More Visitors

We had all of my family visiting, except Pete, who was away in Vermont for a 7-week training for work. They were here for just a quick visit, but we were so glad to have them here. Carissa especially gets lots of points for making the trek down to see us. She was visiting her family in northern California and drove 8 hours just to be with us for one full day! We were so glad to get to see her, Jayda, and the newest member of our family, baby Alexander.

Everyone was here over Seth's birthday so we had extra people to celebrate. Over the time they were here we went out for Seth's birthday dinner, rented wave runners for the bay, played tennis, swam at the hotel pool, and hung out at the beach. It's so nice living in a place where people actually WANT to visit!

The pictures below are all out of order but you get the idea.

Lukie at the pool. Eating of course.

Grandpa and Lukie at the beach checking out military planes/helicopters/jets in the sky.

I'm not really sure what going on here but I like it.

Mermaid Jayda

Lanx and Trab (Travis)

Nana and Alex

Sunday evening walk along the bay

Me and the Birthday Boy

I said, "Taft you're a fish!" he said, "No! I'm a SHARK!"

I love this picture. Alex has a lot of fans. His grandparents are high up on the list.

Fun Grandpa

Missing Pete!

Sissies

Peekaboo

My parents. They're the best.

Independence Day 2012

I'm a tad behind on things that have been going on around here. We'll start with the 4th of July. My cousin, Amy, and her friend, Kristen, were heading back to Texas (where they live) after a trip to Santa Cruz. They stayed with us for a couple of nights and spent the 4th with us. Seth was working nights the week of the 4th so he was able to join in all the day time festivities. The day started off with a 15K that I ran with a friend. Our ward always hosts a breakfast before the parade along Orange Ave. It works great because then we all have great seats for the parade too. The only bummer was instead of breakfast food they decided to do hamburgers and hot dogs. At 9 AM.  Gross.

Seth had to go in to work around 7 so he had to miss fireworks. Taft and Luke were also spent by the time fireworks rolled around. In fact, Taft had fallen asleep after a walk to the beach so he went straight to bed. Kristen and Amy headed out to fireworks and on there was ALL OF THE FIREWORKS WENT OFF AT ONCE. I heard it at our place and it shook the windows. Every single firework in the San Diego Bay went off early simultaneously.  People had camped out the night before to get good seats. Such a bummer!!! The mess up made national news.

Kristen and Amy

Lukie feeling the rhythm 

Lukie is not impressed with the parade

Too early for a picture.