Good Times with Zeke and Hazel

Sunday, July 10, 2011

A bit of Zeke cuteness

Hazel gets a lot of attention because she's a tiny little thing walking around, so I thought I'd showcase a couple of Zeke's abilities:

1) Ability to eat an entire peach/pear/nectarine without help. Well, some help...

The pit tends to anger him.

2) Total destruction.

Caught!

He was taking all the clothes out of the drawers and placing them in other drawers. Awesome.

Good times on Independence Day

Oh, the 4th of July. The fireworks. The hot dogs. The massive amounts of junk eaten (which is always awesome when on a diet). Oh how I love you. The 4th started out with us crashing the San Pasqual pancake breakfast. We dressed the kiddos up in their cutest patriotic outfits and watched as they smeared watermelon and syrup all over them. So, back to the house for a quick wash of clothes and a bottle:

And then on to Coronado Island for the usual 4th festivities. Each year my family, along with the Cima family, gets together with a whole bunch of people and BBQ on the grass right by Glorrietta Bay in Coronado. However this year, the Cima's decided they were too cool for us and bailed. So, it was up to the Lough/Powell's to take care of business. We packed our crap and hauled our cookies down to the bay and set up our spot with the Dane Powell family, my parents, April, and The Parry family. We had some good times. There was food, a bike ride, playing in the sand, playing games, and of course, eating. The twins were actually very good through most of the day, even with the disruption in the nap schedule. They love all the attention they get from their cousins, so it keeps them happy. They started to get cranky later and both ended up passing out DURING the fireworks. How they slept through that, I won't ever know. Here are some pics so show the awesomeness. Some of these I stole from Tatum Powell since I suck at getting pictures of events. Boo.

Cute little Hazel.

Daddy and the Buster

Dane Powell and Family.

Mandy, me and April and the kids

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Why I haven't updated in a while...

So my best friend Christina (more commonly know as Crapina to much of my family) is visiting from Japan. So I have been spending lots of time with her and her little fat cutie baby Brock. He's seriously cute. And since it has often been just me and the babies with her (Jake still being at work), I haven't really taken any pics. I have taken some and here is a catch up for what has been going around these parts.

4 trips to the Fair (and at least one more to go)
1 Mud Run
Justin and Marisa's wedding (woo-hoo!)
A Padre's game
Unsucessfully teaching Zeke to walk
Many shopping trips with Christina
Many trips to Point Loma (Christina's mom's house)

And much, much more! There is a lot more to come as well, before she heads on back to the Land of the Rising Sun. Stupid japan. Stealing my friend.

We get our Zeke cuddles whenever we can. They are rare.

They LOVE pasta.

Seriously.

Tired Babies after the Fair. Chubbster in the middle is Brock.

Zeke hanging with the grandparents and eating kettle corn at the game.

Our gang and Hazel's head.

There's that face!

And a smile after being a stinker to everyone.

And now, a few words about the mud run. I participated in this 10k after trying to train for the last 6 months, but clearly doing a poor job. A bunch of people from my work also participated (and did A LOT better than I did) along with April. April and I decided that we wanted to have fun, and really didn't care about our time. We ran/walked the race and had a blast. There are a lot of hills, mud pits, and tons of people. It was pretty hard, but we would totally do it again. Since we did it on the ASYMCA day (for charity), there were celebrities doing some entertainment after the race. Good times. I didn't get a lot of pics of my whole group, but someone else did so I may have an update later. Also, there were people all along the trail taking pics. The links below are to those pics of me. I look super hot of course. There are a few more around if you look a bit.