Muir Woods with Grandpa

Muir Woods is one of our favorite places to visit! It is located right along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. It is just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and is an amazing forest of redwood trees. We highly recommend you visit if you are ever in San Francisco! This was our third visit to Muir Woods and hopefully we will go again before we move! I mean sister has to see Muir Woods, right??

Brayden turns 2!!!!!

We celebrated Brayden's 2nd Birthday with a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, CA. We are fortunate to live only 1 1/2 hours away, so we took advantage of that and took Brayden to see the fish and sharks!! He really enjoyed touching the "fish".
Grandpa came to visit for Brayden's birthday and Brayden just loved going everywhere with "Pa". I think Brayden had a great birthday....his last in California! He will celebrate number 3 in Washington! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRAYDEN!!!

Brayden's 2nd Birthday Party

On August 2nd, Brayden turned 2! It was his golden birthday...2 on the 2nd!

He had a Cars themed party and had two friends come celebrate with him! They enjoyed playing and eating cake! All Brayden wanted to do was eat the cake. He was very patient waiting for that part!

Daddy's Home!!!!!!!!!

We've been busy since Brian got home from his summer away! So, I am just now posting those pictures! Brayden was so excited because daddy brought him home an Army truck. It is a Stryker vehicle, which is the type of vehicle Brian will be working with when we move up to Fort Lewis next year. Brayden wouldn't let Brian out of his sight once he got home. He even helped mow the lawn! One of Brayden's favorite things was going to work with Daddy one day. He got to ride the "Daddy Bus" which is Brayden's term for the 15 passenger van from Brian's work. Then he got to catch a bus and a train to come home from work! Too bad he can't go to Daddy's work everyday!!

We are glad Dad is home and are now getting ready for sister to arrive!!

Laying on Dad's bag so he can't leave without me!

Brayden's new Army truck

Cousin Xander's 2nd Birthday

While we were in Colorado, Xander celebrated his 2nd birthday! Brayden had just as much fun playing with his new toys!
We also got to meet Brayden's newest cousin, Axl, while there. He was born July 7th! Soon Brayden will also get to meet his new sister! Only 3 1/2 weeks until her due date!!! We can't wait!

Enjoy some photos of Brayden and Xander........

Xander's airplane cake!

Brayden and Uncle Robert

Playing in Xander's new water table....notice Xander is playing with the water toys and Brayden brought his cars outside to drive them underwater!

Zoo with Xander

While we were in Colorado, we went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo with YaYa and Xander! The boys had a great time. Brayden really liked feeding the giraffes!! They were both asleep within 5 minutes of getting in the car!!!

Swinging

Brayden's 1st time on the big swings! He may never want the baby swings again!

Haircut

Brayden went to get his haircut before our trip and he sat in the chair all by himself for the 1st time!! The lady even put gel in his hair and styled it for him!

Alameda County Fair

took Brayden to the Alameda County Fair today! It was free day for military families, so we took advantage of it and enjoyed the afternoon at the fair! Unfortunately Brayden is too short to ride any of the rides, so we tried to avoid seeing those! He really liked going into the livestock barn and seeing the sheep (he refers to them as baas) and especially the pigs (which he calls pinks).

I thought he would like the petting zoo, but he didn't really want to do that today, so that was a short stop! He wanted to go back and see the pinks in the barn instead! Too bad he couldn't pet those!

Enjoy some pictures!!

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