Happy Father's Day!

One day I'll be big like you Dad!

Thanks for always changing my diapers...

And holding me during dinner, so I can be up at the table with you and Mom...

I get really excited when you come home so we can rough house...

And I'm glad we get to share our birthdays together from now on...

Thanks for putting me to bed every night with a book and bath...

And coming in my play gym with me, even though we both barely fit...

I love it when you play guitar so I can dance...

You're the best Dad ever! We love you!

Rouxbe School

Those of you who know me well, know that I love food and I love to cook.
Though my quarter-annual posts on my food blog are a poor representation, it is by far my greatest passion.

In college for my senior capstone, I got to develop a product for a company called Lehi Roller Mills. I also worked on several other product development teams for competitions as well as a group that developed some of the church welfare products. I loved it so much that when we moved to San Diego 2 years ago, I seriously looked into going to culinary school. Culinary school paired with my degree in food science is what many people do who go on to develop recipes for large companies, magazines, etc. My dream job! I toured the school and had a start day picked out until I found a job where I thought I would get to use my food science skills from college. My job (described here) turned out to be a lot more operations that developing recipes - but I did get to work on food related things!

The other day my sister-in-law sent me a link for the most amazing groupon for the Rouxbe Cooking School. If you don't know what the Rouxbe School is check it out here. Watch the instructional video on pan frying and you will see why I'm totally obsessed. I love the scientific angle they take on explaining everything. Right up my food science ally. I got a year subscription for $100 for Mother's Day. Best gift ever! Gift to myself? Absolutely. Don't worry Nate also got me a new Chef's knife...

I think I might go to culinary school one day, but for now I can learn like I'm in cooking school - without having to fork out $20,000 for admissions ;)

I Present to You...

The Roll Over!

He totally surprised me during tummy time today!

One of the best moments of being a Mom so far. 

I'm so happy I was there, on the ground with him when it happened. 

  I love his persistance. 

Way to go Scotty!

Nothing Better Than...

Happy Gummy Smiles and Giggles!

Memorial Day Beach Day!

Loving the Bumbo!

Haha! London LOVES Krystle so much she gets jealous if she holds other babies...

This Weekend...

It's been a fabulous weekend so far! The best part is that as I'm writing this I don't have that "back to school" feeling Sunday night always brings, because tomorrow is a holiday! (That feeling still happens being Mom, maybe even moreso! Now because Nate has to go back to work...) Nate took off work Friday and we spent the day at his parent's sailboat which they anchored at Point Loma. It's so relaxing being on the water. My favorite part was taking the small boat (a small powerboat-like dingy) and cruising around the bay with Nate!
We drove up close to the seals on the Naval Base and looked at all the docked expensive yachts. So fun!

On Saturday morning Caroline and Aaron, some of my best friends from college, came to visit.
I'm so happy they got to see Scott! It's always good catching up with people you love :)

 

Aaron was a natural!

I Love Leeny!

Later that day we went to Daxton's birthday party!
Our friends in San Diego are always looking for any excuse for a costume party. That's why we love them.
It was cops and robbers themed and everything was awesome!

We went as robbers - mostly because Scott already had those jailbird PJs :)

Wanted signs for all the kids - SO CUTE!

The Birthday Boy!

"Ham-burglars" were amongst the refreshments...

"Fingerprint Station" for the kids. Note Kate's costume which was amazing!

Scott put on his best burglar face for this picture

After the party we went back down to the boat to grill steaks and hang out with Nate's parents. 

We would've spent the night on the boat with them but I'm pretty sure that would have equaled no sleep for the 3 of us.

Love my boys!

Sunset, good food, and great conversation

Alert as always

How could you not be in love with San Diego?

Yay for long weekends!

3 Months Old!

Scott is 3 Months Old! And currently loving:

• The sound of his own voice! He spends his days blowing bubbles and making gurggling noises. He loves to lay on the ground and "talk". He has quite the repertoire of noises! Here he is "complaining" after a long session of tummy time.
  

• Smiling at Mommy and Daddy! He watches us everywhere we go in the room just waiting to shoot us a huge smile as soon as we look over.
  

• His hands.. He found them a few weeks ago and is a little obsessed. I catch him intently starring at them all the time. They also make a nice alternative to the pacifier..

Hehe :)

• Kicking his feet! He is still extremely active. Here he is kicking away in his crib.

• Going on outings. Scott loves to look around at the big wide world in his stroller. He is mesmerized by everything! The sounds outside, the colorful things on shelves at the grocery store, etc. If I had to describe him in one word it would be alert. He is always wide-eyed and taking everything in. He actually gets nervous around people he doesn't know now because he is so intently trying to process things. (And because he is starting to be attached to his Mommy... :) - sweet but sometimes annoying)

This is the first photo shoot where he tried to eat the elephant

• He has started laughing which is so fun! It's still hard to get a good laugh out of him because he is new at it. He likes it when we tickle under his arms and blow on his tummy. He also loves new noises. He gets bored of the noises his toys make really quick - but when he hears something new he gets a huge smile!

 

  So handsome!