California Trip-Saulsalito

We headed to Saulsalito to enjoy the beautiful views, marvelous food and wonderful shopping!

They had the best boutiques! I ended up finding SUPER adorable stuff to take back for Summer!

California-Half Moon Bay

While Amy, Dane and Emily enjoyed family time, mom and I headed to Half Moon Bay. This area of California is especially meaningful to me as I got travel there while I worked for the flower company several years back. It has some of the most beautiful scenery, and is a quaint little town. It is one of my most favorite places!

Made a U-turn and this was the view!
Beautiful...

The mountains of California!

This beach surely doesn't have the white sand of Destin, Florida!

The kayaker's had to wear wet suits!

The wind was blowing.

Historical lighthouse...

We headed south thru Santa Cruz and to the marina and wharf of Monterey!

It was a long day of travel, but worth it for the food and views!!!

BACK

So...A few weeks ago I posted a small video of Summer pulling out all her clothes from the dresser...I am proud to report that she now says "Back" and starts putting all the clothes back. If you listen close you can here her say "Back" as she loads the clothes back into the drawers.

EH EH-NO

If you listen closely enough you can hear me tell Sum "EH EH-NO NO" as she trys to take the plug holder out and she says "EH EH" and then "NO!" It's pretty crazy how fast her vocabulary is growing! Please forgive the cell phone quality video!

Tantrum

So I realized that I only post "perfected" pictures or videos of Summer doing fabulous stuff. I thought I would share the life of a real 15 month old! We were headed out to dinner about an hour past her dinner time...Needless to say she was not happy that I offered her "milk" instead of food. As you can see our little princess is ready for the theatre with this tantrum as she throws the milk! I captured a few seconds on my cell phone camera... I am sure she will LOVE that I shared with the whole world as she gets older:)

Happy 4th of JULY!!!

(Happy Naked baby on a sail boat)

(Snuggling with Pamaw)

(she HATED the life jacket and eventually just gave up crying and fell asleep in my arms)

I LOVE MY GRANDPA GEORGE!! I give him fives, and hugs!

We headed to Destin/Niceville for the weekend. What a blessing that Steven's parents live in such a beautiful location. We had a jammed packed weekend...We did relax on Friday, but Saturday was a full but WONDERFUL day. We went to the beach, had a 2 hour lunch date with all of Steven's buddies (including his best friend Lloyd who just graduated from bootcamp) and all their babies! It's really nice to hang out with the "boys" and the wives as it is funny to watch them show off the new additions!

We also had a mini "Brown" family reunion on two 40 ft sail boats that have been in Grandma Carolyn's family for MANY years. We sailed out and met in the bay anchored, swam and had a picnic. We also had a minor crash but everyone was safe. Summer loved the boat EXCEPT the life jacket. She gave it up and fell asleep at first but then woke up and was much happier once we took off the life jacket. Gosh that little girl loves to be naked!!!

**********On a SPECIAL NOTE*************************

One of my dearest friends Caroline Weiss and her husband also had the most amazing 4th of July! They welcomed their twins Alden and Carson into the world!!! The fireworks in the sky that night were in honor of them! Welcome to the world sweet boys!!!

Emily and Summer

Here are a view videos from my cell phone of Emily and Summer. I can't believe Amy and Emily leave in 8 days! I will be so sad when they leave. They play so rough together that Summer's teachers have named her "Sumo Wrestler Summer" and asked that we try and teach Summer that not all babies like to be tackled like her and Emily!!! They love each other so much and it is SUPER entertaining.

Notice the necklace around Summer's neck. She "borrowed" it from Emily! Gosh they are prissy already:)

If you listen over my loud voice you can hear them giggling...It is my favorite!