Back to the Fun

With everyone feeling good we are back at the fun and we had two really great weekends that I need to fill you in on. Two Saturdays ago we went down to Dana Point, which is about an hour from here, and spent a great afternoon with family and friends. Matt's cousins Jeff, Melanie, Kirsten and Aunt Nancy met us there for a few hours. Mel's little girl Sadie is so cute and she and Crew really enjoyed themselves at the beach. My camera batteries died before I could take pics of the rest of the clan, but Matt and Jeff surfed and we really enjoyed seeing them. Part two of the afternoon was with the Townsends/ Andrews. Wade and Cort ran in the L.A. Ragnar Race which ended in Dana Point so we got to spend a few hours catching up with the Andrews (Wade and Whitney were good friends in Provo) and visiting with the Townsends. It was a great day.

For our anniversary, Matt helped me start a garden. This is something we have been wanting to do for a while. He came home Thursday night with everything we needed so we got to work.

Crew was a great helper. We just have to hide the shovels now that things are planted so he doesn't uproot them all!

Ah, our little garden. Let's just hope the sun doesn't totally bake them on our patio! We are very excited about it.

Friday morning Crew and I left early and drove down to San Diego to meet Maren and my parents at Sea World! Crew and Carson were thrilled to see each other and other than one major melt down, it was a good day. Crew loved climbing the cargo nets and exploring the tunnels.

Parker is such a sweet kid! He has really developed a fun little personality and he really enjoyed watching Crew and Carson play. He will be by their side soon enough.

Crew's favorite thing, by far, is Shamu. He can't get enough of it! I must say that I agree.

After Sea World we went back to Maren's. My parents packed a cool little suitcase full of presents for the boys. Man are they spoiled! Luckily my dad finds fun little cheap things but the kids love them! Going through the loot!

Matt took the train down that afternoon and my parents and Maren watched the boy so Matt and I could go out for our anniversary. It was great to go out just the two of us and so nice to know Crew totally enjoying himself instead of wanting "mommy." Speaking of my little boy, my parents found these beanies that are still a little big for him but he wouldn't take this one off for most the morning on Saturday. Funny boy!

The boys doing what boys do

Saturday morning we went to Miramar Lake and let the boys ride bikes then fed the ducks.

After the lake we went to Chucky Cheese (I think that is how you spell it?) and that was a hit. Crew got pretty good at skee ball!

Grandpa was really good at skee ball!

Crew really enjoyed this place. It was his first time anywhere like that and it went over really well. We won 1200 tickets in two hours with $40 in tokens. I'm not totally sure who enjoyed this place more, the kids or the adults!

After Chucky Cheese we got some lunch at the Studio Dinner, which was totally delicious! Then we said goodbye to grandma and grandpa and spent the rest of the afternoon playing at Maren's and swimming in the pool. We left that night about 8 and Crew zonked the entire way home and the rest of the night. It was a great weekend and we love having family somewhat close by!

One more thing, we often go to the South Pasadena high school track on Sunday evenings with a bunch of families in our ward and let the kids burn out the rest of their Sunday energy. Crew picked up the long jump from some older kids there and it was quite the site. He runs the entire runway and jumps off one foot into the pit! All the pictures of him jumping turned out too blurry but it made his mama proud that he likes to long jump!