August Adventures in California

We got to spend a week and a half in California which was pretty amazing. My parents, Patrick, and Becca's family were all there too and we managed to squeeze our group of 13 into the cabin. Spent the first half of the trip in Tahoe - played miniature golf, went to the beach, walked Rainbow Trail, went to church, spent half a day on a boat with an inner tube, played Phase 10.

The second half of the trip we spent in Newark/area. We went to the Oakland Zoo and rode the amazing gondola. We visited with family. Becca took me out for an early birthday present to get pedicures. The kids were about ready to get back to regular life by the end of the trip (though Emma would never admit it, her behavior indicated otherwise), but we were all pretty sad when vacation was over. Thankfully mom and dad flew back with us, so we still got to party. ;)

Bright outside in the California sun.

It was her first time... 

Belated Birthday Post

I got Henry's birthday posted last month but didn't get around to mine or our other August adventures.

On my birthday Amazon had its Post-Prime Day Concert featuring Katy Perry so we got to go to that which was pretty amazing. Thankful my parents were able to take care of our kiddos. Also sort of thankful I was sick because it made me nix our original plan to take the light rail and instead we drove (the event had free parking if you made it before the parking garage was full). It saved us a lot of time - it was slow getting into the parking garage but wasn't slow when we left, and traffic was pretty good both ways. Woot.

Sushi mom bought for me for lunch. Mmmm.

Jeff Bezos sharing his appreciation for Amazon's employees.

It was a pretty amazing coincidence that Amazon happened to have this cool, free event (included food vouchers for 1 meal each) on my birthday so we could celebrate at a concert by a pretty amazing performer that we both like listening to.

My Henry boy is 2

Henry is TWO! And he is crazy and busy and sweet and confusing and smart. He can sing most of the alphabet, many of the words to several songs, and likes to belt out the words to "Once Upon a Dream" which I have sung to him many times. He somehow already has an unhealthy love of chocolate which he rarely gets. He learned to climb out of his crib a few weeks ago and can open most doors in our house, so that's an unfortunate combination resulting in the baby-proof handle covers coming in handy (ha - handy).

When he opened a gift from my parents he pulled out the clothes, picked out shorts and pulled them on over his pants, walked around funny and refused to take them off so I helped pull them up. When he opened more clothes he would grab them and hold them in his hands around his cup while he drank out of it. He is a funny boy.

One leg...

Two legs...

Up.

Walk.

Grin.

After opening a present with a book he had to stop and take a look.

"CAAAAAAAKE!!!"

Trying to blow out the candles.

 

Emma succeeded in blowing out the candles.

Cake, cake pop, strawberry.

The cake pop went right in.

He took the job of eating his cake somewhat seriously and ate way less messily than last year. And he doesn't have his sister's tendency of eating all the frosting first.

Trying a new puzzle.