Summer Times!!

There is so much to blog about this summer!! I guess I should just start at the beginning! This June, Jacob's favorite cousin and BFF turned 3!!! I cannot  believe how big these little guys are getting! Everett spent his big 3rd birthday at the steam trains at Tilden Park.  It was the perfect location, not only because the boys LOVE trains, but because it was nice and cool!! It was a great weather break for everyone! And the boys had a blast running around everywhere!!

Us adults do love the steam trains too! It actually is really beautiful and quite a nice ride! One thing I will always remember (and wish I caught it on camera) is Brayden's face coming out of the tunnels!! He would semi fake scream, but was also slightly nervous with the dark. It made for one of the best awkward moment faces ever!

June is a crazy month for us! We have multiple birthdays, Mike gets off of work (this year for the last time forever! YAY!), and the boys are done with daycare! So things get a little hectic (in a good way) fast! But another birthday happened this month... Tutu turned 91!!! We celebrated in style with just a little get together at her house.  The boys LOVE their Tutu (and so do I), that they could have hung out there all day!

Besides going to birthday parties this Summer, we have been spending so much time at the pool, ponds, and lakes around our house! I swear we live in the best location!!! We have Noni's lake/pond/beach, 7 minutes from our house, an awesome water park/pool 2 minutes from our house, Lake Tahoe a little over an hour from our house, and Lake Folsom 10 minutes from our house! Although the drought has been bad this year and has affected our lakes tremendously, there is a bonus. Boats have been banned, so we pretty much have these ginormous lakes to ourselves to play in!! 

It honestly broke my heart a bit to see both Lake Tahoe and Folsom Lake this year, and I can only hope that the El Nino they predict is true, but the boys had an absolute blast!! They both have gotten so much more comfortable in the water. Jacob especially! He went from being scared and super whiney, to just jumping in and swimming across the pool!  Brayden does fantastic, and even will occasionally put his head under water, until he gets cold.  Once this kid gets slightly cold, he has a total emotional 180 and is just done!

The pool is honestly where we have spent most of our summer days.  Our gym pool is amazing!!! And it's hardly ever crowded! That is where the boys have really taken off in their swimming skills.  I honestly could not be more proud of them! They have come such a long way with water, I can only hope that they continue to love it! One thing that is extra awesome is, Jacob asked me the other day if he could get the surf board down and go surfing! Ah, a boy after my own heart!

I should also mention that we have spent a lot of time in our own backyard.  When we were looking for a house, all Mike cared about was that the backyard was big enough for the boys to play in.  Well, another one of dreams came true with this house. The boys LOVE having a water slide, running through the sprinklers, playing on the playground, and riding their 5 million different types of "bikes" around. They seriously could not be happier!