Gotta Love that Sis...

Last Sunday we celebrated Chris's 50th birthday. She needed a little help blowing out all those candles...

 

Abby may not have a sister, per se, but she gets plenty of girlie love from her auntie. These two are two peas in a pod! They adore each other. This is where you can usually find them when we're at the Wicks, snuggling together in bed watching a movie.

 

In more girl fun news....It was the Father and Sons campout this Friday night so we got to have some special overnight guests at our house. Claire and Liz spent the night and we girls had a fabulous time. We slept in, stayed in our jammies and shopped the internet on the laptop in bed. Of course, the girls enjoyed a yummy pancake breakfast too. I'll take that any day over camping with stinky boys!!!

 

 

Memorial Day

We kept up our tradition of visiting Papa's grave. The boys really enjoyed themselves. We even spent some time exploring the cemetery. WHo knew that could be so entertaining?

 

 

 

 

 

Abby is so cool with her shades...

Annie

I'll never forget the first time I saw her, with her red dress and mop of curly red hair. I was inpsried. I wanted to be on a stage singing like Annie. I saw the movie and was obessed from that moment on. I watched it over and over again. Then there was the glorious day when my Mom got me the Annie record. I remember plasetering my ear against the speaker, listening to the scratchy rendition of "It's a Hard Knock's Life". It was delicious. Last night, I was reminded of my girlhood joy.

 

James took along his buddy, Zane. (David opted out, lured by the fantastic opportunity to be the only boy at a HSM3 birthday party, go figure)

 

Abby has definietly caught the Annie bug too. Here she is with her favorite star, Danielle, who slam dunked the role of Grace. We love Danielle!!! The B. boys did an awesome job also. They were right on their characters, so fun to watch!!!

 

James was thrilled to get his picture with these two beautiful, talented girls. He's not a bit ashamed of being a little star struck.

 

Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks(and cotton candy and bbq corn and hot dogs and soda and ice cream....)

The family went to the Padres game on Saturday night. We took advantage of the "Padres Value Weekend", which is basically a ploy to get you in the gates cheaply and then seduce you with a plethora of tasty food. Nonetheless, we were highly entertained and well fed.

 

James had a hard time comprehending that we were going to the game with "just our family". We do tend to do most activities with friends or extended family in tow. The concept of a family-on;y activity was foreign and disturbing to him. All the more reason to do it, right? I feel that we will be fighting this battle alot in the upcoming teenage years. James has been talking about getting a foam finger for a long time. Dreams do come true. Abby got some good finger fun too.

 

 

 

Can you say fair-weather fans?? This game opened with a Pads home run. We Mendenhalls are good luck I guess.

 

The park at the park is a brilliant idea. We all got a chance to hit and run the bases.

 

 

 

 

 

We left at bottom of the 7th inning, right after a moving rendition of "Take me out to the Ballgame". Turns out the game went 16 innings!!! Unbelievable, the diehards definitely got their money's worth at this game. We'll be going again sometime soon this season. Maybe we'll even invite friends.....

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