In Between Packing

 

6/2

You'd think it was Mother's Day with all the beautiful jewelery my kids made me.

6/4

It's June and Sally dictated her first Christmas list of the year to me.

In story form.

She has some high hopes.

Some friends came over for a little evening bike riding.

Justin had to try out Ashley's bucket bike.

Later, Ashley was nice to give Drew a ride.

And even nicer to give him control of her phone during the ride.

 68 self portraits later, she might be regretting that decision.

He also got some good shots of the people they passed.

I like that old man in his short shorts.

And the friendly fellow waving from his truck.

6/4

We Got Ourselves a Crawler

6/1

Owen got August to crawl for the first time by setting his DS out for him.

A couple days went by and not much more crawling was going on.

So Owen laid out his DS again, and lo and behold it worked:

6/5

He gets where he wants to go now,  just not fast enough.

There's still a lot of sitting and crying to be picked up going on.

Which is not helping our packing situation any.

But back to crawling, I remember we set out a brownie to get Drew to crawl.

Now that kid has the biggest sweet tooth of them all.

I'm hoping this doesn't mean August will be the biggest gamer.

Miss List

 

Last Sunday dinner with Brent & Errin.

Boo hoo.

Living next to them is top on my list of things I'm gonna miss.

Even when Brent wears church socks with basketball shorts.

Tower 30

We went to a good-bye bonfire last night for about 6 families that are moving from our ward.

Loved that it was at Tower 30...our summer beach spot (that I will miss).

Any night that includes the beach, smores, and fun people is a good night.

May I

5/4

 Would rather play in the car than watch Owen's baseball game.

 

5/4

 Costco with my babies.

5/6

 Snuck in the new high school baseball facility.

(neighbor/church friend Pierce is pitching)

5/8

 A visit to the downtown coin shop for a scout collecting belt loop.

That block of silver is worth thousands.

5/10

 Justin went with Owen and his class to City Hall for a field trip.

 

5/11

Maximum capacity.

 

5/16

 The "things are funner than toys" phase.

5/16

Cause his head wasn't big enough already.

5/20

 Our classy family home evening.

 

5/21

Craig's List find...awesome front bike seat that actually works with my bike.

5/30

Her first visit to a nail salon.

5/31

I like her blue better than my pink.

 

5/30

 Open house/art show at school.

Owen's 2nd semester teacher is Mrs. Collins, the awesome teacher he also had in 1st grade.

 

Drew did that wire sculpture above his head.

His real teacher is kind of the pits.

Thank goodness for a cool art teacher.

Memorial Day Visitors

 5/25

Brett & Yamina (Justin's brother and his wife) were in town for their first anniversary.

After Justin rescued them from their little breakdown 1 1/2 hours away,

 we had fun meeting up with them for dinners and the beach.

While we were at dinner with them Saturday night,

I heard from Denise that they were on their way (which I was expecting)

but with Colee, Tyler, and Caden, too.

I offered, but was nervous about having space for everyone to be comfortable.

But it totally worked out, and it was fun!

5/26 early in the morning

Denise, Drew, Allie, Kenna, and Mackenzie slept on the floor.

(Drew was in heaven with all that attention and probably got an earful of girl talk)

Darla was on the couch.

And Colee's family got Sally's room.

The group (minus Tyler) before church.

5/26

Sally whispered to me, "Why do they look the same?" about Denise and Darla.

(my aunts who are obviously twins)

They taught us a new game: King of Tokyo.

5/26

Owen was way into it and is dying for us to get it.

 

Before they left for home, we had lunch at Harney Sushi in Oceanside.

5/27

Denise is the sushi lover.

Darla, not so much.

The raw fish and seaweed didn't settle well.

She had to run across the street to get some Dairy Queen.

Hehe.

They were the last visitors we'll have in this house.

We only have 2 more weeks here...sad.

Packing time.

The Wedge

 5/23

 Owen's car is in the middle.

And it did well!

4th overall.

Don't be surprised if you see another wedge from Owen next year.

And the year after.

Leo Carrillo Ranch

5/23

Between different schools, wards, friends, etc. we haven't been seeing enough of Brent & Errin's family.

It made me happy when Errin suggested we go to Leo Carrillo Ranch last week.

The weather was perfect and we were pretty much the only ones there.

After walking around, we camped out on the grass.

Some peacocks joined us while Jones and Sally played house.

We kind of all just want to move there.