Elk Grove Weekend

We had to get a group shot of all the DeMilles who were together for the weekend.  Growing up we were the only Susoevs ever.  My Mom has 4 sisters and only 1 brother so at every family reunion everyone had different last names.  And no, before you ask, there were never any Susoev reunions.  That's a whole mess of fish we just won't get in to :)  It is so weird to me to have so many people with the same last name.  

 Grandma & Grandpa DeMille with 8 of their 15 grandkids (15 grandkids ages 9 and under! Tyson is the 2nd oldest.)  These are some busy Grandparents!!

 Brandon & Darcie have this fun pool that Tyson wanted to live in the entire time he was there.  Sunday was torture because we didn't let him swim on Sunday. Mean old Mormons :)

Super fun weekend and I even sqeezed in an IKEA trip and found a perfect bathroom cabinet!  The funniest thing is our family has 1 boy and then 3 girls and their family has 1 girl and then 3 boys.  We did an awesome clothes swap a roo.  We brought up 7 bags of Tyson's old clothes and they sent us home with over 9 bags of girl clothes.  Win Win!!

Sacramento trip

We ran up to Sacramento during Labor Day weekend for Jason's niece's baptism.  They live on a mini farm and the kids had a blast running around like crazies at their house. 

 Grandpa DeMille & Uncle Brandon built this amazing treehouse/ playground.  Hayden was in heaven!

 Friday night Aunt Darcie threw Maren a Harry Potter themed birthday party.  Maren just turned 8 and has read the first 3 Harry Potter books.  She's in love with anything Harry Potter and Aunt Darie went all out!  We had a sorting ceremony and each kid was put into a house.  Luckily we were all in Griffindoyr (just like Harry :)

 Next we had Uncle Brandon see which wand chose us and he told us the history of the wand.  Taylor's was made of unicorn dust and pink butterfly wings.

 Tyson's was made of chicken feet and troll snot.  Go figure :)

 Ryan's was of course made of adorableness and rainbows.  She had everyone wrapped around her little finger 5 minutes after we got there.

 Each kid got to paint their wands any color they'd like.  They got to take them home in this official box from Ollivander's.  So cute!

 Next it was on to Butter Beer making!!  I'm telling you this was an amazing Harry Potter party!!

 So awesome & yummy!!

I'm adding the recipe because it would be a fun FHE activity or any night of the week activity actually!
Cream soda= butter brew
butterscotch= dragon venom
Cool Whip= cloud fluff
pinch of cinnamon= unicorn dust
dry ice= troll rock

The kids were mesmerized while Aunt Darcie was making their very own Butter Beer.  The adults were amazed by how yummy it actually was.  Such an awesome party!  Thanks Aunt Darcie & Uncle Brandon!!!

Taylor's glasses

Taylor had her 6 year old well check up in August and they screened her for her sight and told me I need to take her to an optometrist.  Come to find out my girl can't see!!  

 She did super great on all of the tests to get her readings.

 The saddest part was when the doctor started changing the lenses to see which was better.  Taylor sat up and was amazed that she could see so clear.  It broke my little heart :(

She has an astigmatism in one eye and has some nearsightedness in the other eye.  The doctor said she can't see near and she can't see far.  So Sad!!  I asked the doctor why we didn't know sooner that she couldn't see and he said she had been seeing like this her whole life, she didn't know any better.  How do you explain something's fuzzy if you've never seen it clear?
Here she is wearing them for the first time!!

 We went to McDonalds to celebrate her new glasses!!

When we picked them up they told us she may get headaches and actually fall down a bit because she was so used to over compensating for her perception of things being off.  She's had them 2 days and has done really well with them :)

Quick Trip

We are crazy, and decided to get a quick one day trip to Disney in before school started.  Totally spontaneous and nuts!

 

This little girl's run cracks me up.

Freakily, my 2 cousins and their families were at Disney the same day! We met up with CeCe to watch the parade.

ANNA!!!!    ELSA!!!!

Adorable :)

Hayden slept through the whole thing :)

Then we did our favorite, Autotopia.

Where Ryan promptly passed out!

She was OUT!

We park hopped over to Disney California and rode a few rides before I talked Jason into getting this huge ice cream at Ghiradelli.  (We got ice cream there once and now I dream of it.)  Isn't that monster amazing?!?  It has 8 different ice creams and 8 different toppings.  Delicious!!

It was a DeMille free for all.

Licked clean :)

We caught the fireworks in between both parks.  Disney never disappoints!

We got home Sunday afternoon just in time for Father's blessings, backpack load ups, and uniform/school clothes lay out before school started the next day.  Crazy trip, but such a blast!

Bounce U

Our friends the Cooke's had bought a Groupon for Bounce U and invited us to go along.  It was a blast!!  2 hours of run around play time, the kids were in heaven :)

They had this amazing climbing contraption.  It had a trampoline at the bottom but each level was only made of these stretchy bands.  Tyson and Taylor tried for a minute but only made it to the 2nd level.  I told Tyson that if he made it to the top I'd pay him $5.  So who climbs to the top first? Taylor of course!!  This first picture she was the first one to make it but was so scared at the top she would not stand up.

This is Taylor going up for the 2nd time and Tyson trailing behind her.  Hilarious!!  She loves when she can beat her big brother at anything.

I love these wind tunnels so we had to throw the kids in it.  So fun :)

After the wind tunnel the terrible T's were back to racing up the climbing thing.

Tyson found a money maker in this climbing business and earned $20 on this adventure.  I have been really trying to find a thing to motivate this kid, summer has been hard.  All he wants to do is watch TV.  The other day I was watching the news about a little boy who had a degenerative disease that was making him lose his sight.  He eventually will be blind.  The story was about how this sweet little boy is touring the nations capitol and seeing the sights before he loses his sight.  Tyson says, "If I was going blind, I would sit all day and watch as many TV shows as possible!"  Arghhh!

Good to know $ still will get this kid moving.  I am also going to try fire ants and a cattle prod next :)