Newport Beach

Jason had a meeting near Newport one day, and we all went and decided to hang out at the beach to celebrate my birthday. We ate at Ruby's and played at a playground on the beach. It was a nice relaxing day.

Looking in the water.

It was windy.

Walking toward Ruby's.

Enjoying his hot dog.

My birthday/ Children's Museum

For my birthday this year, I did not feel good. But we ended up going to a children's museum with Sara, Lily and Brooke. Afterwards we went and looked at the new house that Bart and Sara are buying in Norco. For dinner I took Ethan to my grandma's and we had pizza and strawberry shortcake. It was yummy. Here are the pictures from the museum.

Ethan "driving" the bus.

There was a little animal carousel that the kids could ride.

They also had a stuffed animals room...Brookie with the bear...

Ethan the deer

Daddy

Like father, like son

Bang a gong....I think this should be taken out...too hard on parents' ears.

The singing pirate.

Now Jason knows what it's like to be in the marching band!

Ethan too!

Ethan and Brooke on the blue bull

Brookie getting a ride

Orchids Galore! Oh, and I went to Plam Springs...

On April 1st, Ethan and I drove down to Palm Springs to hang out with my mom, grandma and aunt, who were down there at a timeshare. We went to an orchid farm, because my aunt LOVES them, and then we did a couple other things. I took alot of pictures here because I had my nice camera with me. Hope you enjoy them!

This cool weeping willow tree was outside the orchid farm.

Cactus flower

Close-up of tree

There are a lot of orchids, so I won't type for all of them.

They also cultivated venus fly traps.

This was only one greenhouse....it was like a sea of orchids.

Auntie with some yellow orchids.

After the orchid farm we went to Pioneer Town. It was really old, but I found it interesting that some people actually lived there.
Ethan and Grandma at a well pump.

Someone was naughty and ended up in jail.

Help!

Pumping. Too bad there was no water.

Ethan with a dwarf pony.

This cool tree had blossoms that reminded me of Hawaiian lays.

Grandma and Auntie

We found a big spider on the way back to the timeshare...

We had a fun time visting everyone.