Me and my love bugs!

My little sister and I headed to SF for the morning with the love bugs to get some pictures and meet up with Rick for lunch. Here are our pictures.

Birthday Celebrations

We celebrated Crew's first birthday on Monday. It was just a little family birthday since we have celebrated it a few other times with family. I made some coconut curry prawns over rice which Crew couldn't eat but the rest of us could. We then had cupcakes and sang happy birthday again to the little man. Athen is pretty good at singing the Happy birthday song now.

Crew loves to climb up on everything. He climbs up on the dinner table, the train table, trunk, and any box he can find and stands up. He loves attention from his big brother, his mama and papa. He is a fast walker and loves to eat sand, grass, flowers or anything else on the ground. He loves swinging high on the swings. He is finally enjoying some finger foods and doesn't choke as much. He is sleeping through the night most of the time. He is really rowdy and on the go at church. We are counting down the months until nursery comes. He drinks real milk now and is in the 80% percentile for height. Athen better start being nice because Crew is going to pass him up pretty quickly. He still only has 2 front teeth and hates getting his fingernails cut. We love like little guy to pieces and are so happy he is a part of our lives.

We celebrated Rick's birthday this week as well. He turned 37 on Father's day. That sounds crazy old to me but I'm going to be there in a few months myself. Luckily we don't feel or look that old - thanks to all our young friends and our young kids. We celebrated Rick's birthday on Friday. The kids and I brought a mandarin orange cake with pineapple frosting into Rick's work to celebrate. I have been doing this for several years now, even before we got married. We then made sure he came home with us instead of working late. The kids love visiting Rick's office because it is high up in a "skyscraper" and they get to see the views. Plus they love all the space, running up and down the halls.

We left the city and headed to Livermore to my mom's house where I had Rick's birthday present. I brought the kids outside to play and Rick noticed that the shiny red vintage 60's Schwin tandem bike with white wheeled tires was for him.  I packed us up a picnic dinner and we headed to the park for some food and then rode our new bike along the bike trail and through the pretty Livermore vineyards. It was a perfect summers night. Athen rode his little red bike along the side while Crew joined us in the Ergo on ours. Happy birthday Rick we love you to pieces. Can't wait to get a house so we can ride our new bike.

Disneyland

Disneyland was a blast. Athen and Crew had so much fun with all their cousins, aunts & uncles and grandparents. Our first day at Disneyland was Thursday. There was 22 of us in our group and we all had bright green Disney shirts on made from mama Bingham. This was a great idea. It was so easy to spot everyone, and hard to get lost. We always knew where everyone was. Plus it was easier to hop in line with the group without people getting upset that you are cutting. They would see the green shirts and let you go on through.

Everyone was so helpful with the kids so Rick and I were able to ride on all the rides we wanted to. They kids had a blast. Athen loved Pirates of the Caribbean and got to go on his first roller coaster with me. It was a happy moment for me. We spent two days hopping back and forth from Disney to California Adventure.

Athen's first roller coaster ride with his hands up. He loved putting his hands up on all the rides. Although, they didn't stay up on the roller coaster ride once it started.

We spent a day at Huntington Beach. The boys and kids went in the water while the girls chased Crew around in the sand all day. Towards the evening we all rented Surrey's and tandem bikes and road up and down the beach. It was a great day.

That evening we all got Mexican take out and headed back to our hotel room. We celebrated Crew's birthday with all the cousins and realatives with a coldstone ice cream cake and some decorations. It was a great trip. We LOVED it!

Lots to Catch up on

I know I have lots to catch up on but we have had several weeks of visitors, have been out of town and have had 2 birthdays to celebrate. Over Memorial day weekend Rick's best friend Ben came into town to learn how to kiteboard with Rick. Rick has been waiting to teach his buddies for some time now so he was super excited. He took Friday off and had Monday as well. They spent several days kiteboarding which meant that I spent several days with the kids all by myself. I am such a good wife. We did have Ben join us on our Sunday walk and picnic to the park. We packed up some snacks and drinks and enjoyed a little picnic and park time.

On Monday morning before the wind came up we decided to head over to Half Moon Bay and go for brunch at one of our favorite places - Cafe Zero. This was pretty much the only time we got out with the boys. It was delicious of course.

A few days later we had Rick's brother Ryan, Sierra, Brynlee and Isaac come into town. Rick took that following Monday off and we played. We went to the beach for a BBQ. We had Salmon, Steak, watermelon, 7 layer dip, and corn on the cob. Rick bought a boogie board on Craigslist this week so he could take Athen out into the ocean. The kids loved it.

A few days later we headed to Disneyland for 5 days. We met up with Rick's family and all the cousins. It was tons of fun. I will post pictures of our Disney trip in the next post.