keep it too! Then the all the little kids had their turn hitting Mandy the pinata, it was the big kids' turn to hit it, and that's when all the candies and some stuff animals came out. All the kids started running. Brianna got a puppy and Joseph got a big balloon and a lizard toy.

After the pinata game, Grandma took us to ride the train...that was so much fun! The train went around the park two times. We waved hi and bye to mommy and daddy as the train passed by! We wished the train went around some more, cuz that was a lot of fun. After the train, we went back to the party to eat some yummy cake.

When it was time to go, Jacob's mommy gave us goody bags, and we also go to keep one of the tool-box center piece. Mommy is planning on using it to hold our crayons and art supplies. That was a neat home-made project that they made. The birthday party was sooooo much fun! We can't wait till the next party. Until then, check out the pictures mommy took from today below. The train's leaving, so bye!

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Mom and dad decided to surprise us yesterday when they picked us up from school. They told us that we were going to Dodgertown to watch a baseball game. We were so excited to be going to our third baseball game ever! Yesterday's game was Dodgers versus Giants. Of course, we were all cheering for the Dodgers.

We had a great view of the field from our seats. The walk was too long though, cuz our legs were tired by the time we got to our seats. Mommy and Daddy bought us Dodger Dogs, pizza, and Panda food before the game started...it was sooo yummy! During the game, they also bought us cotton candies. The best part was when mommy came back with a little pink bat for Brianna and a little wood bat for Joseph. It was our souvenirs from the game.

Dodgers ended up loosing the game, but that's okay. We still had lots of fun. After the game, we stayed to watch the fireworks. It was sooo cool. They even did three happy face fireworks and four hearts fireworks. It was so pretty. By the time we got home, we were sooooo tired. It was past midnight! We can't believe we got to stay up that late. It was the best surprise ever!

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Family BBQ

Our Lola Lita and Lolo Bert had a little BBQ party today for us! There was soooo much yummy food! They made BBQ Chicken, BBQ on a stick, Carne Asada, Sinigang (Sour Soup), Fish Relleno (Stuffed fish), and seafood curry! Mommy was in charged of cooking the Mexican rice and beans! Everything was so good! Our favorite was the sinigang soup and the carne asada with mommy's rice. It filled our tummies up!

Our cousin Chris and Cait brought their cute dog Milo. He's so much fun to play with. Lola's dog, Ginger, didn't really like to play with Milo. She kept barking and growling at him. They're so silly! Our little cousin Naomi rode bikes with us and played with the mermaid dolls. The only one missing was our baby cousin Amilie. Her mommy wasn't feeling good, so they didn't get to come to the BBQ! Tita Bern packed them some baon (to go food) so they could taste all the yummy food.

Caitlinn's mom and dad said we could sleep over at their house one of these weekends. That would be soooo much fun! We can't wait for the sleepover party!

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First Day of School

Well, we made it! We survived our first day back to school. We were a little nervous about going to a new school, and whether or not we would make any new friends! Mommy assured us that there will be other kids who will be new to the school, and that we shouldn't worry because we will make new friends. Well guess what, she was right! Brianna made 2 new friends and Joseph too!

On our way to school, we saw three horses walking. They were really big. We also saw a horse right across the street from our school. There are a lot of horses by our school cuz it's close to ranches. Mommy said she will look and see if we can take horseback riding lessons. That would be neat.

Our new school had a really cool playground with a jungle gym that we can climb on. It was so much fun to play in there during recess and lunch. Mommy packed us lunch today (Chicken nuggets, fruits, cheese sticks, and juice boxes). We hope tomorrow she will give us lunch money so we can try the cafeteria food.

We're looking forward to this school year. We'll write more and let you know how it goes.

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Labor Day Fun

Today we slept in until 9am...and when we woke up, mommy and daddy told us that they had a surprised for us. We were so excited. Could it be a day at the park, at the beach, going to an amusement park, or the zoo maybe? We had no idea. We got ready and guess where they took us? We went to the movies to watch "Shorts!" We really wanted to watch this movie, cuz it looks so funny and it was. Our favorite was when the boy wished for telekinesis, but instead, he said telephonesis and a telephone came out of his head. That was sooooo funny.

After the movies, we went to our grandma and grandpa's house for a BBQ! It was so much fun. Uncle Danny's girlfriend's kids were there and we got to play a lot of games with them like the limbo dance with a chicken, and catch the elephant butterflies. We also played with grandma's fish ponds. We were trying to see if we could catch any of the fish in there.

