California

We just got back from a trip to Grass Valley California for my Grandma's funeral. She was 90 years old, so she lived a good full life. Last time we went to visit her was in 2008, which I wrote about here. She was a fun lady, and we will miss her.

We did like getting together with family while we were there. Here is a picture of most of the family after the funeral at the church. I had never met my Grandma's brother before, and I was surprised to see he looks just like her.

Staying at Grandma's

Eric has been out of town in Texas this week, so for me to work we have been staying at Grandma Coles' house all week and she watches the kids while I am working. Luke and Wills were pretty happy that there were doughnuts for breakfast this morning.

We Love Grandma

randma Watts with the boys

Luke's Blessing

Smiley Boy



The blanket made by Grandma Julie



Grandpa Dan trying to give Luke some cake...



...but we know he really wouldn't do that.



I know it's cheesy, but he looks like such a little angel here to me!



Family picture but without Wills because in the picture that he is in, I look terrible.

Will can crawl!

William started crawling last night! And it was not yet the last day of the month, so that means he was officially seven months old when he learned how. I am posting a couple videos I got of him, but he really can crawl a lot better than the videos show. He was all over the place last night and today, he can already stay up on his knees most of the time.

These videos are not the greatest because I was using a different camera (on mine the memory is full) and also grandma kept picking him up every time he whimpered. Enjoy!

Our trip to California

We just got back from our trip to California. We decided to fly into Oakland because we would have had to wait around in the airport all day in Sacramento, and plus I wanted to see San Fransisco. It was fun to see it, but driving around was crazy! We had lunch in Chinatown at this place that Jackie Chan apparently likes to eat. Mom wanted to have an after-lunch snack at the Ghiradelli factory, but we vetoed that. I want to go back and spend some time there because there is A LOT to see.



The Famous San Fransisco Trolley



Ghiradelli Factory



The Skyline

In Grass Valley, this time we had time to visit all the cute shops on Main Steet and Mill Street. The we went looking for hippies in Nevada City. Mom had all kinds of stories about them from when she was living there. Some of those people have CRAZY hair! I don't know why people have dredlocks, they are just gross.



Mill Street



Grass Valley



One of the Victorian houses there- Eric wanted me to take pictures of them so I could make paintings and sell them. Don't know if I'm going to do that though.



Great-Grandma and Great-Grandbaby



Four Generations (and Eric)

You could tell my Grandma was so excited to have a great grandbaby! She just loved him.

Grass Valley... Here we come!!!

We decided to visit my grandma in California with my mom before she has to go home. Since she is a teacher, she's got the whole summer to do whatever. She is already most of the way to Grass Valley, so we decided to use the flight benefits with Jetblue and head west! We will be going for the weekend of the 11th-14th. Hopefully Amanda can come down from Idaho and join the party.