Snow and Sledding

The kids were so excited for all the snow we got while we were in Utah. We borrowed a bunch of snow clothes from cousins and went out to make snow angels and go sledding.

 Logan was not super impressed by the snow. He didn't like the snow clothes because he couldn't move around, and once he fell and got cold snow inside his suit, he was done!

 Lucas and Paige held out a little longer, though. They loved sledding!

 It was so fun to play in the snow for a week and then drive home to warmer weather.

Biking Across the Golden Gate Bridge

We have been talking about biking across the Golden Gate Bridge for months now and we finally got around to doing it last Saturday. Lucas sprained his ankle the night before at a birthday party but he was determined to go so we went anyway. He was totally fine riding his bike and did the 4 mile ride no problem. He LOVES riding his bike! Here we are taking a little rest on the other side of the bridge before heading back across again.

 My parents came with us too.

 It was clear skies everywhere but right over the bridge. Bummer! But it cleared up a little bit as we were finishing.

The kids were done holding still for pictures so they are all a little grumpy for this picture...but they had fun. We will definitely have to make this a yearly tradition.

Paige's 3rd Birthday

Lucas wanted to celebrate and sing to Paige as soon as she got up in the morning on her Birthday, so we stuck candles in her cinnamon roll and sang to her. And of course give her a little present to open.

We went down to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with my parents. We went last year and it was lots of fun so we thought we'd keep up the tradition. It was a long drive, but we kept busy reading books.

We stopped for lunch and opened presents,

Then we went to the Aquarium. It was BUSY! I thought we went over Labor day weekend last year, but we checked the calendar and apparently Paige's birthday fell on the weekend after Labor day last year. We will have to remember to go the weekend after next year because it was just way too busy!

The first exhibit we went to was about Jelly fish. The kids thought it was so cool! It was probably their favorite thing we saw the whole time.

 Logan is really in to pointing, so he loved going up to all the tanks and pointing at the fish.

Here he is showing grandma Crapo all the fish.

This big tank was also a huge hit. There were Hammerhead sharks in it that Lucas and Paige loved.

 Logan and Lucas looking at Lionfish! Say that 10 times fast.

There is a kids play area with a cave that the kids can walk through and see smaller tanks inside. This was Logan's favorite part and he ran through the cave and in and out about 30 times.

I love this one of the kids looking into a tank with the sunlight streaming in.

 And of course we had to take a family picture in the room where waves crash over you.

And go outside and get splashed by the waves from the outside too. Even Logan wanted in on the action.

Logan played through his normal naptime and beyond so he was exhausted and passed right out in his stroller during one of our longer walks to another exhibit.

After we were all done at the Aquarium we made our usual stop at Ghirardelli for a sugar overload.

We sat outside and watched the ocean while we ate.

It was a really nice day. And on the drive home Lucas lost another tooth. This is his 4th he's lost. I'm not sure it was fully ready to come out because it bled so much. It was kinda grossing me out. Luckily he was completely oblivious.

We had such a fun day spending time as a family and with Grandma and Grandpa Crapo - and celebrating our sweet Paigey-Paige. We just love her so much! Happy birthday!

Lucas's Birthday Weekend

Lucas is a lucky boy because his birthday will always be near or on memorial day weekend.  Paige's is the same with Labor day.  We sure did time those well.  Poor Logan. Anyway, for Lucas's birthday we had three days of fun.  Neil and Ashley just happened to be coming to visit this weekend too, so Lucas got to play with cousins for his birthday.  We started off the festivities with a day in Santa Cruz.  We went to the Boardwalk. The kids had so much fun going on rides.

 I love Paige in this one.  She was always so good at posing and smiling while on the rides.

After the Boardwalk,we went to the beach.  It was super windy, and not really warm enough, but the kids still had a blast making sand castles.

Logan has been to multiple beaches before, and even this beach before and been totally fine, but he was not super impressed this weekend. I forced him to walk around just long enough to get cute pictures.

After the beach we went back to grandma and grandpa's house for dinner. Lucas has been asking to have crab legs for dinner for forever. I'm not really sure why.  I think he just saw them at Costco one day and decided he wanted to try them. So we made crab legs for dinner that night.  They were so delicious!  Any excuse to have crab legs.

Sunday was Lucas's actual birthday so after church we headed down to my parent's house for more food and playing with cousin's. Of course they all had to get in the hot tub.

 Then Lucas opened presents. Neil and Ashley even brought a present for him from Arizona - so nice of them!

Lucas isn't a huge fan of cake, he'd rather just eat the ice cream, so we had banana splits for his birthday dessert.  It was a little bit trickier to put candles in.

 He and Paige both love vanilla ice cream.

 On memorial day we spent the morning just playing with all the toys he got for his birthday. He built log cabins...

Legos...

And made cool circuit experiments...

 This was the present from Neil and Ashley.  SO Cool!

Then in the afternoon we played with the other present Lucas got for his birthday.  He had been begging for this motor boat every time we went to Costco for months so we finally broke down and got it for his birthday.

 It's huge and we have no idea where we'll store it, and we have to sneak into the residence inn pool to even use it, but he LOVED it!  Here he is giving Paige a ride.

 And all three. I'm not sure why Paige looks dead in this one.

We got Wendy's frosties too, cause the pool is right by Wendy's, and cause they are delicious!

We had such a fun weekend celebrating Lucas's birthday.  And we had fun spending time with family too.  I think Lucas is pretty spoiled!