Wedding in Santa Barbara

Beach day with the P's

OK so mommy is not a fan of the beach(ughhh the sand, nasty water, crowds...bleck) HOWEVER, we decided to make a trip to Malibu for the day with the Petchenick's and I remembered a beach I used to go to in High School(Point Dume) and aside from the sand(apparently can't get away from that Ha!) we had an awesome day.  We parked VERY close which was awesome.  The waves were insane so the first spill Phia took she was out! The P's met us there and then we all headed over to the Country Mart which has an awesome playground for the kids! Ended up being a perfect day(and it might just be our one annual trip if mommy has anything to say about it....haaaa!!!)

A lil' more of Phia's b-day

Instead of cupcakes Phia wanted flip flop nutter butters.  She saw that I'd made some for her party so she insisted I make them for school too!! Hey...much quicker than cupcakes:) She dressed up in her cupcake tutu for school and was so excited to celebrate with her school friends.  Of course we had to make her a giant birthday pancake in the morning(with sprinkles and candles!!).

Make a wish!

BLOWWW!

YUMMY!!

Birthday girl with her foofa shoes:)

Miss Meyer and Miss Adele(note the giant pile of dress up clothes all over the floor of course!)

Nutter butter birthday flip flops for school

And lastly, Phia's luau invite!!

Phia can officially swim!

We didn't take any pictures yesterday but it all started in Palm Springs.  This is her mid jump by herself no floaties.  She transitioned it to jumping into the deep end by herself and swimming to the other side just this weekend!! Goooooo Phia!!

Something happened between our Palm Springs trip and this weekend...we're not sure what but we are so so proud of our big 4 year old! This Friday night we swam with all our neighbors and all of a sudden Phia wanted to jump into the deep end and swim across the pool with NO floaties by herself.  Very scary for mommy and daddy but she was ALL about it! She did it NO problem(the entire night)! She also decided she could do the back stroke and swim under water for long periods of time. She puts her face in the water, kicks her feet up and swims from one side of the pool to the other.  Our neighbors were just as shocked as us as they hadn't seen her swim in a few weeks! So amazing.  She turned 4 and turned into an Olympic swimmer. No more swim lessons...we figure they're a bit of a waste when we pretty much live at the pool and the kids are just learning naturally.  They know the basic survival skills and the rest we'll leave up to nature:) Soooo proud of Phia.  We also spent all day at the pool yesterday at the twin babies birthday where Phia was jumping into the deeep end by herself and swam underwater all day:) Such a big girl!!!

Our bear is sooo close to walking(scary)!

 Bentley bear is by far our most mobile baby yet.  He's been standing for a while now and in the past few weeks he's been standing on his own.  He looks like he's surfing with both his arms out to the side balancing himself.  He'll be our very early walker we think.  He's also grown vampire fangs.  He got his fangs before his front teeth so now he has 2 teeth in on the bottom and his two little fangs.  His two front teeth are started to break through(thank goodness) and another tooth on the bottom so poor guy is teething like CRAZY!! Here's some shots we got of our handsome lil' devil:) Of course he's VERY busy and moves very fast so I never seem to get him standing on his own but he does!!

Cannot get enough of the crawling stage.  It goes by so fast and it's so stinkin' cute!!

THIGHS!!

CHEEKS!!

Preston is potty trained!!

OK so this is a month overdue.  When Phia started Summer School we decided it was time to try potty training Presto! Phia started school the first week in July and Preston took to it immediately! We've had only a few accidents(mainly in the first week or so) but he's been SUCH a champ! No accidents outside of the house and no #2 accidents(thank goodness).  He has shocked us all and he no longer wears a swim diapy...yay! 2 out of diapies only 1 to go! We always heard it takes so much longer with boys so we didn't want to start until he was 2.5 and we're glad we did...he was sooooo ready!! We're super proud of you Presto...xoxo

Palm Spring's with The Gordon's!

Safety first!

Transportation to our room!

This boy LOVES guacamole! We ordered table side guac and he ate the WHOLE THING with a spoon so we had to order another batch for the rest of us to share!!

YUMMY!!

Phia's princess bed away from home

Let the grocery shopping begin! 

Emma as cashier!

Daddy as cashier...check out that line(and you know he rang up everyone!!)

Presto's favorite part:)

Now it's the girls turn

Silly Uncle Ryan 

Daddy and Phia making a model car

The mens!

This is the perfect kiddie pool:)

Emma and Phia performing a show for us...

Phia and Presto front and center watching Happy Feet 2!  After this we realized Presto is ready for the movie theatre.  He sat like a good boy for a looooooong time!

We had a little trek to the villa pool.  This is when we felt the heat the most!!

Auntie Kelly as pool floatie

Weeeeee!!!

The girls doing art in the cabana

The Gordon adults:) 

We got the kids a lava flow...they loved these in Hawaii

We cannot wait to go back!

The whole fam minus our littlest monkey

Fishey

A rare pic of mama and dada alone

The kids ate oreos and brownies after dinner...the perfect night night combination

Phia and Emma serving us glow sticks on a platter for "dinner"

Presto wanted to be like Phia with no floaties...he jumped over and over and over

The kids doing the boogie to the band

Just relaxing