A Day Out With Thomas

Ryker LOVES his trains.  He plays with them everyday.  He has Thomas bed linens, wall stickers, underpants, jackets, shirts, bathing suit and lots and lots of trains.  At least I can say he uses all of it all of the time.

Roaring Camp is about 1 1/2 hours south of San Francisco.  It is an old camp with steam engines that run to the beach and the mountains.  Thomas the Tank Engine and Sir Topham Hat came to town.  It was a great day with moon bounce, face painting, bubbles, story telling.  Ryker and I had lots of fun together.

More at AVO's

My mother goes by "AVO" (Ancient Venerable One).  She has a fantastic assortment of toys and we love going there in the summer.  We go to the beach, play in her backyard, eat lobster (Ryker's comment?  "It's dead.  It's very very dead.").  Andrew painted the garage with Keelin and Annika's help.  We went on the ferry and ate lots of ice cream and cotton candy.  We all had a blast!

Summer at Avo's in Newport, RI

We had so much fun in Newport!  Annika came for a week.  Andrew brought Keelin from Ireland and we turned Avo's house into a zoo.  All of the kids slept together (when we could finally get them to sleep).  We ate lots of cotton candy, donuts, and ice cream.  We went to the beach and built sand castles and used the boogie board.  Ryker really wanted to go out in the big waves until one crashed on his head.  The trip brought back such fond memories of all of the summers I spent in Newport at the Bensons.

Auntie (L)isa

Ryker loves to see Lisa and her puppies. Ryker helped brush Harry the other night. Usually he's very good with them, but sometimes he scares them with his toys...

4th of July - Santa Cruz boardwalk

We went to the Santa Cruz boardwalk for 4th of July.  It was lots of fun but SO crowded.  Ryker made a new friend and they went on lots of rides together.