Big Weekend with a Bad Ending!

So my son started school a few weeks ago and I realized - we didn't do a whole lot this summer.  We spent a lot of time at the pool, playing with friends, riding bikes, parks, etc.  But the Zoo?  Nope.  Museums?  Nope. I feel bad, we just never got around to doing anything like that.  So we decided to make it up in a 3 day span.  We started Thursday night going to the Aquarium- I had a girlfriend hosting a happy hour there and Greg ended up having a contractor party for Centurylink at the same time.  It was great, we both got to see friends, eat & drink for free, have animals come to the area we were at and have a private demonstrations and get in free to the aquarium.  It was awesome!  The kids had a ball- we all loved the porcupine named Zuri and the baby Jaguar they showed us.  They also did a special mermaid show - the kids were fascinated with that.  It was a great way to start off our "surprise weekend".  

All dressed up and ready to go! Please note- Sloan's first "piggies!"

Loving all the turtles (can see a big one in the background) and sharks!

We told the kids about the aquarium, but not about Friday and Saturdays activities.  Friday we took the kids to Monkey Bizness and then to Red Robin for dinner.  Let me just say, we take the kids out to dinner about once a month.  It is not fun right now to take Sloan to a restaurant, her attention span is very small.  But Gavin loves Red Robin and MB... and has been asking for awhile to go to both.  That night the kids and Greg went camping- in the back yard!  Gavin has never  camped with Greg- so they were all very excited.  Maybe Sloan was a little too excited.  She has never slept outside of her crib or P&P.  Her trying to sleep on her blow up, in a SLEEPING BAG (YEA), with her lovies = too much excitement.  Finally at 9:30 Greg brought her in.  I guess she kept playing peek a boo with herself and giggling under the covers.  She is going to be the one at the slumber parties that stays up later than all the other girls.  Gavin of course was asleep almost an hour  before that.  Everyone ended up back inside at 6 and slept until almost 8.  Yea!  I love these shots, the kids watched a movie for a little bit and I made them a "special camping snack" also. (I love the pic of Elvis, he really wants to come in.)  

Saturday we were going to continue the "fun" with a trip to play putt putt- but Gavin was complaining about his leg and the kids were both a bit out of sorts.  We ended up running a bunch of errands and my sons limp was getting worse and worse.  I did a lot of poking and prodding on his leg- Greg said he did see him do a 6 foot jump down in the bouncy house at Monkey Bizness and landed on his knees.  We chalked it up to him spraining his knee.  It didn't hurt him at all unless he was trying to straighten it out and put his full weight on it.  By Sunday morning the limp was getting a little  worse so we trekked over to Children's Hospital to get him checked out.... Drum Roll please.  My little boy, after his first set of Xrays, has a buckle fracture on his left FEMUR.  Seriously?  Poor boy!   He is now is a knee brace and we are meeting with orthopedics tomorrow- hoping he can just wear the brace and not the full leg cast.  So our fun weekend, ended with somewhat of a bad bang.  Oh well, he is a wonderful patient!  And cute as pie!  See he didn't look upset!  

Here is some fun pictures of last week- what?  Is my helmet not fitting?  Rain boots are perfect for riding bikes!

Phone pictures and BIG NEWS

Did that grab your attention?  Big News?  It should, Gavin started school again!  How is that for big news?  Ha Ha!  My little boy started back to Pre-school, for the last time.  Once he takes off next summer he will be going back to start kindergarten.  Yikes!  (Scary to think about, especially since we have yet to pick a school.)  Greg of course was travelling this week, so did not get the chance to be here for it.  The "official" start day isn't for another few  weeks, but we always like him to go back a bit earlier and have some fun "summer" days at school.  Like tomorrow- Water Day!  Yea!  The only problem is that a lot of his buddies haven't moved to the class he is in yet, they will once school starts.  Oh well!

Sister had to get in on the action too!

Such a big handsome boy!  

Our big fish!

 Here are some random pictures from my phone over the last month.  It has been such a busy, fun summer.  I can't believe it is almost over.  I just wish the weather would cool down a bit.  Oh well, more pool days!  

Little Lady Bug and Tiger at the pool!

Sleepy girl with her beautiful drawing

Rain where are you???  

What?  Doesn't everyone wear a hat while watching Beach Volleyball?  

My pride and joy, first EVER squash and 2 of about 100 cherry tomatoes I have grown.  I am an official  farmer!

