August

Our Month of August...

The first week of August we went with my Mom and Tom to Newport for the week! They rented a house on 38th street. It was fun being 3 blocks away from Craig's parents! 

We had perfect weather!

I loved that we could get up every day walk out onto the beach and not have to think of something to do to keep the boys busy!

We had lots of family visit... James with cousins Jade and Ian

They had lots of fun boogie boarding. Both James and Jake were getting braver and braver. 

 One day we took the duffy out and cruised the harbor, went and got ice-cream at the Balboa fun zone.

 Mommy trying to keep Jake warm.

 We had lots of friends visit us...

James and Jake with friends Makenzie and James

Jake and Daddy playing bocce ball

 James and Daddy playing

James playing smashball

Nonni and Jake making sand castles

 James was really big on digging holes. Every day he wanted a hole dug! Craig dug this one and James and Nonni built a village around it!

 Brianna was there with us but she and her friends stayed away from the sand throwing kids.

 Every night Jake was pooped. Actually we all were! 

 We had so much fun, the house we stayed in was perfect, we hope to go back there one day!

The next week James went to Us In The Son day camp at St. Martins. This was his first year attending. I went to camp there every year and I knew he would love it. He was in Liz Blue's group! This was a "big" camp, they actually go to the beach one day on busses. So this was the first year I felt comfortable letting him go, even though you can start at 3! He could not wait for beach day!

On Friday at mass James brought up the candle for his group. So sweet!

I was SO happy he loved camp and after mass when the week was over he asked me when they have camp again and when can he go back! He was disappointed when I said not till next summer! :( 

The blue group singing a song at mass. 

While James was off at camp Jake had a play date with his friend Alex from school and Alex's sister. They had a great time at Pump it Up!

 The boys both started "real" soccer this year. They are playing JUSA, the local league here. They both were excited. Jake a little more excited than James. James' team is the Minions and Jake's is the Blue Ninjas. They have soccer practice on opposite days. James Monday/Wednesday and Jake Tuesday/Thursday so our week is filled with soccer! It has been four years since we have been in the soccer world so I am excited to get back into it! They are both doing well and having fun. It has been so hot lately and getting them to practice the last week or so has been a challenge, but once they are there they have fun.

 We made pizza's one night. Craig is the expert pizza maker and the kids always want to help!

 Our Disneyland passes are back in effect! We were so excited! We hadn't been in a couple months!

We went early in the morning and Craig and James only had to wait an hour for the Radiator Racers ride! 

For the first time I remembered that we can do the parent switch! So I went back on the ride with James and we only waited about 20 minutes! Yay! 

 While James was on the Racers Jake went on Monster's Inc twice and got to meet Mike! He was so excited!

 We had such a good summer, I can't believe it is over!! I am ready to get back to school though and had some order and schedules back in our life!