Yesterweek

Yesterweek = any time in the past that you can't quite quantify.

This is Luke's go-to term when talking about the past. I think it is going to catch on. A lot has happened in the past month most of which was not documented on film... thank goodness. We had a rash of the flu over our anniversary/ mother's day weekend. We should have known. Ryan has been battling a kidney stone that he had to have surgically lasered. Noah broke his foot slipping of the curb. (Luckily no cast was needed.) Luke turned 3 years old. And me? I have made it to the point of having less that one month left of pregnancy, battling swollen ankles, tiredness and panic about what I am going to do with 3. But enough griping from me. Let's see the highlights...

Luke's birthday was on a Sunday so we celebrated two days. Saturday we went to Gilroy Gardens. We had heard about it and that it was great for kids so we decided to try it out. It was perfect for our family. They had tons of little rides that the kids could go on and/or one of us could go with them.

The carousel: always a favorite.

I love this picture because you try so hard to get a nice smiling picture of your kids and 90% of the time I get a variation of this.... but I remember being a kid and getting fed up with parents wanting you to pose and hold still and smile and so I am sure I have a couple of pictures that look like this.

For those of you who don't know, Gilroy is a huge garlic producer. They have garlic everything and so I, being a lover of garlic, thought that I would try their garlic fries. They were not what I expected. There was like a one to one garlic to potato ratio.

I had garlic breath for days and didn't make it through them all. So warning to anyone trying the garlic fries at Gilroy Gardens, caution lots of garlic.

The next day we dressed the boys up in these suits that Ryan found online. He loves seersucker suits. I have always been skeptical of them, but when we got the boys all dressed up I had to admit they looked pretty dang cute.


All they need are top hats and canes to look more dapper.


Kudos to Ryan and is impeccable fashion sense. I doubt over and over but am constantly proven wrong. You think I kid but that is the truth.

After church we made Luke take a nap before presents. It was one of the world's shortest naps. Here is the anxious birthday boy awaiting the loot...

He was not disappointed. Later we had some friends over for cake and ice cream. Luke has a little trouble blowing out the candles... no wonder look at his form...


Once we got that straightened out thing went along quicker...

Let's just say each candle got some individual attention.

Happy birthday little man!