Memorial weekend

     This Memorial weekend, our best friends were visiting in Laguna Beach, so we took a drive up to see them! On Saturday afternoon, we headed up there and spent some time on the beach, playing in the sand & splashing in the waves! Suri was fearless & wanted to charge into the ocean every chance she got! She had lots of fun playing with her bestie, Reagan & it was adorable to watch them together! It was so great to spend time in beautiful Laguna & see our friends, Nick & Shay, and Nick's awesome parents, Tammy & Ken!

      On Sunday, the Hansen clan ventured down to San Diego to see us and we all met up at Belmont Park so the girls could ride the carousel & other fun rides! It was Suri's first time on the carousel & she loved it! Her first ride, I stood beside her and she laid back in my arms the whole time, which led to an aching back & forearm for me :) Her second ride she went with Aunt Shay and sat up much better on her own (of course when it's not me) & Reagan rode next to her, while Uncle Seth was by her side. Then we went on to ride the boats and the 'Crazy Submarine.' From Belmont Park, we headed back to our cars located by a small beach, and we let the girls run & play in the water. Then we took a trip to the park at Liberty Station to swing & go down the slides, and then when we were all worn out & starving, we headed to our favorite Mexican joint, 'Casa Guadalajara'. At the end of the night, Suri was exhausted & we all headed our separate ways, with lots of fun new memories of our Memorial Day vacation! Can't wait til we get to see our besties again! Love you guys! (P.s. - when we got home that night, I started having contractions, but they eventually subsided & I haven't had any more like them since).

the dads taking the girls on the Crazy Submarine

he's thrilled!

Suri, Seth & Reag

Shay & Nick

Aunt Shay & Suri on the carousel

beach w/ Daddy

Mommy & Suri in the water

running towards the water!

happy girl!

the pregos!

our little family :)

group shot!

sunshine & best friends!

Suri's first hair-do courtesy of Tammy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    ***Special thank you to Seth & Nick for their service in the military and to all our friends who are still currently serving! We love you all and appreciate all the you do/did for our country! You are true heroes!

more pics to come once I download them from Seth's phone :)

<3 Sc

Lions & Tigers & Bears... Oh my!

 On Friday, May 11, 2012... Suri and I went to the World Famous San Diego Zoo, with our good friends Terri, Dylan, Megyn & Kaitlyn. We had a great time in the beautiful sunshine walking around and checking out all the animals! Suri wanted to pet them all and got a little annoyed when she realized she couldn't :( Poor girl! But she loved seeing the monkeys and Mommy broke down and bought her a polar bear stuffed animal souvenir! Thanks so much to our friends for taking us on this wonderful adventure! We had a blast :)

giraffes

zebra

grizzly bear

getting his treats

red panda

sleepy panda

group shot!

turtles

checking out the turtles

Fun at the Park

     Here are the pictures from our weekend of playing at the park! You can see Suri loves to swing & slide and overall, just loves to be outside! I've also included some pics from our apartment where she's playing with her friends. Enjoy! :)

***(well you can't tell from the pictures, but yes, I was there and I did play with her! Stupid new blogger format loads my pictures sideways with no way of turning them the correct way...ugh! Sorry!)

Lots of randoms...

First I'll start off with my growing bump... 

                     April 9- 27 wks                     April 13 - 28 wks                 April 20 - 29 wks

                                                  April 27 - 30 wks              May 5 - 31 wks

As of today, I am 31 weeks and 2 days... with 61 days to go! It's exciting & nerve-wracking all at once! Exciting to have a new little girl in our lives to love & cherish, but nerve-wracking in that we'll have TWO little girls to take care of - one (Suri Jean) that is very mobile & sassy! lol. We are very happy though and look forward to the wonderful adventure that awaits us in just 9 weeks! All my appointments at the doctor have gone well and baby Sofia kicks & punches all the time! I have a feeling she'll be a wild one just like her big sis :)

Which leads me into Miss Suri Jean, who just turned 16 months yesterday!! She's getting so big & so smart & so so sassy! Must get that from her daddy ;)  But she is really doing great. She has opened up the bathroom door all by herself, so that's a new trick we have to watch out for cause she tries to open all the doors! She climbs on anything and everything...nothing seems to be off limits or scary to her... including the kitchen table. Luckily she hasn't attempted to break out of her crib yet! Suri absolutely loves to play outside...it's always the first thing she does when she wakes up is go to her shoe bin and pick out her shoes so we can go outside. This weekend, since Seth had a 3 day weekend, we took her to two different parks and she had a blast! She loves the swings and going down the slide. And love love loves to say 'Hi!' to everyone! I have lots of pictures from my phone to show off, and then I'll need to also upload recent pics from my camera of our park trips, for you all to see soon!

                                                  silly girl loves to climb in her toy chest
 

                                                   or just sit in it and hang out w/ her baby

                                                   also enjoys sitting inside our ottoman

                                   took this picture cause I plan on doing a silhouette painting, 
                                    but also wanted to show you all her little curls in the back!

                                                       such a big girl w/ a pretty smile :)

                                          her new Crocs from Great Auntie Pat! Adorable!

Then here is a bunch of random stuff... 

                                                   My new 'diaper bag' from Lily Bloom

 

A rag quilt I made for Suri (which will probably become Sofia's cause I plan on making Suri a bigger matching one); Button letter 'S' that I made for the girls' room, either on the door or a gallery style wall I'm contemplating doing.

And last but not least, Sofia has a full name! Sofia Edie (ee-dee), to honor her daddy's middle name. So Suri has the same initials as mommy (SJC) and Sofia & daddy will have the same initials too (SEC)! Thanks to Mama Denise for doing these for us! :)


I'll try to get the camera pictures uploaded to the computer and do a post of those this week! We had lots of fun & I took lots of pics! It was nice to actually get to spend time with Seth without him worrying over classes/tests/homework, but unfortunately, it's back to the grind tomorrow! Hope you all enjoy & had a great weekend too! Xoxo, <3 Sc