Thursday, May 28, 2009

Oxbow Park, Take 2
This time, we brought the nanny, Kathryn.

Mooner and Lan, waiting for Adrienne, Kathryn and Owen to show up.
Moon had to wear her butterfly wings for the occasion.

Immediately, they were to action

Investigating the woods along the shore...

Digging for bones...

and wearing disguises.

Meanwhile, Lan was getting comfortable with the river.

A little too comfortable. I had to put the camera down and grab him because he was happily crawling into the freezing-cold river. I thought for sure once he put his arms in, he would stop. NOT TRUE.
You can see in this picture below he crawled his knees in as well.

This is just a quick shot to remind me in 15 years how much crap we took along with us for 3 hours at the river.
Kathryn took the big kids on some explorations, while Adrienne and I sat around and watched the little guy play.

He was all over cuteness.

Sorry for the binkie in so many pictures, but the temptation to put sandy things in the mouth was too great. Had to put a stopper in!

I think I am going to collect these photos of O and Moon throwing rocks in the river. I assume they will be doing this every time they visit a river from now until forever.

Such a cute guy! Too bad the sun bleached out so many great pictures.

Kathryn with Manly, investigating.

And relaxing. He just loves her.

A nice shot of grubby Lan.

We had to leave the river, after the children soaked/trashed all of the clothes we brought them.
We headed up to the play and picnic area of the park for part 2 of the day.Here we are all starting to slooooow down.
Adrienne made us play Hacky Sack, but I didn't take any pictures. And that was for the better, I now know.

Even this super hero with his cape on started to look a little tired.
Such a good day. I hope that we do it at least 5 more times this summer!

Monday, May 25, 2009

The rest of our trip...

We made the 3 hour drive up to visit Grammy Suzy and Papa Chuck in Lompoc.
We had a wonderful, but short visit. A quick day trip to see the sites was in order.

We went to Santa Ynez for some cowgirl shopping and excellent Mexican Food.
This store was awesome awesome awesome. You can see Moon's new "hee haw" hat and in her bag is guess what??? Pink Play SPURS! So fun.

A visit to one of the winery's Grammy belongs to.
They have a little farm area with this mean Emu.

And this cool Ram.

A picture of our attempted picnic. Too hot, too cranky for Mooner. Oh well.

And there was later lots of playing and loving and spoiled kid juice-drinking.

see the sweetness?



Oh it was fun fun fun!

Finally, on our way home, a stop at the beach in Ventura.
And a little In n' Out Burger.
Then to the plane and home. Ahhh.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Here's the Wedding Week Roll!
Soon to follow, the rest of our trip.

It's Wedding Time!

I haven't gotten any ceremony pictures from anyone else, and since I was in the wedding, I guess I missed the opportunity to take them myself.
Without further ado...

Here they are! Such a beautiful couple!

Cake!

And dancing!
The pretty and proud Mama's.Kid-Mama dancing

Mooner, cutting the rug.

Nice Papa, who flew in the morning of the wedding.
Getting Ready!

A little Mama-Bride moment
They are so beautiful.

Mooner, post hair doin'
Special moment with Auntie Joe, putting a new pretty necklace on.

Ooooh, isn't she pretty???!!!

Fancy ride!
Beth and us.

Britty and us. SO much fun!

Rehearsal Night!

Joe's In-Law's rented these beautiful villas on the beach in Laguna for the rehearsal celebration. Catered with a steel drum musician, it was gorgeous.
I really hope someone took some decent pictures, because I failed miserably for the whole week of events!

Beautiful Auntie with her littles

Britty, Jason, and Beth

YAY! a photo of the four of us!

Over to Tivoli Terrace, to practice for the big day.
Little Manly, who was usually being held by the wonderful Nan.

Mooner, deeply in love with this dancing backdrop

Isn't her outfit sweet??? Just another gift she was given from Chris' mom (Mama Mary)

A little detail of this beautiful place.

Joe and Papa
Lots of instructions so we all didn't mess up!

A quick picture snap of Chris holding Lan. Looks pretty good with a baby in his arms ;)