Finals Week!

Similar to the midterm season for Russell in March, Ty and I again took Russell's subtle hint (and advantage of Allegiant Air's cheap flights with our limited-before-Ty's-2 flying time) and went to Northern California.  We flew in on Friday, May 4th which was also Sawyer's 2nd birthday!  Ty was happy to spend time with his cousin, but not nearly as excited as Soy was to see him!  We went to and helped with Sawyer's Buzz Lightyear/Cinco de Mayo party the next day and fun was had by all.  I have far too many pictures (mainly of the little cousins), and we had a fun time seeing Mor-Mor, Far-Far, Sawyer ["So-sore"], Carl ["Carko"], Uncle Curt ["Cut"], and Aunt Leslie ["Lessie"].

Our flight down was just how I like it: on time and fairly empty.  We had a row of 3 seats to ourselves with nobody in the 2 rows behind us.  Ty had fun using the "bucker" on his seat belt.  

When we arrived at the Stockton "Metropolitan" Airport, Mor-Mor, Far-Far, and Birthay Boy Soy picked us up.  The little boys stretched their legs for a little while running around.  Of course seeing the red bus then spurred a big round of "The Wheels on the Bus."

 Ty and Soy held hands like this for about 5 minutes on the ride back.  Cute.

 Then they were playing with blankets (okay, technically Sawyer's was a sweatshirt), putting them over their heads and laughing with/at each other.

 A favorite activity at Mor-Mor and Far-Far's: rolling the balls on the pool table.

 This picture is from Christmastime: see?  It's a tradition.  Look how much they've grown already!

Aaaand then of course Ty starts crying because he was gathering the balls and Soy actually wanted to play with them.  Typical...

 Ty and I helped (watched...) Mor-Mor make some banana chocolate chip cake and licked the beater.

 He was even willing to help out and lick the spatula that spread the peanut butter frosting.  :)

 Reading stories with Mor-Mor.

Ty on the swing in the Espinoza's backyard, enjoying the birthday party...?

 Leslie had bubbles and sidewalk chalk to play with during Soy's party.  Since it was windy, the bubbles blew themselves!

 After the pinata, Ty scored a lollipop, or as he says, "Wubbypup."  He enjoyed that thing for a good 30 minutes and told everybody about it.

 Ty was very interested in Sawyer's presents, too, and was checking out this monster truck with G-g'pa.

 Sawyer got a new car and Ty was nice enough to let him ride on the back.  ;)

Hanging out with Carl.  They actually almost could play together!

 Ty and Soy played "Horsey, Horsey" with Mor-Mor and Far-Far and had lots of fun.  (Oh, and pay no attention to Ty's un-clothed bottom half; he spilled water all over his shorts, so we took them off to let them dry.)

 When it was time to switch horses, Ty wasn't very happy about it.  (Sorry, Far-Far.)

 Helping Mor-Mor do sit-ups!  I love this picture.

We went to the park one morning, but it was so hot (which means all of the slides and swings burned yo' buns, too) that we only stayed for a bit.

 I think they had more fun sitting on the bench eating apples.

On the plane ride back, we had one of the few unoccupied seats next to us.  (Just because he's a lap child technically doesn't mean we need to openly invite others to come sit by us...)  He entertained himself fairly well again.  While I'm glad he's pretty well-behaved on airplanes, he can hold on to that skill for car trips now because once he turns 2 and we have 2 more babies, we're staying grounded.  Fun while it lasted...

Thanks for letting us come visit, fam!  Since coming back home, Ty has been a little more excited to see Russell than me.  I don't blame him. 

And WAY TO GO RUSSELL on finals!  He kicked the bootay of his classes and did very well this semester--no doubt thanks to his family ditching him during cram time. Whatever it takes, right?