Another week of fun (and work)

Kids have been having a blast in the pool every day.  We invited a couple of the girls from Addison's church class to come swim and have lunch last week.  They all had a great time!

 Carter got to play on his Kindergarten playground on registration day, and he can't wait to start school and be able to play on it every day.

 We had all of our carpet upstairs ripped up and now Marty is working hard to get ready for the carpet to go in on Monday.

 Last night we went to a GIANTS game.

SO MUCH FUN (although cold!) especially because we got to go with Rachel and Ben!  They are in town for the weekend and we were super happy to spend part of their getaway with them.  

Little Farm

The kids and I went on a little outing today to "Little Farm" in Berkeley.

 Carter's vision of heaven.  Dirt, water, sticks, rocks and sunshine.

 A beautiful view on our way home:

 And I was thinking someday when Carter quits getting chocolate all over his face when he eats ice cream, I will miss it.  Maybe.

summer in San Francisco

We took a fun, cold and foggy boat ride on the bay on Saturday.  This carrier ship was HUGE (and we learned these boats create 50% of all pollution, crazy!)

We went under the Golden Gate Bridge, which we could hardly see at all.

 Sadly we had to stop because there was a flare on the water, indicating a jumper off the bridge.  Once the rescue people showed up we left, but we never did see anyone (thankfully!).

 Alcatrez:

 And the highlight of Addison's life to this point (or the weekend at least) was riding in a LIMO!  She was so, so, so excited and cute about it.

 And then Carter who is always cute, even when he's being a stinker!  (Which he is both in this picture)

just moving...again...

Nothing terribly exciting going on here, just moving...again... :)  But we are here.  With lots and lots of little (and big) projects.

 Packing up the apartment.  (Carter of course built a fort, which wasn't in the way at all).
I can't believe how much work it was just getting from the apartment to the house, I didn't feel like we had that much stuff!!  But, it's us.  Of course we did

 The kids have been swimming every day and every night.  We do love the pool.  It's nice to have it while they are little so hopefully there will be lots of years of lots of use.

 Our storage unit is still packed!  We did go over yesterday and get some more of our big stuff, and as soon as our flooring is done we should be able to get almost all of the rest of it.

 And..someone very cute is turning TEN tomorrow!!!  We plan to spend the day at Six Flags.  She decided she wants an oreo ice cream cake and cake pops so we decided to make them tonight.

More Santa Cruz

 This is real.  This is his face whenever he rides a big ride.  He is gripping on for dear life but he LOVES it...well, I think he loves it, he immediately says he wants to do it again.  Every time.

Always a good time at Santa Cruz.  The kids don't mind the water at all, but it is cold!!

catching up with pictures

Nothing too exciting going on lately.  We have been hanging out at our house lately, doing a few things so the kids are loving the pool!

 And the park that is right around the corner.  It's super cute, and has tennis courts and a nice walking trail.

 We actually had to drain about half the water from our pool and fill it up which took FOREVER!

Naturally we took the time to get a 75 cent  dozen donuts at Krispy Kreme (which means we had 2 dozen donuts for the 4 of us to eat...I'll let you do the math!)

 Lots of time at Home Depot.  The kids (do not!) love it!

 We are having our ceiling's scraped before we move in...what a mess...glad we are not doing that ourselves!

 Carter wants to "make something" every minute of every day.  These are binoculars made from water bottles, paper plates and duct tape.  He uses so much duct tape we had to buy more yesterday.  He's gone though an entire roll!

 And this is Addison's favorite spot.  On the laptop on my unmade bed.  Webkinz.

We are still having lots of fun!  We are excited to get into our house though.  We will move all of our apartment stuff in by August 1st and then once the floors are all done we will get all of our stuff out of storage, hopefully the next week.  

Lucky 13

Today is the day...we officially own a home again!  

 You mean our 7 week vacation is OVER?  wah! 

We are going to have a few things done to the house and move in at the end of the month. 

This year really is our LUCKY 13...Marty and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary while we were in Utah.  

(We had to laugh because although we always have fun on our anniversary, this year we were at his parents house, last year we were at my mom's house, the year before we were in Yellowstone in his parents motor home--with them--(having just recently returned from Trek) and the year before that I left for Girls Camp early the next morning...we have had some very romantic anniversaries the last few years!! ;)  Maybe some year we will make it to Hawaii!)

But, we had fun going to two movies (Spiderman in the afternoon, Snow White in the evening) and out to eat at one of our favorite restaurants, the Melting Pot.  Oh, and looking at flooring at the Home Depot!  

Happy Friday the 13th.  Hope it's lucky for you too!