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O’Neill Campout

April 17, 2019 by Rebecca Whitehead

Jake and the twins embarked on yet another fun campout with our local Adventure Guides group, with the Rainbow Sky Expedition. The twins are in the Pink Panthers circle and look forward to their daddy daughter camping time! This campout was just a few minute away at O’Neill regional park, so because it was so close, Meredith joined for a day and I picked her up at night.

The dads in this group are pretty impressive creative planners and the theme for camp was “Role Reversal”. It started off with the girls getting to sit in Jake’s lap as they helped park the car into the campsite.

Their favorite activity was the Bippity Daddy Boutique – where dads had a spa day and then walked the Runway in their beautiful makeup and nail polish. The twins won for best makeover!

Scary.

Another activity was “End of our Rope” – a chance for daughters to lead their blindfolded dads through a crazy rope course, connected by a piece of rope the girls got to make.

There was also “Daughters Save the Dads” – a challenging set of puzzles needed to be solved to keep dads from going in the stream.

The girls also like the scavenger hunt with riddles to solve along the way and the game of Giant Twister. They also always love to sit around and play Uno with the other girls, climb trees, and go exploring.

They were excited about finding a huge toad!

Finding some interesting bugs.

This looks like something out of a horror show.

The campfire is always a blast and the girls’ skit was really cute!

Moana sing-along!

The girls can’t wait until the next campout!

Lots of love,

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6U Softball and Angel’s Game

April 10, 2019 by Rebecca Whitehead

6U division Spring softball continued with the twins mostly letting other girls run after the ball. They did enjoy their turns at bat and almost always hit the ball without a tee (each batter gets three tries to hit the ball from the coach’s pitch, and then they bring the tee out).

The first few games, everyone got to run to base and there were no outs. Toward the end of the season, they started playing with outs– Samantha was very upset to be tagged out before she reached first and refused to play for a few more innings. Meredith eventually coaxed her out to play toward the end of the game.

Many of the girls on their team are pretty competitive. When asked why she doesn’t run after the ball and at least attempt to catch it, Samantha just shrugged and replied, “Someone else will get it.” Way to take ownership.

Samantha and Amelia’s cheerleaders. Meredith wants to be a part of the team so badly– she hangs out in the dugout with the other girls and interacts with them more than the twins do!

Best part of softball: post-game snack.

Team photo lol. Go Pink Penguins.

Samantha had to be bribed for this half smile.

Amelia at bat.

The girls’ favorite part of the season was going to see an Angel’s game with the Capo Softball League. I stayed home with Eleanor, but received picture updates from Jake and random texts from people I hadn’t heard from in a long time saying they had seen Jake and the girls on the jumbo-tron! Unfortunately, Jake didn’t notice they were on the screen quick enough to take a pic of themselves on the big screen.

Before game-time, their league got to walk onto the field in a parade.

Go Capo!

Take me out to the ballgame.

They gave out Angel’s jerseys to the team and the girls were super excited. When Meredith got home, she couldn’t wait to show me her jersey, shouting, “I’m part of the team!!!!” She feels pretty official now.

Lots of love,

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San Juan Capistrano Hike and Strawberry Picking

April 5, 2019 by Rebecca Whitehead

With record rain in the winter and spring, everything near us was gorgeous and green for miles around. Wanting to see some wildflowers close to home, we hiked the Patriot Trail in San Juan Capistrano, which leads to a flagpole at the top and amazing views of the ocean. We did the hike last year on Memorial Day, but it was so dry last year that everything was brown and we could barely see the ocean because it was so cloudy. This time, skies were blue, the wildflowers were blooming and the hills were unbelievably green and covered with wildflowers.

The rolling hills looked like a painting.

A few miles later, and some whining, we made it!

Signing the log book with our signatures at the top. There’s a little mailbox next to the flagpole to leave the book there for the next hikers to sign.

Hello ocean.

Meredith hiked the entire way there and hitched a ride on Jake’s back on the return trip, much to the annoyance of the jealous twins.

Taking the shortcut.

April is not complete without our traditional strawberry picking at Tanaka Farms.

Instead of picking in the fields, we tried the hydroponics instead. So big and juicy.

Eating our spoils.

The girls’ treat was a ginormous chocolate covered strawberry.

From strawberry picking, we went straight to duck feeding at the lake.

We love spring weekends!

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March 2019 Fun

March 25, 2019 by Rebecca Whitehead

We had a very rainy and unusually cool winter, which bled into spring. All the rain made everything green and gorgeous! We didn’t have time for everything on our bucket list this summer, but we did check off quite a few.

Hiking at Casper’s Wilderness Park.

Meredith loved school and begged to go more than two days. On Wednesdays, all the girls stayed for an extra hour and loved doing fun projects with Miss Erica, who is the Queen of Pinterest Projects. Every Wednesday, the girls would groan when I came to pick them up and asked to stay longer.

Samantha and Amelia were jealous of the fruit loop rainbow project Meredith did in her class, so we did it at home.

St. Patrick’s Day chocolate pancake breakfast.

St. Patrick’s Day at school.

Visiting with Great Grandpa!

During one horrible week, the girls were sick with fevers, snot and coughing, all within a few days of each other. Amelia was so sad about going to school by herself… until she got to go on a special Daddy Daughter date for waffles.

Once Samantha was all better, she went on a Daddy Daughter sandwich date.

Helping with treehouse construction.

I am Meredith. Hear me ROAR.

Playing 52 card pick-up.

Building epic block towers and screaming when Monster Baby Eleanor crawled over to destroy the city.

Eleanor’s favorite homemade mac n cheese.

Someone went overboard on the bubbles.

So proud she can stand!

Scooter ride around the neighborhood while sisters were in school.

Tennis practice.

In March, the twins stayed after school for an art class with the 1st grade teacher, Miss Iumi.

Their final cute paintings.

Softball was in full swing, with a practice and game every week. While the girls tolerated practices (mostly because of the tag games they played plus donuts), they alternated between staring off into space and refusing to run after the ball at all during the actual games.

Jake: “Why don’t you run after the ball, Sammy?”

Sammy: “Because someone else will get it.”

They did like trying to hit the ball and running the bases! The first few games, they played the game with no tagging outs, but the last few games, the coaches decided the girls were ready to play for real. The first time Sammy got tagged out, she cried hysterically and refused to play. She sure ran fast the next game though and never got tagged again.