A week's review

Happy Father's day to all the amazing Daddy's out there. Hope everyone had a great day yesterday. We did. I love spending time with all the family and never want to leave them all at the end of the day. Landen has lots of fun with his cousins and it's awesome to watch them interact.
So I was doing the dishes while I let Landen finger paint. Sometimes I forget he is 2 1/2 now and he can do things that he couldn't do before...I left the finger paints in reach and this is what he ended up looking like...


So I stuck him in the sink while I finished doing the dishes:) Now he thinks he needs to take a bath in the sink every night...


These are from Saturday. We went to the beach for the first time...He LOVED the sand. I didn't think he would like the feeling of it since he doesn't like different textures (he wont wear shirts if they aren't soft enough) but he loved it and talked me into walking him to the ocean which made me really nervous but he listened very well. He also liked to jump off the sand dunes...we had a great time and I hope we have lots more sunny days in which we can go hang out there and have picnics:)

Sunny Redding

This past weekend Landen and I went over with Janelle, Mikey, Casey and Natalie to Redding. Rachelle flew in on Saturday and got to hang out with us too:) The boys went on to Sacramento and went riding and to the races and us girls with our 4 boys (and another boy on the way) stayed in Redding and went to the water slides and hung out at the motel pool. We went to the water slides when they openedbut by the time it was 1, i believe, Landen was done. I tried to get him to fall asleep in the stroller or the chair and he just couldn't, so we went back to the motel and the boys took 2 hour naps and of course so did I:) Then we went to the pool and I will never stay at another hotel in Redding because the Red Lion has a 2-foot kids pool! I thought it was the coolest thing ever invented!!:) LOL I think I liked it better than Landen.

This trip was a great experience for Landen. He is so used to being only with me, his dad, my mom, sis or Wes so he gets nervous around other people. I thought he would be glued to me and nervous the whole time being on a trip with other families...but he did GREAT! By the time we got over there he was even warmed up to the guys...he ran around like it was nothing! Yay...I think he's growing up:) I was proud of him. I know the reason he did so good too was because we were with some AWESOME people. Janelle and her family are great people and I am so thankful to be able to spend as much time with them as I do. Janelle...thank you for being such a great friend and so good to Landen. Your boys are great and Landen sure loves you guys:) And Natalie and her family is just as great. I'm so happy to have met you Nat. Landen just loves all the boys and we have lots of fun with the Jones's:)

Now let me just say how much I LOVE Redding!!! Now I know why as a kid I always wanted to live there...because there is so much to do and it's SO nice!!
Here's some pictures I stole from Nat since I forgot my camera...I'm mostly good a that too...