Wednesday adventures

Before school train time :-)

Fun while big brother is at school

Mr. Cheese

And then he did this...for real?!? You are only 17-months, kid, you need to slow down!

Noah's great form at soccer practice ;-)

We are still alive!

I know it's been a long time since I posted, so I just wanted to let you all know that we are in fact still alive ;-)

Things have been really busy around here and I've been taking lots of pictures, I just don't manage to post them...lol! I'm going to try and work on updating the blog a little more frequently again, but I've just started a new business venture so a lot of my blogging time (which is pretty much limited to after the boys go to bed) is taken up with that. But I think I've got a lot of that squared away so hopefully a few more posts will be coming your way :-) If anyone even checks this anymore...you all may have given up on me at the point!

This kid and his "cheese" face!!!

Noah LOVES riding the train at the mall!

Afternoon fun at the park

He was going so fast and he "didn't want to ride into the parking lot" so he had to go in the grass...we are nowhere near the parking lot ;-)

Where did my baby go??? He climbed up there all by himself!

This is how he goes down any and all slides :-)

Sunshine

We have had some beautiful weather in San Diego this week! Noah and Lucas both LOVE being outside, and they aren't happy if we can't go outside at least once a day :-)

This is Lucas's favorite thing to do in our backyard!

Noah was having fun pushing Lucas around, but then stopped and said he was tired from the hard work :-)

Lucas enjoying some outside time while Noah was at school

San Diego Zoo

Now that we are near a zoo again (and a very famous zoo at that!), we have decided to take advantage of it and get season passes courtesy of Papa & Grandma Anita :-) 

I love that we are able to go to the zoo in January!

The boys were excited about going to the zoo, just not having to take pictures in front of it :-)

Lucas showing off his new "cheese" face!

The boys each got a Daddy Doll before he left, and they are a big hit!

More snow!

Despite the change in forecast, Noah still got the snow he wanted! It started snowing Saturday night while we were still in Nebraska, and Noah wanted to go outside and experience it for himself :-)

We drove back to Kansas today, but luckily they got a little bit of snow, too. So the first thing the boys did after getting to Papa and Grandma's house (after surviving the long car ride) was go outside and play in the snow!!!

One very excited little boy!!!

(Yes, he has plastic bags covering his shoes because this Hawaii/California boy doesn't have snow boots...)

Playing tag 

Lucas trying to figure out what all the white stuff was...

And deciding to eat it!

Noah also had fun making a snow angel, but my phone ran out of memory so I will have to get those pictures from Aunt Holly.

The boys may be enjoying the snow, but I'm exciting to be headed to warm and sunny Puerto Rico in 2 days for John and Desi's wedding. This momma misses her flipflops! :-)

Holiday Bowl

We had officially arrived at our new home in San Diego! I had a few pictures of the boys playing in our backyard that I had intended to post...but we didn't have internet right away and then all of our stuff arrived so we've been pretty busy!

The Huskers have done a great job of following us to our new homes: the first year we moved to Jax, they came for the Gator Bowl and now our first winter in San Diego they came for the Holiday Bowl!

We were able to get cheaper tickets from the base, and Grandma J and Sara were in town for Christmas so they were able to come with us, too! Our good friends Becca and Jeremy (a USC grad) also went to the game with us, but sat in a different section.

Becca and I ready to head over to the stadium

Bacon wrapped hot dogs (a USC game day tradition) with onions and peppers 

Unfortunately, the Huskers lost by 3 points, but we still had a great time :-)