My Lovely Baby Shower

Look! Even the invite is cute!!!

Cupcakes from Icing on the Cake in Los Gatos- My favorite bakery!!!

All the baby BOY stuff was too cute!!

See how cute my flower pin is- my Mom is Martha!!!

Look at that Pepper Mill!

The hostesess, Kelley and Kara

We are a colorful bunch!

Kelley and Kara hosted the BEST baby shower ever for me and Baby Boy Hamilton on Saturday afternoon, it was sooo lovely! It was at the Four Season's right down the street from our house. It was outside in the resturant's patio- so beautiful! My Mom handmade some zipper flower pins (see my torquise one I am wearing) and sent them to Kelley as a surprise- soo darn cute! Thanks Mom!
It was a fantastic lunch with great friends and I loved every minute of it I feel oh so blessed to have made such great friends in the time we have been living in California!
People say "It takes a Village" to raise a child, and my village is filled with wonderful ladies who I cherish so much- THANK YOU! It was a very memorable day that I will remember forever. This little baby is loved soo much allready- can't wait for them to meet him. (Hurry up allready!!)

Linden and Brett before the shower!

Uncle Brian and Uncle Jake come to town- on the same night!!!

We went to Nola's in downtown Palo Alto for dinner- Linden had a great time with the boys!

Hanging out with the boys before dinner-enjoying a cold beer, with friends, on a Friday afternoon- what could be better???

Jake was in for a wedding in Napa- leaving really early Saturday morning for a 8am T-time in Napa! And Brian was in SF for work during the week and then came to have a quick visit with us until Sunday am, and then back to Minneapolis to celebrate Father's Day with his family!

Linden's day

11:45 am
At Cisco, visiting Daddy!




12 noon
Lunch with Daddy, at the office. Linden loves cisco!






4:30 pm
Enjoying a popcocle with Gillian and Kendall.




5:30pm
Riding with Kendall in the car....


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Linden and the ever-growing belly

Linden told me today that she wants to make room for her brother in the car- so he can come with us. She's really excited to meet this little guy!

Annual pool party and bbq at the Casey's

Brett played T-Ball with the girls!

Kendall-roni!

We went over to Kara and Greg's on Sunday for our annual pool and bbq party- could this be the third year??Hmmmmm..... we had a great time and Linden and Avery went for a dip with their Daddy's while Kara and I got to talking; something we are really good at doing! There is very rarely a day that goes by that I do not get to talk to her! I just love that Mama.

Sibling prepardness class at Sequoia

Some much needed practice for when the baby comes!











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Date night

There are only so many Friday nights left before baby boy hammy comes. Linden's teacher offered to keep linden today so we could hit the movies and dinner! We love Miss Lisa!!!


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Hamilton lemon harvest

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My little loo

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This is just us hanging out today- nothing special, just time with my beautiful girl....I feel soo lucky to have another one to love soon. Linden said she wants to kiss and hold "my boy" when he comes out, such a sweetheart!

Lunch with friends

We grabbed lunch today with Alexa and Lauren at CPK.


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A little insight

Nana said she could not see the face so here's a side by side with illustration of what I saw in the Dr office...hope this helps!! He has plump little lips like his Big Sister!

New ultrasound pics

Look at his little pee pee!!! (The white dot)


Baby boy hammy's face


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Too darn funny...I bet you can't stop laughing!!

Maybe it's beacuse I am pregnant, but this moves me to tears!! I think it's too funny! I mean, side hurting, back aching FUNNY! Is it just me??
Also- if you look at her wildly stearing and squeeling, it reminds me that the Salerno girls in my family are really terrible at learning how to drive! We are on the path to repeat history, for sure!

Tie Dye Party....California style Baby!

Linden tie-dying!!!

Look at our gloves!!

Our neighbors have chicks that arrived in May, and now they are sooo BIG! Linden loves feeding them their food out of her hand! How much is she loving these chickens!!

She wants chickens at our house!

Washing out the dye in the "river"

Feeding the adult chickens

Brett making his t shirt....is that PINK I see?

The finished products!!!!

So our neighbors invited us over for a tie-dye party at their house this weekend- we went over on Sat and made our shirts and went back today to pick them up. It was soo much fun and Linden loves the tie-dye tank top she made! We also made some cute onesie for Baby Hammy!
Man, we defiantly live in California, don't we???

Happy Birthday to Nana!

Here's take 1.....




...and take #2!

Happy 60th Mom! Wish sooo much that I could be there with you to celebrate with you! We'll go out when you come for Baby Boy Hammie! Love from sunny Cali. We miss you! xoxo

The girl loves to shop!

I wonder where she gets that???



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Water park Fun

We met up with Kelley and Stacy and the girls today at Mitchell Park for some water fun. Linden loved watching the water spray from the ground! Definatly a summer hot spot!


Watch out! Here comes the water Linden!!!!


Running from the surprise water....


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BBQ with the Pedesron's

Playing with the kitchen

All hugs!

Baby Emily was sooo good- she slept all of dinner and into the night! She was so cute!

Enjoying a popcicle together!

Uncle Mark's idea to put Quinn on top! Linden loved it!

"look at my feet Mommy! Weeeee!"

We had Mark and Maribeth over for a little BBQ on Sunday afternoon. It was fun to see them and catch up on all the new things going on! Linden like Quinnlan so much and they played well together, she did not go to bed until after 9pm!! Party on girl!

Swimming

Having lunch after our swim-a-thon!

Linden looks like a Mad-Scientist with the goggles on!

Jumping in!

Catch me!

Thank goodness for those goggles!

We went to Pacific Athletic Club on Sunday to go swimming- we had such a fun time! We swam with Lauren and Kelley, Mommy did some laps, Brett saw Jerry Rice butt naked in the locker room and we grabbed lunch! :)
Linden has turned into quite the fish and she is fearless- she's jumping in the pool and wanting to swim on her own- she does not want to get out after 2 hours!!!