Los Valles

Since both boys have birthdays 9 days apart, the beginning of October turned into a whole birthday month. On Wednesday before Isaiah’s birthday we went to John’s Pizza to celebrate with our friend Steven, since we wouldn’t be in town on his actual birthday.

The servers came and sang to Isa, which he loved, although he couldn’t stand to stay and eat the ice cream when there was so much fun to be had in the game room. Almost every game is broken, but the boys had tons of fun playing in the balls anyway (as you can tell by Helaman’s face if you look closely at this picture!

The next day we left for L.A., got to Fernando’s late and slept. On Friday morning, Isaiah’s actual birthday, we got up and went to Krispy Kreme for breakfast. The boys love watching the machine make the donuts, and wearing the cool hats. Almost more than they love the donuts. And then we spent the rest of the day at the beach.

We had lots of fun playing “Salta” (jumping over the waves), sitting in the surf, digging in the sand, and just hanging out. My favorite part of living in Ridgecrest is the frequent trips to the beach. Everyone else around here goes to L.A. to shop, but I don’t think we’ve ever been shopping down there. Just beaching mostly.

That night when Fernando came home from work we went out to eat at Round Table to have our birthday celebration (again). We ate yummy pizza, played pin-ball and had birthday cupcakes. Isaiah loved telling everyone we ran into that it was his birthday. He was really cute.

Disneyland!

The next day was off to Disneyland. This was a first for both our boys, and was what Helaman had asked for for his birthday for months. We had lots of fun, especially the boys. We expected small crowds since we kept hearing that October was the best time to go. However we ended up unwittinly going on gay day, so there were 30,000 gay people there, and it was VERY crowded. But the little guys still loved it.

Isaiah was so excited to go see Mickey. (He calls him hot-dog because of the song on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.) We had to wait in line forever, and when we finally got to the room where Mickey was, Isaiah couldn’t believe his eyes. He walked silently up to him, threw his arms around his neck and hugged and hugged him. It was so adorable! This picture was just as he was letting go, daddy was a second too late. You should have seen his face.

I wasn’t very good about taking pictures at Disneyland, so here are a few of the ones I did. The boys enjoyed driving the cars and LOVED the Buzz Lightyear ride. Including dad, as you can see.

The boys love Fernando. It’s been fun living closer and letting them get to know him. He’s really good with them, and spoils them rotten, too. We really grateful he always lets us stay with him when we go off to play in SoCal. These are the hats the boys picked out at Disneyland with their birthday money. Isaiah bought a Mickey doll (that he LOVES) and Helaman picked out a Buzz bank, that he’s been working hard finding all the change in the house to fill. It mysteriously gets heavier and heavier.

Hard to believe, I know, but since Helaman’s birthday was the next weekend, the fun wasn’t done yet. On Friday dad took Helaman on a scooter ride to pizza. He was so excited to get to go on the road and everything. We’ve been having a lot of fun with the scooter. I even gave it a try, and didn’t crash!

The next night we went to free kid dinner at Denny’s, and Helaman got a special treat. He is a pancake fiend, so he was really excited. Plus there is lots of coloring to do there. It just doesn’t get any better than that, when you are Helaman.

On Helaman’s actual birthday we had his best friend Leah and her mom and brother, Steven, and Fernando came from L.A. We had some birthday cake and ice cream and then just played around. It was lots of fun, and we are grateful for friends and family who love us.

But birthday fun wasn’t over yet. Fernando bought a new 4-wheeler and brought it with him to park here. So the next day was spend riding 4-wheelers and playing with awesome birthday presents Uncle Fernando brought. Everyone had a great time this birthday month. Including mom, who as you can tell, got a lot of cooking break the beginning of this month.