a couple random pics from the trip

Darren and Grandma



Darren loved watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse in the car, he kept trying to touch the screen when Mickey was on.

A quick visit

While in town for Addison's birthday, we got to stop by and see Julie, Lily, Emma and Ron. They only live twenty minutes away from my cousins. It was a short visit but so so nice to see them.

Happy First Birthday Addison

This weekend we went to my cousin Amanda's daughter Addison's first birthday in Southern California. She is so cute! She got tons of presents and I think had a great time at her party. Darren slept through a couple hours of it, but when he was awake they played together really really well.
It was so nice to see my cousins and have all of our babies play together. I wish we lived closer, with everyones busy lives its hard to make time to see each other and I always miss them when we leave.



Addison and Darren


My cousin Jessica's little boys Grant and Carter


My cousins Jessica and Amanda

Baron's 2nd Birthday

Happy 2nd Birthday to our beautiful puggle Baron! He enjoyed his Banana Carob chip cake, a new toy and a nice walk at Lake Elizabeth! Happy Birthday B!

Bubbles

Gymboree sells the best bubbles! They don't pop right away so sometimes there are just bubbles sitting all over and there are just so many! Darren and Baron both try to eat them though.

Congratulations Brianna and Jason

Today we went to the wedding reception of our friends Jason and Brianna. They are a great couple and we were so happy to be a part of their special day. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Adams!


Jason, Brianna, me, Tim and Chris


they have a beautiful daughter, Malia, who is almost a year to the day older than Darren.


The happy couple was married in Las Vegas in August so the cake and tables were decorated with a Vegas theme. Very cute!

Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

Today we went to the 30th annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival. It was a great day despite the heavy traffic, it took us over an hour to go six miles! Luckily, Darren slept the entire way there, I can't imagine trying to entertain a bored baby just sitting in bumper to bumper traffic.

We saw the record breaking largest pumpkin which was 1600 pounds, and a lot of really cool sculpted pumpkins. There were tons of pumpkin foods too; pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin bread, pumpkin rolls, pumpkin beer and of course pumpkin pie. We got the last piece of pie sold at the fair today and even let Dare try it.....of course he loved it and even cried for more.



Darren's first pumpkin


some of the sculpted pumpkins

Daddy Darren and Mommy

trying pumpkin pie for the first time


Daddy and Dare leaving the festival

Gymboree

Darren went to his first Gymboree class today. I'm pretty sure he loved it, he smiled at all the other kids and tried to get closer to them. He didn't even fuss when a boy crawled over to him and took his ball. The class was great, we sang songs, played with bubbles, played with slides and foam mountains and even brought out the big parachute as the finale.

We had so much fun that were going back next week!

normal right?

umm...everyones living room looks like this when you have a baby right????

8 months old!

Darren is eight months old today! It took extra effort to get this picture today. Usually he just sits there and Mommy or Daddy can get him to smile...not today though, he wanted to explore everything and anything in his reach. He wanted to scoot off the couch, grab the phone off the coffee table, yell at Baron (very cute). I guess that's what comes along with him getting older though.