Walking with Papa!! 

A proud member of Team Stephanie!

Team Stephanie 2013

The annual Ovarian Cancer run/walk that is usually held in Studio City was cancelled this year, so our family hosted its own Team Stephanie event in Ventura... a short walk/run through a community park followed by a delicious lunch at my great grandparents' old house in Santa Paula.  It was a gorgeous day and the event was fun and successful!!  Mommy's camera battery died, so she was really bummed that she didn't capture more moments from the day!!  But, we were all happily exhausted at the end of it!!  :)

LOVE the foam pit!

Crazy-haired bouncer girl!

My favorite part of the trampoline place... the rope swing!

An excellent shot of m incoming monster teefs!

Airborne!!

We LOVE the trampoline place!!  We went for some jumping fun on a 'Wacky Wednesday' (we get out of school early on Wednesdays... so we have extra time for FUN!)  It was empty!!  That meant that I could go on the rope swing a zillion times...  with no line!!!  Danni and I bounced for 2 hours straight!!  Bedtime was a breeze that night!  Betcha Mommy and Daddy will take us back soon!!!!

Swimmers!

Ready to beat the heat!

Daddy's little baby sharks!

Happy little water boy!

We LOVE to swim at the Cove... especially when it is 100,000 degrees outside!!!  We took a family swimming trip there to beat the heat...  After about an hour, we were all shivering!  It was perfect!!!  While I am ready for the Fall and Winter to arrive, I don't mind the hot days so much when we get to spend them doing fun summery activities!!  :)

Construction Zone!

Serious hammering!

Pink painter!

This is her favorite part!

Ready to paint!

I painted EVERYTHING in my path!

Sillies!

We LOVE building... and Autumn-baby!!

Another Saturday project at Home Depot!!  This time we constructed a ring toss game -- with football shaped 'rings' in preparation of the start of football season!!  I hardly needed any help this time ... except for getting all of the paint off my hands, arms, and face at the end!!!  Can't wait for next month!!

Diz Day with Papa!!

On the jelly fish jumper.  Danni made sure Papa wasn't scared! 

We comforted him on the ferris wheel too!

I wasn't trying to push her in....

All of the guys on Triton's Carousel!

Loving the zipline!!

Posing with the plane from 'Planes' :)

I played hooky and headed to Disneyland with Papa!!  We took him on the Radiator Springs Racers for the first time -- he liked it (and I liked it more this time than the last time I went on it!)  Danni dragged him on the Ariel ride a bunch of times and we explored the adventure trails!  We ended our day with a yummy lunch on Main Street!  We LOVE the Diz... but it is even better when we get to go with Papa!!!

Sub Zero Ice Cream!!

Danni didn't like the 'ice cream smoke' because it was super loud!

I didn't mind it!  :)

My creation!  Cookies n' cream with gummi bears!

Danni picked bubble gum ice cream with m&m's and gummi bears!  Yum!!

The secret to the smokey ice cream!!

We visited a super cool (as in -378 degrees cool!) ice cream place in Upland!  They use liquid nitrogen to flash freeze your ice cream creation - so you can dream up (and eat!) practically any ice cream creation!!  Danni and I had fun creating our own ice cream flavors - but the highlight was when they busted out the liquid nitrogen and froze it!  There was smoke EVERYWHERE!  I thought it was super cool!!!  We can't wait to go back!!

Danni's First Day of School!

'You're going to love pre-school, Danni!"

She picked out her dress... and her shoes!

Are they ready for the Beast?  ;)

Today was Danni's first day of preschool!  She picked out her own dress and shoes, allowed Mommy to curl her hair, and walked right in without a tear!!  She was excited to have one of my old teachers for her teacher - and I was excited to go back to visit!!  Hopefully, she will love it as much as I did!

Wet n Wild 5K

All ready to walk and roll!!

We LOVED the lap through the water park!

We walked through the Lazy River... with our clothes and shoes on!!!

Mommy and I did the river about 5 times!

The Beast did not want to join us for the race.  She napped in the stroller instead!

I took Daddy through the river too!

With Mommy and her CrossFit friends!

At the finish line!!

Proud of my medal!  :)

We had a great time supporting one of Mommy's friend's charities (Kidsave!) at the La Mirada Wet n Wild 5K.  It was, literally, a cool race because it ended with a walk (or SWIM!) through a water park's Lazy River!!  That was, of course, my favorite part!  I wasn't worried about my finishing time, so I made about 10 laps through the river!!  Super cool!!!  To top it off, we got goodies AND a medal at the finish line!!!  Awesome!!  Danni had gotten shots at the doctor the day before, so she wasn't feeling up to racing.  She did have a wonderful nap in the stroller, though!  :)

Fun with Professor Pennypickle!

We were fascinated by Professor Pennypickle's giant clock!!

An ancient version of the sit n spin!

We liked this tailgate bench!!

Cookin' up a banana split in the kitchen!

Talking through the tube ...

Daddy blew threw it!

Periscoper...

Firing up the hot air balloon flame!

We had NO idea what this was.  But we liked all of the buttons!

Making noise....

We decorated marshmallows and ate them!!

Mmmm!!!

Danni has a rubber duckie infatuation.  She wanted this one to add to her collection!

We headed down to Temecula for a day of fun and relaxing!  One of our first stops was a visit to Professor Pennypickle's laboratory (which is also a children's museum!)  We had so much fun exploring his place!  There were lots of hands-on exhibits... and tons of secret passageways to run through!!!  Our only complaint is that Professor Pennypickle lives a bit toooo far from our house for us to visit as often as we'd like to!