Mike in San Diego!

I was so excited to hear that my friend Mike was coming in town for a weekend.  I was equally happy my friend Manda got to come with us!  We had a great night out at Buca de Bepo. (YUM) and had a wonderful time talking and catching up.  I had to share this picture since we all look darn good!

Aquaticia

 I wanted to share some of the things we get to do around San Diego.  This one is Sea World's Aquaticia.  It is a water park in Chula Vista that used to be Knotts Soak City until this year.  We have gone a few time but never get pictures because I usually leave my phone in the car.  This time I made sure to take a few.  It is nice to go when I can bring someone with me so that there is at least one adult for each kid.  Mal unfortuanately still has to use an infant life vest (Erg) but Kaylee loves the ones they provide.  We went out and bought a more comfortable one that was coast guard approved for Mal.  He can go on a few things and Kaylee love the kid water slides and the little kids area where she can climp up ropes and stuff.  Although I don't like climbing all the rope too so we usually stay in other places.

 We love the wave pool and the lazy river.  Malcolm loves the sand the most.

 They have a sand area with the lawn chairs by the wave pool.  So sometimes someone will watch the kids there so the other person can ride some big slides.

At the end Grandpa decided to teach Mal to drive.  Start em Young I say!

Padre Game with the future Leons

 Kevin was out of town on buiness and I got a call from my sister asking if I'd like to go to padre game with her and Julio.  I decided to go and I'm glad I did.  I had a lot of fun.  Julio got the tickets from work and we got super awesome seats.  I took the above picture from my seat.  Right behind the dugout! 

The Happy couple!

Sisters!!

 Julio got a taste of how crazy my sister and I am together.  Kevin has played somewhat of the 3rd wheel in the past but like Kevin, Julio is good at joining the fun.  We made jokes about different players names and laughed over stupid awesome stuff.  It was fun. 

After the game, we went to Julio's soccer game.  FUN as usual.  I love going to his soccer games.  Soccer is definitely my favorite sport and it always reminds me of the fun I had playing soccer.  It was really fun and hopefully next time Kevin can join us!

KY Trip 2013 #3

 Ok this is the last one.  I promise.  I know that because I always put the pictures in first.  So we got to go to the city pool a lot which we loved!  It really cools you down with how humid it gets there.

 Most of the time we got to go there with Rodney with one or more of the girls.  Which of course Kaylee loved.

 I wish I got more pictures but I got to attend the wedding of Josh and Kinsey Hein while in KY.  It was in Louisville and it was so beuatiful.  Josh went to U of L with Kevin and sang with him in the cardinal singers which may have been one of the highlights of Kevin's life.  By the time I met Josh I had heard so many stories about him he was basically a celebrity.  Kinsey has become a quick friend since they started dating.  We all hung out with our friend's the Russells who were also there.  It was SO nice seeing them and catching up.  We miss them so much!  Also before the wedding we got to go visit our friend Heather Mills and her kids.  I was so happy I got to see her and her cute kids and Kaylee and Malcolm had fun playing in their backyard. 

 So I had told Kaylee not to go downstairs to get her mini bag but she did anyway and left the door open.  I saw Malcolm at the top of the stairs and RAN over.  My hands were inches from him when he took a step and log rolled down the entire flight of stairs. :-(  My hear literally left my body as I screamed his name praying he was OK.  He is.  He got a little rug burn on his head but he is ok.

 Later that morning he proceeded to knock down a lamp.  Luckily we left a few for them when we moved so there you go.  Replaced.  Erg.

 Mal (and Kaylee) fell asleep on the way to Rodney and Denisha's house.

 Kaylee being way too loud for comfort.  But it is nice seeing her playing a musical instrument.  I can't wait until she learns how to play something.

 The kids playing and Aven on his mommy's lap.

 Malcolm playing at Rodnisha's house.

 I got to hold baby Aven again.  He made his lips get all small like a little pucker.  It was so cute!  I love having nieces and nephews!  (Oh and excuse more garm flash)

  

On the left is me and Aven! On the right is a cute picture of all the Sproul granddaughters.  They had SO much fun together!  They kept yelling "cousins" as we took pictures of them!!

 Above is at the Library after we learned my flight on the way back was delayed and I had to be re routed.  I'm telling you the airport system was broken this week.

