Monday, August 31, 2009

Recent outings...

Well, it's official. Keira has the worst case EVER of the terrible two's! This weekend has been exhausting with her being defiant and therefore being punished. I think Jason is ready to head back to work tomorrow after this tiresome weekend. Let's hope this is a short phase that will be over soon.

Even with a bad temperament, Keira, Jackson and I did get to go to Old Town Sac on Saturday with the whole family (except for Jas who had to work). I'm not sure why, but every time that we plan an outing in Sacramento, it is at least 100 degrees. This weekend was no exception. I think at one point it was near 106 while we were there. The train ride that we went on was very hot, but luckily the railroad museum was very well air conditioned (we of course spent most of our time in there). All in all it was a very fun outing. I hope to go back when Jas can go with us and hopefully the weather will be cooler too!


Jackson's favorite place... Grandma's shoulder


Keira waiting in line for the train


Keira and Abby-doo


Jackson sure looks happy!


Keira and Mama!


All the kiddos on the train. Do they look hot???


Keira being a ham for the camera


Had to throw in a picture of the train (since that is what we went to see!)

A few weekends ago, my friend, Sherry took me and the kiddos to an A's game. It was a great day. Keira and Jackson were incredibly behaved and the weather was perfect! Here are some pics from Keira's 2nd A's game ever and Jackson's 1st!


My cutie pies!

Recently Jackson had rice cereal for the first time. Abby was over at our house while Jackson was eating. Abby LOVES to take pictures, so I let her have at it with my camera. She took 87 pictures of Jackson eating his first cereal. Here are a few cute ones!



And here are a couple more cute pictures of the kiddos. You can never have enough when you are a parent :-)



Monday, August 3, 2009

Roaring Camp Railroad

I'm blogging again. Twice in one week! Can you believe it??? (You're welcome, Emily!)

We had a really fun day yesterday. Spur of the moment, we decided to go on the Roaring Camp Railroad. This is located about 1 1/2 hours from our home and is in Felton, CA, near Santa Cruz. Our plan was to catch the 3:30 train that goes through the Redwoods. As we are always running late, we almost didn't make it! We pulled in to the parking lot at 3: 25 pm. We were sure that we were going to have to go to "Plan B". Luckily, the train was running late and we were able to get on. We pulled out of the train station around 4 pm and had a wonderful time on our train ride. The weather was absolutely perfect. The kids really enjoyed it too. Here are some pics from our fun day!


Jackson was enthralled with the trees

Super cool picture of the steam locomotive

My family


Jackson had enough...

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Keira and Daddy's Special Day Out, Jackson Rolls Over!

Last Friday was Jason's birthday and his company lets them have their birthday off or they can take another day off in it's place. He decided to take Tuesday off instead and him and Keira went to the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose. Mommy and Jack Jack stayed home. They left around 10:30 am, stopped and had lunch on the way and didn't get home until 6:30 or so. They had a really fun and busy day. How special for Keira to get to spend the whole day out with her Daddy!

Keira's ready to go spend the day with Daddy!

Playing at the museum


Keira loves to play in the sand

Keira and Daddy at the end of the day!

Meanwhile, our little Jackson has started to roll over already. I didn't actually see him do it at first, but every time I would go in to get him when he woke up from a nap - he was on his tummy! Finally, this past week we saw it and now he won't stop. Any time he is on the floor all that he want to do is roll over and try to crawl! Here is our cutie pie in action!!