Hello, goodbye

With only a week left until it's officially the end of the Summer season we here on the central coast are still waiting for summer to arrive! I am feeling particularly nostalgic, on several levels. To be extra sensitive, give me a break, I mean I am preggos here I feel like this summer was the last that Isaac was really a baby. Well, I know he's not a baby anymore, he's 4, I know that but the last summer he's really just ours. Next summer #3 will be here and life will be even more crazy, but also real school will be right around the corner and friends then become his focus. I love the pre- school years, but I think that too often I get caught up in the second to second, moment to moment trials. No we can't scream in the store, no we can't bring the bug inside, please be quiet just for a second.... mommies losing her mind So then, I start thinking, well really, really, why not, is it  really going to hurt to let go of my agenda to take in a bit of his? I think not. Today, I very unwillingly took the kids to the park, I had a million reasons why I tried to talk us out of going, I was tired topping my list, it was windy (when isn't it here), it's late, blah blah blah. We went and I felt much better for it, not only physically, but a better mom too that I had done what he wanted to do for once. I'm trying to take in as many of those moments as possible lately, before it's to late he's annoyed by me trying to have a tickle fight or sing him to sleep. Oh how I adore my sweet boy! I can hardly wait to see little Leona's personality develop more and more all the time. She is such a sweet and funny girl, it's hard to imagine her in the the throws of toddler-dom.

This summer was unfortunately quite uneventful, we did however, make it up to my parents for one last hooray before school started, and for some real summer weather. Clint wasn't able to make it but it was a blast all the same, it felt a bit like a crash coarse of my childhood summers for the kids. I hope to make more of a family tradition of it and spend many a summers there in the years to come. 

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from our weekend there, hope you enjoy!

Day 1: Isaac got to drive the boat with Grandpa (he had a blast), I took Isaac out on his 1st tubing experience, I think I had more fun then he, and duh duh da da! Isaac swam!

Leona and I hug out on the boat during swim time and had some lunch, yummers!

 Day 2: We went to Yosemite for a small hike and more swimming at the Swinging Bridge, I love that I was able to take them somewhere that I so adored as I child, although we are going to have to wait a few more years before they brave the rapids by themselfs!



Day 3: We finished off our short but lovely vacay with a trip to the Fresno Zoo Isaac's favorite exhibit by far, the reptile house followed shortly by the dinosaur digging, he could've stayed there all day!

 

Thanks for taking a look... hope you enjoyed! I really am trying to post more often I promise, see it only took me like 2 months to do this one!

Oh wait! In all the excitement of goodbyes and last days of summer, I forgot to mention what we are saying hello to... Isaac's  unwillingly officially attending preschool, and Leona is just as happy to be spending a little more one on one time with momma before #3 is here. More on that later. OK now, Thanks and have a good one!