Bucks Lake

Last summer, our trip to the cabin at Bucks Lake was Owen's first family vacation. Owen was too young (only 3 months old) to really appreciate it, but this year he had a blast. He loved playing with Oisin and Jakodi, jumping on the bed, climbing on the deck chairs, and going inside/outside/inside/outside through the cabin door. Here he is playing peekaboo with Jakodi behind our beach towels.


He also learned a bunch of new words: blanket ("mum-baht"), yes, ready, more, and bucket ("buh-bit") as you can see here.

Spaghetti Hat

Sandbeck Family Reunion

Jeremy's Norwegian great-grandparents, Bert and Bertina Sandbeck, had thirteen children including Jeremy's grandma, Donna, the youngest of the bunch. At today's family reunion at May Nissen Park we saw about 150 family members, and this wasn't even close to the total number of relatives. There are so many people in the family that we've randomly met people in Livermore to later on find out that they're related. This was a fun day for Grammy Nancy to show off Owen to family members who hadn't met him yet, including his great-great-aunts. Of course, Owen was just stoked to be at the park all day.

Grandma Donna would have been proud.


Owen and his Dada

Slammy, Grammy, and Owen

Sizing up some of the little girls in the family

"Whee!" (That's what he says. He's still learning the word "slide.")


Owen=1/8 Norwegian

Fun Weekend

Oakland Zoo
Finally, summer school is over (and only 1 more week for Jeremy)! We kicked off the summer vacation by visiting the Oakland Zoo. This zoo trip was much more fun for Owen than the last one, when he was only 7 months old. He knew a lot of the animals this time (elephants, zebras, monkeys, birds) and he liked making their sounds. His favorite part was the petting zoo, where he learned a new animal/word: goat.

Owen was very VERY eager to pet the goats

This was right before Owen poked the goat in the eye

Walking walking walking all the time now!

Berkeley Kite Festival
The next day we went to the Berkeley Kite Festival. Owen was a little underwhelmed with the kites, but he did do a couple "oooh"s here and there. But it's pretty clear that anywhere Owen can find sticks and rocks and a place to roam, he'll have fun.

Not to brag...

...but I've got a pretty cute kid!

Here you can see he's a little boy now, not a little baby.

My little boy- 14 months old


Owen and Grandpa


Contemplating the meaning of life? Or just looking at a bush?


Reading a book. In a box.

And now a couple pictures we can use to embarrass Owen sometime later. You know, pull them out and show his prom date, stuff like that.

Fun with tampons

Snuggling up with the TP (like he does with anything soft- thumb in the mouth, rubbing the softie on his forehead)