The Burgess Bunch

Halloween 2008

2008-11-01T22:23:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,
Just wanted to write a quick blog and post some pics of all our October festivities. I took Timmy to a great pumpkin patch in La Verne with his mommy and me class. Dan and I went to our friend's the Tottens Annual Halloween Party. Katelynn had her songfest at preschool. We did our traditional Pumpkin Patch pictures at the Pumpkin Patch in Brea on Halloween. Took the kids trick-or-treating in my parent's neighborhood. For those of you that don't know yet we sold our house this month and are now living at my parent's house until we get our next house. Most of our belongings are in 2 storage units while the rest is also at my parents' house. We have found a house and are now in escrow but it won't be closing until Dec. 10th. So we will be at my parents' for a few more weeks. Of coarse I will blog and post pics of the new house when we move in and change some things. For now, enjoy the festive October pics!

The Lake House

2008-09-15T06:55:00.001-07:00

Last weekend we took a trip out to the Lindsays' (Dan's aunt and uncle) Lake house. It was a big family gathering of about 16 people, more or less. We haven't got together at the lake house like that in 10 years so it was really fun. The kids loved it. We brought our trailer and parked it on the side of the house so they thought we were camping. Dirt and water are their favorite things. Dan got to go wake boarding. It's been a while for him but he got up like a pro. I was eventually talked into going on the inner tube. It turned out to be a lot of fun. Katelynn and Timmy loved going on the boat rides and watching mommy and daddy do their things. They also loved playing with Aunt Susie and Uncle Tom's pugs. Katelynn is in love with cleo and now wants a dog of her own. It was a great time and we need to do that more often. Thanks for having Bruce and Christy!

Princess Katelynn

2008-08-04T09:06:00.000-07:00

Katelynn dressed up as a princess for the first time. She was invited to her friend Tiffany's birthday party that was princess themed and she got excited to dress up for it. At first we picked a ballerina dress at Walmart but Tiffany's mommy Lori said she had a princess dress that Katelynn could borrow so I took it home to show her. She was hesitant to try it on at first but once we put it on her, that was the dress she wanted to wear. You could tell that she was out of her comfort zone while wearing but none the less she liked being in it and she looked very pretty in it and had a great time at the party with all the other little princesses.

Lake Mohave

2008-06-10T10:01:00.000-07:00

Last week we took our longest camping trip yet. We took off for Lake Mohave Tuesday night stopping in Baker to sleep and meet up with our friends the Decks. The next morning we finished the drive to Lake Mohave. The kids had a great time. We rented a boat for a couple days and took it to our own personal cove that had a great little beach area for the kids to play and have fun. On Saturday we stuck around the Resort and played by the water. The kids loved feeding the ducks and fish popcorn and sneaking in some handfuls of their own. Katelynn has established quite a rock collection that we of course had to bring home with us. We got back Sunday afternoon. It's funny because the kids did not want to come back home. They wanted to "stay at camping" as Katelynn put it. I kind of did too. ;) Anyway I have posted a few pics. Enjoy!

A Wet Day at Disneyland

2008-05-29T07:12:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday my friend Lori and I wanted to take our girls to Disneyland as a little celebration for their end of their first year of preschool. We had planned it for over a month and kept having to reschedule for various reasons. We finally settled on a date and it happened to be last Thursday. I had checked the weather a couple days before to make sure it wasn't going to be hot since the Sunday before was hitting record highs in the 100's. I guess I didn't notice it said 20% chance of rain or maybe didn't believe it. Anyway when we got there it was overcast and it started to sprinkle a little but I was in denial that it was supposed to keep raining all day. It just didn't seem possible after the weather we've had. I had to run back to the car to get Katelynn's jacket and when I got back down it was raining harder. Lori and I decided it probably wouldn't last and we were already there so we stayed. Sure enough it stopped (for a little while) and we got into the park and got in line for a ride. Everything was fine when we got off the ride and a minute later it started to down pour. We tried to find a line that was covered to keep us dry. It was the line to the carousel and unfortunately the canopy did not hold up against the rain. When we got off we found a store to buy some ponchos (like everyone else) and we still stayed for a few more hours after that. The girls still had a great time and Lori and I just thought it was hilarious that we were there in the rain. The ponchos did a great job of keeping us all dry. I have posted a few pics from the day. Enjoy!

