A little outdoor friend

Nick was helping me water my plants outside this morning and something jumped out of the plant. It startled both of us but I wanted to know what it was. I looked closer and it was a baby lizard. It was so cute I had to get a picture of it!

My Baby's First Birthday

Yay, Connor turned one yesterday. We were going to have a pool party, but not enough people were going to get into the pool so we filled the baby pool in our yard and had the party at our house. Connor and Nick had such a blast. Neither of them took naps all day. We sang Happy Birthday, ate cupcakes and Ice cream sandwich cake, Connor looked at his candles as Nick blew them out for him. Then Connor had lots of help opening all his gifts. After that, we went out side and the boys played in the swimming pool for a while, then finally Connor crashed for a late nap at about 6:45pm He woke up again at about 9:30pm to play with his new stuff. Ben's friend Casey hung out here the whole evening, he even invited his girlfriend over to hang out with us. We found out that it was her, Sara's, birthday too. So we grabbed a cookie monster candle put it on a cupcake and sang Happy Birthday to her too! All in all we had a wonderful day and I'm pretty sure Connor had the best birthday ever!!!

Presents and fun

Here are some pictures of the boys opening and playing with their new gifts.

Here they are on Christmas eve in their new jammies.

Our White Christmas

Ha ha we got more snow than you! And only had to drive 60 miles to see it here in southern California. Crazy huh! It was at least knee deep in most spots and waist deep in others. We had trouble climbing up the steep hill to play in the snow. We also saw some amazing views on our way up there. There is also a picture of our big delicious breakfast we ate before we left. Needed energy for climbing in that snow!!!!

Brother's

These two boys just adore each other! For now anyways : )

More of what we've been up to

The giant tires we picked up and painted, bolted together and are now an addition to the backyard fun!!!

So here is what we've been up to

This is our new home and the view out back. More photos to come later.. of the done inside.

We took some naps! We went to the beach & swimming!