Allred Fam: Sunny California

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Sunny California

Over Easter weekend we drove to California for a wedding for some friends of Mat's family.

It was amazing and definitely worth the drive, we had a lot of fun! Both the brides family and the grooms are Samoan and they know how to throw a party! Here is a pic of us enjoying the festivities and eating dinner.

I wasn't sure what the majority of the food was on my plate, but it was all really good and interesting!

Here is an overhead view of what the room looked like. There were a ton of people. It was decorated with a lot of bright and happy colors. They had a program planned for 3 hours of the reception and this is where all of the entertainment began!

They had people perform from both sides of the family... singing, dancing, it was amazing. Here is Thatcher enjoying watching some of the girls dancing while sitting on his Nana's lap.

We were thoroughly entertained!

We woke up the next morning to a beautiful Easter morning. Thatcher was quite impressed that the Easter Bunny could deliver to our hotel room!

After the wedding instead of driving home we decided to go to Seaworld for a day. I have never been and was really excited about it! Here are some pics from our fun adventure.

6 comments:

Becky, yep said...: What an adventure! I love weddings, especially cultural ones! how fun! And the bunny 'on location'!

ps, your Thatcher is DARLING! must be in the name!; March 31, 2008 at 6:54 PM
The Garners said...: Ooh, la, la! Somebody's done a blog re-design!

That wedding looks like a blast. And that's one of the best cultural hall makeovers I've EVER seen! Gotta love the hot pink and green! Way cool!

Do you ever wish that we, meaning us run of the mill white folk, had something cooler to offer...culture wise? I just wanna good reason to roast a pig!; March 31, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Chanda said...: Your weekend sounds awesome!; April 4, 2008 at 8:22 AM
Chrissy said...: How fun does that wedding look! The Sea World pics are so cute, love those little boys.; April 4, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Becky, yep said...: Same birthday...That IS so weird! We should meet, email me, we'll make it happen!

I turned 33 this year and I'll be honest...I am loving my 30's. I bet you will too!

Hope YOU had a great birthday too! talk soon!; April 6, 2008 at 2:45 PM
The Garners said...: Come on over, sweetie! We'll keep the bed warm for 'ya. (granted it will probably be with our farts...but you can't be picky!); April 10, 2008 at 4:52 PM

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Thatcher Quotes

Thatcher was going to Lagoon with my dad and some of his aunts and as they were pulling into the parking lot he looked at all of them and said, "yeah...I'm gonna need some cash".

So yesterday morning I was wearing my glasses before I put my contacts in and Thatch came in and asked me if I was wearing Daddy's glasses. I said no, these are mine. Then he said, "Are you sure? Because you look like a man in those glasses."

Thatcher was singing to himself in his room and I heard him from down the hall in my room and yelled to him, "Why are you so cute?" He yelled back, "Because you treated me like I was cute!"

I put on a hat to go to the park yesterday and when I went in to get Thatcher he said, "nice hat mom, I never knew you could look so cool".

I went to put his seatbelt on him in the car, and he said he could do it himself. I said, are you sure Thatch? You know how to do that? He said, " watch and learn mom.... watch and learn".

Mat was driving and he asked Thatch how he was doing in the backseat. Thatch replied, "just chillin". Mat said, Chillin like a villain? Thatch says, " That doesn't make sense, villains are bad... they don't just chill!"

Last night while my parents were watching Thatcher, he had to go poop and when he was done he called my brother in to wipe his bum. My brother said, Thatcher I don't know how to wipe bums very well. Thatcher replied " You wipe your own bum don't you?"

At dinner while eating pork chops, he took a bite and said, "Mom what is with the chicken?"

I put a tire back on his toy car for him and after I was done he said "wow mom, that's pretty impressive!"

We were in the Target parking lot and he saw a paper cup in one of the parking stalls. He pointed it out to me and I said, that's not very nice is it? referring to littering, and he looked back at the cup and said sadly, "yeah, poor little cup".