Happy Birthday Taylor!

So Dave was out of town until Friday night and Taylor's birthday was last week. We decided to honor Taylor's birthday on Saturday so that Dave could be there. I felt horrible all of his actual birthday. I even had to filter any phone calls to him on his day, so family wouldn't blow my cover. Derek even said on Taylor's birthday, "I wish it was Taylor's birthday right now". I laughed so hard. So here are some pictures of Taylor's "birthday".

Taylor turned 3 years old.


Taylor's cousins, Marie, Katherine, and Elizabeth, were visiting Grandma Eddington as well, so we put together a little swim party and hot dog picnic.

Here's the "Nemo" cake that I made. I personally think it looks like a basketball with a fin, but Taylor knew what it was, so that's all that matters, right?

I thought Taylor might be a little sad to cut into Nemo, but he quickly asked to eat the eyeball. Typical boy.

Taylor was blessed by his Grandparents, cousins, and Aunts and Uncles. Thank you for the fun gifts and kind phone calls. He had a great birthday!

Darth Tayder

Here's some pictures of the boys, and their cousin Kari, playing with uncle Doug's Vader mask. They had a lot of fun. The thing even makes the Darth Vader voice!

Taylor

Derek

Kari

See, I did say that there would be plenty of "not so important events" on this page. :)

Doug's Fabulous Tour de San Fran

Doug took us on a great tour of San Fransisco. The first stop was a visit to the Golden Gate bridge. It was so amazing to see it in person! (I'll add more pictures when they are developed. Blasted film camera!)

I miss you Laurel! :(

Next stop was a visit to Fisherman's Wharf to check out the sea lions. So cool! They were so interesting to watch. I'll post pictures later...again, blasted film camera! Then we took a ride on a cable car up to Chinatown. The cable car was definitely a highlight. I never realized the muscular strength that it takes to ride one. Riding up the steep hills forced me to grip the pole as tight as possible, otherwise I would have slid down my seat and flattened Doug who was downhill from me. I'd love to go back to Chinatown without kids. There was so much shopping to be had, but the kids got restless!

Look for more pictures of SF in a later post!

Madeleine's Blessing

The little boys and I recently returned from a trip to California. I haven't developed my pictures yet, but here are some from my family.

Laurel and Doug's little girl (Madeleine) was blessed on June 10th.

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