Lately....

My little gymnast... Mattie takes a class every week while I get to sit upstairs and take a break for an hour... first she is getting ready for a forward roll, and next she is practicing her beam skills...

Curious George baked carrot muffins, so Mattie just had to do the same... luckily, grandma was brave enough turn her oven on so Mattie could bake, as I have been in no mood to heat up my kitchen, being 8 months preggers....

We headed to Balboa on one of the hot weekend days, where Mattie was recruited to clean the firetruck with some other kids who were out and about staying cool near the ocean...

Have you ever seen child labor produce such a happy face?

Isaac turns 2!

Mattie's good friend, Isaac turned 2 years old! He invited us to Irvine Park to celebrate his big day...

Mattie and the birthday boy at the petting zoo

Mattie and Tatum decorating cupcakes

Irvine Park wouldn't be complete without a ride on the train!

Some BFF time...

Mattie just loves her BFF Tatum... recently, we met up in Oceanside for a playdate at the beach!

Mattie was also very excited to show Tatum around Pretend City.... they played dress-up and performed on stage...

And here they took turns playing doctor/patient in the "doctor's office"

4th of July fun!

Mattie had a great time on the 4th this year! Two parties, each with lots of kids, BBQ and water balloons....

And we ended the day watching fireworks close to home with Grandma and Papa!

Ladies Road Trip to Arizona!

Apparently I forgot how much I despise the summer heat of Phoenix, b/c my mom and I planned to take one more trip out before baby Cameron makes his appearance.... I was very quickly reminded that I would not like to own a big house, if the cost was living with long summer temps of over 100 degrees...Needless to say, we spent a lot of time indoors visiting and playing....Mattie loved catching up w/ her newest cousin Samantha...

Of course we hit up the Kids Museum, where Mattie did her Marilyn Monroe pose again....

And Mattie and Ryan even played outside for a bit.... kids see water and they don't care if it is 109 degrees!

The best part of the trip was getting to hang with the Melaras, in fact, that was the ONLY reason I would ever go to AZ in the summer.... Poor Jason had to deal w/ a house full of ladies for 3 days, he already has 3 in his own life, and 3 more showed up... what ran through my head most of the trip while we were inside playing was "welcome to crazytown!" But so glad we got to see our favorite people!

Happy Father's Day!

Mattie and I snuck off for a quick and easy photo session at Target to surprise daddy for Father's Day this year.... here are a few of the great shots we got!

Apparently a studio session is much easier with a 3 year old than I imagined... Mattie fully cooperated and we ended up with a lot to choose from!

Doesn't my little girl look so grown up?!

A "belly shot" for Cameron's baby book... 7 months preggers here!

Week of Summer Fun!

We had two bathing suit play dates this week due to the fabulous weather! Denise and Wes came over to see our "new" condo on Tuesday and Joy is visiting from SD, so she brought Tatum and Ty along to play too!

Sylvie invited Mattie and Tatum over (well we sort of invited ourselves!) to play on Thursday in her fabulous backyard... not only was there a giraffe pool to cool off in....

... there was also a sandbox, that Mattie played in with Ty for a little while...

... and there were homemade yogurt pops, compliments of Nadine and Sylvie!

Thanks for a fun week of playing friends!