Yay we made it to Christmas 2010! Some also very exciting news: we have moved into a new home! It is so beautiful and large:) We moved across the street from Noahs grandparents to help "keep an eye" on them. It has been great so far. Just in time for our little Capri:) Here are some of my fav photos of Christmas and our new home:
Ok so without posting too much stuff I am going to try and update our family blog before I get so far behind I have to delete it! Haha. So we last left off at baby:
Cohen is 2 1/2 this summer and we decided to put him back in swim lessons, since we loved them so much last year. Anthony was our top pick again this year. He is so good with Cohen. Unfortunately this year Cohen had forgotten everything and cried the whole first lesson (and second, and third...) so we only snapped a few pictures. He is getting much better now and we have decided to keep him in for another round with Anthony in private lessons. We will post more pictures soon but this is what we have so far.
For one whole week our little family went to California for much needed R&R. First we headed over to Disneyland but Cohen was not really into that plus it was hot and we got so sore from all the walking and standing. We stayed at the Double Tree hotel which was really nice for the price. Then we headed on over to the La Jolla Shores hotel and stayed the rest of our vacation in our BEACH FRONT ROOM. It was totally amazing and we didn't want to leave. While in La Jolla we had our Auntie Ann and Miss Tatum visit. We also headed over to Sea World for about half a day-more than enough. Basically we just relaxed on the beach the rest of the time. We did not want to leave but I'm sure we will be back this year.
If any of you know Noah and I, we LOVE food. We take pictures of our food and post them on facebook. I thought I'd share a summer favorite of mine. It is called the Summer Berry Salad from Paradise Bakery. It has a yummy lemon poppy seed dressing and you can get it with or without chicken. Look how pretty:
I'm a little behind on these posts but I have to say I had such a wonderful Mother's Day. On the Saturday before Mother's Day we had brunch with Grandma Carol, Papa Jack and Grandma Marilynn at Aunt Chiladas. It was delicious. Unfortunately we have no pictures. Sunday we took my mother out to breakfast at the Good Egg. We waited FOREVER but the kids were so good! Here is a cute picture of my mother:
Noah and I just couldn't bear to take Cohen to get his haircut and risk the chance that they would buzz it all off. So we did it ourselves and did a pretty good job! Noah did the sides and I did the back. You have to be quick with a two year old!
There was a time Cohen loved balls more than he loves fans...I think he was trying to re-kindle that feeling he once knew.
Without going into too much detail, I never knew my grandfather on my mother's side. She never knew him either. I guess one day he just up and left and was never heard from again. Until now. My aunt Paula had been looking for him for years and fortunately, her stepmother (my grandfather's second wife) was looking for them too. So this opened up a whole floodgate of new family and of course many stories and unanswered questions. Amidst all of the emails back and forth, a few pics of my Grandpa Yocius and Great Grandpa Yocius (Jocius) were sent and I wanted to share them.
