Wedding Weekend Getaway

We enjoyed another wonderful wedding of one of Mike's best friends, Anthony. Anthony and Maira got married in San Diego on Saturday and it was beautiful. Mike is totally the guy version of that move 27 Dresses this summer.

We drove to San Diego and it took almost 9 hours to get there thanks to traffic. The trip home was much much better and we got home in under 8.

Mike's parents met us there, so while Mike was off doing all of his bachelor parties groomsmen duties his parents, the boys and I had some fun.

First we saw these crazy people in trash bags walking down the street followed by a film crew. I have no clue what they were doing, but it was just plain weird.

 

We went to an awesome children's museum.



Josh took a Superhero class and made his own costume



We lounged by the pool, which felt like a resort in Hawaii.



Josh and Grandpa



We went to the rehearsal dinner, which was Hawaiian themed.



Josh is wearing Mike's shirt that he got in Hawaii when he was Josh's age. Jason wore his Uncle Nate's shirt.

 We walked around Seaport Village and rode the carousel. 

The boys got a machine gun(of course) balloon and a Mario balloon.



We enjoyed a beautiful wedding of one stunning bride and handsome groom.



This is the first time I have ever seen my husband wear pink in his life.





This one's funny because everyone is looking at a different camera



Josh owned the dance floor

What a fun wedding weekend getaway. Next wedding is less than two weeks.... quite the summer of wedding for us. 

Now we are home and I have started my trial run of what's to come of my new life as a full time working mommy. I have a week and half Philosophy course I am taking each day for a requirement to renew my ACSI teaching credential. It brings me right back to Dr. Slane's theology class. If anyone reading this went to Simpson with me you know exactly what I mean.... remember Dietrich Bonhoeffer?

Fourth of July!

 Daddy had to work, so it was just the kiddos and I all afternoon and night. With the eye infections still a brewin' we had to pass on the fun bbqs we were invited to and couldn't have anyone over. I did not want to chance passing the infection along to anyone. I have to say I was a little bummed, but the boys and I had a fun day together. 

Later in the evening we did lots of fireworks with our neighbors out in our court.

Then it was time for the fireworks show. We have the best seat right in our front yard for one of the shows put on by our town. 

Even though we missed Daddy being home for the fun and we missed out on some bbqs with friends we still had a great day. 

The Boardwalk

All of us have been fighting  nasty colds this week. Yesterday was Mike's last day of his three days off. So we decided since we were all feeling a little better that we should get out of the house. We thought we would escape the heat and head to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Too bad is was just as hot there.

The boys had lots of fun riding all the rides.

Then we got some Dip-n-Dots and cooled off in the arcade.

The heat and walking were starting to get to us a bit. We noticed Josh's eyes looking red and Mike's cough was quickly coming back. We pressed on and had a nice dinner on the water. We made sure to go on the pier and  check out all the cool boats before we left.

This is Jason doing the "wiggly dance". It's what their Grandma does to make them smile in pictures. Too cute!

After our fun day we got home, hit the hay and woke up this morning to both boys sick again. Now they both have swollen, red eyes with icky goop coming out. Being the weekend, we had to take them an hour away to the nearest Kaiser that was open. Turns out their cold spread to their eyes. We got drops and should be good in a few days. The worst part is we were told it is highly contagious for the next 24 hours they are on the eye drops. So what do you think I have been doing all day... a million loads of sheets, blankets, pillows, clothes and lysoling(is that a word?) everything in sight.

I will be so happy when we are all totally healthy again. I was pretty bummed to cancel plans we had with friends both today and tomorrow due to the nasty eyes. Overall, super fun family day yesterday at the Boardwalk though!

Cars 2

The boys were a little bummed about coming home from camping a day early. We told them not to worry that we had something fun planned for when we got home.

We couldn't be home on Saturday afternoon anyways because we were having an Open House (our buyers walked...long story...our house is still for sale...another post). So we took the boys to do "something fun" and it was to see Cars 2.

This was Jason's first time at the movie theater. Josh has been before to see Toy Story 3 and Tangled. They were pretty excited. Can you tell?

Josh watched with a huge smile on his face and eyes glued on the screen. Jason fell asleep halfway through. It was a 1:40pm movie, which is totally nap time.

The movie was a fun one. I wasn't to thrilled about one of the first lines being, "What a jerk!" Other than that and idiot said a few times it was pretty good and loaded with action, which my boys love.



Camping

We went camping this week at the Pinnacles and as always we had a lot of fun!
We love camping and were looking forward to getting away from everything. There is a pool at the campground, which was supposed to be our saving grace. That is why we still decided to still go even though we knew it was going to be a hot couple of days. It was so hot the electricity that runs to the filter in the pool went out which meant no pool. Last summer the pool was closed when we went too. Some of you may remember this pitiful pic of the boys from that camping trip...

 We were able to swim for a bit on our first day this trip, but it didn't last long. I didn't even take any pictures by the pool because I thought we would be there a lot. We actually ended up coming home a day earlier than planned. Along with being so hot during the day there was also no campfires allowed. Who camps with no campfires? So this was how we had to roast our smores...

...on the camping stove.

Despite the heat, no campfires, the caves on the hiking trails being closed because of bats and the mosquitoes that ate us alive we really did have a great time! You can't beat the awesome family time on a camping trip.
Our boys are really great bike riders, so we went on lots of bike rides and did a whole lot of exploring.



This is Josh telling us how big the mouse was that he just saw

 It was also nice just to relax whenever is cooled down a bit by our campfire camping stove and listen to boys try to tell jokes and hear all the sounds of the wildlife around us.

Until the next camping trip.... which will be somewhere with a lake so we don't have to worry about a closed pool!

Wordless Wednesday

                                                        
                                                         Lick Observatory




Happy Father's Day



Chillaxin'

After a busy month of May, we are really enjoying a more relaxed month of June. July and August will get real busy with two more weddings, getting ready for school and moving.



Yep.... moving.

We sold our house and are getting ready to start escrow. More to come on that later.... it is very bittersweet.

It is nice to have some down time and just chill. We haven't really had too much going on Mike's days off, which has made for lots of bike riding, bbqing, water gun wars and just doing whatever.

Blogging has kinda been slow. Really because I have nothing exciting to post and all my nap/after bedtime computer time is taken over by searching for houses online.

Speaking of computer time.... nap time is officially over.... I hear chatting coming from two cute little boys' room.

Until next time...