It was such a fun day Labor Day today. We just can't believe there's only two days left before we start school.

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Before Back-to-School Preparation

We can't believe that summer vacation is almost coming to an end. There's still so much that we want to do, more places we want to visit, and most of all, we're still enjoying being able to stay up late and sleeping-in. But, we are excited to start a new school year at a new school, because we know we will be learning lots of new things and making new friends.

To prepare for school next week, mommy and daddy took us to get a hair cut today. Joseph looks guapo with his new military haircut. His cheeks always look so chubby after he gets his haircut. Brianna finally let them cut her long hair, and she looks beautiful. Her hair is now shoulder length and she has bangs.

Mommy has been taking us to the library a lot, to borrow books. Brianna has been reading a lot of "Junnie B. Jones" books. I think she as over 15 books. She is reading most of them by herself, but she prefers it when mommy or the CD reads it to her, cuz they make the funny voices when they read. Joseph on the other hand, borrows a lot of dinosaur books. He read "How Do Dinosaurs..." They are so funny.

Mommy also took us to buy new backpacks and school supplies. We got to choose a blue backpack for Joseph and a red backpack for Brianna. The backpacks have no design on them, cuz' we're big kids now. "The character backpacks are for little kids." Brianna will be in second grade already and Joseph will be in first grade. We were trying to buy the backpack with wheels, but mommy said it was too "mahal." Mahal means expensive, so we couldn't buy them.

Our new shoes and school uniforms are all ready. Mommy was so nice to iron all of them for us. Oh, she also bought us new underwears and socks (hehehe), cuz' the ones we had were getting a little tight.

We hope we can have at least one more trip somewhere before school starts. We'll let you know how that goes...Can't wait to start school next week! Be sure to come back and read how our first week of school was.

Summer 2009 Adventures (continue)

As promised, here are some of the adventures we had while on summer break.

Mommy and Daddy took us to the beach. We ate crabs and fish and played in the water. Mommy helped us build a sand castle, but the waves washed it away . Oh well, we built another one and it was sooo much fun. After our beach adventure, we took a break from the hot sun and ate some nice cold ice cream. It was soooo yummy to our tummies.

It was a hot summer in the Valley, so mommy and daddy bought us an above pool to swim in. It's soooo big! The water comes up to our neck, so we were able to learn how to float and swim. Mommy let us go swimming everyday! Can you believe that? That was super cool. Mommy even took a video of us in the swimming pool doing our dragon dance.

Our cousin Cait and Chris invited us to their new house this summer. They have a big pool, so we were able to show off our new skills. It's so much fun to be with them. Cait is a teenager now, so Brianna loved all of Cait's "big girl" stuff. Cait is so nice that she let Brianna hang with her in her teen-age room. Joseph hung out with Chris, cuz "he's cool!" They played the Wii before and after swimming. Chris also let Joseph play with his guitar.

There was a lot of kids movies this summer, so mommy and daddy took us to the movies a lot. We got to see "UP," "Ice-Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs," "G-Force," "Harry Potter, the Half Blood Prince," and "G.I. Joe." We're hoping to watch "Ponyo," Shorts," and "Aliens in the Attic" before school starts.

Mommy and Daddy also took us to the Pacific Asian Museum (PAM) and The La Brea Tar Pits. PAM was a nice museum, but it was too small, and we weren't allowed to touch any of the stuff in there. Our favorite thing at PAM was the Koi Pond, but it only had 3 Koi fish in it. It was fun trying to find them. Our favorite museum so far is the La Brea Tar Pi

ts. They had dinosaurs and sabertooth tigers, and lots of mammoths and other pre-historic animals. It was so much fun to see and touch the animal bones. We even got to try and pull ourselves out of the tar pit. It was hard!

Aside from all the trips we took, we also got to see and play at different parks in our area. It's fun to try out new slides and swings. So far our favorite park is the one with the biggest slide (Grandview Park). It has a straight slide and a twisty slide and even a baby slide. It also has a "traveller" where you hold on and swing to the other side. That was hard to do, but we practiced and we were able to hold on and swing ourselves to the other side.

There is sooo many things to see and do before school starts and we only have 1 week left, so mommy and daddy better hurry or else we'll have to wait again next summer. Hopefully, we'll get to post more and let you know if our our other summer adventures. Until then, be sure to check out the Photo Gallery to see pictures of our fun!

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