Luke's 6th Birthday

On Luke's birthday, we spent some time with many of his school friends at the park...

We met Daddy out for dinner and then went for ice cream....

...and Luke got an air hockey table from Mommy& Daddy

Luke, you are an amazing 6 year old boy; sweet, kind, funny, smart, curious.  We feel incredibly blessed to be your mommy and daddy.  Thank you for being you.  We love you more than words!

What weekends are made of

Lazy mornings....

...and afternoon swings at the park

Grandpa & Grandma visit

Grandma came to visit and spent 3 weeks with us this summer.  She was able to be here for Luke's birthday party, to drop us off and pick us up at summer school, to visit Mia's ballet class, and to just generally give Mommy some extra time to do "stuff."

 

She also tag teamed with Day and Paw to watch us for a long weekend while Mommy and Daddy spent some alone time down in Dana Point.

 

On the third week of her visit, Grandpa joined her.  We made sure to save lots of fun stuff to do for when he was here.

Of course, we took them to Happy Hollow,

 

 

 

...the park,





...and the duck ponds.

 

Naturally, we also put them to work!  Grandma helped Mommy clean our closets, and Grandpa helped Daddy construct Luke's new bed.  I think we may have sent them home pretty tired!  Thanks for coming to be with us, Grandma and Grandpa.  We loved having you!

More Tahoe Time

Before the summer comes to an end we wanted to be sure to get up to enjoy the glorious-ness of Tahoe in the summertime one more time. It is just so beautiful there during this time of the year, so much for the kids to do, so peaceful, fresh air, lots of time to relax. We took walks, spent time in the village (Luke did bungee cord jumping for the first time ... he loved it and Mia spent the entire time telling us "I want it"), visited the playground and the pools, swung in the hammocks, and just spent a weekend together. What fun!

Welcome, Spring!

Oh, finally! After a ridiculous amount of rain this month, we are finally seeing some sunny days this week. The kids and I have been taking full advantage of the weather and have been outside nearly every possible moment.

Monday afternoon we took a picnic to the park, Tuesday we spent a wonderful day in Dr. & Mrs. Barrie's garden (where I took no pictures, but hopefully we'll have an opportunity to go back soon and see the baby chicks once they've hatched - I'll be sure to capture that), and Wednesday we played all afternoon in the backyard.

Showing Mia how to climb the slide


Hanging out in his "house"


Monkey boy


Running from Mommy and her camera


Slide ... and lots of pent up energy


Happy to be outside!


Determination (I have a feeling we'll be seeing that look a lot)


Want to play ball? (apparently it's a very serious sport)


Just kidding!


Hello in there!


Mommy, want to taste some bark chips?


Hooray for sunshine!