choco cake

Today is KJ's birthday and since he's in LaLa land, we had a cake sent to him via http://www.gocakego.com/. If you've never heard, you should check them out. It's like a party in a box and all you need is a bunch of family and friends to celebrate and share the cake with OR you can of course, just keep the cake all to yourself. I called KJ earlier to see what he thought of the cake and he's given it his thumbs up!!!! That's not bad for a choco cake lover.....

splish splash and Scooby Doo

We just got back from spending a few days up in Avon (a few miles past Vail) and baby jeffrey went for a dip in the pool for the very first time at the Avon rec. center. The rec center had an indoor pool for kids and I think jeffrey had a great time splish splashing in the water. Big sis nael wanted to go on the big water slide but unfortunately, the slide was only for kids 48" and up. Little nael usually goes on the big slide with snowboarder at the Apex rec. center indoor pool so she couldn't understand why she wasn't able to go this time. Little nael finally settled for one of the 2 kiddie water slides that was there and splashed around with her baby brother.

The following morning, we headed to Minturn which was the next town east of Avon. Since snowboarder and I both love Farmer's Markets, we decided to check out the Farmer's Market at Minturn which was supposedly a must-see, can't miss event on a Saturday with over 100 vendors. The place was busy and filled with a variety of booths BUT in our opinion, only a handful of fresh produce/fresh fruit vendors. There were clothing, shoes, bags, vintage posters, windchimes, sno-cones, creperie, bbq, pasta, humms, etc. Nonetheless, we had lunch there and enjoyed a beautiful summer afternoon outdoors but left empty-handed. The highlight of little nael's afternoon though was seeing Scooby Doo parading around and giving him a high five (twice)!

I want Big Bird...Not!

Our bugger is starting to crawl....he's obsessed with little nael's teapot set!

special thanks to baby cousin Phoebe (9mos. old) who came for a visit last week and showed Jeffrey a few tips on how to crawl!

Crawler

a short crawl...

Dizzyland 2

As promised we took little nael to Dizzyland for her 3rd birthday. We finally went on Memorial Day, the day after Jeffrey's baptism. Little nael chose her outfit for the day: her pink Disney Princesses shirt (courtesy of David Aviram), her Cinderella underwear and Cinderella socks. Unlike her first trip, she pretty much knew most of the Disney characters this time around. We even got to watch the parade twice which she loved. Again, the first thing we rode was the train and headed to Fantasyland right away but unfortunately (for me, anyway), It's a Small World was closed for renovations....so we made our way to Toon town and little nael headed to Mickey's house and to Minnie's house too. She got to ride Dumbo and the carousel with snowboarder just as she did last year. This time we also took her to ride Pinocchio's Daring journey since she was now familiar with the story but at the end, I thought that the ride was pretty scary esp. since she spent most of the time holding on to me!

We wanted to take her on Peter Pan's flight but the line was way too long so we skipped that and made our way back to Toon town for one last ride for the day, Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin. Snowboarder and I had no idea what kind of ride it was except for the fact that you get into a car so we were surprised how rough it was...imagine Jeffrey being jiggled around!

I wanted to go check out the Haunted Mansion for old time's sake but decided that if I only had one choice for a ride, we might as well check out Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage since it just opened a few months ago. Sadly, the line was way too long so we just watched the parade and called it a day.

Cambria

Snowboarder, the kids and I along with MamaBelle and V-dog spent 4 days and 3 nights at Moonstone Beach in Cambria last week. We rented a 3bd/3ba house, 210 Weymouth which was perfectly located in Cambria. We stopped at Trader Joe's in SLO (40 min. away south) for some groceries before heading to the house since we planned to just cook at home and not go to any restaurants while we were there (T-Joe's is a really great place to shop and I really wish there was one in Denver...wishful thinking!).

Snowboarder and I decided to head back to Moonstone Beach in Cambria since this was one of our stops down Hwy 1 on our honeymoon in Aug. 2004. We stopped here for the night by accident and loved it! Back then we stayed at Whitewater Inn which is right across from the boardwalk and the beach and I told snowboarder back then that we should go back and spend more time here one day. So, almost 4 years later, we did it and Moonstone Beach is just how I remember it!

Anyhow, the weather was a lil bit in the cool side but nonetheless, we all had a wonderful time just relaxing and enjoying the ocean, walking the boardwalk and the trails, and just hanging out with the fam.