Month: April 2025

CO Birthday Trip

Great trip to visit friends and celebrate birthdays. Activities included an Escape Room, Pickle ball, Casa Bonita, board games, and exploring several different play grounds. Cato had endless fun in the airports pushing the suitcase/stroller, riding the subway at DEN, playing with hand driers, and riding on every escalator/moving walk way he could find (going back and forth at least twice!).

After 8 years of living in CO, we finally made it to Casa Bonita as a tourist stop on a visit from out of state. Definitely felt like a Disneyland attraction complete with cliff divers, face painting, puppet shows, illusionist, and a live mariachi band! (the “dinner” price is definitely more for the entertainment cost than food quality lol)

Another escape room master minds success!

Trying out some pickle ball to see what all the fuss is about (Cato and Bre elected to nap instead)

Happy Birthday, Steve!

Visiting with Sid, Deepti, and Sarah. Cato was very excited about Sarah’s ball tower and Shadow was quite disapointed that we didn’t bring Jasper to play with him.

Not to be overlooked, there was actually some good quality sleep during the trip!!

How to keep a toddler occupied while waiting for a plane? Give him something to push and a moving sidewalk to run laps back and forth on!

Flying back into SLO had some beautiful views of the coastline including Morro Bay

Exploring in the Salinas Riverbed

Another lovely outing wandering around the riverbed. The water crossing was short on rocks, so Cato tried throwing sticks (harder). Jasper got to chase squirrels and birds to his hearts content. The trail is definitely overgrown with vegetation, so there was some brush wacking involved

Parent Participation Class

We’ve been having lots of fun with our weekly outing to school (SLO Adult School). Today, the playground was extra fun with learning to hitch a ride and helping mow the lawn!

Novato Trip for Zihla’s 40th Bday

Great weekend visiting and catching up with old friends. Cato was a trooper on the drive and had a blast riding his bike around and playing with the other kids. We also discovered that Zihla’s brother, Derek, is twins with Stephanie’s husband, Keven.

Posing for a picture with Zihla and her mom
The Ladies! (L) Jane, Stephanie, Alli, Zihla, Shelley, Suzanne (R)
Tyson and Ambria with their two little ones (aged 4 and 2)
Catching up with Tyson & Ambria (and their 2 kids) as well as Miguel
Morning after brunch on the back patio (L) Mom, Mary, Zihla, Dad, Derek, Shelley (R)
Derek (Zihla’s brother) and Kevin (Staphanie’s husband) worked to coordinate for the event
Bike riding on single track dirt for the first time!! Feeling stoked 🙂
Who says you need water to go for a boat ride??

Reservoir Canyon Hike with Oaks 2 Oceans group

Lots of water and great views! Cato fell into the waterfall pool before we even started the hike, so he was already in his second outfit and came home in a diaper because I didn’t want poison oak covered clothes in the carseat 😂

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