Flashback to June! Amber's Graduation and Disneyland!

We had a nice visit at the beginning of June with my parents, sister and family. As soon as school was out for us, we headed down for Amber's graduation from Victor Valley College. We are proud of her for finishing up and becoming a full-fledged Respiratory Therapist. She passed the boards too! Yay! The long weekend was jam packed with fun stuff to do, as usual. We went to the graduation ceremony at the college, out for pizza, rode quads, played whiffle ball in the back yard, the guys went to L.A. to watch a Dodger game, we celebrated Grandma Carol's birthday at a yummy BBQ place called Lucille's, and went to Disneyland (of course, gotta get use out of those annual passes). I was actually surprised that Amber wanted to go to Disneyland, being pregnant and all. But she did, and we had fun! Here are some pictures of the weekend fun...

Thumbs up to the graduate, and Victor Valley Hospital's newest RT

Becca's first time on a quad. Watch the gas!

Mallory was a little more cautious...

but they both had a great time, asking us if they could get some of their own!!! (haha!)

At Lucille's BBQ at Victoria Gardens (Rancho Cucamonga) for Mom/Grandma's Birthday. Notice Dad/Grandpa is wearing his Dodger Blue. They had met us there after the game. It is surprising after all those Dodger Dogs, ice cream in the little plastic caps and nachos that they still wanted to eat. But it was Lucille's after all, with the yummiest ribs, chicken, beef and pork around!

As Kris said, "Heck Yeah!"...

Here is Dad with the pregnant girl...

and here is the birthday girl!....

Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure fun...

Amber did well. Here she is with Grant, and Brooklynn (still in the tummy, of course)...

this is Mallory's look of terror before going on the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. She loves this ride, and thought it was funny that at the end, the guy asked, "Which gentleman in here was screaming like a little girl?", and she pointed to Kris and said, "MY DADDY!" We got to see Mr. Incredible...
and Sulley from Monsters, Inc...and...duh duh duh duh!!!!....CINDERELLA!!!!!We saw Pixar on Parade, which was very cool. It was happy, colorful, and left us literally "Dancing in the Streets", which I think was actually the last song they played for it...

Just a few highlights, cause I took lots of pictures...Here's Tow Mater!...

Lightning McQueen!

Jesse from Toy Story playing the cool new ride/game Toy Story Mania!!!

We always have fun when we go to Amber's, and to the "Happiest Place on Earth"...

Rainbow Nationals Dance Competition

July 18-24

We had a fun but busy week! It started out with a weekend at Jeb and Amber's house. We had fun staying cool in their doughboy pool and playing Guitar Hero. The kids had a great time playing, and we had a great time relaxing and visiting. We also got to see Brooklynn's room. It is painted lavender and has lavender and pink butterflies, with a beautiful crib set to match. She is already being loved and spoiled by her parents, and we are excited for her arrival. I got to go to a Dr. appointment with Amber, and see the baby on the ultrasound. I saw an arm, a side view, saw that she is definitely a girl, and heard the heartbeat. I am lucky and thankful that I have such a great sister. It was so cool to get to go!
On Monday, we got Becca's hair and make-up ready and went to Rainbow Nationals in Anaheim. She got there, slipped on her costume, warmed up, and did her dance...

"I want fabulous, that is my simple request, all things fabulous, bigger and better and best"...

She ended up getting a First Place in Petite Jazz and 4th overall in Petite 8 and Under.
Her aunt cried, and I screamed! Becca proudly held the bigger trophy over her head during the awards ceremony


Here she is with her teacher, Miss Kim, her friend Crista, and their awards...
After the awards, it was time to eat, so we went to the Rainforest Cafe. The girls and Grant had a fun time making weird faces and sounds, and waiting for the storms every few minutes.


Then we walked around Downtown Disney for a while, and took these pictures at the Lego Store with Darth Vader and R2-D2...


a cute pic of Grant with his daddy. We were glad they could come with us Monday and watch Becca. Love you guys!!!
We ended up (after a move) with a poolside view at the Disneyland Hotel. Along with getting in to the concierge with our friends and getting to eat all the food up there and watch the fireworks, this was their favorite thing at the hotel...
yeah, I was pretty lucky to get this picture of Becca at the very moment of pool impact. On Mallory's, I forgot to zoom in...
On Tuesday, we had fun at Disneyland all day, but I wasn't very good at remembering to take pictures. I will have to go back and do a blog of our trip there with my sister when we came down for her graduation in June. Well, here is Tarzan's Treehouse, anyway...

Becca being a Tarzan...

On Wednesday, Becca did her team routine, and they got 1st place and 5th overall! We were proud of them! Then they went to a jazz master class with one of the judges. As you can see, they didn't group them by age or anything. The dance was difficult, but by the end, Becca was getting it...

They said they were the Cheetah Girls, and were posing and yelling "CHEETAHS!"- so silly, and so much attitude!
Becca and Crista on one of our several walks Downtown...

with the parrot in front of Rainforest Cafe...

I am so proud of Rebecca. She is one talented little dancin' diva!More pictures of my divas doing their things (Bec's dance and Mal's gymnastics) to come...