Noon Years Eve

Today we went to the New Years Eve Party at the Discovery Science Center. We had a great time.

Boys in the Dinosaur section of the center

We made some rockets

We got to see what bats see

We got to hear what bats hear

We did experiments


We made Party Hats and said Cheers!


They even had a count down with falling balloons.

Merry Christmas

Every year since Shea was born Scott has had to work on Christmas. This year was no different, needless to say my boys enjoy every minute of their time at the Fire Station. After the fire station visit we went to Grandma Gail's house and had some cousin fun.




















1. My boys in front of Daddy's engine
2. Papa Steve and Mason
3. Shea sitting in Daddy's sit in the Fire engine
4. Mommy and Mason
5. Kissing cousins
6. Mason, Shea, Hanna, and Hailee
7. BFF
8. Grandpa Barry and Hanna

Christmas Eve

Every year we spend Christmas Eve with the Dawson side of the family. This year it was at the Anderson house. Thanks Andersons.


The Stephens Boys

The Dawson Family little ones

Grammy and her boys

Great Aunt Claudia

Auntie Danielle

Rainy days at the Stephens House

So we got this frog as a White Elephant gift at church and the boys love to play the music and dance. They fight over who gets to make the frog sing. Shea was a little shy as soon as I got the camera. You have to come over soon and see his moves.

Shea's first stage show

Ok so this is not that exciting for everyone, but for me mom. This was pretty cool.

My little firefighters

It is getting close to Shea's 3rd birthday and I thought it would be fun to ask him what he wanted to do. So I asked him, " Do you want an O George (Curious George), Elmo, Word World, Dump Truck, Trash Truck, etc. party never mentioning Fire. But, every time I said something he would say no Firetruck. Needless to say he will be having a Firefighter party. Here are some photos we took to make his invite.

Mason wanted to get into the act as well.

It's out

Some of you know that I had a kidney stone removed on Thursday. It was really big (9mm). And some wanted to see what it looked like, so here it is:

Cattle Drive

On Saturday we took the boys to Costa Mesa to watch the cattle drive to the fair. We all had a great time.







When we were all done with lunch and the cattle drive we let the kids jump in the fountain. How white trash are we?

Check out the video of the actual cattle on the streets.

It has been a long time

It has been a really ling time since I have blogged. I have lots to catch up. So be looking back in the next week and I will add a lot of past things that I have been meaning to blog about. But for now here is what Shea has to say about his Dad.

Mason is almost there

He just started to push the chart all around. He now stands by himself and if you hold out your hands is almost runs. But, so some reason he just does not want to walk by himself. Deep down I don't really want him to walk either. Then he will not be my baby anymore. :0(