Gabby at Lake Casitas water park
Maya taking a dip and giving mommy a workout

Lake Casitas

Gabby on our shopping trip
...at the Simi Valley mall
...modeling a new outfit, complete with tennis shoes with skulls.
Gabby at Lake Casitas

Disneyland
Ethan and David on it's a small world ride

Gabby's totally goth toenails after a great pedicure

Ethan in a familiar pose, when there are loud noises.
Ethan and Gabby
Gabby holding up the R for California in Disney

Maya and her Goth outfit
Ethan and David Sampson

Maya and Reide


Ronald Reagan burial plot

Mom and the girls
This is the Presidential library

Ahh!!

Ethan was chosen to participate in the Pirates Dinner Adventure show. He got to shoot a rifle at the bad pirates.
These are the bad pirates
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
You can see my neighborhood from the hill the library rests upon.

Aidan and Val in Hollywood
Pirates Dinner Adventure in Buena Park
We cheered for the green pirate. Ethan waved his flag like a madman
We toasted with cheerful pirate drinking songs. Yes, that is a beer in my cup ( I am such a bad mom!!)

Val, Aidan and Reide
Alyse and the kids

Val riding a wave