Happy 6th Birthday, Jackson!

Jackson, age 6  

What is your favorite color? Red, and I like blue too.

What is your favorite toy? Legos

What is your favorite fruit? Cherries

What is your favorite TV show? Wild Kratts

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Sandwiches

What is your favorite thing to wear? A long sleeve and short pants.

What is your favorite game? Crazy Eights

What is your favorite snack? Fruit

What is your favorite animal? Moose and Wooly Mammoth

What is your favorite song? "Everything is Awesome", the Lego Movie Song.

What is your favorite book? Jack and Annie (Magic Tree House Series)

Who is your best friend? Max

What is your favorite cereal? Frosted Flakes

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play

What is your favorite drink? Mango Juice

What is your favorite holiday? Halloween or Christmas

What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Bunny and Puppy.

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Cereal

What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Hotdogs and Corn on the Cob.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A Firefighter.

Back to blogging...

Alright, we need to come back to blogging.  I've realized I just love looking back on this little piece of our history, and it's missing almost two years now!  I'm going to try to fill in the gaps while moving forward.

Monterey

Jackson, Colby, Janet, and I decided to head down to Monterey for a few days.  We stayed in the Asilomar, which is where my good college friend got married now years ago.  We had a wonderful trip.  Jackson wanted to go to the beach the entire time, but we were able to fit in two days of the aquarium.

Happy Birthday Colby!

Happy Birthday to our little man!  Colby is just the sweetest, smartest, easiest-going kid, and we're so lucky to have him in our family.  We celebrated with Cars, Cars, lots of Cars.  Two of my aunts were up for the weekend and we had ourselves a small, little family celebration.

Colby, age 3

What is your favorite color? Red

What is your favorite toy? Lighting McQueen

What is your favorite fruit? Grapes

What is your favorite TV show? Cars and Thomas

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Cupcakes

What is your favorite thing to wear? Nothing, nothing mom.  Not costumes.

What is your favorite game? Shapes

What is your favorite snack? Gummies

What is your favorite animal? Monkies

What is your favorite song? I don't want songs.

What is your favorite book? Cars books.

Who is your best friend? Gavin

What is your favorite cereal? Colorful ones, like pink, orange, yellow, green.

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play with Max.

What is your favorite drink? Orange Juice and smoothies.

What is your favorite holiday? I like to get toys at holidays. I mean, I want a birthday with presents and with another cake like I did last day.

What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Mater, Lightning McQueen, and Owl.

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Waffles.

What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  I want just a birthday with a birthday cake.

What do you want to be when you grow up? I don't want to be anything.

Happy Birthday Jackson!

Jackson, age 5  

What is your favorite color? Blue

What is your favorite toy? A Lego Clone Trooper

What is your favorite fruit? Cherries

What is your favorite TV show? Wild Kratts

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Sandwiches

What is your favorite thing to wear? My Rim Fire Shirt.

What is your favorite game? I think Tic Tac Toe.

What is your favorite snack? Goldfish

What is your favorite animal? Moose

What is your favorite song? I don't have a favorite song.

What is your favorite book? Mr. Popper's Penguins

Who is your best friend? Max

What is your favorite cereal? Honey Nut Cherios

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride bikes

What is your favorite drink? Apple Juice

What is your favorite holiday? I have two of them. Actually three.  October, November, and December.

What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Bunny and Puppy.

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Eggs and cereal.

What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  

What do you want to be when you grow up? A Firefighter.

Nemo

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swiiimmmming.

Fire season came early!  We're on about a week of Donnie working.

Yellow watermelon from farmer's market.  Jackson's face while I was holding up the sample for him to try at market was hilarious.  They're so conditioned in colors, he just couldn't grasp that it was watermelon.



When the boys are quiet, I usually wonder.  But on day 7, I just let it go,



Another of Jackson with his blue ribbon.  Donnie always takes him to Dutch Bros. if he does a good job at swimming lessons (there have been a few times he hasn't gone, a-okay in my book to be strict), but today was definitely a big-drink Dutch Bros. day,

Swimming

Proud Jackson earned his Blue ribbon today at swim school.  He was so excited!

And in other news, Colby's words are now,
Hi
Mama
Dada
Dog
Duck
Chip
Go
and thanks.

Maybe he has been talking longer than we realized :)

July!

July came and went.  Boo, the summer is going by way too fast.

Fourth of July.  We had friends over, BBQed, swam, drank, and somehow missed the fireworks!



The State Fair.  Donnie and my favorite was some Honey Wheat Summer beer and corn dogs of course.



Jackson did his first session of tennis and loved it.  He starts another next month.



Dawn's 50th Birthday!



Camping in Tahoe!





Came home to one of my sessions being on the cover of a local magazine.  :)



And Colbster on the inside.  And Colby's official first word, "Thanks!"  What a polite little boy.  Blair & her friend Zac said that Zac told Colby bless-you after sneezing, Colby said, "Thanks!" And I totally did not believe them.  On the way home (after getting carsick, apparently Colby takes after me) he sneezed and I said bless-you, and Colby said, "Thanks!"  So cute.  Now we kind of think he's been saying a few words all along, but they are too cute and cooing sounding that we haven't noticed.

June Ramblings

We're here!

I took a self-imposed blogging/instagramming/FB break.  It was/is fabulous.  I will be back here & there, but I am trying my best to keep it simple (fitting to read yesterday right?).  It's working, it's lovely.  We still tackled June, we,

swam, had our pictures taken, the boys got hand/foot/mouth (lovely), had lots of guests, refinanced our house, celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary, Colby taking steps/walking, visited friends, gardened, biked, canned, farmers marketed, happy houred, BBQed, etc, etc, etc, all the regular stuff too.





And some of Colby's vintage VW birthday,

Happy Birthday Colby!

Colby, you are one!  And what an exciting year.



A quiet, little thinker.