"Best Summer Ever" - Jackson

We picked up Jackson from the airport and he was ready to play! 

He wanted to swim right away!  so we did... some nightswimming

We then checked out the Rose Bowl Aquatic center which is richly famous for having olympic athletes train there and many shows.  Jackson loved it.  I swam with him for hours.. and it was a bit crowded.

After we went over to our friends house to play in their sprinkles with friends.  It was a hot day!

It started out just playing in water, and then mud.

 I took Lyla and Jackson to go to Target to pick up one toy each and they had a ball with that, right after we grabbed lunch.

We had diving the next day.  He loved it!

Parents weren't suppose to be that close but we managed to be close enough to watch our babes

Later, Jackson still wanted to swim

There was an outdoor concert series we went to near Old Town in the park, so we checked it out.

After we had church, we had friends over for lunch and watched the World Cup

The next day we went to Disneyland!

We met up with friends and got to go swimming at Disneyland Resort.

We had a special dinner for Brady's graduation for the class of three above him, so we dressed up and had a really fancy night at a all men's fancy schmancy club in downtown.  

The next day we invited about 10-15 families to come over to swim. It was crazy busy and I was running around the pool making sure everyone was alive.  I brought out snacks for everyone and we had a good time.  Jackson had a few of his friends stay even later to swim, so it was a fun day.

  

We went down to San Clemente to get Jackson's early birthday gift.

He was stoked.  Something he has been asking for for years... he has been wearing my first wetsuit for years so this was fun for him to get a flashbomb fullsuit.

We went down to the pool to swim, then the boys wanted to race each other back to my parent's house, so I slowly drove next to them, taking pictures.

The next day we went to the Dodgers game.  Jackson got on the big screen two times!  It was Mormon night so lots of our friends were there and Elder Bednar gave the first pitch.

People recognized Jackson when we walked down to watch the fireworks that people were asking to take pictures with Jackson.  A little black eyeliner goes a long way!

Some more diving happened.

New York 1st Anniversary Trip

Since we didn't get to really celebrate our anniversary, Brady and I planned a trip for only a few days to fly to New York.  The last time we were there was only for hours on our honeymoon so we thought it would be fun to go back and stay longer. 

I traded a client of mine hair for some buddy passes to fly there and then we had my marriott hotel benefits from years ago and stayed at a really nice hotel in Times Square.  If we could do it all over again, I don't think we will ever stay in Times Square since it was so touristy. 

We first went to the 9/11 memorial museum, that had just opened for the first time when we were there.  It was such a somber, sad and also a great memorial to see everything.  We watched videos, saw cell phones that were left behind and read stories for hours.  It was such a great way to start our trip.

We walked around the farmer's markets in the streets off Madison Ave and walked around more.

Brady got us great tickets for the Met's game but the storm was so bad there was a two-hour rain delay.  We waited and got shake shack. There was a random guy that jumped into our picture!

The next day we walked to Broadway and last minute bought tickets to Newsies and had really good seats.  It was my sister-in-law's idea to do that and we can still use Brady's student ID.

It was such a good show.  We had a great time!

We hurried over to soho and walked around until we found little italy.

We had a fast dinner at this italian place while the World Cup was going on, italy vs germany. 

It was a lively place!

We hurried back to Broadway and we went to Les Miserables.

Oh man was it so so good.  I enjoyed this one more than the first time I've seen it.

The next day we went to the Brooklyn Bridge and were total tourists.

Brady has so many better pictures than I do.  If he had time, I am sure he would blog them.  Hey, maybe I can get him to.

We hurried over to Central Park for a romantic ride on the row boats.

It was Father's Day so we celebrated Brady! 

We then hurried over to the Highline in Chelsea and walked.  

A couple asked to take our picture and we took theirs.

We then had to rush over to meet my cousin, Shelby and Connor for lunch.  

Rushed back to our hotel, then the airport - making it by a hair.

It was such a fun weekend celebrating our anniversary and Father's Day!