Moments in Our Time: June 2010

Happy Birthday Emma!

Emma turned 7! Her birthday week was so busy with baseball and end of school stuff that we decided to celebrate her birthday a little early at beach camp with some of the family.

It was cold and cloudy, but still the beach! She enjoyed her gifts which were a how to draw Disney characters book and board games and few other small things.

This was her favorite, even though her face isn't quite sure. She didn't believe it was hers because it was so big!

She is a girl that loves speed and she was intimidated at first, but quickly got the hang of it!

On her actual birthday, after sitting through Cam's baseball game followed by Andy's game, we took her to Sammy's Woodfired Pizza for giant messy sundaes with some friends and her grandparents. What fun!

Beach Camp

We didn't go beach camping this year with all of Andy's family this year. We intended to go this week instead and just visit his family. Sadly our trip was cancelled due to a job Andy is on this week. But we still had a great time visiting the family! (most of my pictures were lame this time...don't know how that happened! So I grabbed a few from the pics his family posted on Facebook...a couple of these are mine).

Boy oh Boy

Cameron is all boy, boy, boy. He found a safety pin, some string a stick. What does a boy make with such tools?

A fishing pole of course! He dug up a worm (because naturally that's what fish eat!) and threaded it onto the safety pin.

Then he sat by the pond and dangled the worm in the water.

One fish kept getting closer and closer and started to nibble. For whatever reason, Cameron pulled up the safety pin and the fish jumped out after it!

The fish didn't get hooked, it just pulled the worm right off. Cameron was so excited that he "fished" for a good 30 minutes!

Memorial Day

Our kids learned this year why they have the last Monday in May off from school.

We did not want our children to grow up thinking that Memorial Day marks the beginning of fun summer activities.

So we spent much of our day at the national cemetery where they had a ceremony honoring the fallen soldiers that have given the ultimate sacrifice in making our nation into what it is today.

It was a beautiful day.

Happy 11th Anniversary!

Cousin Vanessa came to visit

Andy's cousin, Vanessa, came to visit us. We had so much fun!

After picking Vanessa up from the airport, we walked along the Embarcadero in Downtown. We found that the commercial fishing docks were open and went for a stroll looking at the big boats. One of the crew members saw us and asked (jokingly) if any of us wanted to crew a fishing boat. Logan tugged on my shirt and whispered, "Mommy I don't want to go fishing!"

We headed off to the little village there on the bay and had some lunch and then some fun on the grass!

Did I mention this smile warms me all the way through?

Another day Emma's class had a field trip to the zoo so we all went along. And the elephant was so close...the highlight for Logan!

During Vanessa's visit, the kids had their annual Jogathon fundraiser. They get donations based on how many 1/4 mile laps they run. Briley was so sweet to her brother and ran his speed the whole time. She ran 10 laps with Logan.

The kinders and first graders ran in the second hour, after the older kids. Cam is a sprinter! He was so amazing and ran 13 laps! He earned a medal as one of the top kindergarten runners (there were 4 or 5 other kindergarteners out of 100 that also ran 13 laps).

Emma did really well and ran 11. Her goal was to run more than Briley. Funny how such competition is already there between the two! We didn't tell her that she ran more because Briley went Logan's speed. We'll save that for another day!

Logan was one little trooper! In the first hour he ran 10 laps with Briley. In the second hour, he was slowing down but was by no means going to stop. He ran another 7 laps for a total of 17 laps. That's 4 1/4 miles!

After school we headed downtown to hop on the ferry across the bay.

This is a favorite activity for our family!

Sadly Vanessa had to go home, but before heading out to the airport, we went to the beach.

It was a beautiful day!

Cool enough that we weren't hot, but not too cold and it was sunny!

Thanks for coming to visit Vanessa!

Happy Birthday Logibear!

Logan turned 4! He is one happy little guy, growing so fast.

He loves learning and is so excited for the day he gets to go to school too (even though it's still a year away!)

"How to Train Your Dragon" is currently his favorite movie and books. We spend hours on end at Barnes and Noble reading books from the movie (and nonfiction animal books).

That smile just warms me all the way through.

One day this little guy is going to grow up to be a zoo keeper I think. All he talks about is that when he grows up he wants to take care of animals, mostly elephants, but other animals too. He has incredible knowledge about animals from his books that he reads. His grandma even mentioned one day that she has learned not to question him when it comes to animal facts!