Wish me luck- we are hosting my Mom's side of the family for a reunion- The Hogoboom family.  Or what we like to call the women of this clan- the Boom Boom girls!  Should be a fun time and a ton of laughs.  

Happy Birthday Sloan Lillian!

 I love the above picture (pic from 1st and 2 nd bday), shows just how much she loves sweets.  I don't need to use a fork, my mouth and hands work just fine!  But yea, she finally has some hair!

On July 19th my baby turned 2.  I guess she is now considered a full fledged toddler now.  Scary I know!  We started the celebration the Sunday before with a party at our house.  She got to pick out the theme, and did Strawberry Shortcake!  I have a special fondeness for that girl, I think I had all the dolls and a house or two.  So we kept with the theme and did a cupcake cake decorated as a strawberry also.  We had family over and she had a wonderful time.  Her big gift was a bike from us.  She loves it!  Brother got her knee pads, elbow pads and gloves to go along with it.  We also let her pick out a new helmet from her birthday money, she of course got a little kitty one.  Too cute!

On her actual birthday we did pool time at the house and played.  That night we went for dinner at Gunther Toody's which was a tradition for Gavin also- until he got old enough to tell us where he would rather go.  That evening we busted out the bikes and let Sloan ride around on her new one.  She loves it! Will post pics once downloaded.  On Friday Greg took the day off and we all went to our pool - Greg got to see just how wild of a child in the pool she is!  No fear that one!  Overall I think she had a wonderful birthday and is such a wonderful 2 year old.  I am one lucky Mommy.

So Call Me, Maybe?

I have a ton to blog about, like our wonderful, lucrative trip to Vegas.  How Greg and I both came home winners!  WINNING!  Our fun time at the pool, golfing, at the wedding we went out there for, and of course my husband thinking he is a rock star singing "like a G6" in the back of our limo with bottle of champagne in his hands.

Or our wonderful 4th of July trip to Nebraska.  How much we fun we had and so did the kids.  All the family  we saw, pool time, awesome fireworks, etc.  We just got home Saturday afternoon.  So I am trying to finish up laundry (we have only been home about 80 hours in 12 days.  Both our trips were back to back.  So you can imagine the filth that is my house.  Hence, no real blog for a day or two.

Anyway, the reason for this blog, is my kids loveeeee music.  And right now it is So Call Me, Maybe? We are addicted to this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEWVwgDnuzE - there is a reason I don't get on youtube.  The kids & I (and Greg also) have watched this a ton.  We have the dance moves down also, so cheese I know, but hey- it is entertaining!

Happy Belated Father's Day to my Hub-a-dub!

This is a 2 parter, San Francisco and my hubby.   A very Happy Father's Day to him!  I think he had a great day, he said he did!  We spent it with both our father's, eating good food and relaxing.  It was great overall.  Our afternoon was spent frolicking in our pools on the front yard and running through the sprinklers.  He is such a good Dad and our kids are so lucky to have him!

Greg relaxing with a glass of wine while on Tiburon

Now onto our San Fransisco trip, it was so much fun.  We packed in so much, from Alcatraz- which was great to see again and of course 3 out of 4 of us got bombed with bird crap.  From one bird!  It was crazy, nothing like walking around for 5 hours with bird poop on you!  We also went to several great bars, hit the farmers market, walked along the pier several times (from 1 to 41- this was after a rough night and I don't know if I have ever heard my husband bitch more), ate sometimes (I will expand on this), went over to Tiburon for drinks on the grass overlooking the water (LOVELY!), hung out with great friends, made some new ones and walked the Bay to Breakers.

These guys were awesome-about 10 people all dressed up like salmon "swimming against the current" I have heard they come out every year.  Very funny!

This is a crazy 10K that people get seriously dressed up for, or the opposite.  Some people were walking it naked- luckily I didn't see one naked person running it!  It was very fun and my first 10K, I was not very prepared for it- like the 10 miles I walked the first few days we were there and not wearing appropriate shoes.  By mile 6 my feet were on fire and right at 7 a few blisters popped. Yuck!  So walked the last few tenths of a mile with that, super fun.  The party after the run was crazy, I  have  never seen anything like it, nor have I ever seen so many people drinking during the run or the parties going on in the neighborhoods where we walked.  It was a blast!  People every where were dressed up and it was 8 in the morning.  Overall a great first 10K!

Where Elvis finds Waldo!

Spider man to save the day!  

