Merry Christmas!

A Whole Ton of Pictures

I have been putting off writing this post because of all the picture, but here they finally are. For Bradlee's 5th birthday, we surprised him with a trip to California. He had NO idea that we were going so that was really fun. On his actual birthday, we went to Sea World. He has been talking about wanting to go there for over six months.

Here is Bradlee in the hotel on the morning of his Birthday. He had just found out that we took a VERY long drive for a good reason.

He loved this ride:

Since Bradlee was wearing a birthday pin, one of the trainers came out and asked us if we wanted to go meet some penguins. We got to go into the actual penguin exhibit and pet one of them. It was 28 degrees in there and we had just gotten off of the water ride, so we were freezing, but it wa the coolest thing we've ever gotten to do.


Josh's parent took us to dine with Shamu for Bradlee's birthday lunch. We got to watch a special shamu show while we ate. So fun!

The dolphin show is amazing! We loved it more than any other show there.

It wouldn't have been a trip to California without a visit to our most favorite place, Disneyland.

We went to the SanDiego zoo for the first time. Bradlee thought the baby hippo was so cute.

We also went to Universal Studios for the first timeas well. We thought it was pretty fun.

We went to Cabrillo National Monument, the beach, hung out in San Diego and ate the best sea food that we have ever had.

For halloween Bradlee was Buzz light year and we had fun attending the east village party.

When we got back from the trip, we celebrated Bradlee's birthday with my family.

With the money he got for his birthday, he bought a lego set and put the whole thing together by himself. He followed the instructions so well and I was so proud of how hard he worked on it.

My niece danced at the festival of trees on wednesday, so we went to watch her and to enjoy the festival. We had a lot of fun. This was our favorite tree. It was a mickey mouse themed tree.

And that is the last few months for us.

Oktoberfest

We went to Oktoberfest on Saturday with Josh's parents. It was a beautiful day and we had so much fun.

Riding the tram to the top of the mountain:
Alpine slide:

Firehouse

Fair

Bradlee and I went to the fair last week with some friends. We had so much fun. Bradlee has never been to the fair before and I think that we will now have to go every year.

Bradlee and his best buddy, Blake

There was this really cute activity for the kids where they learned about the process that food takes to grow, harvest and get to the store, etc. The kids got to assist in getting the products to the store, where they were then given money to buy a treat.

Milking a cow:

Picking an apple:

Planting a seed:

Driving a tractor:

Brushing a sheep:
Collecting an egg:

Bradlee LOVES when our clothes match his. Josh and Bradlee have a very similar outfit that Bradlee loves when they wear together.


And just beacuse he is so cute!

Summer

Our summer has been pretty boring, but here are a few pictures.

Swimming Lessons:

Playing at the park:

Tracy Aviary:

Spartan Race for Josh: