More of July

The weekend after the 4th of July I ran my first ever half marathon.  It was rough.  After a slight whiplash incident at a waterpark (because obviously i'm not 18 anymore so i guess these types of injuries are a thing now) I kind of stopped training for a few weeks.  If it hadn't been for my friend who I ran with whose 40th birthday was that week I probably would have dropped my distance and just done the 10k....but I did it, and looking back it was pretty fun!

Celebrating in the pool

The pictures they take are NEVER flattering, but here's my proof.

The boys have been enjoying weekly swim team practices and I'm enjoying their cute speedo butts and adorable goggled faces!

We've been up to Ojai a few times this summer and its quickly climbing my list of favorite places in California!

We have had play dates galore which always include some combination of baseball and swimming...

And the occasional living room picnic 

And I even got to take the boys to the Peter Pan musical.  One of my all time favorites, and this production was no exception. The boys loved it and it was so good I got goosebumps. I definitely plan to take advantage of the civic arts plaza more and more in the next few years!

4th of July, 2017

We celebrated the 4th with our old neighbors this year.

We had a lazy morning then headed over to Westlake mid afternoon for swimming, BBQ and fireworks.

Pool dads!

And giant jingo

And cul-de-sac baseball

Sparklers

And a magical fireworks show.

It was certainly a happy 4th! (But we missed seeing all our Garden Grove folks!!!)

Date weekend

Back at the end of June the boys got to go to Grandma and Gpa's for the weekend leaving Brian and me with a kid free date weekend.  Up first, a trip to DTLA for grand central market and The Broad museum.

We had fun browsing all the food choices at the market and finally settled on ahi and oysters.  It did not disappoint.

Then we wondered the broad for a couple hours

And of course took all the typical broad photo ops.  Because why wouldn't you make sure you had a picture of yourself under a giant table and chairs.

We reserved a spot for the infinity room for later in the afternoon so we got to make that our last stop before heading home.

The next morning we headed to ventura harbor for some paddle boarding, one of our favorite date days!!!

Followed by sushi for lunch, can't beat it.

The boys had such a fun weekend with Grandma and Gpa and can't wait to go back!