Disneyland and More

Nathan and I had the chance to go to Disneyland with the Titan choir last weekend. We had so much fun!
The Frontier Choirs did great, won 3 trophies at a wonderful ceremony in the park. Poor Teresa was sick, but she didn't let that slow her down too much, she did pay for it later though.

Advanced Women's Choir performing at the festival in Placentia, CA.
After this they went to the hotel and then to Medieval Times

Saturday morning at Downtown Disney

 Our first stop was to find a baseball cap with ears for Nathan. It's the one thing he wanted to look for.

We met up with Teresa and her friends to ride the Haunted mansion, unfortunately it broke down.
We hit the Jungle Cruise instead(and  got a map)

Jedi Training, another must for the day

Autopia, Nathan couldn't wait to drive a car. We stopped and got his license on our way out.

Toad Ride

Nathan got to "drive the Mark Twain boat. Here he is signing the guest book

Driving the boat

Ringing the bell and tooting the horn

Cute little performance before the awards ceremony in the park

 Sunday morning we headed to California Adventures for awhile. This time it was just me and Nathan, we didn't meet up with anyone else until the end of the day for food and shopping :)

Churros

Nathan won Dumbo at the boardwalk game in California Adventure.
He actually won a Mickey Mouse and 2 little stuffed animals as well.
He gave the Mickey away, since he already had it at home.

We did the wilderness explorer stuff.
They had markers to complete different activities and then you scratched off to see your badge.
At the end you could get a senior Wilderness Explorer sticker. Nathan had lots of fun here.

Rock Climbing, horizontally

Nathan and I rode Goofy's sky school.
This ride is a little above my roller coaster limit, to give you an idea.
Nathan said this was the BEST RIDE EVER!

Here we are doing the Jelly Fish Drop

After some delicious lunch and some shopping we headed back to Bakersfield, exhausted.

Keep CALM

Nathan's first grade field trip to CALM was yesterday. They didn't get a ton of  time there, but they had a really good time.

Hayden, Gage and Nathan were my group

Kalie, Aslin, Hayden, Gage and Nathan

The train ride

The Wizard of Oz

The kids have been working hard since January rehearsing for The Wizard Of Oz.
Here are some pictures from the performances this last weekend. Nathan said he had a really good time, but when asked today if he was going to do the next one he said no, maybe never again.

Nathan's costume and make-up. He's hunched over acting like a monkey

They have this tradition at Junior Theater, a gypsy robe. It's a robe they give to a deserving actor or actress, that person puts something personal from the show and opening night of the next show they pass it along to the next deserving actor. Teresa was so shocked and excited to get the robe this show. Part of the reason was because she was tech supervisor, basically she makes sure all the props and sets get on in the right order.

Teresa in her gypsy robes, there were two this time.
(Sometimes they run two shows at a time)

Teresa in her salon girl costume and her good friend Alex.
Alex was the stage manager for the show

Corissa, Teresa and Hannah as crows

Teresa was Dorothy's salon girl

Nathan as a flying Monkey

It was difficult to get a good pictures of them.
They were moving the whole time

Photo Dump

Nathan is sitting in a container full of stuffed animals,
then he buried himself with more(we're trying to clean out Teresa's room)

Cookies I made for a daddy daughter dance at Nathan's school

Teresa shares everything with her cat, whether she likes it or not

Some of the twins from "Twin Day" at Nathan's school.
I think it's hilarious that they all look like actual
twins in regard to height and hair. The girls actually are.

Gage and Nathan as "twins"

The "Clue" cake I made for my dad's birthday. This cake took me SO long to make

Jump Rope for heart at Rosedale North

Go Nathan!
I have a great video of him doing the cupid shuffle, it's So cute to watch
7 year olds do that dance