 Grandma did a puzzle with Kaylee.  She is really getting into puzzles lately.

 Malcolm crawling around the Library.

I really don't like Blogger's new way of laying out my pictures out of order.  Anyway, to the left is Kaylee playing at the mall the morning we left.  On the right is poor Paisley cuddling with Grandma after a big bump on the head which bled a lot.  A corner of something hit her head so she had a little indention in her head.  She is ok though.  Poor girl!  Bentley was SO sweet.  She said that she said a prayer that Paisley would get better soon.  She also said she didn't think she could play anymore that night because Paisley wouldn't get to play and that would make Paisley sad.  It totally impressed me how she put herself in Paisley's shoes and did what she could to help her sister.  I have the best nieces and nephews ever.

 

This is Malcolm at the library so cute trying to pull out all books.  Haha  It was fun.

Home.  Yes we got delayed on the way home too.  We got re routed through Houston instead of Chicago.  Instead of coming home just after 8pm San Diego time we got in at almost 11pm.  So they fell asleep on the plane and they were NOT ready to go home.  Also, Kaylee was devastated to leave her Sproul grandparents behind.  Grandma Sproul walked us to security and that's when the tears began.  She was sad to leave Grandma!!

KY Trip 2013 #2

 Ok here is baby Aven!!  Isn't he adorable?  Yes he is.  Little Aven was born Jun 4th and joined a family with 3 older sisters ready to love on him.  I loved holding this little newborn.  I love how cuddly newborns are.  He is so chill.  I love him.

 Here are pretty much the cutest little girls in the world.  Kaylee loves these little girls.  They love her too.  They played and played the whole time they were together.  She is still talking about it.

 They are all eating ice cream cones.

 Uncle Rodney spent a lot of quality time with Malcolm.  It was fun seeing other people play with Malcolm.  Being the 2nd child he is often in his big sisters shadow as she know way more tricks and words.

 Malcolm cuddling with Grandpa.  (Above) and Malcolm playing in the bath.  It was so nice.  My mom and dad in law went and got them bubble bath and bath toys to play with.  The octonaughts in fact.  I see this and think, "Creature Report, Creature report, Creature Report!"

 We love grilled cheede sandwhiches so we had that for luch a few times.  Malcolm just woke up here.

 We got to visit the Lexington Children's Exploritorium.  They both had a really fun time.  :-)

 This pic of Malcolm was actually at Rodney and Denisha's.  He had fun walking EVERYWHERE!

 This kids climbing up the stairs of the basement.

 Oh blogger and the picture order.  The is the exploritorioum again.

Kentucky Trip 2013 #1

So this last week I went out and visited Lexington, KY for a number of reasons. 1. We want to keep Kaylee's relationship with her cousins, grandparents, and Uncles and Aunts as strong as possible.  This is really important to us. 2. Aunt Denisha and Uncle Rodney (as in Kaylee and Malcolm's Aunt and Uncle) just had their 4th baby!!!  He is SO cute!  I will get to that later. 3. Our friends Kinsey and Josh Hein just got married and I wanted to go and represent the Sproul fam. This will probably take more than one blog post because of the amount of pictures I took and how many of them I want to share.

 On the first plane trip to Chicago Kaylee did really good played on my ipad and wore special kid headphone.  She eventually fell asleep like this and that made me laugh a lot.

 Then we got to Chicago and airport hell started.  My Chicago flight was delayed for hours.  I think 3 hours about.  It was horrible.  I just kept walking and walking.  If the flight wasn't delayed the kids would have been fine on the plane but they were SO tired.

 This muct have been when we first got to the gate.  Because I don't even remember this.

 This is the CLOSEST I got to both of them being asleep.  I am taking a break from walking.  Kaylee is cuddling with my arm and Malcolm was asleep

 Sorry for the garm flash.  But he is too cute not to share.

 This is how Kaylee was most of this time.  I asked her to smile and she growled instead......

 Then 30 min before we board a worker told me there was a play area so we got like 15 min of playtime before I had to pee and go back to the gate to board the plane to Lexington.

She had the place to herself she was overjoyed.  I really wish I knew about this ealier.  If you want to know, it was kiddy corner to the starbucks basically.  Just ask someone.  It's worth going to especially if you are delayed.