Nathan, the comedian

At nine months old this kid knows how to make people laugh. He has the craziest, cutest faces, and once he sees that his audience is entertained he will start to make different faces and noises. He has the sweetest most hilaroius little personality, and I just can't get enough of this face.

Balloon Festival

A couple of weeks ago we traveled a couple of cities over to attend the balloon festival.  This was the 5th year they have had it but the first time we have attended.  It was amazing.  In the morning the balloons actually go up into the air and people can take rides but at night they stay on the ground but are illuminated with the fire from the tanks inside of them.  At 8 pm, all of the balloons start to go up at the same time.  The balloons stay tethered to the ground and once they are inflated spectators can walk through and talk to the pilots.  Christopher was amazed from afar, but once we got close, and the pilots started shooting the fire up into the balloons, he got pretty scared.   But not Nathan!  Nathan goes to bed pretty early so I thought that he would be asleep in the stroller before a balloon even went up, but he was too interested.  He just kept screaming with joy, and pointing.  There was no way he was going to miss it!

Santa Cruz, Day 2

I was not as good about taking pictures on day 2, but there were a few.

1: Watching the surfers in Capitola 2:More candy! 3: Us 4: Beautiful lunch spot 5: Capitola 6: Chips, drinks, and laughs 7: Bubs first time bowling 8: Strike Dance! 9: He beat his daddy (but not me)

Santa Cruz, Day 1

1:Candy for breakfast? Why not? 2: Swimming with a view 3: Friends! 4: His first tat 5: Roaring Camp Railroad 6: Look at those trees! 7: Th trees! 8:Haha! Nathan 9:Family 10: Rocking out 11: Canta Cruz Beach Boardwalk 12: We won! 13: Enjoyin the view at dinner :)