July 17 ~ We celebrated Jared's 1st Birthday. The birthday party was a jungle theme and we rented a great water slide with a pool at the bottom.
July 22 ~ Road Trip to Northern California. The problem with Road Trips is the kids fall asleep in the car and not in the hotel...On this trip we visited the Ray's and also went to Sequoia National Park.
Amazing, beautiful and well worth the time to go there.
August 1 ~ One of those crazy turn around trips to Utah but for a great event! Gordon was blessed by his dad and we were so happy to be there! We did work in a couple of fun days in addition to the blessing day. The boys got to float down the Provo river and had a lot of fun! I want to give it a try next time we go to Provo.
August 30~ Jeremy wanted me to take his picture. The "necklace" is a baseball award. There are no words for my feelings about this picture and the fear of Vanilla Ice it puts in my heart...hope it makes you smile!
This picture was taken the same day as the above. Jared has a habit of bouncing himself to sleep in this contraption. Ironically it takes less than 10 minutes. He'll be bouncing like crazy and then all goes quiet and he is asleep.
September 3rd ~ In early September we went to Utah again for Jerry's mother's funeral. She passed away after a long trial of Alzheimer's. The day before the funeral we took the grand kids and our kiddos to Rock Candy Mountain; a family tradition. The kids had fun hunting for their rock candy. Jordyn was the best rock candy hunter ever!!
October 4 ~ Our beautiful and sweet niece Emilie came to live with us for a while. The plan was to find a job in California and live with us. Jobs in California are hard to come by. Apparently even harder to come by if you aren't bilingual. Emilie's visit confirmed my thought that we need to ensure Jeremy is bilingual. Not sure what the plan is for that yet...I'll have to start researching that idea some more.We went to Disneyland while she was here and during that trip to D-land, I realized m baby boy was tall enough for roller coasters. He loved roller coasters until we took him on Tower of Terror. He wasn't too keen on that one.
When did my little boy get tall enough to ride roller coasters? The time goes so fast it scares me, gives me anxiety attacks and makes me want to cry. I do love every stage and watching him learn about the world - except the parts he picks up from kids at school whose parents don't have the good sense to edit their surroundings - Yikes!
October 10 ~ A weekend trip to our timeshare in Las Vegas. Wherever we go, the boys love to ride on the luggage cart and dad always obliges.
October 24 ~ Painting Halloween Cookies!
October 30 ~ Jeremy wanted both boys to be firemen. We bought a new costume for Jeremy and recycled an old costume of Jeremy's for Jared.What cute boys!!
Oh, how I love them and wish I would have done better this year in capturing memories and journaling more consistently on the blog.
3 comments:
Good catch up. I love the picture of gangster Jeremy :). Keep Blogging! :)
oooh pictures of Vanilla Ice are now filling my mind lol. And I love that Jared just bounces himself to sleep who would have thought you could go from bouncing to sleeping that easily :) Loved reading about everything.
oooh pictures of Vanilla Ice are now filling my mind lol. And I love that Jared just bounces himself to sleep who would have thought you could go from bouncing to sleeping that easily :) Loved reading about everything.
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