Santa Cruz Trip

September is the perfect time to go to Santa Cruz. Its so warm and the place is deserted. We had so much fun. 

September 6th, 2013

The day started out so well. Peaceful. My friend gave me flowers and we thought about Andrew and the life he lived. 

Jacob took this picture of me.

My dad sent flowers that we enjoyed together. 

 Then it all went wrong. Jacob was playing in the backseat of the van in the Target parking lot. He was standing on the back bench, holding himself with his hands planted on the two captains chairs, swinging back and forth. Then his hand slipped and he crashed down, forehead first onto one of the metal anchors that are in the floor of the van. His forehead had a large gash. Jacob didn't really cry a lot, but I did. Being the 1 year anniversary of Andrew's death, I was on very thin emotional ice. I looked at his head, saw the gash and tried to call 911 but my phone didn't work. So I started screaming to anyone in the parking lot to come over and dial 911 for me. Jacob wasn't acting normal, he was staying very still on my lap and keeping his head down. The firetruck came, the first responders checked him out and gave me the choice to drive him to the ER myself or call the ambulance. I coudn't imagine driving him by myself with that gash and him acting all limp. So they put him in the ambulance and I followed them there. This is a picture of Jacob coming out of the ambulance at the ER. He was so happy to see me.

 He got his stitches and thouroughly enjoyed his ice cream. 

 Alex and Aaron were so proud of Jacob they gave him candy and lots of hugs.

 To remember Andrew we went to his grave and released white balloons with led lights in them into the sky. We said a message that we wanted to give to Andrew before we released them. Then we watched them float up forever. We could still see the lights, as small as the stars for 5 minutes or so.

Labor Day

Had a big party at our house with...16 kids in attendance. Definitly out numbered the adults. It was so fun! And Jacob only made 2 cans of pop burst by throwing them on the ground. 

August Around the House

Aaron is starting to figure out some cool lego building techniques. 

 Discovered a new burger place Main Street Burger in Los Gatos. So yummy!

 Alex and his friend had art camp at our house and worked on some really cool projects. The whole day ended up with an 8 bit theme.

First Day of School

Are these guys ready or what? Chris always rides them into school on the first day. So there they are, nervous, excited, itching to get on the road. Bring it on school!

Los Gatos Fountains

Its the last week of summer and what do we want to do? Play in the fountains. The weather is hot, we feel the clock ticking to get back on a school schedule. We are going to squeeze every bit of summer out of these days. 

Emma Prusch Park

We found a gem at the Emma Prusch Farm Park.  This place is in East San Jose surrounded by city and suburb, but it feels like you are out in the country. Petting Zoo, Barn, Lots of space to run and ride bikes. We even met a girl who would buy pig each year, keep it at the park and raise it there and then sell it for slaughter in the fall. 

 This one is trying to get a little nibble of Jacob's face. Yikes. 

 Jacob cracks me up. He has no fear of anything. He saw a goose next to our car in the parking lot and he went right up to it. They were the same height! The goose was trying to tell Jacob off but Jacob just thought he was talking to him.