Happy Earth Day!

We celebrated by planting a lemon tree :)  Donnie caught Jackson a lizard for him to torture for about 5 minutes before letting go.








This is how Donnie caught the lizard.  We have a couple spots in our yard where the lizards hang out every day.  When Donnie showed me this branch lasso, I seriously laughed and told him to have fun trying for the next few days.  Of course Macgyver caught one in a few minutes.

More Disney

Small World,



The Pirate Ship,





For Blair.  And one of Jackson's favorites.  Who knew a 2 year old does not know the difference in coolness between Pirates of the Caribbean or the Carousel.



Our Disney room was nicer than our honeymoon room in Jamaica :)  The fireworks lit up at night like a nice nightlight.



The one time Dumbo did not have a line,

Waterslide

One of Jackson's favorite parts of the trip was the waterslide.  Each day we would take a break from Disneyland to go to the pool and nap.  Day one we napped, day two we went to our pool at the Disneyland Hotel, and day three we decided to head over to Paradise Pier since staying at the hotels allows you to go to any of their pools.  Paradise Pier had a waterslide we could see from our room.

We weren't sure Jackson would be allowed on it since it looked like this,


But he wanted to go on it so badly and the lifeguards said as long as he could ride all by himself, there was no height requirement.  



First time up, we all went so Donnie could go first to catch Jackson at the bottom, and I could sit Jackson down and tell him when to go at the top.  Jackson watched Donnie go and got right in after him, not scared a bit!  Jackson loved it and after the first ride, Donnie had to take him up those stairs about 40 times, I took him up about 10, and he definitely went down that thing around 50 times.



Every time he would go first, the lifeguard at the top would tell the lifeguard at the bottom that "the little guy" was coming, so they could help him up.  He would just sit at the bottom waiting for help to get up and out.  Then when one of us would come after him, he would go to the bottom of the stairs again, squealing, "Let's do it again!"



The lifeguards just loved him, he was the smallest they'd seen on it.  While I was sitting at the pool watching them slide, all of the other moms were asking me if he ever slowed down.  Nope!

The Happiest Place On Earth

We just got back from a wonderful trip to Disneyland!  Of course it was Jackson's first :)  We had so much fun and I am sorting through a ton of pictures.  More to come!

On the Monorail,


Teacups, which Jackson loved.












This is just the beginning of many pictures, but I know I haven't posted in a while and didn't want to wait any longer!

Snow.

Since it actually snowed here in Chico about a week ago, we knew there would be some good snow in the mountains near us!  Donnie knew a great place about a 1/2 hour away from us, and Jackson was so excited.  Donnie bought a nice little sled for Jackson to play in, and the tiniest hill ever wasn't too tiny for a two year old.







With his snowman,



After finding and following the bunny tracks we found in the snow,

Happy Dr.Seuss Day!

Technically was on Wednesday.  We had Cat in the Hat Jello Parfaits and Green Eggs & Ham Key Lime Cupcakes.  No way am I making any sort of green eggs :)

Fire Dinner Weekend

This weekend we headed to Napa for Donnie's Annual Napa County Fire Appreciation Dinner.  Jackson was so excited to spend the night at Nana's and we were excited for a night to ourselves!

After dropping him off, we headed downtown for appetizers at Norman Rose to hold us until dinner.  I've never had fried pickles before, but knew we had to try them.  Pregnant woman's dream!

{Please excuse the iphone pic.  I'm not good about taking my camera to restaurants, let alone taking it out to take a picture}

Fire Appreciation Dinner in Calistoga was fabulous as usual.  Of course finally winning in the raffle helped our night.  One night's stay in a suite at the Mount View Hotel & Spa in Calistoga, yippee!  Now we get to come back in the fall for another great night.  

Jackson had a great time at Nana's playing outside.  The next day we stopped by the station, where Jackson got to do his normal playing in the engine and feeding the horses.





And of course we came home with our regular souvenirs :)

CAL FIRE - Who We Are

Donnie wanted me to share this.  I agree, it's very cool. :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

I swear, even with having boys, we'll always celebrate Valentine's Day.  It's one of my favorite holidays!

Jackson and I made cookies for Donnie to take to the station since he was working.  He was working last year and we did the same, but we don't mind a bit.  This year we were already super-romantic and got iphones for each other for Valentines!  ;)  Don't judge, now we'll actually be able to talk on the phone at night without getting our calls dropped and that's romantic right?

Today Jackson's preschool made Valentine cards to take to the Senior Center next door and sang to them when they gave them to them.  So cute.  They ate heart shaped cheese and tortillas and decorated cookies.  Jackson cried when the teacher said it was time to go home.  I set up Jackson's Valentine's mailbox with some books, stickers, and a hat for summer.  It's been a gloomy, rainy day, so we haven't been able to take many pictures.  But it's a perfect day for painting the new little man's room for him for VDay.

Weekend Away

This weekend we had a lovely trip away from home.

On Saturday was adorable Logan's First Birthday Party.  I swear, little Logan is the most mellow, go-with-the-flow, now one year old!  I can't believe how fast a year has flown by for this little guy.  Logan's farm party was adorable.  Donnie even got to come by and say hello.





Jackson is old enough to finally LOVE jump houses.  Which is always nice to have him contained for a bit :)





Jackson with his new buddy AJ.  These boys got along so well!  They were calling each other cousins by the end of the night.



Taking a break from jumping.



Afterwards, Jackson and I stayed for a sleepover.  Thank you Caldwells for having us!  The boys got to jump in their pjs in the morning, too cute.

Sunday we headed to the DeBarr's for Superbowl.  Go Packers and Aaron Rodgers!  We loved the clip on Chico before the game and hearing about Chico, Butte College, and Cal right in the first quarter.  Along with The Bachelor, Chico is  getting quite the good PR lately!