September

Wow - what a month. We moved into a new house, Jonah turned 5 and Lucy turned 6 months old. I don't know a time when we've had more going on! Trips to the beach, birthday parties, starting Preschool, it's been a really fun-filled month!

 My sweet girl turned 6 months old! Such a sweet little girl!

 Jonah turned 5! We had a small celebration for him at home. What a day! It was the day we closed on our house and we were scheduled to move the following morning! So we went to church, opened presents and ate cake, then continued to pack in to the wee hours!!

 Labor Day weekend we went to the beach with friends. It was perfect beach weather and everyone had a blast. Lucy is becoming accustomed to the beach!!

 The boys also started preschool. I enrolled the boys in a homeschool co-op for a preschool class once a week. Unfortunately their class filled up before they were completely enrolled, so I signed up to teach a class. So every Thursday, we go to school and learn about bugs. It's so fun for them and we have a class full of boys (minus Lucy!)

 Squishy!!!

 The boys had so much fun building this train and they really wanted Lucy to join in. So she was a good sport and let me put her in for a little while!

 My sweet little Squishy. She is such a good baby. She was getting tired playing with her toys and when I came back into the room, I found her asleep! I've never had a baby that would put themselves to sleep when they were tired!

 The bunk beds make such a fun fort! They boys love hiding out in their fort and pretending to go camping.

 It's a little dark, but they're in there!

 This picture cracks me up! Jonah found these glasses at Target and really wanted them. Luckily he's a good saver and had some allowance money saved up to buy them. When you turn the knob on the nose, the eyebrows and the glasses move up and down. We had so much fun with these!!

 I found a really great Groupon to a children's museum close by. So I was able to get a family membership for the year for a really good price. So we went up to check it out. It was super cute! It's organized very well and there are a lot of cute little stations of fun things to play with and discover. The boys ask to go here all the time!

 The boys both really love this light table. They enjoy building lots of fun things with the magnetic pieces.

 Henry was so proud that he was able to climb the rock wall all by himself!

 This was also one of Henry's favorite stations. A sand box full of shells to dig with!

 On the way back to the car we walked through a nearby park. It has these old tractors out for kids to play on. Big hit!

 Jonah thought he needed to "termite tent" Lucy's little house!

She is so cute sleeping! She looks just like her big brothers!

August Fun

August was a whirlwind month for sure!! Lucy continues to grow like a little weed and gets cuter (is that possible?) by the day! The boys are madly in love with her, which is SO cute!! She's beginning to sit up on her own. It's always fun to see her doing new things, but a part of my heart is sad to know she won't stay a baby for much longer. I love these series of photos - look at that little tongue!! She was all decked out in her "shoe" dress with her pretty gold sandals.

We took a really fun trip to SeaWorld. The boys had a lot of fun going on rides with Daddy. Lucy and I watched the whales for a while. It was pretty amazing to see them swimming around. They were so big!!

The boys also got to build a wooden plane from the movie "Planes" at the Lowe's Build It workshop. They had SO much fun!! The last time we came to one of these, Henry was just a baby!! So he had a lot of fun getting to be a big boy and use the hammer!

 Lucy was a good girl while the boys built their planes.

We also had our condo termite tented. It was a really big deal to us. Especially since we all got to go stay in a hotel!!

 Lucy's first meal! She had bananas. It was fun at first but as you can see, she wasn't that into it!

 She also had her first time in a swing. She loved it!

 This is one of my favorite pictures. Jonah loves Lucy so much. What a good big brother!

 Henry loves to hold her too. Although Henry isn't really too much bigger than she is!!

I'm back!

Wow! It's been a while since I've done some blogging, but believe me, I have a good excuse. We moved! It happened really fast and we weren't even really planning to move but we found the perfect house and God was watching over us! We were so sad to say goodbye to our perfect condo, but it was perfect in every way except space. And our new house offered us plenty of room, a nice big backyard, a nice neighborhood and super easy freeway access for Dan to speed off to work. It's taking a lot of getting used to and it will take us even longer to get "settled". However, the more boxes we unpack, the more it starts to feel like "home." So, needless to say, I've been really preoccupied! Things are starting to settle down so I'm hoping to get back into my blogging. I have a TON of super cute photos to post!!

Bye, super cute condo!

July

 My sweet little Squishy is almost four months old! How can this be? She is so cute and gets squishier everyday. The boys still adore her, even Henry has warmed up to her! She loves to lay on her blanket and look around. She's even learning to appreciate "tummy time."

 Three peas in a pod!

 We haven't been too consistent on our preschool activities, but I try to squeeze a little learning in here and there during the summer. The boys were bored and starting get into mischief, so I had them trace their names with dried beans. Jonah thought it was a lot of fun. Henry hated getting glue on his fingers!

 Dan really wanted to get back into riding his bike. Especially since he bought a really nice bike. So he entered a 4th of July bike ride. We only got to see him ride though the finish line, but the kids thought it was fun just the same. We got all decked out in our red,white, and blue attire and had a fun day!

 The boys thought it was super cool to sit on Daddy's bike, especially since they're normally not allowed to even touch it!!

 After the bike ride, we grabbed some breakfast and headed over to the 4th of July festival in Old Poway Park. It's a fun tradition we've done for the past few years. It's an olde timey park with a real train you can ride. They have several different bands playing music, there's a bbq, a craft fair and other goodies. We bought some old timey sodas. They were really sweet but also really good.

 Later that night, we walked down the street to a grassy area and watched the fireworks that are launched from the high school a few blocks away. It was so fun! There were a lot of neighborhood people and their dogs out and everyone was just having a nice time. The boys loved the fireworks and thankfully they didn't scare Lucy. Lucy was a good trooper even though it was way past her bedtime! We love being able to just walk down every year and watch the fireworks.

 The following day (July 5), Dan had the day off so we went to the beach! It was a lot of fun too. We don't get to go with Daddy very often, so it's always an extra treat when he can go.  We met a lot of friends from church there and just hung out all day. It was relaxing and fun. I think I'm warming up to living in San Diego!

 Henry came in for a little nap and snuggle time!

 Dan's always a good sport. He played with the boys and dug sand pits and made sand castles.

 We signed up for the summer reading program at the library again this summer. The boys always enjoy going to the library and this year they gave out some great prizes for reading. They got a big booklet of coupons with free kids meals at about five different places we actually eat at! They also each got two free tickets to the Padres' game! Each of the boys got to write their names on a fruit/veggie and hang them up on this wall. Not sure you can see their names, but they are standing right next to them.

This is probably one of their favorite features of the library. The firetruck. Kinda sad that the books aren't the best part, but we'll take what we can get!