Making the Most of Our Weekends.

Figuring William now works 40+ hour weeks we have been trying to make the most out of our weekends, because it is really the only time we have together as a family. So the past weekend of the 17th and 18th we filled with a horse show in Reno and then on Sunday I went to Jennah's baby shower and then Anna's Graduation/Going away party.

This past weekend we filled with even more stuff starting with feeding the ducks at Elk Grove Park. On Friday night I through a Celebration dinner for William on finally getting into his apprenticeship which then was followed by a lot of ROCKBAND.  Saturday we went to a baby photo shoot event hosted by JLE Photography and then out to the drive in with some new and old friends.  Sunday William and I spent the whole day at the Galleria doing wedding our wedding registries.

Water Works.

I love summer because it means we get to spend a TON of time in the water.  Here is just some of the fun we have been having lately.

We went to SUNSPLASH last Saturday which is one of my all time favorite places to go!!!


We had so much fun just being kids.

Another highlight is that all my Mommy friends have pools.  So not only does Mavrick get to swim at home in his baby pool or if he is lucky the big pool, he also gets to go have pool play dates all the time.

Mavrick and Jamison are best friends, they are such a pair.


Leila on the other hand is the girl I am sure Mavrick is in love with, he follows her around like a puppy and helps her out whenever he can.

Summer also means lots of ICE CREAM!!


We are so thankful for all of our mommy friend and baby friends, life wouldn't be as BUSY and fun without them. Mavrick truly never wants to leave them...or the pool.

Fourth of July Weekend.

We started out the 3rd with a good stroll through old Elk Grove, we had been wanting to go down there and check out all the smalls shops.  No one told us though that everyone isn't open on July 3rd at 10 am.  So we went into two shops and called it a day.  Since we expected to spend more time out that morning, we went by River City Cakes to set up a wedding cake testing which will take place this Tuesday.  This was followed by much need relaxation and a nap for the youngest of our little family.  After nap time we decided it was time for more fun in the sun.



Watermelon hit the spot.

Mavrick and I talked Daddy into going swimming too.




On the 4th of July, we had an easy morning just relaxing and enjoying pancakes.  After nap time and lunch time we headed over to my Uncle Shawn's for the traditional bbq, swimming, and fireworks.








The fireworks seemed bigger and badder then ever this year.  That could be because of the 12 foot structure that was made for them to shot off of.  It might also have helped that I had a better camera to capture all those fireworks that made them look even more amazing.  Mavrick also stayed away for all of the fireworks this year, I could hear him saying "wow", "cool", and "nice" the whole time, not to mention clapping after every firework.  Here are some of my favorites.




The last day of our three day weekend we spend playing 4 board monopoly while Mavrick had a day with Grandma and Grandpa.

It's been MONTHS.

Seriously I have no idea where the past three months have gone, they seemed to just fly by like minutes in a day.  So much has happened and changed, so I will just give you bullet points of our life in the past three months and what we have been up to.  And I SWEAR that I will try and do better with the blogging thing.

APRIL
-William's 22nd Birthday, we had a birthday party on his birthday and then the following weekend we went paintballing [which is William's new past time now and a ton of fun] and then had a bbq at our house afterwards.
-Easter weekend was packed of fun, Saturday we went and had breakfast with the bunny and then went to a spring festival and then colored eggs and did a hunt.  All of which was done with my good friend Kristina Limasa and her to gorgeous children.  Then Easter Sunday was very chill. 
-Also we started getting out and doing more things as a couple in April, we went bowling and to a few parties [which is so unlike us]
-Then of course there were park days, and zoo days, and just baby play days.

May
-We started off May with going to see one of my little sister's softball game and the Spring Fling festival.
-Then there was mini-golf, iron man 2 midnight showing, a day at the lake, paintballing again, Dylan's t-ball, and then the dreaded FINALS.
-Along with that we also had park days, zoo days, and just baby play days. :]

June
-There was a visit with the Diaz's [aka my dad], some more parties, and seeing WICKED.
-We have been house sitting a lot.....which is like playing house.
-Also this month William got into his apprenticeship, we are only a week in, but as a whole it is really great. [even if that means I have to go out and do installs now]
-We went camping at Collins Lake.
-And don't forget the park days, zoo days, and just baby play dates.


Our life has seemed to finally have fallen into place.  The wedding plans are coming along nicely and we actually have the money to pay for it.  The install company is making it through with out William our main installer, with the help of friends and with me actually using my muscles.  And the apprenticeship has made the rest of our lives possible, after waiting over a year we are really ready for things to start changing.  I feel that with all this 2011 could be a great year for a house and possible a new baby.  Well and not to mention me getting my AA!!  Fingers Crossed

Snowshoeing.

Last night, we decided to be adventurous and try snowshoeing for the first time.  I was pretty scared at first cause all I had heard for the days leading up to the actually event was how hard it was, and that I was probably going to die.  Which in reality it was the total opposite.  So yesterday Jenny and Glenn [Will's sister and her husband], picked us up around 1 o'clock and we started the 2 hour drive to South Lake Tahoe.




Once we got into Tahoe we had some time to kill so we went to the Magic Carpet Mini-Golf, which is always a lot of fun [I almost won].  Then we went and had an early dinner at Sno-Flake Drive In, which supposedly has the best milkshakes in Tahoe three years running.



 
With full tummies we made our way up to the Sugar Pine Pt. National Forest and saw some beautiful views on the way up.




We got to our destination with a half hour to spare, so we spent sometime exploring the area and just having fun.






Our tour started at 7pm....yes we went on a night snowshoe hike which was amazing.  We soon found out that this wasn't actually a hike but more of a tour of the park.  It was a lot of stopping and going, and I think we might have actually learned something while we were there. 










We left thoroughly pleased and dieing to do it all again.