A Day at the Zoo

We went to the zoo recently with my friend Tamara and her little boy Tommy.  I grew up with her in Norco and now we live about 35 minutes away. Our kids are a month apart and we are now both pregnant a month apart too, it's perfect!

Juniper has gone to the zoo a few times before this but this time she talks a lot more and gets excited about everything so I was looking forward to taking her.  She LOVED it so much, her eyes would get big and she would say "look mommy, I see a bear!" Our zoo also had a lot of interactive things for her to do like brushing the goats, harvest plastic vegetables and a splash park, Juniper loved it all. 

Look at her long legs!

Her watching the bear

Harvesting corn!

Watching the elephant being washed.

Juniper & Tommy!

Juniper was scared of getting too close to the goats, she takes after her mommy :)

This was one of her favorite things to do, collecting eggs from the hens

At the splash pad

Brushing the sleepy goat

Strawberry Picking

Every year since we've been married, we go fruit picking for every season.  I'm so glad Landon loves to do these things,  he is just as excited as I am to go and now we have a little mini to follow in our footsteps, which makes everything better.  This was the second time going strawberry picking with Juniper, last year she was barely a year old and she just sat in the fields and ate strawberry after strawberry and this time she was running back and forth eating all the strawberries we picked.  She probably had 20+! It's crazy to think that next year we'll have 2 girls running in the fields with us! 

She's such a daddy's girl, and I LOVE it!

Intern Year is Over!

Our family of 4 (baby bump is 31 weeks!)

Intern year of residency is officially over!
It's been an exciting year full of changes and new experiences.  We bought our first home, we found out we were pregnant with our second, and most importantly Landon worked his butt off.  It's been long hours for Landon but he's grown so much as a physician and I see it in him, I'm so proud of all the hard work he puts in and for all the sacrifices he makes for our family.

La Jolla

It happened to be National Donut Day and I actually was already on my way to get a donut so I knew it was fate. We took our donuts down to the beach, watched some sea lions, ate just the sprinkles from the donuts, and then somehow ended up in the water which was not planned.  I thought it was going to be too cold, but I forgot that Juniper was Landon's child and didn't care so we were soaked by the end of our visit.  

CA Video

Here's a little video of our time in CA.  Videos are never my priority, obviously photos are, but with Snapchat and Instagram stories I have lots of little clips that I don't know what to do with so I put them all together and made this.  A lot of them were vertically taken so they are super cropped, but there's something about videos that really takes me back to the moment and I love that.  I always wish I remembered to do more!

San Diego

Here's a few phone photos of our time in San Diego.  It was our last vacation just the 3 of us and Juniper is at such a fun age where everything is exciting and new, so this vacation will forever be such a special memory.  Every morning Landon had to go to his Emergency conference so Juniper and I would go out together and do something fun and then pick up daddy for lunch. My mom was nice enough to come pick up Juni for the last 2 days so that Landon and I could have some time alone together too.  We've been to San Diego so much now that we have a list of our favorite foodie places and man did we eat SO good.  Seriously the best meals every single day.  Fish tacos, a crab boil, the BEST spicy ramen, California burritos, and classic hamburgers, I probably gained like a million pounds but it was worth it.  

Early Birthday Party

Juniper's birthday isn't until July but since we were with family we decided to do an early little birthday celebration/going away party at my brother's new pool before we left.  Juniper is VERY into birthdays right now, one day out of the blue she requested "happy birthday song" as I was putting her to sleep and ever since then she sings happy birthday all the time and plays "birthday party" with her little animals, so I thought it would at least be fun to make a cake and have everyone sing to her... and she loved every second of it. 

My sister gave her a Little Mermaid bubble wand that the kids all saw at Disneyland so they were all excited to play in the bubbles.