Thursday, June 18, 2009

a GREAT day!

I haven't been so great at keeping this up in the last few weeks (listen as I chant our mantra: "we've been so busy!" ... or lazy?:) ), so this day happened several weekends. But it was a really great day...It was a Sunday and we didn't have any commitments at church so we decided to take a family day. Not much planning, just some general ideas of what we wanted: lots of fun, a bit of driving, and good food!! Turns out, being spontaneous can make the best day trips!
We started out heading up to Folsom and ate at Dos Coyotes (YUM!) then off to Folsom Community Park to ride the train and check out the area.


Our lovely girl.


Our sweet boy...

Believe it or not, this is one of a very few candid family shots we have! Funny how that works out!


After a visit at the park, we decided to head up to The Fountains in Roseville. It is this fantastic new shopping center that is a great place to look around (window shopping only, as it is pretty high end - but we can dream!). We had a great time looking around Smith &Hawken, a fancy-smancy garden shop. Ryland also really enjoyed this!

We had told Ry what the place was called so he was so excited to walk around and check out all the fountains. The coolest part is that they have these fountains that shoot up out of the ground for the kids to play in. He had a great time! It was so much fun...





Selah was so pleasant, even though she only had a 20 minute snoozer in the car the whole day. She is constantly impressing us with her easy-going attitude.

After playing, we went and checked at the larger fountains and Ryland loved watching it put on a show - he also enjoyed hamming it up for the camera, as you can see below.

On the way back to the car, the boys relaxed on the lounge chairs for sale.
It was such a beautiful day, too....sunny and 78 degrees. Ry has become quite the little weather man :)

We capped off the day with *bucks frappucinos and dinner at a hole-in-the-wall Chinese food restaurant. Does it get any better?

This day was awesome. Ryland has really become a great conversationalist, monologueist (is that a word?) - I wish I could share all the crazy, funny, and and truly intelligent things he has to say. He said a lot of things on this day! He has an uncanny ability to remember names, facts, and events. He is really an amazing big brother too....he is so endearing to his sister and it is such a treat to watch them together. She adores him and he, her. Okay, enough gushing.

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