Water fun gone BAD

We've been having great weekend fun in the backyard (when we aren't traveling somewhere fun)

 Even Bear's been getting in on the action

 Anna loves to sit on Bear so what better way to blow bubbles??

 Fun on the slide

 And we have been enjoying our fabulous blow up pool lately but the water games turned bad---check out Jackson's face as he prepares to squirt Anna

 A little too much fun

 uh oh...suit gone wrong

 And what started out as innocent water games turned into a whole family-every-man-woman-child (or dog)-for themselves!  Mike and Jackson are soaked

 And so am I!!!

 Anna just decided to forgo the bathing suit after awhile and thought naked was better---makes you go faster on the slide anyways

 2 kids in a tub

 And what better way to finish off the evening with an OUTSIDE SHOWER!!!  Classy stuff here in Texas!

Fun in San Fran

Tim definitely knows how to show you a good time in San Francisco!!  We had so much fun last weekend touring the city and surrounding areas.

 Here we are at the Japanese Tea Gardens

 After tea and a snack we headed to the Aquarium and then on to China Town for some Dim Sum

 Wine bar before dinner..

 Breakfast at the coffee shop below his apartment

 NAPA.  One day we rented a car and spent the day in Napa touring wineries

 It was pouring rain so this was my version of how to keep my hair dry (stolen from a friend of Tim's--she gave me the great scarf idea)

 On our way back we checked out the bridge

 And another day we rented another car to explore some area hiking.  I can remember the hike was called Cataract Falls and we ate lunch in Stinson Beach but can't quite remember where this hike was

 This one's for you Dad!  (always making us get inside tree trunks for pictures)

 And we couldn't resist a stop off in Muir Woods

 Tim introduced me to very delicious oysters---YUM

slurp!
Thanks Tim for a fabulous weekend!!  I'm so lucky to have such a great brother to take time off and show me a great time.  I had so much fun hanging out with you!  Wish we could do it way more often!!!

Italian Wine Tasting

After we got back from Italy we just couldn't wait to share some good wine and food with friends so we had several couples over to share with us.  We brought back several cases of wine and some food and used that as part of our tasting

 Then we made an "authentic" Italian dinner like we had had throughout our Italian tour

It was really a fantastic night

Summer vacation is HERE

Jackson's last day of school was last Thursday so we are on our first week of Summer vacation.  So far this week we've been super busy but just with fun activities, nothing serious.  And sadly I don't have many photos recently but here are some of around the house. 

The kids fun in the shower

 Snuggling in our closet

 More bath time fun.  This was a requested photo by Jackson

 Super cool tornado storm last night that left us hanging out in our closet with the kids for an hour while the sirens and news kept us a little freaked out

 Anna playing beauty salon with Daddy

 Jackson building a lego tower as tall as he is

 And who wouldn't want a super cool SPIDER MAN room???  Yep, Jackson finally got his dream of having Spider Man ALL OVER HIS ROOM---lucky boy!

 And we took advantage of a cool weekend earlier in the week to explore the zoo again before the animals get too sleepy in the hot sun.  Jackson with the Gorilla (or as Anna calls him "big daddy rella")

 Elephants

 Quick lunch picnic

 Bob birds from the kids favorite book----looks just like BOB don't they???

 This time instead of riding the train we chose the carousel.  Kids loved it!

Mother's Day

We had a super mother's day.  It was great just to be home with the kids finally.  We went to a nice brunch at our favorite restaurant Sonoma Grill.

 While we were at lunch Jackson saw another mother getting flowers and he ran over to Mike and made it a big secret that he had to run an errand after lunch.  Mike took him out, he knew exactly the store he wanted to go to and exactly the flowers he wanted.  He said he got pink because I love pink and said he wanted roses because they start as small buds and become big roses.  Then at the end of the day Jackson said the best part of the day was me liking his flowers and he would get me flowers every mother's day if it made me so happy!  I just feel so lucky to have such a sweet sweet boy!

Anna's really into my heals and she got Jackson in on the fun too!