A walk in the park...

What a joy to be with mom and dad in our new home and new life. The house now smells like coffee and candles, giggles from the girls abound, and adventures are around every corner. For example...

Mom and I went for a walk in the park across the street on Sunday evening. Immediately upon entering the park we heard loud hip hop music and saw that a graffiti contest was going on. Then, under a pavilion, mom spied break dancers and said, " Oh, I love break dancers! Let's go watch." I looked at mom in her bright pink running shorts and me in my capri jogging pants. We are straight from OldNavyland. She doesn't even think about that. We march straight up to the break dancing circle to sit down and watch. It was really fun and little did I know that this was just the beginning of our adventure in the park...it would take forever to document it all, but in one lap around the place we saw break dancers, pink flamingoes, a hippy drum circle complete with hulahoopers and fire dancers, a bag pipe player who was ever elusive and who we only found after mom spied his bagpipe sticking up over a bush, and oh so many more random things. I truly don't know if things like this go on in the park all of the time and I am just oblivious to it with my head phones on, or if it really was a crazy night in the park. I have a feeling things like that abound and because mom is so brave and willing to jump into experiences that I would only watch from afar, we got to experience it. It was so random and wonderful and totally classic mom time.

We have done many more things such as read bunches, go for a picnic by a rushing river, drive along the most beautiful stretch of road in the world, thrift store shopping, garage saleing, talking into the wee hours of the morning, eating good food,and discovering a syndrome called PYS that Joel claims to have. That would be Pre Garage Saleing syndrome:)

Here are some of my favorite pics from the trip so far...