Max and Alex's 3rd Birthday

What a great party...Complete with Captain Jack the Pirate. Lucas spent 90% of the time in the jumpy...Owen ate 1/2 the spread of food (strawberries, bananas, salad, pizza and cake). Fun fun party with tird tired boys...

Soccer
We signed Lucas up for Pee Wee Soccer at the YMCA...Here are a couple pics of him practicing.

Jen and Rich Getaway

We snuck away for a couple of days in Laguna Beach...It was just what the Dr ordered. No plans except for sitting on the beach, drinking wine and sleeping!

View from Hotel room

The Beach



Drinking...

Ferry across to Balboa Island



Rich's childhood home (we went through Irvine on the way home)

Aunt Sue and Nana came for a visit

Neelie...

We lost our little Neelie - she ventured a little too far from home at night.

All her strange quirks will be missed. Here is a picture taken just the other day with Lucas. (Who cried when I told him and said that he didn't get to give her one last hug -- so mom cried too>) Neelie loved the boys and loved that they chased her.

Labor Day Weekend visit to The Zoo at Night

We headed down to the Zoo on Saturday afternoon with the Morse family. It is so much fun to watch Lucas and Charlie play together - they know each other so well. Owen made friends with an Orangutan. We enjoyed the new Elephant Odyssey display too.