The Tees family blog

Monday, October 14, 2013

2013/2014 school year pictures!

We are dying over the kids school pictures this year!! Ahhhh. So ridiculously precious and to think next year we'll get a picture with all 3 of them in it. We still cannot believe our "baby" Sophia is 5 and Presto is almost 4. It really does go so so fast. Trying to soak it all up and enjoy every moment. We feel so infinitely blessed to spend our life with these amazing kids!

Mickey's Halloween Disney Party!

We've turned this into a yearly tradition! Meeting the Gordon's for a night of trick or treating in costumes at Disneyland. The kids lasted until 10:30pm this year!!! Sophia went on the MATTERHORN with Daddy! She's sooooo brave. She said her eyes were closed the entire time. To test her I asked her what the "monster" looked like and she said "I don't know...all I know is he had red eyes"...haaaa!! So we know her eyes were open for at least that part:) Presto is in LOVE with the teacups and wanted no part of the roller coaster and since the park was pretty empty by 10pm we went on the teacups 2x! The grand finale was Peter Pan. The line is usually WAY too long but not this night...we got right on and the kids loved it! We also made it on Mr. Toads Wild Ride which we don't normally get on either b/c of the lines. It was a super fun trip. We spent the night at the Howard Johnson for the first time and we think Presto enjoyed their splash pad more than Disneyland!! Before we hit the splash pad in the morning we walked across the street for some Mickey pancakes at Mimi's. Then the second we opened the gate to the splash pad Presto was off...in absolute heaven in the water. Our next trip we're taking Mr. Bentley bear for his first time in November to see all the Christmas decorations...can't wait!!

Presto on the teacups above(heaven). Presto on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride below(very apprehensive...ha!)

Mickey pancake time!

Splash pad time!

I love this picture of Daddy and I because Presto took it! Pretty good job for a 3 year old:)

Sunday, October 6, 2013

School has started!

In the choas that is September...I forgot to blog about school! This year, Sophia is in Transitional Kindergarten and Preston is in Room 2 of preschool. They both go full time and have their lunch bunch at school as well which they both love. Preston is learning how to count and Phia is learning the life cycle of an apple. It's been an amazing start the the new year. Mommy is VERY involved in the school and holds a very fun position on the Parent Board as VP of Fundraising. It's kept mommy VERY busy all summer planning for the annual Casino Night fundraiser in December.

Mommy was VERY excited that Phia got the plaid jumper this year. I've been waiting since she was in Room 1 to buy one of these. They only come in the bigger sizes. L.O.V.E!!!!

They each had to made a "person" this year for back to school night. This picture was taken before we put the hair on Preston's person but Sophia said she wanted "pink squiggly pasta" as a shirt so mommy went and bought pasta and food coloring and made it happen!! Phia made her everything else herself. The feather skirt and hair Phia did herself. We were very proud of their little people:)

Daddy's bday celebration!

After our traditional Cafe Firenze date night celebration, we had the whole Tees Family and Nana and Nonno over for a home style celebration(the best kind!!!). Grandma made chicken parm and Nana made her delicious mint chip cake. We barely saw Sophia and Emily. They get right to playing together the when they see each other...it's very sweet. We also silly stringed Daddy which he loved...ha!