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Monday, June 30, 2008
Swimming at Gaga's
Yesterday we went over to my mom's for some swimming and dinner...and to pick up our dog. ;) Will loves to swim in Gaga's pool. She bought him a life jacket to use when we aren't there because she doesn't know how to swim. We tried it on him yesterday while John and I were swimming with him, and he loved it! So weird to see my little man floating in the pool, although even with the jacket on we kept hold of him the whole time. He was quite the sight with his hat, swim shirt, life jacket, and gator pool toy!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Trip to CA
We had a great time on our trip to CA. The drive there ended up being not as bad as I thought it would be. Google Maps had it as nine hours, so I figured with all the stops we'd have to make it would be more like 10 or 11, but it took us just over nine hours. We left here at 3:30 and got to Cayucos about 12:45. Will didn't fall asleep in the car until 9:00 and he woke up a few times when we'd stop so I could get out and walk around. Then when we got there and went to bed it seemed like he was going to stay up all night, but he did eventually fall asleep.
Saturday was our first day there, and we spent it playing on the beach and checking out the town of Cayucos. Sunday the men had a tee time and went off to play golf in Morro Bay. The rest of us went in to San Luis Obispo to explore. We found a great coffee shop and had some treats, spent a lot of time in a way cool toy store (why aren't there more little toy stores around?!) where each of the boys got a present from grandma. We went in a baby store, and grandma got a cute outfit for New Baby, and I couldn't resist buying the softest baby blanket EVER. I feel bad this kid is going to get a lot of hand-me-down stuff from Will, so I splurged. We also found an amazing bread bakery called House of Bread. Lori, Aurelia, and I went a little crazy. They had a ton of yummy looking stuff on the day old shelf, so we got some cinnamon rolls, blueberry muffins, raspberry rolls, and a few loaves of really good bread. (Lordy mama, I just looked at the locations on the website and there's one in Peoria...wonder if they're open on Sunday and I'll go tomorrow when we go to my mom's house!!)
Monday we all did our own thing. John, Will, and I went in to SLO so John could check it out, then we stopped in Morro Bay on our way back for lunch. Everyone else had gone in to Morro Bay for some shopping and brought back a seafood FEAST for our dinner...fish and chips, clam chowder, dungeness crab, clams. YUM! Tuesday was Hearst Castle day. We didn't want to take Will with us because we'd wanted to go there for a really long time. Everyone else went in the morning, then we met for lunch and gave Will to his grandparents, aunt, uncle, and cousins. Before we met up with them we went to check out some elephant seals (fat, lazy, smelly, ugly things) and drove along the PCH for a bit. It was really hazy because of the forest fires in Big Sur. Hearst Castle was AMAZING. There are four tours you can go on, and we liked the first one so much that we signed up for the second tour when we got down to the visitor center and went right back up! The second tour was much more informative and a much smaller group, so we learned a lot about the house...if you can call it a house!
Wednesday the guys were off to golf again, so we hung out at the house for awhile (Lori, my sis-in-law had two flat tires and had to go get those taken care of!) and then went in to Morro Bay for lunch. We tried to see some otters, but they weren't really doing much. It was hard to tell if we were seeing otters or clumps of kelp! THe boys were all pretty tired, so we headed back to the house and everyone took naps. We had hoped to go down to the beach after naps, but it was ridiculously windy. In fact, after the weekend the temperatures dropped and it was windy most days, so none of us wanted to go sit on the cold beach!
Thursday we only had part of the day as we figured we'd leave after lunch. Will played with his cousins while John and I got everything packed. We had lunch together, and the Dugans went off to kayak or fish or something. We said goodbye to grandma and P-Bill and off we went! We made decent time to Long Beach, considering we hit LA traffic. Once we got to the hotel we hit the pool for awhile and had dinner there before calling it a night. There was no internet at the ocean house, so John and I both spent awhile on his laptop checking our email and our regular websites to see what we'd missed out on!
Friday before heading home we went to Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. It was really amazing...and huge!! We watched a couple different shows--scuba divers in huge aquarium tanks with the fish, an otter show to learn more about them, and a shark feeding show! Will got to play in a little tide pool and touch anemones and star fish. They also had shark petting tanks (like the ray tank at the Phoenix Zoo)! We saw tons of tropical fish (Nemo's relatives) and jelly fish...it was way cool. Will started to melt down towards the end (no big surprise after a week of staying up late, getting up early, and not taking good naps), but we'd been there for more than two hours at that point. He fell asleep once we were on the freeway. The aquarium was right next to the Queen Mary, which is where John proposed to me, so we drove over there to take some pictures. It was fun to see and reminisce about that night.
