LEMONS!

Look at these lovelies!  LEMONS!  Lots of LEMONS!  Yesterday Uncle Denis spent the morning picking lemons for us to take home.  107 lemons!  No, we didn't take home 107, but we did take home three large bags of them.  This morning I made a pitcher of detox water and a HUGE pitcher of strawberry lemonade.  (Did I mention, we LOVE LEMONS!?!)  I also squeezed lemons for 4 more batches of lemonade and froze them for later this summer.  I think we'll have yakiniku for dinner tomorrow ~ YUMMO!  Let's hope it cools down a bit.  Daddy said it is going to be too hot to BBQ today.  90 degrees here at 10:30am.  I was running errands at 8am and it was already warm.  Blech ~ guess I'll have to lay down on the couch and take a snoozer while the AC keeps us nice and cool. :)

Vacationing in LA

WOW!  What a fun-filled week we just had!  Starting last Sunday, we drove down to Montebello to celebrate Ryan's graduation from LaVerne.  We ate lots of food and chatted with family.  It was great to see everyone again!  Monday we visited the LA Flower Market and visited Grandpa at Rose Hills.  Then, Uncle Denis, Daddy, Ryan and the kids headed to Knott's Berry Farm while I spent the day with my friend Hyeyon.  We all had great times!!  Wish the day could've been longer! :)  Tuesday we visited Little Tokyo in the morning and headed over to DISNEYLAND!  We checked into our hotel and our room was ready EARLY so we unpacked and spent the afternoon swimming (3 hours!)  We had dinner with the characters at Goofy's Kitchen and went to bed.  Wednesday and Thursday we spent at the parks and today we did a little shopping, stopped by Bachan's and CAME HOME!  TONS of fun, but it sure is nice to be home.  Vacations are always great, but home is BEST!

Long slide show, but filled with happy times!

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Veggie Garden Update

Gregory took some pictures of our garden this morning ~ we harvested a few things and we'll be dining on them for supper!  YUM ~ can't wait!

Oh!  What's that behind our onions?  Yellow squash!

Gregory's San Marzano's are starting to ripen

Here's what we picked today

Nasubi (Gregory wanted a closeup of each)

Tomato, but I don't think it's quite ripe ~ Still hard

Squash #1

Squash #2

Happy Father's Day ~ Pt 2

Garden Update ~ Gregory took some pictures to share with you all

Our black tomatoes

Nasubi

Squash

Gregory's corn sprouted those fuzzy tops today

Father's Day at Home ~ Daddy worked most of the day outside in the garden, but we did have a Father's Day dinner at home and the kids had gifts for him.  Special day for a special Daddy!

Spareribs, asparagus, potato salad, oranges, peaches, zucchinis and rice

We love you Daddy

Peace

OH!  Bailey lost another tooth!  Guess chomping on spareribs helps 

Here it is

Tray Bailey made

Fancy shirt card

Daddy trying to guess what Gregory made

Fancy shirt wrapping

Framed photo

and a painted rock!

And a couple of shirts for work

Happy Father's Day ~ Part 1

Yesterday we went to Stockton for Father's Day dinner.  Daddy joined Bailey and Gregory in the pool and lounged on Bailey's new floatie with his ice cold cerveza.  The rest of the crew came by dinner time and we FEASTED on bbq'd tritip, salmon, grilled veggies, corn salad, green salad, fruit salad, spam musubi, Portuguese beans, chow mein and chow fun.  WOW ~ there was a ton of food.  Plus appetizers and strawberry shortcake for dessert.  

Camryn, Emma and Bailey

Oliver and Gregory

My boys

Mrs. Nitta (Aunty Joey's mom) and Grandma

Aunty Ruth and Aunty Joey

Uncle Frank and Aunty Kristin (Uncle Bob came too, but not pictured)

The Ishimaru boys ~ Uncle Ryan, Grandpa and Lukie

Summer has BEGUN!

After reading time we went outside for some WATER FUN!  The game was to get these wet sponge balls into the bucket, but they had other plans

They got SOAKED

And DRIPPING wet

But they had a blast

helping each other get wet

Singing, Cheering and Laughing

And Loving ~

School is OUT!

Not sure if I should cheer or cry, but the school year is OVER.  Feels like it just began!  I was just getting into the swing of things and now the last day has come and gone.  Gregory said he had a few sad tears and Bailey is excited for summer.  I'm sure we'll all be fine and summer will fly by like last year.  

Before school 

With their new friends

Happy Summer Vacation!

Gregory's class ~ minus three.  It's been a great year!

Gregory's Busy Day ~ Cock-a-doodle-MOO and Moosical

Busy, busy, busy!  Okay, this morning Gregory's teacher had a "Thank you" breakfast ~ waffles, strawberries, yogurt, orange juice, coffee, fruit platter ~ everything shaped in hearts!  Entertainment was provided by the kindergarteners who performed "Cock-A-Doodle-MOO!") ~ our little man was the Rooster.  (And he made a pretty darn cute rooster)  Came home and went back to school for the kindergarten MOOsical.  This time all the kindergarteners performed and they were all oh so cute!  One more day!

Mrs. Judice

The Rooster

Ready to sing!

Snacks after the performance

Buddy Lunch/Field Day

We're almost there!  One and a half more days of school after today!  We're still going strong ~ lots of projects and fun activities planned for the kids.  Today Bailey had her second buddy lunch (i forgot to take pictures of yesterdays buddy lunch!)  and we also had field day!  

Her buddy's lunch box all decorated

She requested a turkey sandwich, goldfish crackers, kitkats, oranges and a capri sun.  

Bailey in her field day shirt with her buddy's lunch

Balloon Toss was the station I was in charge of

Gregory waiting for directions

Gregory and Shawn playing Water pass