California!

We just got back last night from a great trip to visit my sister in San Jose. We went for a long weekend with my parents and the Emersons, so it was a big family fun fest! On Friday, we spent the day at a couple fun CA sites: The Mystery Spot and the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz. The Mystery Spot is a pretty interesting place in the middle of a beautiful forest that has some sort of magical strange gravity sensations that seem to defy the rules of the world - how mysterious!
The Boardwalk was a lot of fun - everyone had so much fun playing on the beach and then riding some rides afterwards. Here are some pictures...Love this one! George got really good at calling Laura by her name - He would say O-wa!The one and only picture with me in it from the whole trip (at a rose garden by Laura's house)Playing in the pool at my parents' hotel. George LOVES jumping in!!

I wasn't that great taking pictures this trip, but Laura also hosted a very fun BBQ on Saturday with our good friends, the Olmsteads. She also adopted two ridiculously cute kittens on Sunday, which made George out-of-his mind happy!

Thank you so much to Laura for having us for such a wonderful trip and to my parents for taking such good care of us!

Father's Day 2010

Today was a great Father's Day for everyone. We started the day by going out to breakfast with my parents, then they kept Georgie for his nap and Sean and I came home and relaxed in a quiet house. After he woke up, my parents came back over and even brought dinner - hooray! George had a great day with his Bumpa and Gaky and we had a great day as well :)
George is a pretty giant fan of his daddy - and he should be! Daddy is the best story teller, song-singer, toddler thrower, bath-giver, and George loves him to death.

Happy Father's Day to my dad, who is the best of the best and to my father-in-law, who I know is a great dad because he raised such a wonderful son, husband, and father!

Simple Pleasures

Today was a great summer day to be 20 months old. It didn't take much today to make George happy, which in turn made for a good day to be the mommy of a 20 month-old boy. It's amazing how much fun can be had with a couple of sand toys and lot of mulch.

Jumping just to jump... We were invited to our neighbor Sawyer's house to run through the sprinkler. George has never done it, so I didn't put him in his swimsuit, thinking he'd like to watch for a while. Oh no, he loved it. And the boys loved their watermelon snack...

George loved getting his watermelon wet in the sprinkler before taking his next bite...

Days like this make me smile.

Summer Fun!

I have officially become the world's worst blogger. I have been so bad about taking pictures lately, so I just haven't had anything to blog about. I'll try to be better about it - it will be my summer's resolution. Anyway, we have started our summer with lots of fun outings with George. Last weekend we had a fun picnic in Platt Park with our neighborhood friends. We're trying to make it a regular Friday night activity, but Sean plays softball Friday nights so we'll have to split our time between the two. Here's George and his friend Luke having a blast throwing mulch and rocks instead of eating...The picnic gang...Watching a squirrel under the playground with daddy...

On Friday night, we went to Sean's first softball game of the season. I really wish I had brought my camera because at the end of the game, all the players' little kids run out on the field and run the bases with their dad. This was George's first year getting to do it and it just made me smile to watch him running with his dad and they were both so happy. I could tell it made Sean so proud to be out there with his boy :)
Today we went over to help Karla do some work on Gracie's new room, so the two birthday buddies got to play together for a while. The highlight was definitely the fountain in the hot tub, they were having so much fun!Once George figured out how to splash, he started really having fun while poor Grace got it right in the face!Then this afternoon we went to a baby shower for our friends Alex and Lorena who just had their triplets on Thursday morning! They had two girls and a boy: Freddy, Paloma, and Layla. The hosts of this shower were brilliant and put a bunch of digging toys in their garden.Trying out the bouncing castle...Get me out of here!After he played some more in the dirt with new big brother to three Salvador...He tried the castle again and realized it was actually his dream come true. He loved it in there!! Tomorrow we're heading to the swimming pool for the first time this summer and I can't wait since it's already getting hot in Denver. Thank goodness for our basement, it feels so good down here on a hot day!