Happy Birthday Braedyn

Today is Braedyn's 4th Birthday (oops I'm 6 minutes late posting this, it was yesterday). Happy birthday to our favorite boy in the whole world.

Snow in Paradise

Well apparently Carpinteria was feeling bad about hogging all the perfect weather and our city decided we should suffer with everyone else having snow storms so they imported a little patch of snow one Saturday for the kids to play in. Braedyn had a blast and there were lots of neighbor kids and school friends there to play with. After that he tried out some ice skating on fake ice and then we went to the beach.

Puddles

Don't all little boys love puddles?  Braedyn does for sure.  He loved riding through the puddles in our neighborhood after a big rain.  Made for some great afternoon fun!

Campfire

We've been talking about camping and so Braedyn wanted to have a campfire one night so we broke out the firpit again.

Rocky Beaches

The storms and big surf have cleared out most of the sand at our local beaches. This makes for some great tide pooling.

Biking Carp

We took this video in December of Braedyn biking Carpinteria.  This is how we get around our town most days.  Braedyn bikes just about everywhere  he has to go; preschool, kindermusik, swimming, church, park, the beaches, library, candy store, the list goes on.  If the choice is bike or take the car he always chooses his bike.  It's one of the, many, great things about this town.  It's not everywhere you can bike the streets at 3, and get to all those places!  So this is him makin memories on his bike.  He is trying to show off some of his stunts, as well, in some of these clips (standing up, no feet, one hand, bankin it).  Daddy taught him or Braedyn just did it.  Mommy is just glad to get from point A to point B all in one piece.  I will never get use to him flyin around town at 3 (almost 4 now).  Fortunately my anxiety over him biking the town is easing up.  He really is quite capable and we almost never have to tell him where to stop anymore, he just knows.  He is growing his wings as they say.  To soon he will no longer need us at his side even for bikin Carp.!

Ventura Beach Day

We had a nice day down at the beach in Ventura. They have a great playground on the beach near the pier. The pier was closed that day due to high surf, You can sort of see it in the first picture where the waves are hitting the bottom of the pier which is at least 20 ft high, the picture shows some smaller waves.

Making Juice

Braedyn has pretty much taken over the juice making job. He loves smashing all the fruits and veggies into that thing and watching the juice squirt out.

hot head

Sporting mommy's hat on a cold day.

Snow?

The mountains above Carpinteria were dusted with snow after the recent storms... We still made it to the beach that day though.