Pictures from May

Life seems to be so busy these days.  I really need to do better with posting because this is how I am going to remember all my precious time with my family!  

Sharla's gravestone is finally in place.  Dane and I went up to put a see it and put a rose on it.  Sharla is buried in the military section of the graveyard.  Dane didn't want to put the rose on the headstone, instead he put it on the flag.  He told me that Sharla would find it there.  I appreciate his sweet spirit and his sweet words that comfort me.  

We met up with one of our dear friends from Van Nuys and the Santa Barbara zoo.  We had so much fun catching up with her and seeing how big her kids are.  Elliot and I share the same birthday so she and I are basically kindred spirits :)  Also she might be my future daughter in law.  

I think this is love...What do you think?  Pretty sure Zac is ok with it. 

Dane loved feeding the giraffes.  We were all amazed at how this tongue can wrap around lettuce almost like a hand.  Pretty impressive.   

My Cousins (Jen, Gianna and Susan) came out for a visit.  We met up with them at Farmers market for some yummy Mclintocks.  It is so much fun to see Gianna and Dane together.  They have alot of fun.   

And they love eachother.  

We met up with some friends at our new favorite place the crab beach.  The kids went crazy over all the crabs.  It was fun to watch them all scramble.  It was even more fun to see Chloe freaking out.  

We have been working really hard in our backyard.  Dane and Eric built this raised bed.  I am going to have to post some pics of what the raised bed looks like now.  It is awesome.  They did such a great job putting it together.  It is wonderful having an engineer for a husband!

We had so much fun watching a car show parade.  Dane loved it when they came racing by.  He also enjoyed when they would honk their horn...They best of all was when they would throw candy out at him.  

Just another day in paradise hanging out with friends.  We are pretty spoiled here. 

Dane and Eric sure spoiled me this year for mothers day.  I had the royal treatment all day. 

But all I really wanted was a kiss from my special boy!

We took a field trip to the Cal Poly dairy.  Dane is the calf whisperer.  

Look what we woke up to find on our front doorstep.  It was a special delivery from Uncle.  Yes this boy is spoiled big time!!

We had a play date at our friends house.  The kids were very quite in the back.  When they finally came out Dane and Gunnar had mascara all over them.  Chloe had a little fun playing beauty shop and these two were willing participants.  

Dane and Eric had their first father son camp out.  Papa went along too.  They had alot of fun.  It was my first night away from Dane.  At about 5am Dane turned to Eric and told him he was ready to go home.  Eric and Papa were ready to head home too.  

There is nothing better than a water balloon bath. 

Dane has a new race car bed.  He loves it.  I showed it to Eric and he agreed that we had to get it for him.  

Our corn is coming up nicely.  I planted butter nut squash at the end of the rows.  

We met Bryan in Frenso and headed to the zoo.  He took us on a tour of were he works and loaded us up blueberries.  We really liked where Bryan was staying.  There was a pool.  Sadly Dane was attacked by fire ants.  I was amazed at how fast Dane got over it.  I was stung by one ant and it really hurt.  He was stung by at least 30.  We jumped right into the pool to get rid of them.  

Here is Dane on his last day of Parent participation class.  What a cutie!