Tons of Visitors, some sports and San Francisco

We have been some busy bees here lately. We had a ton of visitors come around to see Nicholas and his parent’s ofcourse, as we slowly work our way from being Suzanne and Keith to Nick's mom and dad. But thats ok, I don't really mind so much. Since I forgot to load pictures with the oldest first we'll start with the most recent at the top. Last weekend our good friends Joni, Al and Taylor stopped in for a visit from MN. that was big fun. Nicholas really liked Taylor I think. He kept following her around checking out what she was doing. They were so cute together. Like boyfriencd and girlfriend.

Here goes some box riding durby. Nicholas was a total booty and didn't want to share his box or laundry basket. Someday he will learn.

They are just so darn cute together. Pajama party!!!

So some of you might know, I've been out of town literally for like 2 weeks now for work. Part of the territory that I aquired last year was California, which explains why I had been out there so many times now. The only REALLY good thing about it is that I get decent frequent flier miles. Well and my little brother lives out there so I get to go see him for free. Last week was San Francisco. Actually it was really Sacramento, but I went with a co-worker who wanted to do a little TOURIST action so we drove around and spent a couple of hours out at the Golden Gate bridge and took our fancy cameras for some sweet pics.

Lombard Street.

Coastline. It was SO windy out, I could barely stand up straight, but man was it pretty.

and ofcourse the Golden Gate Bridge. I have a ton of pictures that I took to see if I could get anything to print and put up as art work. I think I got a few of those. Here are a couple of good ones.


Also last weekend my grandma came from St. Louis and I kick myself now, but I didn't get any pictures. :( I'm sorry Gram.

The weekend before was Aunt Cheri and Uncle Mark. Nick was totally in love with them showeing him with so much attention. He screamed as we drove away when we dropped them off. I didn't tell them that, but it was pretty bad for about 10 min.

Just handing outside in the back yard
Playing in the water as usual. We enrolled him in swim classes again at this place called Elmer swim school. Its not the first class we have been to. We took him last year but I was so disappointed because the class was so geared towards 3 Yrs +. I decided that I could just let him float in the water on my own and not have to pay $55. So elmer is a bit pricey, but since that is all they do they are a bit hard core. They had all babies being dunked under wateer on the frist day and they all go at their own pace. Parents go with until they are 3. My dad said as soon as we can get him to swim without assistance that he could start working on him. I think he will be the next Olympic swimmer. Ha.

His first baseball T. He loved it. Thanks Aunt Cheri and Uncle Mark for the gift.

And one last random silly pic. My little ham bone. He loves to put on our shoes and walk around. His daddy frowns when he puts on my shoes, but he can walk around better in mine so he is more drawn to them.

The last week or so his vocab is really jumping. He tries to say everything we do. We now have banana, eye, booboo, hair, dang - yes dang.....some certain daddy keeps saying it in front of the baby. oh and he says baby too, bear, and a few others that he has just said a couple of times so I can't remember them. So much fun he is.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone. Pictures from Easter. It was a fun weekend.

Ok I know, whats wrong with me and attempting to color easter eggs with an 18 month old, but whatever we all had a good time. Here is how Nicholas colors his eggs. We had a few casualties.....hahaha



All decked out in his easter gear. He is SO handsome. Everyone was talking about how cute he is. I cannot disagree.

He wasn't happy this morning becuase we had to wake him up to get to chuch on time. So that explains the glum face.


His grandmothers idea was to put marshmallows in the eggs. He wasn't about the egg hunting until he found out what was in them and HOLY cow.... SUGAR!!!!

Just a cute shot out in the street at my parents house. Too bad it was cold and rainy for easter this year, but oh well. I should have taken a picture of his basket that we put together from the easter bunny. We got a spinning top, a package of play-doh, some hot wheels cars and a mini horse. Everything was a big hit. Especially the horse. He went around making horse sounds all day. It was so fun. Then we got into play-doh, that was fun to squish, we tasted it a couple of times, but that was my bad becuase I made it into a round "cookie" like shape, and then a hot dog shape. Looked good enough to eat I guess.

A little pre Easter fun

I tried not to go overboard, but I didn't do very well. So last weekend w/ went to the Grapevine easter egg hunt. It was a lot of fun. We got there a little early so we could wander around without a bunch of kids knocking Nicholas around. It was good. We got to meet the girl easter bunny. Nicholas went straight up to her and gave her a hug. I guess he is really going to be just like his daddy, friends with everyone. Just makes me nervous about who he will "go home" with.


We only got a couple of eggs, which is ok. We practiced the night before just to ensure he got one. We were only allowed one parent in the egg getting arena and we could not touch the eggs, only encourage. We only got 2 before they were all gone. He was more interested in opening the eggs than collecting them. Good thing b/c apparently the city thinks its ok to let 1 year olds have carmels and tootsie rolls.



Showing daddy his 2 eggs.


posing w/ daddy and his bunny ears

He was deeply entranced by the kids running around
Actually he had more fun playing with his friend Ryan and pushing him around in the car. which by the way was the best $35 we have spent yet. ALL the kids around the area were wanting to catch a ride on this radio flyer. Not sure what draws them all to it, maybe red sports coupe is really something we all dream of from birth??!?!? LOL


The REAL fun was the bounce slide and bounce house. We had to haul Nicholas out by his feet. He had SO much fun with this. It was great to watch.

More real easter pictures to come next week.