Mother's Day 2008

2008-05-12T08:07:00.001-07:00

I had a great Mother's Day. It was nice and relaxing after having to keep the house clean the day before for people to come and go looking at the house. Anyway, Dan cooked breakfast (french toast) and it was tasty. Later we went to a local park for a picnic and a bike ride and I accidentally forgot my camera so there are no pics from that. Later in the evening my parent's came over for dinner and our traditional color coordinated pictures we take every year. My choice for dinner was Joey's BBQ. I know that BBQ is more of a man's type of dinner but I just love their sliced bbq beef and their baked yam. Yummy!!!!

Green Eggs and Ham

2008-03-28T09:01:00.000-07:00

"I do not like them Sam I am" Well Actually Katelynn and Timmy did. Katelynn has been into the Dr. Suess book "Green Eggs and Ham" lately so Dan made her green eggs and ham the other night for dinner. She loved that she was eating the same thing as in the book. She loves eggs and had like 3 helpings of them. It was fun. Timmy even surprised me and ate them all up too. Dan was a sport and ate the green eggs and ham with them but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I stuck with an artichoke. It's green too so at least I stayed with the theme. Anyway I have posted some pics of them eating their green eggs and ham.

Easter

2008-03-24T15:19:00.000-07:00

This Easter we went to Dan's aunt's house in Redlands after we had our Easter morning at our house. She lives in the historic district of Redlands and her house is about 100 years old. We love going over there and enjoying the history of the house and the neighborhood. It's really neat. This year Timmy had fun painting the Easter eggs with his sissy. He acted like he was a pro. He also had no trouble hunting for the eggs on Easter morning. I've posted a few pics of Easter. Enjoy!

Valentine's Day

2008-02-19T07:04:00.000-08:00

Well we didn't do a whole lot since it landed on a weekday but I did want to write about how Dan got Katelynn her first bouquet of flowers. She was thrilled and she carried it around for a half hour. She kept smelling them and saying how pretty they were. She would say that my roses were pretty too but her flowers were prettier because they were colorful.

Mommy Daddy date night

2008-02-02T09:30:00.000-08:00

Last weekend Dan and I got to go out. We went and saw Wicked in LA. The tickets were a Christmas present for me from Dan. Anyway, we dropped the kids off at my parents and went and had a late lunch/early dinner at The Cheesecake Factory and then headed out to LA. The musical was playing at the Pantages, a beautiful theater built in the 1930's. If you haven't seen Wicked yet I highly recommend it. Of course I heard it was good but everyone must experience it for themselves. It was so good it brought tears to my eyes and I was so sad it was over. It's one of those musicals you can't get out of your head days later so I bought the sound track and now I can play it in my head over and over again.

Rainy Day boredom

2008-02-02T09:23:00.000-08:00

We have had a lot of rainy days around here. We have been trying to come up with things to do and play with. One day Katelynn wanted to play dress up so I got her box down and left the room for a little while. When I got back I found her and her brother in her dress up clothes. I guess it's all innocent now and kind of cute.

Camping at Calico

2008-02-02T09:21:00.000-08:00

A couple weekends ago we went camping at Calico Ghost Town. It's an old Silver mining town that was thriving in the 1880's. A lot of it had burned down and some has deteriorated from weather but there are some ruins and old buildings left and an old mine shaft that you can tour. There was lot's of history there and it was really neat.

The Birthday Party

2008-01-07T08:24:00.000-08:00

This year we decided to give the kids a combined birthday party at our house. We just had family and close friends come. Katelynn helped pick the theme out and we went with a Barnyard theme so that worked nicely for a boy and girl party.I originally wanted it outdoors but the weather did not permit that so we had an all indoor party but it turned out great. I had a few games for the kids that they all seemed to enjoy. Katelynn and Timmy loved all their presents. Now I just need to find places for them all plus Christmas gifts.

Christmas

2008-01-07T08:15:00.000-08:00

Christmas was really fun this year. Timmy is at that age where he understands opening presents and getting new things. His favorite gift was his train table and train set. Katelynn is at the age where she understands the whole Santa Claus concept so she was real excited to put cookies out for him and was concerned about how he was going to fit down the chimney. Christmas morning she woke up and expected Santa to be at our house. She asked me if he was here. I guess she thought he would hang out and watch her open her presents. I would have to say her favorite gifts were the many frogs she received from Santa and family members.

Timmy's 2nd Birthday

2007-12-24T08:13:00.000-08:00

Since we are having a combined party in January for the kids we just kept his birthday low key. A few presents, a cookie cake and dinner at Red Robin. Timmy had a good day and loved all his presents. He especially loved the ice cream at Red Robin.

Tis the Season!

