Beth comes to visit!

I was so excited that a dear friend of mine from Colorado was going to be in town and that we were going to actually be able to see one another! It was time well overdue. I owe my CO friends a visit for sure...and my SD friends...and my......I know, I know......

Skateboarding on The Strand...

Here's a few captured moments of the boys and our friend Mark (Serf) chillin' on The Strand. It was the boy's 1st day on a skateboard and they seemed to pick it up rather quickly. Of course they didn't want to use the "small one", but their Dad's new birthday one instead. :) Since this weekend, we've not been able to keep them off. Sam attracted the attention as being "little" and able to definitely hold his ground. He soaked it all up as usual...

Sam giving a "Thank You" photo to Mr. Will Roslansky for the skateboard! Thanks Will!!!!

A little estrogen in the house....

We were all so lucky to have our niece, Yvonne, come out and spend a week with us. We had a ton of fun, but the time went by us so quickly that we didn't get to do any "touristy" things and I don't think that she shopped as much as she would have liked to. Her primary purpose of her trip was to come out and have me take her Senior Pics. Thankfully we completed that task and we (well, at least myself) had a blast doing them. :) Here are just a small, small handful of some of them...

Thanks for allowing me to capture this memory for you Yvonne! :)

Eric's Birthday...

We were excited that we not only were able to celebrate Eric's birthday with my niece, Yvonne, but also a close friend of his from college...Serf (Mark) & his beautiful wife, Laurel. One thing is for certain, whenever Serf & Laurel are around, a good time is sure to be had by all...as well as a perma-grin and a sore tummy from laughing so much. It also just so happened that Serf's high school buddy (which Eric knew, too) and his family were here vacationing in the area. We spent the afternoon with everyone in Emerald Bay and then went back to their rental home and had a fabulous Mexican meal picked by the birthday boy himself and prepared for us by Chef Tommy...who was preparing Spiderman, Toby McGuire's, dinner the next night. Delicious you may ask...very much so. I could have ate all night, but was limited to one plate with my ever-expanding belly and decreasing internal stomach size. I had to inform my niece that this wasn't the "norm" for us as it was only her first day here and didn't want her to have a skewed perception of our lives out here. Oh, yes, and as we were leaving the beach that afternoon, Keyshawn Johnson (former NFL WR) & Eric exchanged "friends forever" waves with one another. It was a fun "LA" day...

Here's one for all of you "belly rubbers"...

As close as you can get for the time being, my niece snapped this shot of my ever-growing Michelin tire area......getting big! :)

Father's Day...delayed a bit...

Since we moved to Cali just a few days prior to this year's Father's Day...I asked for an extension on it. I was not prepared at all. I had the ideas, but not the time to pull it all off. We still treated Eric to a fun day at the beach...keeping with our last year's tradition with the Roslansky family. The gift is still yet to come. I was secretly working with his friend, Rob, to purchase a surfboard for him. I couldn't hold out any longer and Jack slipped a little on our secret to Eric. So, he now knows his gift...he should, it's only about 2 months later.

On his "make-up Father's Day", Eric took the boys to an Anaheim Angel's game and they just so happened to play the MN Twins. They had a great time and as I suspected, they all came home in Angel gear. Here they are before the game in their Twins gear with a neighborhood friend, Jackson...

And after the game....

And at the game...