Riley’s All About Me Poster

Each of the students in the twins’ kindergarten class will be doing one of these “All About Me” posters. They rotate and only do one student a week. This week it was Riley’s turn. Here’s what his says:

I am 6 years old.
My favorite color is green.
My favorite animal is a monkey.
My favorite food is hamburger.
The beach is my favorite place.
When I grow up, I want to be a Jedi.
My favorite things to do is play with Jared.
If I had one wish, I would wish for a wishing well.

Coconut Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

A friend made some of this bread for me and it was delicious! She was kind enough to give me the recipe. I am putting it in my blog so I don’t loose it. I am going to make some of it later this week once I have had time to get all the ingredients.

Coconut Banana Bread:

2 C. Flour
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 C. sugar
1/4 C. butter
2 eggs
1 1/2 C. smashed banana
1/4 C. yogurt
3 Tblsp. Dark Rum (or extract)
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 C. sweetened coconut
1/2 C. Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 350.
Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat until smooth. Pour in vanilla and rum. Beat in the bananas and yogurt. Add the flour, soda and salt. Once well mixed add the coconut and chocolate chips. Pour into sprayed 9×5 loaf pan. Sprinkle with either a little bit of coconut or a mixture or brown sugar and oatmeal.* Bake for 50-60 min.

The topping is supposed to be a lime glaze: 1/2 C. powdered sugar and 1 1/2 Tblsp. lime juice. This topping goes on afterwards, it is good but just makes the bread a little messy

Jared’s All About Me Poster

Each of the students in the twins’ kindergarten class will be doing one of these “All About Me” posters. They rotate and only do one student a week. This week it was Jared’s turn. Here’s what his says:

I am 6 years old.
My favorite color is blue.
My favorite animal is dog.
My favorite food is baked beans.
Hawaii is my favorite place.
When I grow up, I want to be a Jedi.
My favorite things to do is play with Riley.
If I had one wish, I would wish for treasure.

Seal Beach Tax Day T.E.A. Party

Today we attended the Seal Beach Tax Day T.E.A. Party. T.E.A. stands for Taxed Enough Already. There were around 1500 of these held today all across the country to protest the ever increasing tax burden placed upon the citizens of this great country, brought about by the out of control spending of the government. Since the kids had the week off for Easter Break, we thought this would be a great event to take them too so they could see the political process in action. We got there a bit early to make sure we would be able to find a parking place. I thought there would be maybe a hundred or so people showing up. Boy was I wrong! The Seal Beach Police estimated that the crowd totaled approximately 750 people. I think that it speaks volumes that you had that many people show up two weeks after someone stepped up to organize the event. (Great job Judy Wiles in organizing it!) It really shows you how much people are fed up with the governments tax and spend mentality.

The demonstration started off at the Seal Beach City Hall. We listened to several speakers there and then walked over to the pier, where some other people spoke. The demonstration ended with a march over to PCH where people stood on the side of the rode waving their signs. All the people that attended were nice and orderly, following all the directions of the police officers and organizers. With that many people in one place, you would thing that a mess would be left, however, I did not see one single piece of trash left anywhere by the people participating in the protest.

Yesterday, Talia and Kayli had fun making signs for us to bring. Their signs were a big hit with everyone at the protest. Especially this one that they made for Falyn.

Numerous people stopped and asked me if they could take a picture of Falyn with the sign.

Here’s a picture of all the kids with their signs.

Aidan with his sign.

Jared and Riley with their sign.

Here’s me with the sign the Talia made for me. It says “Soccer Moms thing the government needs a timeout”.

Here’s Judy Wiles, the lady that organized the event. It is people like her that really epitomize this movement. She got an email two weeks ago about these T.E.A. Parties and took it upon herself to organize one. She thought it would end up being just her and few of her friends and was thrilled that so many people showed up.

Here’s an assortment of other pictures for today.









This video contains highlights from the Seal Beach Tax Day T.E.A. Party.

Dyeing Easter Eggs

We had a blast dying Easter eggs this morning. Grandma Nancy, Grandpa Ron and Aunt Samantha came over to take part in the fun. Dan had fun with his “cameo” egg kit and Kayli went wild with the glitter kit, adding glitter to just about all the eggs by the time we were done. Here’s some pics:










The Twins’ Kindergarten Easter Party

The twins kindergarten class had their Easter party this morning. I went to the party to help out and brought Falyn with me. The party started with a visit from the Easter Bunny. The kids then did several crafts, including making a bookmark and cross necklace. They then had a snack and it was time to go home. All the kids had a lot of fun. Falyn was so cute at the party. She thinks she is just as big as all the kids and sat on the carpet to listen to the stories and got in the middle of the circle to dance along with them to several songs. Here’s some pictures from the party.

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