2007-12-13T07:58:00.000-08:00

So it's already been a hectic month full of fun festivities. A week ago or so my parents and I took the kids to the aquarium. They both loved it. Katelynn especially loved the colorful froggies she found. It was fun to see Timmy's reaction to all the fish. I will post some pics plus a couple extra. Katelynn got a new Rudolph shirt that she loves and wanted to show it off. Rudolph is her favorite character at the moment and she is consistently singing the song. Today we are attempting Santa. Katelynn wants to tell him what she wants for Christmas. I'll post some pics of that a little later. Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season.

El Mirage

2007-11-12T10:55:00.000-08:00

We went camping again this weekend. This time we went to El Mirage. It's a dried up lake bed in the desert. A great place to bring your off road toys. Dan and our friend jim were able to ride their dirt bikes so they were happy and the kids got to play in the dirt all weekend so they were happy as well. We had some great weather but it did get a little cold at night. About the mid 30s. Luckily we had a heater in the trailer. The wind kicked up pretty bad by Sunday but We were leaving that day anyway. Enjoy the pics!

Costumes

2007-10-28T08:30:00.001-07:00

This year for Halloween Katelynn is Nemo and Timmy is Squirt. Nemo is Katelynn's second favorite thing and after a little persuading, I managed to talk her out of being a frog and being Nemo so she and her brother could be something together. Timmy had his Halloween party for his mommy and me school so I snapped some shots of the 2 of them in their costumes. Dan and I dressed up this year as well. It was fun to dress up and go to a friend of mine's Halloween party yesterday. We figured out that it had been about 9 years since we wore costumes. Enjoy the pics!

More "Pun-key" Patches

2007-10-23T08:27:00.000-07:00

That is what Timmy calls pumpkins...."Punkeys". Anyway since Katelynn's preschool has a pumpkin patch right next door we have visited it a couple times this year. Timmy is so funny because he loves pumpkins for some reason so he was just running around touching all the pumpkins and having fun. We went into the petting zoo where both of them just had a blast with the animals. Katelynn didn't ever want to leave the cage. It was fun except for cleaning the messes off our shoes. :(

Desert Camping

2007-10-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we took our trailer to the desert with another family so that the guys could ride their dirt bikes and the kids could play in the dirt. Timmy is such a boy, the minute he saw our friend's mini bike, he immediately tried to climb on it. Dan took him for a ride on it and he was hooked. Katelynn was in her element, playing in the dirt and rocks with her friend Adam. She was dirty within 5 minutes of getting out of the truck. It was my first experience of camping in the desert. I was a little worried at first but it was actualy really neat. We had one great day out there but unfortunately the winds kicked up the next morning and we had to leave a day early. The kids actually didn't care about the wind too much it was us adults who didn't like it. Enjoy the pics I have posted from the trip!

Apple Picking

2007-10-09T09:25:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we went Apple picking out at Oak Glen Orchards off the 10 freeway. It was a new and fun experience for all of us. On the way back we found a Pumpkin Patch where you can pick your own pumpkin off the vine, which was also a new experience for us since most pumpkin patches around here have pumpkins already off the vine and are way over priced. All this outdoor stuff was right up Katelynn and Timmy's alley. They had a blast. Enjoy the pics!

Timmy's Update

2007-10-09T09:02:00.000-07:00

Timmy will be 2 years old in December. He is such a big boy now and tries to do big boy things all the time to keep up with his sister. He is talking pretty well now. Sometimes he makes up his own words for things but for the most part we all know what he is saying. For instance he calls a doggy a "dee". He is starting to make 2 word sentences for example if something fell down on the ground like a toy he will say " ball.....down". Timmy wants to grow up faster then he is suppossed to and will try all kinds of things that Katelynn never did at his age. It might just be the boy in him as well. I, on the other hand, would like to keep him a baby as long as possible.

Katelynn's update

2007-10-09T08:31:00.000-07:00

Katelynn is now 3 1/2 years old. She started preschool last month and she loves it. It's neat for her to come home and tell us everything she played with and learned. She loves to read books and her passion is still Frogs. She wants nothing to do with anything girly like dolls and princesses. She is all about the animals and bugs, and anything to do with the outdoors.

Hello Everyone!

2007-10-09T08:26:00.000-07:00

Hello All,
I thought I would set up blog for you all to come out and take a look every now and again. I have a myspace account but most of you do not and since I have not figured out my camera software to email pictures, I figured you would all enjoy this blog. I will periodically send out updates for you all to come out and take a look.