So we have a little problem.  Jace wants to play outside - its 500 degrees outside.  The temporary solution has been to go out in the mornings and find water.  It's working so far!  Yesterday and this morning we went to the park down the street and played in the splash pad and harassed the ducks who were trying to take a nice peaceful nap under the shade trees.   Sorry ducks! Its so hot outside that in the 10 minute bike ride home, Jace was almost completely dry after we put him into the bike trailer soaking wet.  Welcome to summer! We went swimming yesterday for about an hour or so - the public pools here are so much cleaner and nicer than the yucky pools I remember going to in Flagstaff as a kid.  Although I hear they opened a nice new rec center with a nice pool so we will have to check that out one of these days!

I forgot to put Disneyland pictures up last week :-)

I can't beleive it's been a month

So in the last month we have done alot!! The summer is officially here, which really stinks but we've been playing in the water a lot and staying in the A/C.  The other day, Anthony and I were watching deadliest catch and had the AC really cold and I swear it felt like winter! The rundown on what we have been up to: My Mom, Jace and I got back from spending four days in Disneyland about a week ago.  We had such a great time! Jace was a real trooper, he stayed up until about 1 every afternoon and then passed out in the hotel and we were back for round two in the afternoon!  I think the rides were a little scary on day one but by the last day he was standing up and pointing and talking and so much more excited to see everything.  We were lucky enough to discover that Jace is obsessed with cars/trains/boats and planes so we used that to our advantage whenever we needed to (Jace, come see the train with Nana, Jace, let go of that toy, lets go see the choo choo!) Our room was really nice and the headboard lit up and played music.  We laid in bed one night and listened to the headboard for probably half an hour. 

I had this great idea to surprise Anthony for Fathers day so I booked a hotel at one of the local resorts that had a water park since him and Jace both LOVE the water.  Well, let's just say that 10 years ago this might have been a wonderful place to stay, however, totally not worth the money now.  So we checked into the hotel, went swimming for a couple hours, then went to the front desk and I told then the hotel needed to be renovated and we ended up leaving, haha.  Every single time I try to surprise Anthony something goes wrong, I'm not sure why I was expecting anything different!  So we went back home after stopping at the Chandler mall for a really late luxury dinner at the food court :-) We spent Sunday lounging around the house and playing in the kiddie pool.  We also brought in all of Jace's toys from the patio since we can't really do much of anything outside for a while.  Some of them went into the garage, and others (like the giant play house) found their way into the house. 

Yesterday Anthony met us at Gymboree for a little while in the afternoon and we ran around and tired Jace out.  I'm learning that the more energy I can wipe out of him the better he sleeps! Jace is going to be starting day care in a couple of weeks and we've looked at lots of schools - all of which seemed really nice so now we just need to decide.  I think he will have a fun time playing with all the kids and they do so many learning activities, I am pretty excited about.  He is such a sponge right now, and he loves to learn so I think it will be great for him to have a challenge.  But who am I kidding, I am completely petrified for him to go! Give them roots and let them fly, right?!

Here are some pictures from June :-)