Oh to be 2 Again

When summer was pretty simple. Here he is with daddy plucking tomatoes. Right after this shot he decided to flip all the tomatoes in the air a'la a fancy chef. Maybe we need to cut back on watching the cooking channel with him.

 Lining up my vehicles in a row. I think they were having a race if I understand him correctly. Further proof my son is a firstborn. Today he wanted me to find a bulldozer and when I asked him where is was last time he saw it he took me to the line of cars, and said "in this hole". Yep now that I look at the picture, that is exactly where it was.


Taking a swim. We go through a lot clothes changes because of this lately, since I haven't been able to convince him to swim in a diaper. My son does not like to be naked.

Cheese face for swimming.  What a goober.

Petting Zoo

One of the highlights of our trip was going to Zoomar's petting zoo in San Juan Capistrano with Garrett and his parents.



That goat is eating my hair! I guess I look delicious.

 Patting a piggy with Mr. Adam.









Trying to find a bunny to pat with daddy. They were pretty good hiders, which is not surprising with the number of kids who were in there also trying to pat them.

Riding the "tude". We are going to be pretty sad when Bryce stops calling them that.






A pony ride on Shadow. He was pretty scared at first (as you can see by the death grip he has on Andrew).

 Feeling braver.


Shadow needs a drink.

Brave cowboy!

Lunch at Ruby's with Garrett and then back to the beach. What a day!

Cousins

Making a sand castle. He didn't like the water, so this was tricky because he would only get so close to it before running back away.







More tennis with Levi. They did a good job of playing together.

Bryce was very concerned about the sand that got dumped on Leah, so here he is cleaning it all off.



And here he's dumping her off the boogie board. They thought this was so funny.

Super interesting skim board waxing going on. Apparently this was the most interesting thing going on in the beach house at the time.

Brace Yourself for More Beach

Now that we are back, you will get more pictures of the beach trip than you might even want.


Here he is modeling the latest in beachwear for the under 10 set. I am thinking it is good that I don't try and wear one, cause they are not especially flattering to the figure. 

Digging a big hole with Levi and Uncle Eric.


Digging some more (he has seen daddy do this a lot for mommy's plants in the back yard)

Playing "tennis" with Eric, and some jai lai with papa. It was pretty funny to watch since they were standing right next to each other and dumping it into the racket.

Cousin Leah doing some modeling for our budding photographer.

The Beach!

It's that time of year again when we go to the beach with Andrew's family and our son doesn't sleep past 5:45 the entire time. He is enjoying himself, as long as he doesn't get in the water, which is apparently pretty scary.



Sandwich face.



Reading papa's book.

Pulling my cousins on the boogie board.

Baby Sister

Monday we had the gender ultrasound for our little one due Dec. 17th. The baby did not feel cooperative so we had to go back that night, but as it turns out, Jamba juice makes babies hyper, so we had better luck the second time.



Bryce also got to see the ultrasound, and he is pretty interested in his baby sister.



These are a couple of outtakes from our baby sister announcing photos.

4th of July

We're off to Uncle Ryan's house for a family dinner and some homemade ice cream. Poor Uncle Ryan demolished his ankle playing kickball, so since he was in a cast, we figured we'd bring him some more food, and mommy has always wanted to see the fireworks on the beach. We didn't do it while we lived there since daddy always wanted to go up to Fresno to legally blow things up to celebrate our independence.



Family photo op. 

Bryce had about lost his voice from his cold at this point, but that didn't stop the boys from doing some manly ice cream cranking on the back patio. Uncle Ryan got a pass on account of his cast.



Bryce was pretty impressed with himself since he got to add the rock salt.

 Playing some pre-dinner ball with Grandpa.




And, just for kicks, another worker-man shot, since Bryce spends a good deal of time doing worker-man things.