Trip to Pismo Beach

March 28 to 30 - My mom, Ethan, and I went up to Pismo to visit my sister Jenn and her hubby Travis. I absolutely LOVE Pismo and we really enjoyed our relaxing visit.

Here is Ethan at one of the neat parks we went to.

Enjoying the rocking horse.
And enjoying the swings.

My handsome little man.

Mama & Ethan

Mine and Jenn's classic photo together. Whenever the three of us take a photo together we always capture the back of Ethan's head.

I just love profile shots.

Another cool park we found. Ethan on Shamu!

I just love this photo!

At this park Ethan found a ladybug. He picked it up, put it in his hand...

...and it crawled all the way up his arm and sat on his shoulder. He talked to it all the way back to the car and even brought it home with us.

At one of our favorite places, Avila Barn.

Playing on the beach!

He just gets cuter and cuter!

Ethan and Travis

Ethan & Jenn

Thanks for a fun and relaxing trip guys!

Hope to see you again real soon!

Ethan's New Favorite Place

Ethan's new favorite place to visit is Hart Park. We discovered a couple of months ago that they have a bunch of animals there that you can visit with and now Ethan wants to go there everyday! It doesn't help that we have to drive by the park every time we head home.

Ethan and the pigs.

This is so cool. If you go there around 2:00 it is feeding time. The geese get moved from one pen to another and they just waddle right past you. The lady also hands out food to all the kids that are there to give to the animals.

This cow's name is Norman. Ethan tells me that this is his best friend. Every time we drive past Ethan yells out, "Good morning Norman!" He would love to hang out with Norman everyday if he could!

Ethan trying to feed Norman.

Dan's Graduation

Dan graduated at work back in December but we finally got to celebrate here in March! We went to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in Pasadena for a lovely evening. Congratulations Dan! We are so very proud of you!

The dessert that they brought out for Dan.

The group: Dan's parents, me & Dan, Kenny (one of his managers), Terry (another fantastic manager) & his wife Stacey, and my parents.

CA Adventure

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Ethan & I thought it would be a perfect day to head to Disneyland & CA Adventure. It was a Wednesday. The weather was beautiful...about 90 degrees (sorry my east coast family, yes, it was 90 degrees today). But once we got there, we noticed that everyone had the same idea. The place was SO crowded that we took a couple pictures with Ethan's favorite "actors," went on 1 ride, then headed home. Needless to say, E was not very happy about that.

Ethan & Frozone (from The Incredibles)

Ethan with Elastigirl

Riding Horses and Trains, Oh My!

Today we went to Griffith Park with my MOPS group. Ethan just loves it here because he gets to ride a horse and a train.

Here is Ethan in the middle on the smallest horse they had!

Then it was time to ride the train!

Then it was back over to the horses for one more ride. And once again, they gave my little man the same horse.

We went back over to ride the train again but we just missed it. Ethan was satisfied with just waving to all of the passengers.

Mammoth

March 4-7, 2010 - The three of us headed to Mammoth for a couple days to play in the snow and hang out with some good friends. It was Ethan's first time in the snow and he loved it! Here are quite a few photos from our fun trip.

Ethan all dressed up and ready to play!

One happy guy in the gondola to visit Dada and our friends for lunch half way up the mountain.

Us on the gondola.

At the middle of the mountain with Dada.

We then took the gondola all the way to the top of Mammoth Mountain.

The group of us at the very top.

Ethan wanted to ski SO bad, especially since watching the Olympics for the last couple of weeks. Elaine let Ethan "ride" on her skis for a little bit before they all went down the mountain.

On a different gondola ride. Here is Ethan pointing out all of the snow. He kept saying, "It's everywhere!"

Happy on the gondola ride.

Happy & ready to play in the snow!

Another family photo in the snow.

Sledding with Mama!

Now it's Dada's turn!

Then Ethan got to go down all by himself!

Ethan spotted this snowman at the top of the sledding mountain. I love how Ethan is trying to look like the snowman in this picture.

Once I showed Ethan that he could eat the snow, he wouldn't stop!

Ethan and Dada built this snowman together.

Our last day with our friends.

Ski Jumping

In case you don't follow Ethan's endeavors on Facebook, he is obsessed with the Olympics! Hockey, skiing, skating, ski jumping, you name it, he loves it! And, he insists on reenacting every event he sees. When he was watching the ski jumping he decided to jump off the couch and landed on his face. When watching hockey he started slamming into all of the walls. Here is a photo of our little man ski jumping using his puzzles as skis. I love how he has his hands behind his back and how he has such a determined little look on his face.