Bree and Dee come to town

This last week Lindsay, Brad, Breana and Delaney Noll came to visit. It was such a special visit. We had such a great time, despite the cold weather. Tyler sure misses his cousins, so it was so great that he got to spend 7 days with two of them. He took them to some of his favorite places, the park, Kidspace, travel town, and Balboa Island. It rained a few of the days they were here, so he we had to try a new places too...Amy's playground, an indoor play area.

Our friends, Kristy and Matt, were out of town and graciously let us use their home for the week. That was awesome! The Noll's could have their own space and could use this trip as a little vacation for themselves too. That is were they stayed. They have a little boy, so it came equiped with all the baby necessities for Laney (high chair, toys, changing table, baby proof locks, etc.). The kids got to play in the yard, swim in the kiddy pool, and Lindsay and Brad did not have to sleep on the futon:) We also got to use the hot tub:)

We spent most of our time out and about and had dinner at our place most nights. One night, Lindsay and Brad tried Thai food for the first time and liked it! We went to Korean BBQ of course, but other nights we stayed home and had dinner. A few nights we put the kids to bed at our house. One night Brad and Dave got Chinese foot massages and another night Lindsay and I went to the Korean spa. It was heavenly! The last night we got a babysitter and all for of us went to the Cheesecake factory for dessert. It was great. We miss spending time with the Noll's!

Below are some pictures from the visit. I used my somewhat new lense (Canon 50mm, 1.4)!

Family photo op at Travel town on the back of a train

These two loved chasing each other around everywhere.

Lindsay(my twin sister), Delaney (almost 1 year), Breana (3 years), Brad (Brother-in -law)

I just loved this picture. Man on a mission.

The kids giving their tickets to the conductor to get on the train.

Stationary trains that they can walk around and look at.

Breana posing for her photo shoot.

Laney's one year photos that we took on my bed in my bedroom.

As Ty and I were driving home from the airport today we turned onto California Blvd near Cal Tech and Ty says, "Watch Daddy Frisbee". We were only a block from where daddy plays frisbee, so we stopped to watch for a while. I could not believe he knew that is where we were or that he could communicate that. He has been talking up a storm. Aunt Lindsay said he speaks way over 50 words. She was surprise at how much he was saying.

Examples of what he says: Call phone, call grandma grandpa, counts to ten, school bus, orange bus, airplane ride, ride bus, go farmer market, pumpkin, beach with Timmy Kylie, eat grapes,