Happy Birthday darling Daddy!!

This was Jon's birthday week! We partied all week long! Highlights include:

Monday climbing at Indian Joe Caves in Sunol:

Jon, freshly equipped with his very own climbing gear, wanted to hike up to the Caves in Sunol and climb. Cami & Crew and Nana and Papa joined us--we had individually made identical plans for the day, so we thought we'd just meet up and play together. We all enjoyed exploring the caves around the formations and also taking a turn climbing up the 5.8 route. It was a blast!! 

Larry did great despite his nervousness...

I made it to the top!!!-- up the easier route...

Jon Belaying and offering advice to climber Ansel.

Strength, Beauty... 

And flexability all in one: Remi! 

Dawna is our climbing nut.  She loves being tied in and going up!

Beautiful Landscape

He made it to the top too!

 On Wednesday, we had our family dinner of tri-tip steak, sour dough bread, Jell-o, and of course, cheesecake for dessert!

We Love our new camera :) 

Opening presents! The kids all wanted to help!

Jade's favorite part was the wrapping!

After dinner and dessert, Nana and Papa came over to put the kids in bed while Jon and I went to City Beach to climb! We had an awesome evening out together and came home to an Immaculately clean kitchen! Birthday bonus from our babysitter!!

And today, after my first choir practice as the director, Jon and I sang through all the Easter songs I picked out. Dawna, apparently bored, drew a portrait of what was happening. Yes, Jade is scoot-crawling around and Yes, she LOVES the piano pedals! It's a strange fetish of hers, but she goes after piano pedals all the time! During Dawna's practice, while I'm teaching, and while we're practicing for Choir...  

In case you can't quite see, the caption reads "Mom sings and Dad sings and maybe Jade (the thing on the floor)"

... and then on Monday...

We all took a bike ride to Sunol and saw the Little Yosemite, which had a decent amount of water! It was beautiful there! I always forget just how close we are to fun places like this! Emily already posted pictures on her blog from this trip, so I'll just post a couple here:

Those boys, doing their thing... what one does, the other does. They are rarely apart from each other if they are both awake and fed. The boys enjoyed playing in the rocks and sand, but avoided the water. In fact, after getting residual splash on him from Daddy throwing rocks, he wasn't so sure he wanted to participate in that activity anymore...

Dawna... my little beauty... but still not quite enough hair to make a real ponytail. Dawna loved climbing around on the rocks... and I actually didn't feel super paranoid about her falling...weird. Here she is pictured imagining something with a crust of peanut butter sandwich and a banana peel... I really have no idea what she was picturing, but it was pretty cute...

Me and my sweetheart... isn't he adorable?? He was getting me all wet after his little dip in the pool.

And the four of us... I love it when Emily comes because she really appreciates the importance of taking family pictures on outings like this! Plus, she packed us all lunch! Thanks for a fun day, Em!