Thankfully the drive home was uneventful. We were pretty shocked to see the big plume of smoke southwest of Laveen from the forest fire, or whatever it was. We were glad to get home, but Will misses the ocean house and his family. He loves his cousins so much! I managed to sort through our pictures (600+ of them!) and get some online this afternoon while he napped, so here they are:
Saturday was our first day there, and we spent it playing on the beach and checking out the town of Cayucos. Sunday the men had a tee time and went off to play golf in Morro Bay. The rest of us went in to San Luis Obispo to explore. We found a great coffee shop and had some treats, spent a lot of time in a way cool toy store (why aren't there more little toy stores around?!) where each of the boys got a present from grandma. We went in a baby store, and grandma got a cute outfit for New Baby, and I couldn't resist buying the softest baby blanket EVER. I feel bad this kid is going to get a lot of hand-me-down stuff from Will, so I splurged. We also found an amazing bread bakery called House of Bread. Lori, Aurelia, and I went a little crazy. They had a ton of yummy looking stuff on the day old shelf, so we got some cinnamon rolls, blueberry muffins, raspberry rolls, and a few loaves of really good bread. (Lordy mama, I just looked at the locations on the website and there's one in Peoria...wonder if they're open on Sunday and I'll go tomorrow when we go to my mom's house!!)
Monday we all did our own thing. John, Will, and I went in to SLO so John could check it out, then we stopped in Morro Bay on our way back for lunch. Everyone else had gone in to Morro Bay for some shopping and brought back a seafood FEAST for our dinner...fish and chips, clam chowder, dungeness crab, clams. YUM! Tuesday was Hearst Castle day. We didn't want to take Will with us because we'd wanted to go there for a really long time. Everyone else went in the morning, then we met for lunch and gave Will to his grandparents, aunt, uncle, and cousins. Before we met up with them we went to check out some elephant seals (fat, lazy, smelly, ugly things) and drove along the PCH for a bit. It was really hazy because of the forest fires in Big Sur. Hearst Castle was AMAZING. There are four tours you can go on, and we liked the first one so much that we signed up for the second tour when we got down to the visitor center and went right back up! The second tour was much more informative and a much smaller group, so we learned a lot about the house...if you can call it a house!
Wednesday the guys were off to golf again, so we hung out at the house for awhile (Lori, my sis-in-law had two flat tires and had to go get those taken care of!) and then went in to Morro Bay for lunch. We tried to see some otters, but they weren't really doing much. It was hard to tell if we were seeing otters or clumps of kelp! THe boys were all pretty tired, so we headed back to the house and everyone took naps. We had hoped to go down to the beach after naps, but it was ridiculously windy. In fact, after the weekend the temperatures dropped and it was windy most days, so none of us wanted to go sit on the cold beach!
Thursday we only had part of the day as we figured we'd leave after lunch. Will played with his cousins while John and I got everything packed. We had lunch together, and the Dugans went off to kayak or fish or something. We said goodbye to grandma and P-Bill and off we went! We made decent time to Long Beach, considering we hit LA traffic. Once we got to the hotel we hit the pool for awhile and had dinner there before calling it a night. There was no internet at the ocean house, so John and I both spent awhile on his laptop checking our email and our regular websites to see what we'd missed out on!
Friday before heading home we went to Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. It was really amazing...and huge!! We watched a couple different shows--scuba divers in huge aquarium tanks with the fish, an otter show to learn more about them, and a shark feeding show! Will got to play in a little tide pool and touch anemones and star fish. They also had shark petting tanks (like the ray tank at the Phoenix Zoo)! We saw tons of tropical fish (Nemo's relatives) and jelly fish...it was way cool. Will started to melt down towards the end (no big surprise after a week of staying up late, getting up early, and not taking good naps), but we'd been there for more than two hours at that point. He fell asleep once we were on the freeway. The aquarium was right next to the Queen Mary, which is where John proposed to me, so we drove over there to take some pictures. It was fun to see and reminisce about that night.
Thankfully the drive home was uneventful. We were pretty shocked to see the big plume of smoke southwest of Laveen from the forest fire, or whatever it was. We were glad to get home, but Will misses the ocean house and his family. He loves his cousins so much! I managed to sort through our pictures (600+ of them!) and get some online this afternoon while he napped, so here they are:
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| Cayucos |
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Almost home!!
We're in Long Beach, CA tonight after having spent the past five full days in Cayucos, CA with John's family. The drive there took us just over nine hours (not bad with a two year old, pregnant mommy, and when Google Maps said it would be nine hours!), so we decided to break it up into two parts on the way home. We left Cayucos a day early and drove to Long Beach. Tomorrow we're going to the Aquarium of the Pacific in the morning, having lunch somewhere, then heading home. My mom told me it's supposed to be 112 this weekend in PHX. Not looking forward to that part of getting home, but it will be nice to be back in my bed, get Will back in his bed, and get back into a normal routine.
We had a really great time on our trip. John's parents rented an awesome house right on the beach for us (it was our family, his folks, his sister, her husband, and their two kids). Unfortunately it got really, really cold after the weekend, so we didn't get to play on the beach all that much. But we did go explore San Luis Obispo (if I ever had to live in CA it would be there, Santa Cruz, or San Diego) and found a way cool toy store and an amazing all-natural bakery. Will had a great time playing with his cousins, and we ate a ton of seafood. I'll post pictures and more info once we're home and settled, probably over the weekend at some point!
