Trip To CA: Birthday Party & Zoo

Here we are at a park in CA. Graham ended up getting food poisoning so I had to entertain the kids while he was at our friend's house in bed. This is actually the park I grew up going to. The play structures are different now, but it was fun telling Liam how I used to play at this same park.

Brielle is crawling really well now. She crawled through this tube at the park. If you look really closely you can see her 2 bottom teeth that popped through.

This is Brielle's first time on the swings. She loved it!

We took the kids to the Sacramento zoo. Liam had been asking to go see the animals for awhile now. He loved every minute of it. His favorite animals were the chimpanzees and the tigers.

Unfortunately, Graham was still sick so he laid on a bench most of the time. However, I did get this one picture of him. 

We stopped in Grass Valley on our way to the wedding. Since it was almost Liam's birthday we had a family party for him. We went to my favorite Chinese restaurant with 16 family members. He opened tons of presents and had Mickey Mouse Cupcakes.

He was so excited about the Mickey Mouse cupcakes. He even sang himself Happy Birthday with everyone.

We went to our friend's wedding in the bay area, but I didn't get any pictures ): Luckily Graham was feeling a little bit better and was able to enjoy the wedding and reception a little. Then I had to drive back home the next day. We left at 9:30 and got home around 6:30! Wow, that was a long drive with 2 kids. Luckily we stopped in Redding and had In n Out and went shopping at Trader Joes. That made the drive worth it.

Easter Time

Here we are at the park in front of our house on Saturday for the city Easter Egg Hunt.

Brielle is already to get some eggs.

They both willingly sat with the Easter Bunny.

 

Liam and Daddy dying Easter Eggs.

Here we are putting out a carrot for the Easter bunny before we go to bed.

Big Smiles!

Easter morning we found our baskets on the front porch filled with lots of goodies!

Here's Brielle looking at the new toys in her basket.

Liam loved everything in his basket. His favorite things were the chocolate bunny and the binoculars.

Family Easter Picture



Here is the pretty girl with her Easter basket.

Here's daddy and Liam setting up the plane he got in his basket.

Brielle's all ready to look for eggs in the backyard.

There were so many eggs Liam didn't know which ones to pick up first.

We were really thankful to have our parents near us, so we can enjoy holidays together.

Liam is so excited to find Easter eggs he screams every time he find one!

This is a video of Liam on Easter morning. He is so excited he found some eggs he does a little "sugar high" dance.

Easter Party

Today I hosted an Easter Party for some of my friends at the park in front of our house. Luckily it was a beautiful day. We had over 20 parents and over 20 kids. We had lots of good food, cookies and desserts. All of the kids had a great time. There were over 400 eggs hidden for them to find. It was really cute. After I told them to go, they all ran in different directions and picked up as many eggs as they could. Thank you to all of the families who came and brought stuff to share. I look forward to next year! At the bottom of this post there is a video of the kids hunting for eggs.

  All of the kids got around 20 eggs. After Easter this weekend they should hopefully be sugared out for awhile! We had a great day, I'm ready for a nap!

Big Boy Bed

We finally got Liam a big boy bed. Liam was really excited about it. He and daddy built it last week.

Here we are sitting on his new bed!

He looks so small in it. We ended up not putting a bed rail on his bed. It is pretty low to the ground and he is so small in it that he hasn't needed one yet.



We surprised him with a Toy Story comforter. 

 He's slept in it every night. He waits in his bed until we come and get him (: Let's hope it stays that way.

Sit, Roll, Scoot & Swim

Our Baby is 7 months old today. Last weekend we took her swimming for the first time.

She loved it! She splashed and splashed.

 Here is a picture of the smiley girl with her daddy!

This last month she mastered sitting up by herself. Now she can entertain herself for a long time.

She's been trying to feed herself. She can pick up the little puffs and gets them

to her mouth half of the time.

Here's the princess after her bath. She is so sweet!

Here she is trying to roll off the bed. If you lay her on the bed, she will just roll over and over towards the edge!

Here's how you know she has outgrown her baby toys!

She flips herself around and then scoots out the bottom.

Here she is today sitting up and then trying to crawl. She gets up on all fours and scoots back and forth then eventually go back down to her tummy and scoots to what she wants.

My guess is that she will be crawling by the end of the month.