I feel like when you go to a city like this you try and sample their best food- well that didn't happen with us!  I think we figured it out, from Thursday night until Monday night we really only had 2 real meals.  The majority of time it was tapas, starters, shared meals, etc.  Poor Greg, one night we ordered room service after not eating a real meal since morning and it was awful.  He was pretty sure he got food poisoning and the next morning was the race.  So he was a champ and still got up with me at 5:30 after not going to bed until 3:30.  He even ended up walking in the B to B also.  Just not with me (don't ask- I am still mad!  To sum up, he was drinking and the group was winding there way to the "party area" of the walk.  But if you ask him he walked 2 miles of it and swears that he is doing it next year.  I just don't know if he can do it without a backpack full of beer!)  All in all, a fabulous time.  We got to hang out with our great friends Bunny and Big Pete.  Greg and Peter definitely have some type of bromance going on now!

The Lego group-I took this for Gavin- loves all things Lego!

So glad I got done with this, just to gear up for our next adventure- Vegas for a wedding and home 1 day and then off to Nebraska for the 4th!  Going from hot to hella hot and then onto humid hot!  Yea!  A packed 10 day adventure.

Summer Thus Far!

I am in the process of downloading my photos from my phone to this here computer- so while doing that I realized a few things.  1.  I don't take very good pics.  2.  My kids get a hold of my phone way to often and I find random pictures taken.  I especially like the one of Gavin's undies on the floor while he is pooping.  He is such his Dad and likes to either read or play on the phone while sitting on the throne for 20 (or more) minutes.  (side note- he told me this morning that his feet were asleep and felt funny because he sat on it for so long.  Lovely.)  Anywho, it is our first few weeks of summer.  Official.  It has been a busy one, last Friday and Saturday we were at 4 different pools- my kids are official guppies.  Love it!  We have done a ton, besides a lot of pool time, pool time at our house, get togethers, play dates, gym time, birthdays (and of course parties for them), soccer and our new favorite- biking.  I finally got my bike outfitted with Sloan's seat on back, bell, basket and of course streamers.  Yesterday Gavin, Sloan and I went on a little over 2 miles.  Gavin did great.  He loved it and Sloan.....  Well she thinks it is the best thing ever.  I looked back at one point and she had her arms out like she was flying.  A D O R A B L E!  Here is our summer thus far in pictures:

Sloan on meltdown 20 of the day- it was 9am

Lazing on the couch watching cartoons in our jammies!

Picnic at the park - with our sunnies on.  So cool!

Goggles, nuff said

I am trying to do our San Fran trip also- but am being called downstairs to wrangle or kill a spider or ten.  Not sure.  But Gavin just asked me how you know if they are "the good spiders or the bad ones?"  Great.

Sighhhh.....

Sorry for the lack of blogs lately.  Our past 2-3 weeks have been NON-STOP!  After our fun and exciting trip to San Francisco, which I will blog about and put up some pics.  I did the Bay to Breakers (so so so fun) and saw a TON of naked people (most did the walk- I am  still trying to figure out where they put their bibs...).  Don't worry I won't post those pics!  Ha!  We had so much fun and did so much sight seeing, walking, drinking, some eating and just enjoying San Francisco with each other and friends.  I have never really felt like a tourist there, and I have been there about a dozen or so times.  My sister lived there for 8 or so years.  So while visiting, we didn't do your normal touristy stuff.  Which is great, but I have never had to stay at a hotel, etc.  So this was nice to do your typical touristy stuff.

Anywho, we were home for a few days and then bam, I got wiped out by the flu.  It was lovely.  Fever, chills, all that fun stuff.  I recovered enough for Memorial weekend, which was jammed packed.  Then prep for Gavin's end of the year party, which was this past Saturday.  Too much fun!  This week is Gavin's first official week off of school, so I am hoping to veg out all week and get some posts done.  Even though we do have a play date Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.  Soccer starting Tuesday and a sleep over with his cousin at Grammy's house on Wednesday night.  going to the pool on Friday.  Also a birthday party this weekend and possibly hosting another get together?  Who knows.  I also have 2 ladies night out.  Unsure if going to both or neither.  We will see!  I may need sleep!  Yea, summer is here!

**Ok, I just re-read this, um, how many times can I put tourist/y into one paragraph?  Well obviously 3 times.  So sorry about that, maybe I was on a weekend hangover thingy?  Or maybe super exhausted?  Or sick of hearing my children fight about EVERY SINGLE THING.  What, you sat by me on the couch?  Well that gets you a fist to the noggin.  Or you put your face to close to my face- HEAD BUTT!  I already told Gavin he is going back to school if this continues!)