Trying to catch up on blogging....

Kylie Kesterson and Mia at the Lodi Library story time.

Birthday dinner at Papapavlos

Spending the night in San Francisco for my 30th birthday. Dinner at Scomas and Wicked with good friends.

Mia and Beau at Kylie's 1st birthday...it was pretty hot that day.

Mia has become obsessed with bows in her hair...here she is asking for more bows.

We love summer vacation!

Summer vacations are great for hanging out and spending some quality time with friends and their kids! Beau, Bella and Vanessa came over for some swimming and quality time a few times and Jenny, Amy and Caleb came over too.

Caleb and Bella (one week apart)

I LOVE this picture!!

And we are walking!

This post is a little late but I had to put up some video of Mia walking. She started walking about a month ago and is now pretty steady! It's so weird to see your little baby walking around like a little person!

A last minute trip to Aptos

We took a last minute trip to Aptos in the end of May. We thought it would be a good opportunity to introduce Mia to the beach. Well...she HATED it! Crying and waving good bye to the ocean. We admired the ocean from afar for the rest of the trip. Oh well...at least we got some good pictures.

On a golf cart on our way to the beach.

At first Mia didn't think it was so bad....

Oh wait...it's HORRIBLE!! Get me out of here!

Take a picture first!

Much happier away from the water and sand (and the paci makes everything better)!

Hitching a ride with Auntie Lisa

We decided to take Mia swimming for the first time. We forgot her swimming suit so she went au naturale.

Grandma got in with all her clothes on.

Swimming anyone!?!

Mia loves the swimming pool...cold water and all. She doesn't like sitting in her little floaty thing very much. She likes to be free and kick her legs in the water.

Hey this water isn't so bad!

Check out my cute bathing suit that Auntie Lisa gave me on my first birthday. She knows how much I LOVE ducks!

Monterey...Here we come!

We had given Joey's parents a trip to Monterey with us for Christmas! Well here we are in June and we finally were able to take that trip. Mia loved the Aquarium. The best part was the sea turtles and penguins that were swimming right in front of her. Luckily it was not that crowded in the morning.

So beautiful!

Love the jellyfish!

Sea turtles. They were so close!

Mia checking out the penguins.

Touching the kelp and sea cucumber

Enjoying a nice lunch at the aquarium

Mother's Day and More!

Mother's day was very nice. We started the weekend in Pioneer and my mom made Thanksgiving dinner. Then we came home and went to Dave Wong's for lunch.

Mia has started making this face when we try to take pictures...I think it's the red eye reduction light that makes her do this! So funny.

Mia, me, my mom, and my two grandmothers!

Hanging out with dad.

Who can't love this face!?