Sunday was packed with family fun filled goodness as Colby, Camryn and I headed out to Schnepf Farms to go Peach Picking! As some of you may know I am an experiences peach picker starting at a young age picking peaches with my Grandparents in Texas so, this trip was nostalgic and fun. We started our journey off with a peach cinnamon roll at the Country Store (why have I not thought of this before!)...Camryn sampled some of the pureed peach but spent most of the time trying to lick the sugar off her lips or eat the paper napkin we were using to try to avoid a breakfast disaster. After finishing our breakfast we headed over to the hayride line to catch a tractor that would take us into the orchard to do the picking.
Camryn enjoyed her first hayride and then ventured into the trees with us to fill our box! After picking our fill, I thought we had a reasonable amount of peaches, we ended up with 15 lbs of peaches...in other words I am making peach baby food and cobbler this week.
(More pictures to come)
After packing up our peaches and heading home to get out of the heat we decided to explore some of the new home developments in our area and check out the model homes (a favorite pastime of both Colby and myself). Our first stop was the Anthem of the South- my parents live in the Anthem in North Phoenix so if you are familiar with that community- copy and paste and you can visualize where we were. The models there were a flop but the community park was the perfect opportunity for Camryn to try out a playground swing.
As you can imagine Camryn (and her parents) were pretty worn out by this time so we headed to the grocery store to pick up stuff to grill and made our way back home for dinner. We even had an dinner guest (uninvited...but a guest none the less) as Truman decided to play tag with a bird in the backyard breaking its wing leaving Colby and I trying to figure out how to get this disabled bird out of the backyard before Truman decided to "play" some more. Things eventually worked out and we enjoyed delicious homemade hamburgers courtesy of Colby.
As many of you know Colby and I...and in turn Camryn are Annual Pass Holders to Disneyland! Being that we are pretty experienced Guests to the park there is not too much we have not experienced or known about...until now....Rider Switch Passes or Parent Passes are AMAZING! Parent Passes allow one parent to ride or in our case when we traveled with 4 adults (Colby, Myself, Victor and Alissa), 2 adults ride, pick up the pass, and the other 2 can ride after they are finished without waiting in line. It was spectacular and we were able to do all the "big kid" rides that Camryn cannot do- we waited max 25 minutes the entire trip!
The World of Color at California Adventure was pretty amazing...if only I were a little taller...or if Colby would have been willing to let me sit on his shoulders could it have been any better. When you hear water and light show you don't think of anything that great, at least I didn't but it was so much more. The height of the water alone was awe-inspiring but the projection of entire movie clips on walls of water plus pyrotechnics and screens that arose out of the lake was beyond compare. I think the coolest part however was standing in a crowd full of people of all ages, races, background, countries of origin etc... and listening to EVERYONE sing along to the music...it restores my faith in the world knowing that something as innocent as Disney can unite an entire amusement park of people in song. Camryn slept through it all...of course!
She was however quite excited to show off her Minnie Mouse outfit and her new and first set of "ears"
After so much excitement over simply sitting on a table at Disneyland you can imagine her experience the rest of the day :)
Colby took me and the rest of the gang to Goofy's Kitchen for a Mother's Day Breakfast Buffet and Camryn got to meet some of Goofy's Kitchen Helpers!
Camryn had the opportunity to ride her favorite ride again...Small World...try reading this without getting the song stuck in your head...I dare you! This is my favorite picture...she is so enthralled!
Camryn has been promoted to the "big girl" tub for bath time and Truman decided to join in! Don't worry both parties had their own separate baths following the joint water playtime.
Looking back at these photos it looks like we have a missing rubber duckie...I will have to check Truman for contraband!
We are headed to Disneyland for the second time with Camryn this weekend- this time we are also bringing along Alissa and Victor which will allow us to try out the "parent-pass" system and hopefully ride some more of the adult rides- I hope Disneyland can survive the four of us all at once! Saturday is the premiere of the newest installment of Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland...which means it will be closing earlier but I'm excited to see what the preparation is like before we head over to California Adventure to see the new "World of Color" show.
Colby and I are both very excited and ready for the break...we will post pictures and hopefully even some with all three of us since most of the pictures we have make Camryn look like she has no parents.
Camryn is becoming more and more vocal so I have been trying to capture more of her noises...hear is a sample. We are also working on waving which is coming along nicely despite the fact that Camryn can only wave at herself I think she is starting to get the concept.
