Birthday Weekend

It was my birthday this past Saturday and the weather was not on my side, unfortunately. It rained for a majority of the day but we still managed to have fun anyway. I spent the day with my boys and my parents and had a great day relaxing and enjoying the day! Mom and Dad took Ben Saturday night so Jeff and I went to a great fondue restaurant (pics coming tomorrow) and had a pint of Smithwicks at an Irish Pub, in honor of our 30th birthday trip to Ireland exactly 3 years ago.

What Baby Proofing?!?

Ben has reached what he thinks is a HUGE milestone... he has faced the 'baby proofing challenge' head on and won. Not so lucky for Mom and Dad, though. He now knows how to get into every door, cabinet, cubbord etc that we (well, pretty much Jeff) spent hours and hours installing through out the house. What does this mean? Hmmm... I guess we try to find a new 'baby proofing' method that Ben will, I'm sure, master in a month or two?!?

Trampoline Fun

We can always count on Ben wanting to be in the pool & hot tub at Jon's house in Rocklin nearly the whole weekend when we visit. We found out this past weekend that his new love is the trampoline in Jon's backyard. Ben and Joel were either jumping, running or playing basketball on the trampoline literally 75% of the long weekend. By the end of his jumping and running sessions, Ben's hair would be standing on end. He had so much fun (& got out so much of his energy) that we're thinking we will need to get one pretty darn soon.

(PS There is a safety guard so he can't jump off or fall from the side of the trampoline... much safer since Jeff and I were kids.)

Hot Tub Fun!

Hot tubbing in Rocklin at Uncle Jon's is a must and we definitely got our fill during our Memorial Day weekend visit. Looking forward to our next weekend trip!

Memorial Day Weekend in Rocklin

We went up to Rocklin for our annual Memorial Day weekend at my brother and his family's house. We celebrated Jon's birthday on Saturday and both Papa and my birthday, too. The weather wasn't as warm as we wanted but fun was had by all.

Here we are celebrating Papa's 70th birthday a bit early since we were all together.

Going out to dinner with Ben is a 50/50 gamble. Half the time he is a perfect little man. The other half of the time he isn't. This dinner was the not-so-perfect type dinner so one of us took Ben outside to run around about every 10 minutes. This pic is him on one of his many outings during dinner and looking at the many birds he would have rather been chasing...

Morning Routine

Every morning after breakfast, Ben gets really excited to go upstairs (while Mom gets ready for the day), sit in his chair and watch Calliou. In all honesty, he spends a maximum of 15 minutes watching Calliou but he does get so excited anticipating his favorite show. He sits with his water and repeatedly says 'Calliou... Calliou... Calliou...' until the TV is turned on.

Fun Date Night Out

We've been pretty lucky this month with two date nights out. Not the norm but very fun. A week ago, we went to a benefit for a local elephant rescue organization based in Salinas. We got to dress up and...

 hang out with some pretty awesome elephants!