Visiting Pops and GG

This weekend we left CA and went to visit my parents!! It has been nice not too humid and

 just beautiful!!! The first day we went shopping, and swimming with Kurtis friends Josh and Sam. Kurtis slept so good that night, in fact he was trying to fall asleep on the table during dinner time.   Second day we enjoyed family dinner.

Today we went swimming again, and to visit my uncle, aunt, and cousins. Uncle Kenny took Kurtis with Karrie for a ride in his 1968 corvette!!  Kurtis has been looking forward to that since we started planning our trip.  He loves CARS!!! 

I thought I took several photos of which I had a few where you could see everyone, but for some reason these were the only photos I had.  Sorry your head is blocked in every shot Kenny!!!

Kurtis also LOVES their dog!!

More trip photos to come!!

Past few weeks...

We had a fun primary activity where the children learned about Mexico. Kurtis really enjoyed the Piñata and painting the maraca's.

Kurtis also has become friends with a little boy in our apartment complex, they like to play water balloons, and go swimming in the kiddie pool.

We also planted seeds and up sprouted tomatoes, and sunflowers plants. Serene gave us some herbs too that have all sprouted, but you can't really see the oregano but its there. Kurtis has a chore to water them and clean out their pots. Soon we will need to re-pot them, hopefully that goes ok too. Since we do not have the yard to have a garden we thought we would test growing these plants on our balcony, so far so good.

Last thing we did was build a new train city on Kurtis' train table. He has played with it everyday.

Update on the Pikula's

Kurtis is wrapping up preschool, here is a funny photo of him jumping on the bed at our hotel in SFC. He is ready for summer to swim in Nanny's pool and vacation! We did have fun at the Noah's Ark exhibit with some friends from church!Amy is enjoying time with Kurtis, working hard, and keeping up with the housework!Derick left this week for basic training and will be gone for 4.5 months!! We love him and miss him a TON. The blogs for the next few months will really be to update him when he gets back on what we did while he was gone!! Kurtis and I made a paper chain so that we could keep up with and know how many days we had until he comes home to us.(at the hotel the night before he shipped out! sorry, not a great photo of derick but the other option was bad of both!)

Trip to SFC

Kurtis and I decided to go up to SFC for my cousin Kiel's wedding. Since Derick could not get off work Serene offered to help me drive, which was wonderful. It was a great drive, a nice time with family, and great weather for the wedding.

Congratulations Kiel and Melissa!!

They had delicious fondue, Kurtis enjoyed every piece of it!!!
Kurtis also really enjoyed time with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa!!

We stopped to get gas on the way home and this wonderful lady allowed us to check out her beautiful horses, and yes one really wanted to eat my hair thinking it was a carrot!!

Our big boy GROWING up!!

Kurtis has grown out of his toddler bed so we were lucky to find a cheap twin bed on craigslist and quickly picked it up. He has loved it!! We have loved it too, ever since we bought it he has not startled Derick and I in the middle of the night standing next to our bed because his bed "hurt him".

Its Been A While!!!

Sorry for not blogging regularly we have been busy with family outings! I'll try and recap most of the highlights!

We enjoyed Derick's basketball game:

We made a Go-Cart named Herbie like Franklin the Turtle:We went to the Santa Monica Aquarium with Serene:
We went to Sea World:We had a wonderful Conference Weekend, Easter Saturday at Underwood Family Farm, we dyed Easter Eggs, and went to church with Kurtis in his new suit from Pops and GG: