Waiting for a Blessing

Here Gianna is waiting for her blessing during Memorial Day Mass. This is always her favorite part of mass.

Happy Boy

Connor was all smiles after the wind fest.

San Ramon Wind Festival

We went to the San Ramon Wind Festival over memorial day weekend. It was colder than we expected it to be, but everyone had so much fun.
Gianna got her face painted for the first time:

And they had a ton of kid's crafts her favorites were making a kite, and painting a ribbon to wave in the wind. And the finished product:

Line 'em up!

One of Gianna's favorite things to do lately.

House needs batteries!

Jess called me at work to tell me that the power was out in our house. No real big deal, it was a planned outage because PG and E had to do some work. So we knew about it. When Jess called me to tell me I could hear G in the background saying "Needs batteries! House needs batteries!" That made my day.

Johnny's Travel Blog

My brother is doing some awesome traveling this summer and I am happy to say that he is keeping a blog of his travels. Some of it is hard to read because he is trying to update from internet cafes as quickly as possible, but it's neat to read about.

The blog is:

http://jawnstravels.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

We miss you Johnny. Gianna "called" you today to ask you if you saw any Zebras drinking water

Happy Birthday Justin

On Tuesday Justin turned 27.

Here he is with his kids and his ice cream cake (no, I did not make that).

And Gianna singing to him.

Scared Silly!

Connor laughs at a lot but the thing that gets real belly laughs is to scare him a little. Like a really excited game of peek a boo. In this video he is laughing so hard at my mom playing with him.

Marshall Gulch State Beach 5/17

Gianna has figured out that my mom and dad live not-too-far from the beach. So every time we go to their house she manages to spend most of the car ride asking if we'll go "at the beach". Of course, we love the beach too so we are happy to oblige. We took a tip there last Sunday. The last few times we've gone to this beach (Marshall Gulch) or the one just north of it. It is WAY less crowded than Salmon Creek and the sand is almost like tiny pebbles (or really coarse sand), which is great because you don't get too much sand in your car. We highly recommend it...but not too highly because we don't want it to get too crowded too :)


Connor feeling the sand between his toes."I like long walks on the beach..."
Playing in the sand.

Happy.
More playing.

Mommy and Connor.
Beach feet.Justin, Poppy and Connor.
Ooda and Connor.Talking about where we are.

Connor's Ocean Baptism

On Sunday (5/17) we went to the beach north of Bodega and Connor dipped his feet in the Ocean for the first time. This always feels like a big deal for me. Here are pictures.

Getting ready:
Dipping the toes!
Wow! That was cold...but I liked it.