A summer away from home

This summer Blair had to go away and do a few externships in Oregon and in Northern California. So I decided to spend the summer with family in southern california. It has been a blast!



Whats summer without some family fun? After a month of being apart Blair drove from Portland down to Central California where we met up for his family reunion. We didn't get to see or do much since we were there on the last day. Afterwards we hung out with his cousin in Fresno. Max loves his cousins.


Fourth of July

Dinkee Creek.

While Blair was in the Bay area we met up several times on the weekends. Here we are visiting another cousin in Fresno.

I took the kids to the OC Fair over the summer. It was blast. I love going to the fair and I especially enjoyed it because Max is older and can go on rides now.

The Chinese acrobats are amazing! They bend and twist in all sorts of positions. The best part of their show was eating funnel cake. Yum!

My aunt thougt it would be great to get a picture taken with a huge snake. I may look like I'm enjoying myself but thats hardly the case. I cringed every second of that shot. I will never hold a snake again just to cold and scaly for me.

The fair had a huge sand box and play area. It was a little hard convincing Isela that we had to go.

Needless to say we all had a great time! More pics to come.

Suprisingly fast!

I can't believe that Blair's third year in Podiatry school is basically over this week. I've been anticipating the "fourth year" since we started school. I guess I always looked forward to it because I would get to home long periods of time. I am bummed to have to endure another winter on the east coast but maybe be as bad as the winter storms we got earlier this year.

We've been trying to make the most of our time here by visiting beatiful unique places that you don't see on the west coast. So we decided to go to Longwood Gardens. This place is amazing!

The kids really loved the Children's Garden. Max had a blast getting wet and Isela was super happy to play with the water.



Afterwards we went to go see the flowers. I love flowers!




Lastly we decided to take a break on the main lawn.

Carnival, parks and more

A couple of weeks ago we went to a carnival. Max was super excited and begged us to take him on some rides. So we purchased a few tickets and let him choose the rides. Of course he picked the Circus train because he loves anything that resembles a train but his favorite ride was the roller coaster. He almost started crying when we told him the roller coaster was too big of a ride for him but he insisted and they allowed kids his size on it, so we indulged him.




We also took the kids to Castle Park where they happened to be having Touch a Truck event. Max was excited to be able to sit in the driver's seat and honk the horn. His favorite truck the Hummer limo.




Lastly, we finally got Max a kite. Over the weekend when it was super windy we went to the park and taught Max how to fly it.



Lately Max has really been into Pingu (a show about a penguin and his shenanigans). Max loves Pingu and talks like him. He basically yells out LOC LOC for anything. Anyway, the other day I put Isela down for a nap and I went to go put the laundry away when I hear Max yell LOC LOC. So I went to see where he was and he happened to be in his room supposedly saying hi to Isela. At first I was obviously mad that he woke up Isela but she thought it was so funny and was bouncing up and down laughing with Max, that I just had to laugh with them. She loves her big brother and can't stand to be parted from him. When Max is down for a nap I have to keep my eye on her because she will go into his room and start calling for him. So cute. I love my two babies!

My baby is 3!

I can't believe that my little boy is growing up. I still remember the wonderful feeling I felt when I first saw him . I never knew such happiness and felt so much love. To me he will always be my chiquito gordito.

Max's birthday falls on Easter this year and so we decided to celebrate it a day before. I made him an ice cream cake. He sure was happy to wear his birthday shirt that I made.

Poor little guy had such a fun day playing games and riding his bike that he fell asleep by 7PM. Can't wait for Easter tomorrow. I hope the kids enjoy it!

A weekend in review

I had an awesome weekend! Blair's school has a ball every year called the Spring Ligament and we decided to go because we like to dance. We requested some songs that never got played but I got to dance to some of my faves like Lady Gaga. It was a lot of fun and an early anniversary gift because I begged Blair to take me to this.

The club was located right in Center City in a place called The Downtown Club. The streets were packed because it was warm outside. It was nice.

The next day we decided to take my friend Emily who was in town from Cali down to the shore. I was sure that there would be lots of people due to the weather and I was right!

I decided to take some pics of the family for Spring/Easter but it was a bit harder than I thought. The kids were too busy playing in the sand to want to look at the camera. But we still had fun eating giant slices of pizza and walking on the boardwalk.

Sunday was Emily's last day in Philly so we took her to eat another cheesesteak, check out South Street and take a look at the stadium where the Flyers play (she's a hockey fan). We couldn't leave Center City without getting a yummy crepe from the Reading Terminal Market.

Blair convinced me that I need to learn how to make crepes so I can recreate this yummy dessert at home. Sure enough, I've already pulled out my Jacques Pepin cookbook to try out my hand at it.

Last but not least, shortly after learning how to crawl forward Isela started pulling up to stand and now she's is cruising! She's only 8 months!!!!!