Happy Birthday to Brian!

We celebrated my brother's birthday a few times and had a great time every time! 

On his actual birthday, we met up a the duck pond so Adam and I could run errands and Bennett could have some fun with his Aunt and Uncle. 

Later that evening, we met up for dinner together at Chipotle followed by dessert at White Lime! Bennett LOVES White Lime, he's pretty funny there! 

Trying to hold his ice cream in and say cheese at the same time! Talented kid! 

After ice cream we all went and watched the season premier of Project Runway together! (Super manly, right?! ha ha! Adam said that he was going to watch "the Gunn show") 

We didn't all have our astronaut pants on but we all did make it work! :)

Then a few days later we celebrated again with lots of friends, family and carne asada!

Mostly Bennett just enjoyed the fact that the people's house we were at had a doggie door! 

When it was time to sing to "Uncle Brian" I put Bennett up on a stool so that he could see better ... but without realizing it, I'm pretty sure he thought I was putting him in front of HIS dessert! haha!

And well, then when we sang, our suspicions were confirmed!
He for sure thought it was his birthday!


Lucky for Bennett he has a very nice Uncle Brian, who doesn't mind sharing and even let Bennett help him open presents!

Happy 25th Brian! 
Hope you had as much fun as we did! 

Saturday Morning Fun!

Some saturdays you just need to be out front with your friends in your PJ's!

But then if you are out front in your PJ's on a saturday morning, you will have to eat breakfast in their fort!

And if you eat breakfast in your friends fort, then you'll probably also have to go on a motorcycle ride!

And if your friend is really nice, they may even let you drive the motorcycle too!

But then if you have gone a motorcycle ride, you will of course have to have some music time!

And then after music must come play-do!

But then after play-do and music and motorcycles and breakfast in your PJ's, it's pretty much time to clean up because your fun saturday morning has all of a sudden become saturday afternoon!

Duck Pond

We love a good trip to the duck pond and this time we got to bring some friends with us!

Notice the "billy goat" in the background! 

"Hey that's for the ducks, not you!"

Good afternoon with good friends, what more could you ask for?!

Zoo, Zoo, Zoo, We love the Zoo!

Bennett discovered the joy of the map during this trip! He carried it around with him the whole trip and would show us where he wanted to go! (Basically, it was always the Elephants or the Giraffes but he did point some other stuff out too - mostly it was just cute to see him looking at it all day)

Adam and I waiting in line for the Sky-fari (thank you again Shayne for your tip about taking the stroller on with us - made the day so much better!)

Notice my hand right next to his head ... one of my first real mommy freak outs with him not strapped in! 

The panda's were out and about!  We got to watch them for a really long time and Bennett LOVED it! I'm sure he would have stayed there all day if we would have let him! 

So I jokingly said to Bennett when we were looking at the "big cat" section of the Zoo, "Bennett make sure you tell them, 'No, no, you can't eat me for lunch!' "

Here he is walking back and forth with the Cheetah telling him, "No, no, no..."  apparently he was really listening to me when I was being silly! :)


After the big cats of course comes the "Eh-Eh" section (also known as the Elephants)

He's saying "Mom, Eh-Eh! "

It was at this point in our afternoon that the pregnant mommy in the group started to get very tired from walking, so we took a rest (which included ice cream as all rests should), and then went straight to the bus tour so that I could get more rest. And as always the bus tour did not disappoint! It really is the best!

I don't remember what he saw, but isn't this the best picture!
Cracks me up every time I see it! 

"Hi, Eh-Eh's"

Bennett's thinking, "Mom, no pictures now, there are Elephants right there that I must talk to and wave at!"

It's sort of become a "tradtion" for Bennett to get to pick out one animal each time we go to the Zoo or Wild Animal Park but this time he found something else:

He told us all about it with the "Pay-Pay" (panda) and the "Ty-Ty" (tiger), he was soooo excited! 

And well since it was $13 and the single animals are usually about $10, Grandma got it for him! Lucky kid!

We also learned something new during this zoo trip (well actually I guess two things if you count the stroller on the sky-fari thing) If you buy your tickets for the Balboa Park Train inside the Zoo (at the bus ticket station) they are half off! (only $1.50 instead of $3) so that was pretty rad!
We always save the best for last!

Look at that little noise poking right over the edge of the train ... his cuteness kills me sometimes! 

The 4th

No, not the 4th of August, the 4th of July :)
(still back blogging, don't judge)

This year on the 4th we kind of had a repeat of last year, and I am totally okay with that!

We had a really restful day and had a lovely time snacking and catching up with people we hadn't seen in a while (some of them we hadn't seen since last year on the 4th)

Here's the pregnant mommy section for the day, out chatting and watching everyone else do stuff

Once the sun set and the playing and eating had slowed down, we all gathered together and had a moment to celebrate the sweetest little "Audrie - girl" there ever was!

Baby Elwer #2

We got to see baby today! He/she was wide wake and was pretty active and not afraid to push back each time the ultrasound tech moved the little ultrasound thingy around! (yes, that's the technical name for it)


We did get some beautiful pictures of our littlest baby who is absolutely perfect according to the tech! Thank you Lord! 

baby face

Hand (it kept being up by the face ... just like Bennett)

baby foot

Baby profile

Better baby profile picture

Adam and I also went on a hospital tour of the new Loma Linda in Murrieta today and HOLY MOLY, let me just tell you, that place is awesome! We have a tour of the new Rancho Springs next monday and they are going to have to REALLY impress me to get me to even consider giving birth at Rancho again! Seriously! Loma Linda rocked! You gotta love those Seventh Day Adventists! (there is even a statue of Jesus out front of the hospital! Can you say "photo op with Jesus"? Yes please! ha ha!)