Bowling & Kite Flying

This memorial day we decided to take Liam bowling for the first time. He was really excited about it. He picked out the orange ball.

Here we are getting ready to bowl. 

They had these great ramps for the kids to roll the balls down the lane. This helped them get enough speed to get it to the pins. He also used bumpers.

 

 

We invited 2 of his friends to join us. Here is Dominic and his dad.

 Here is Owen and his dad.

As you see from the score Liam almost beat me! He was only 5 pins away from beating me.

After we finished bowling we went to the arcade and played games. This is the first time we let Liam play games with money. We normally just have him pretend. The boys earned tickets then picked out little treasures! Of course Liam wanted candy!

Here are the boys!

When we got home we flew his new kite he got for his birthday. It was a lot of fun.  

Overall, we had a great day!

Train Park

We have this awesome free train park in town. It is open twice a month in the summer. We love it. We have been 2 times this year so far. They have a train ride that last over 5 minutes. Graham and I enjoy just as much as Liam. It goes surprisingly fast.

This year they added a Thomas train for the little kids to ride in by themselves.

Liam loves to go around and around!

Here is Liam with his friend Dominic.

The train park also has lots of model trains that run through these elaborate train scenes. Liam will stand and watch them for 1/2 and hour. We usually have to drag him away. They also have large real train cars that you can walk through. If you haven't been, you should really go.

They also added tractors this year!

I added this cute picture of Brielle. This is how daddy carries her when it is cold outside. She fits perfectly in his jacket!

Touch A Truck

Here are some pictures of the kids in CSU Long Beach sweatshirts my best friend sent. Graham and I both graduated from here with our BA's. I love the sweatshirts. I think Graham and I were more excited about receiving them then the kids.

We went to this free event at the fairgrounds called Touch a Truck. It was awesome. Liam got to ride and play in all types of vehicles. Here he is playing in a bulldozer.  

He also got a fireman hat and got to use the fire hose. Now all he wants to do is play fireman!

Here we are on the back of a fire truck.

I think this was Liam's favorite. He got to sit in a garbage truck and make it pick up a trash can and dump it. Every time we see the garbage truck go by now he tells me about the time he got to dump the trash.

He also went in a race car.

Here is Liam enjoying the free ice cream cone we got from the event. We will definitely go again next year.



Liam's 3rd Birthday

Liam woke up to his new train set. I was able to sell his old train set at a garage sale and get this one for the same price with coupons! As a side note, I love couponing! We've been playing trains all week.

This is the breakfast I made him for his birthday.

We had the house decorated with Buzz Light Year decorations and green and purple streamers. Here he is pointing to his presents asking "Can I please open these?"

That morning we took Liam to the indoor kid play place. He loved it. It recently moved locations and now it is huge! We played there for 2 hours.

We met our parents for lunch at a Mexican restaurant. He is playing his Oscar Meyer Weenie Whistle he got from my parents. He was super excited about it, because the day before his birthday we got to go see the Wiener Mobile and go in it.

After lunch we came home and had birthday cake.

This is the play house my parents got him for his birthday. He loves it! We spend a lot of time outside.

Brielle is showing off the bows from Liam's presents.

We got him a mitt and tee ball set. He was surprisingly good at hitting the ball.

On Saturday we had Liam's Buzz Birthday party at the gazebos in front of our house.

We did a nature scavenger hunt. The kids really enjoyed it.

We also played a game where the kids had to squirt a ping pong ball off of a soda can with a water gun.

When they completed all of the games, they all got nets. They tried to catch bubbles in it.

My mother in law made this Buzz cake for Liam. He was so excited about it.

All of the kids enjoyed the cake and ice cream.

Liam received a lot of really nice gifts. Of course all of the kids have to get as close as possible.

Brielle and her friend Kate played with each other at the party. So cute!

Overall it was a great 3rd birthday1

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.