Another Party?

Kalista and Jen made it to Avery's first birthday this weekend. The park was well decorated with Paul Frank's awesome monkey pal, Julius. We (as in Jen) are big fans of Paul Frank and his retro animal pals.

Kalista met up with her group of friends for an afternoon of fun and social mixing. She charmed everyone with her chubby cheeks and cute underbite smile.





The cutest cake pops were handed out and were made by Avery's neighbor. Such a talented lady! Here is what it looked like:


Too cute...dont'cha think?

Party Party Party

This is the week of visitors and parties!



This past Sunday, Kalista went to her friend Rocco's first birthday celebration. It was a pool party to say the least. She just watched from the sidelines with some of her other friends as the daredevilish kids took to the mini inflated pools. It was definitely the best inflated kids pool we have feasted our eyes on since it had it's own mini slide.

Grandpa Greg, Grandma Susan and Uncle Bill took off today and headed back home. Bill got his annual fix of Comic Con and got autographs from his favorite celebrities. Grandpa Greg finally got his chance to see Coronado and the Coronado bridge. Grandma Susan got to play with Jen's Cricut Expression and Cuttlebug machines to create some cutouts to take home for scrapbooking and card making. The last few days have gone by so quickly...it's one big blur.

And yes..that is a bruise on her right cheek. We had a little mishap last week where her cheek met up with our bedframe. Poor thing got left with a battle wound.



Matt had to work overtime this weekend to tame the crowds downtown that came just for Comic Con. Plenty of celebrities were spotted hanging out throughout the town.

Can't believe it is almost Wednesday again, we have another 1 year old party that awaits us this upcoming weekend. There must have been something in the Marriott water that had us all having babies at the same time. It seems like Kalista has more events on her schedule than we do.

Beach Party

We spent this past weekend at Breakers Beach on Coronado for two birthday parties. Kalista experienced an actual beach for the first time and sand between her toes. At first, she did not like it one bit and refused to walk in the new texture. It took awhile for her to even like walking in grass. But by the end of the day, she was a veteran and walking freely in the sand.

Kali getting her toys ready for the sand

Thank goodness for the dogs, we were able to use their tent as a safe house for Kalista and all our non-sand friendly items.

Kali was well covered and playing with the sand

Kali and her friend looking at something on the ground

We had some good eats, good company and an awesome time. Even Kalista had a few friends her size to hang out with too. Matt got a chance to take the stand up paddle board in the ocean for the first time. Evidently, it is a lot harder in the open water than in the bay. Jen is waiting for her chance to take the board out on the water, but she'll most likely stick to the bay.