Busy as a Bee

We have been pretty busy this past couple of weeks. Here are a few highlights, not necessarily in this order....

We visited our friend Ish and his family. Check out Brandon, Luke and the shark.

They have several pools and water fun parks in their community, so we like to visit them and play. Check out this play set that is in about 2 ft of water. Their is a bucket at the top that fills with water and splashes the play set.

Here are our two water babies. Now that it's hot we are in the pool everyday and the girls are totally fearless. Thank god for floaties.

Maya and Sahara made a father's day card for Papa Epi and their daddy. Pretty cute. On Father's day Sido Paul, Papa Epi, Nader, Bella and Maya and Sahara went to Oceanside pier to enjoy some time together. Maya and Sahara had all kinds of cool things to report when they got back. Like the dolphins they saw and the fish that were caught by people on the pier.

Here's Maya taking care of her baby while watching the Laker's in the NBA Finals. Both Maya and Sahara can chant Kobe's name. Unfortunately the Laker's were annihilated in game 6. We are all very sad about this.

We visited baby Gianna and her family the other day. She is such a cutie. Maya and Sahara love to kiss her and say her name.

Here's out little Dominic looking handsome as usual.

What is it about sleeping babies that make them so adorable?

Maya had the worst day of her life last weekend. We started the day in the jacuzzi, where she slipped and cut the inside of her lip. It was so deep that we took her to emergency in case she needed stitches. Here's a picture inside of the emergency room. When we got home she was stung by a bee. And as if that wasn't enough, later that day she was sitting in a chair that tipped backwards and landed on the back of her head. She has never done so much crying in one day. Thank goodness that day is over.

Here's a tender moment of Papa Epi and Sahara watching TV together. Papa Epi came back with us from Washington State and stayed with us until last Monday. He finally went home even though we all wished he could have stayed longer. He had done a really good job spoiling us. He cooked us breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday. The girls still wake up asking for Papa's pancakes. We love you Papa Epi !!!

Busy as a Bee

In short we have been crazy busy lately. Here's a few photos to bring you up to speed....

The Orchids and Butterfly exhibit is going on at the Wild Animal Park. This is by far our favorite exhibit and it only lasts for about a month. Picture walking into a greenhouse filled with every type of butterfly imaginable. It's like a scene in a fairy tale.

Monkey flower power.

It was Olivia's 2nd birthday the other day. She is one of the girls good friends.

Sahara and Maya got to eat cupcakes that day. This is actually a big deal because mommy doesn't give them any sweets.



Nader's brother Brian and his wife Christine gave birth to their 4th child, a girl. Her name is Giana.

Look at those long toes !!

Here's a proud uncle kissing his new niece.

Sahara pointing out her binky addiction.

Remember those sunflowers the girls planted. Well they planted 20 sunflowers and got 3 that sprouted. So they replanted those survivors in the ground.

Here are the lucky sprouts.

The girls are taking turns watering them.


The girls love feeding ducks and mommy finally got smart and bought duck food from the feed store.

They girls throw so much food at the ducks that most of it goes to waste.

There was a pink and orange duck at the pond. How did they get that color?


And finally, we have a home improvement project in progress. We are adding some stone work to our fire place. What was quoted to take a day has now taken 2 weeks. Needless to say the house is a mess, but it is coming along nicely.