California is hot

We went on our first family bike ride in Napa. We rode to Nana and Poppi's and had a picnic in their living room.

A visitor

Every year a mama and dada dove come and try to build a nest and lay eggs in eves of my parents front porch. Tragically, every year their nest fails and the eggs fall to the ground and break. eek, sad. This year we went to the hardware store and got some chicken wire to make a little shelf so their eggs wouldn't fall, but they hated the idea and never came back, which is for the best really. Anyway here are pictures of Tyler and Fox talking to the mama. Tyler is saying, "oooo oo, oooo oo." Kind of like doves do. Fox is saying, "CAW! CAW!" like all birds do, right?

Mom's Birthday

At the end of April my mom had a  birthday. So as a gift I thought I would move my whole family to California to be close to her. I am the best daughter ever. I also got her some adorable things from my favie antique store in Napa. Which was partially selfish because I needed some retrial therapy to help me cope with the first gift I gave her. We went and had some delicious mexican food and cupcakes at The Oxbow as a family minus Nate who was studying for finals. Also I am not sure why my whole family looks crazy in these pictures. That is just what the camera saw.

He's a Boy (fox, not new baby. She is still a girl.)

Fox loves living with Grami and Papa! If they themselves were not awesome enough, they were finishing a bathroom remodel as we moved in. So many tools! So many projects that  needed to be finished! And Fox was just the guy for the job. He was all business helping Papa and Dad (that's what he calls him, Dad) getting this sink ready to install.

In other Fox news: He started calling Tyler "Ty!" always with an exclamation point. He loves to shout "Ty!" Whenever he finds something that belongs to her or if he wants to show her something or share food. Brother and Sister. 

Tea Cups

He love it so much that he cried and cried when we had to get off! 

We moved and then we went to Disneyland the next day

We went to Disneyland just one day after driving 13 hours over night and (Nick and my dad) unloading a moving truck full of all our stuff into a tiny storage unit in Napa. By some Disney miracle it was a super fun time and the children acted like completely normal children who had not just moved twice in one month. I was pretty sure it was going to be a complete explosion of exhaustion and rage, but they were really so good and really a joy to be around. I can honestly say I am glad we went.

 Here are some adorbs pictures of the kid's waiting to go to dinner. I thought it would be a good idea to tie monkey to Tyler's sweater, but it was actually a terrible idea because it dragged on the ground and she swung it around in the restaurant. But they look real cute. Tyler took the pictures of us at dinner and also the picture of the complete strangers eating dinner. There was actually a surprising number of photos of people we did not know when I uploaded the pics to the computer.