Independence Day 2013 - Park City

This year we broke our four-year tradition of celebrating the Fourth of July in the Tri-Cities, and instead stayed in Park City. But, the Tri-Cities came to us! Eric's parents Debi & Don (G&G M) flew in from eastern Washington for a 4-day visit.

Park City has a notorious Fourth of July celebration, including a 70-float parade, huge city park party, fireworks, and kids activities galore-- all within walking distance from our house! We were excited to check it out, and had a wonderful visit with Debi & Don.

The highlights:

Fourth of July Fun!

Dinner at Nick's Greek

Silver Star Cafe

Grandpa Don & Isaac on the piano

Flash! He's worn this a good 4 days in a row

see? not exaggerating...

More Photos >> Click here.

Hope everyone had a fun and safe Independence Day!

June Catch-Up

I realize it's been a while since we've posted an update, so here's a June catch-up.

The weather in Park City has been gorgeous; sunny, blue skies, and not too hot.... We stay a lot cooler up here in the mountains than in the valley.

We've been... BBQ'ing in the park across the street...

Biking the mountains:

(I finally got a "new to me" bike... here I am in my longer ride of the season... 10 miles or so)

 Hanging out with Grandpa Jabbusch:

Isaac's and Gpa's adventure day

Play Time! 

Isaac's new scooter (thanks gpa!)

Isaac at Discovery Gateway

Seattle Trip for Mom & Dad:

Quick Seattle Getaway for a wedding... Lunch with Tony & Amanda

Date night at Matt & Aubrey's wedding!

wedding

 More play time:

Isaac on the climbing wall for the first time!

tired bug

Park Silly Sunday Market!

More photos here!

Mountain Brewers Beer Fest :: IO and Grandpa

While Eric and I escaped to Idaho Falls for the Mountain Brewers Beer Fest (which I highly recommend), Isaac got to spend time with Grandpa M.

Photo highlights of last weekend:

Isaac and grandpa had a blast while we were gone. Highlights were going to the movie theater for the first time together and the children's festival at city park.

Meanwhile, Eric and I enjoyed the Brewers festival (how can you not!). It's affectionately known as "Utah's best craft beer festival"... in Idaho thanks to conservative liquor laws in Utah, of course.

Isaac's Gold Medal

Isaac ran a quarter mile kids race this weekend and earned his first "gold medal". Don't tell him that he came in dead last place. To give him credit, he was one of the youngest kids. We were very proud that he ran the whole way even when his "legs were getting tired." Below is him ready to cross the finish line.

After Isaac's lap around the track, I participated in the 5k race. I had the best cheering squad, and had a ton of fun despite the heavy rains that started about mile 2. I finished in about 8:30/min miles-- not too shabby considering I started running regularly again just last week. I dashed across the finish line, and straight to the car to dry off. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for Seattle, but when you're running in a complete downpour, how can you not smile?

Mom's Day Program 2013

Isaac's daycare has an annual Mother's Day luncheon and program. It's a lovely time to come see him and all his daycare friends and Moms. His teacher provides lunch, and the kids perform a few songs for the Moms. Here's Isaac performing this year:

Enjoying Lunch!

Mother's Day 2013

Spring has finally arrived in Park City, and we had a great Mother's Day Weekend!

For Mother's Day I got a "new to me" mountain bike and enjoyed my first (laid back) ride of the season. I also escaped to yoga and a mani-pedi on Saturday... ahh... Sunday we went to a BBQ in Salt Lake City and enjoyed a lot of sunshine and relaxation. It was a great weekend!

Mother's Day 2013

Isaac also got a couple of "delayed" birthday presents... a train set and a bike with pedals.  He's not quiet ready yet for the bike with pedals (and no training wheels), so he'll probably scoot around on his balance bike until he gets just a little taller. Here he is enjoying the goods:

While Eric's Away, Mommy & Isaac Will Play!

Eric just got back from a business trip to China. Isaac and I filled our time with lots of fun activities as to not miss him too much. Okay, so we missed him a lot but we did have some fun times. Isaac had 2 days off preschool for spring break, so I took two days off too. It was nice to have a relaxing stay-cation. Here are a few photos of the last week.

We went to the zoo:

We went swimming two times and had a play date (I was too busy chasing around toddlers for pictures!).

We took Lodi for walks in the sunny spring weather:

We built a lot of "creations":

We had a breakfast date: 

We enjoyed the sunshine and rode bikes: 

And... we were happy to see Dad!

Moab :: April 2013 Camping Trip

Here are a few photos from a recent "escape the Park City snow" camping trip!  The weather was okay, but we had one very windy afternoon and night in the tent.  Isaac loved being outside the whole weekend and was a great helper at the camp site.

Dad

Our camp site

Breakfast

Arches National Park

We found Tow-Mater!

Happy 3rd Birthday, Isaac Otto :: Part 2 (The Party)

Part 2 of Isaac's birthday celebrations was his party at the Kamas Pool.  He had 10 friends (ages 2-5) come for pizza, cupcakes and a whole lot of swimming.  We had an absolute blast!  And, it tired him out.  He fell asleep on our drive home (6pm), and slept through the night. Here are the photo highlights, and a short video of Isaac blowing out his birthday candles.

More photos uploaded on our Picassa album too (click here).

Easter 2013

Hoppy Easter!

We spent our Sunday riding at the Canyons and having a fun kid-filled Easter dinner at a friends' house.

Here are some highlights from the sunny day: