Trip to California

We got back a week or so ago from California where my sisters and I threw a baby shower for my other sister, Amanda, whom is expecting her first baby in June. Wesley was able to make a business trip out of it, he had to be there anyway for part of the week so he extended his stay. We decided to just stay through Mother's Day so we were there for a week and a half and it was great to be there for that time. Lea and her kids came from St. Louis and Sam made it for the weekend and that was great! Aside from the baby shower which is posted below, we went to the park one night. Here's our little family at the park: Felecia and Logan on the way to the park:

Jacob can't get enough of the slide. Wesley pushes him up and lets go and Jake just slides down and gets the biggest kick out of that, as you can see below:

Jake and Daddy on the swings Lea and Taylor on the swings, isn't Taylor just the cutest?

Us four girls on the swings together
Mom and Dad Vick at the park
Us girls after church



Mason and Abby hugging, they are so sweetWe went to Claim Jumper for dinner one night. Can you believe that this is just 1/2 of the Vick family? This is only the girls, none of the Vick boys were there.
Mom Vick always has delicious desserts. Logan loves food. Here he is with strawberry shortcake - a loaded one at that, and this is his second helping!

Wesley and I love San Francisco. There are lots of fun memories there, and it's just so fun to be in the city. Denver isn't quite the same when it comes to going downtown, so we try to make a trip when we go to San Francisco to visit my family. Now that my parents are moving soon, we probably won't make it hardly at all, how sad! So, we've never walked across Golden Gate Bridge, I've lived in California for over 15 years and never done it. We went to San Francisco, ate lunch at Lori's 50's diner, then walked across the bridge, which was so much fun, I can't believe I've never done it. Then we drove over to Sausalito and browsed the shops there. It was a great day.
I just think this is the sweetest picture. My friend Becki was able to come for a visit while I was at my mom's house and brought her daughter that I've not seen for over a year now. She's (Maya) 18 months old and such a sweet, cute girl. I had to post this picture of the two of them.

Amanda's Shower

My sisters, mom and I threw a shower for Amanda (my sister, obviously) in California at my mom's clubhouse. Lea and I along with our families were able to go with and we all had a great time. I thought I would post some of the pictures of the decorations, we had a lot of fun putting it all together. Amanda loves Gerber daisies so we used that flower to decorate and wrapped ribbon around each bundle. In this picture, there are some block letters of Simon (the name of Amanda's baby-t0-be) that were made by Lea herself! She did an amazing job, if you can zoom in the picture, you should because the letters look great! This is a diaper cake that Felecia and I made. Amanda's colors are brown and green with a frog theme, thus the green and brown you see continuously.
Amanda wanted some mommy advice from her guests so we made a 'Penny for your Thoughts' table. There was a lot of great advice given.

This table has a bunch of prego pictures of Amanda. They turned out so adorable. The favors are also there on the table to the right that we made and put peanut m&m's in for people to take home.

We had a bunch of these scattered around the room. This is the food table. We had a brunch with donuts, crepes with chocolate, jam and/or powdered sugar, of course, and then there was a fruit basket. We had a really yummy punch of 7up and a passion fruit juice. YUM-O (like Rachael Ray would say)!!!

We had games, they were really fun and a bit different than what I've seen before but of course, we had to do "Guess her girth" and everyone used toilet paper to guess Amanda's girth. This was the only picture we got of her pregnant, and I'm so sad that I didn't get any other pictures of her cute belly.

Family Visit

Tanya (Wesley's sister) and her family came out to visit from New York a few weeks ago. They were checking out the area to see if this might be a place they would want to move to. We hope we sold them on it, because we would love having them live closer! Here are a couple of pictures of this visit. Here's Jason and Alana (Tanya and Dan's kids) while taking a walk. They just had another boy, Tyler who is in the cousin's picture below.

The kids all gathered around and decided to do some reading. Maddie really made herself comfortable. She's the best at making a 'nest' to get comfy.
Clint and Kara's kids, Tanya and Dan's kids, and Jake together, what happy little cousins! Oh,

Tanya and Dan, Kara and Clint and Wesley and I.

Jake loves Wesley's office and loves his electronics. As you can see, he loves to play with computers. We have a computer that is just about to die and Wesley let Jake play with it one night. He prefers to play ON it. It's funny the things kids can do. He was able to turn it on and get into all sorts of programs that I'm sure would take me a while to find.

Jake loves corn, well, he loves vegetables but loves it when I give him my corn on the cob. I will eat mine and let him suck on it afterward. He went to town with this one.