We had a really great time on our trip. John's parents rented an awesome house right on the beach for us (it was our family, his folks, his sister, her husband, and their two kids). Unfortunately it got really, really cold after the weekend, so we didn't get to play on the beach all that much. But we did go explore San Luis Obispo (if I ever had to live in CA it would be there, Santa Cruz, or San Diego) and found a way cool toy store and an amazing all-natural bakery. Will had a great time playing with his cousins, and we ate a ton of seafood. I'll post pictures and more info once we're home and settled, probably over the weekend at some point!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
It's a boy
We had our ultrasound today and found out we're having another boy. My friend Benah was right...looks like we only produce male children. Here are some pictures from the u/s (unfortunately baby wasn't very cooperative so we didn't get many good pictures):
Side view of baby
Another side view
Creepy alien face
Baby's foot
They also gave us some video of the baby moving around which is kind of cool. Mostly he's kicking his legs. Let's see if this works:
Side view of baby
Another side view
Creepy alien face
Baby's foot
They also gave us some video of the baby moving around which is kind of cool. Mostly he's kicking his legs. Let's see if this works:
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Father's Day Weekend
We had a great time celebrating John this past weekend for Father's Day! Originally he was going to have to work for several hours on Saturday, but it ended up only being an hour or so. While he was gone, Will and I headed to our community pool for a swim. It will have to do until we get our own pool...maybe next year.
Saturday night we went to the Dbacks game, and even though they lost BIG, we still had a good time. Will got hooked on the Peter Piper Pizza play area, but at least he was entertained. And, FYI for anyone going to a game soon, you can get booster seats at Guest Relations so the little guys can actually see what's going on!
Then on actual Father's Day, we went to church and then went to our favorite Mexican restaurant for lunch, Oaxaca. We hadn't been there in so long, and it was so good!!
After lunch we came home for naps then went to my mom's for some swimming and dinner with my family. It was a great day!!
This week is pretty busy as we get ready to leave for CA on Friday, but tomorrow is the BIG DAY...our ultrasound appointment!!!!! I can't wait to find out if this baby is a girl or boy. I'm hoping girl but thinking boy. I'll know for sure by this time tomorrow!
Saturday night we went to the Dbacks game, and even though they lost BIG, we still had a good time. Will got hooked on the Peter Piper Pizza play area, but at least he was entertained. And, FYI for anyone going to a game soon, you can get booster seats at Guest Relations so the little guys can actually see what's going on!
Then on actual Father's Day, we went to church and then went to our favorite Mexican restaurant for lunch, Oaxaca. We hadn't been there in so long, and it was so good!!
After lunch we came home for naps then went to my mom's for some swimming and dinner with my family. It was a great day!!
This week is pretty busy as we get ready to leave for CA on Friday, but tomorrow is the BIG DAY...our ultrasound appointment!!!!! I can't wait to find out if this baby is a girl or boy. I'm hoping girl but thinking boy. I'll know for sure by this time tomorrow!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Popsicle Kid
Yesterday morning we went to our friends Stephanie, Drake, and Ethan's house for a Tastefully Simple party and play date. I hadn't intended on buying anything, but pregnant ladies like their dips. :) I got one veggie dip, a spinach and herb I think it was, and strawberry rhubarb preserves. I'm a sucker for rhubarb since we always had it growing up, and it's hard to find here in AZ. Will had fun playing with his friends, and towards the end of the morning Steph broke out Otter Pops for the kids! My friend JoEllen sent me these pictures of Will enjoying his.
Today John has to go into his old job to do some consulting work, so I think Will and I might head to the community pool for a bit this morning (summer has DEFINITELY started in AZ!) and we also need to work on some surprises for Daddy for Father's Day tomorrow. Tonight we're going to the D-Backs game with our friend Ed.
Today John has to go into his old job to do some consulting work, so I think Will and I might head to the community pool for a bit this morning (summer has DEFINITELY started in AZ!) and we also need to work on some surprises for Daddy for Father's Day tomorrow. Tonight we're going to the D-Backs game with our friend Ed.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Our new blog!
After hanging out with some friends this morning, I decided I'd jump on the family blog bandwagon. Since I have my cooking blog I figured it would be easy enough to start up a new one. Plus exciting things are happening at the Knightly house, so this will be an easy way to keep everyone up to date. Okay, really the only exciting thing is the baby on the way, but that in itself is pretty big. :)
This past weekend we all went out of town--Will and me to Seattle and John to Mississippi to visit his best friend Wade. Here are pictures from the trips:
This past weekend we all went out of town--Will and me to Seattle and John to Mississippi to visit his best friend Wade. Here are pictures from the trips:
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| Seattle Trip June 2008 |
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| McComb and New Orleans June 2008 |
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