Lately

Jon takes Eden surfing just about every chance he gets

Eden and Easton have enjoyed spending more time together and getting to know each other better...

We celebrated my Dad's 70th birthday. We all had so much fun!

Eden is often practicing her surf stance and whipeout techniques.

Baby Zion just grows and grows. Here we are at 38 weeks.

Gyotaku Video Updated

The finished product of the Gyotaku print is up in Zion's room! We placed pics of it at the end of the Gyotaku video, check it out!

"Shami's"

Since my parents gave us passes to Seaworld for Christmas, we have been able to spend a lot of time there with Eden this year. Because of our time there, Eden has become somewhat obsessed with Shamu. She loves to see Shamu jump and fly and loves to mimic that as often as possible. Whenever we are at the pool with Jon, she wants to do nothing but "Shami's" the entire time. It works out pretty well for Jon, because he can get her to do all sorts of swimming to the step on her own, etc for just one more Shami.

Jet Ski Safari's

The last few weeks we have made a very pointed effort to enjoy our last few days as a family of 3 before the new baby boy's arrival. We are very much looking forward to his arrival, in fact if he came today I don't think any of us could be happier about his timing, but we know that when he comes we will be more immobilized for a time. Which is why lately, we have been getting out on the jet ski as a family as often as we can, and it is so much fun to race with the dolphins, check out the seals, look for whales and snorkle in laguna. The time that we have spent on the ocean like that this summer has been pure magic, especially since we are sharing it with Eden, and baby to come.

Eden's 2nd Birthday Party

For Eden's second birthday, we threw her a party at one of our favorite beaches, San Onofre State Park. We knew that Eden would have the most fun at the beach for her birthday, but unfortunately the beach is so crowded during the summer that we had to throw her the party on a weekday instead of her real day which is Sunday. Maybe unfortunate for us but great for her, cause she is just having a birthday that goes on and on, and is loving every minute of it! She got to surf, swim in the waves, and play with her favorite people all day (all of her cousins). It was an incredible day, which we are all still recovering from, but it was worth every bit of energy spent.

Eden and Max

Blueberry Cake - a special request from the birthday girl

It took quite some time for Eden & Easton to warm up to each other, but once they did they had so much fun!

Eden was obsessed with the quilt grammy made for her right from the start. Since the party she has been dragging it around everywhere.

This is a boogie board we gave to Tara many years ago. Tara is ready for a newer and shinier version so it looks like Eden will be able to keep this one soon. She will be stoked!

Eden and Jon

These two are too much. They really are peas in a pod. They look alike, act alike. I couldn't ask for anything more, and I can never seem to get enough of either one of them.

Jon Spearfishing

I don't think we ever posted this video. It is a really neat video Jon made while free diving. I don't understand why we never posted it to the blog, but it seemed fitting to do so tonight while I was on this posting spree.