T and Ty

This last weekend we had our friends Ivan and Katie (and their cutie-pie Tyson) visit us from Sac-town. It was so much fun to see them and let our boys go crazy together. We toured campus, played in the courtyard and went to our favorite Palo Alto duck pond. We also went to the top of the Hoover tower, which just re-opened after months of construction. The view was amazing from the top, but Talmage just might have had a break-down when I wouldn't let him climb through the bars and jump off the tower. I'm such a mean mom, aren't I.

Katie is super talented and cute and I loved getting to know her better. Three quickies about her: she makes pregnancy look ridiculously adorable, she makes darn good pumpkin chocolate chip bread & she should start her own purse-making business. Seriously, she had the cutest purse I think I've ever seen and she made it. She's just awesome.

Tyson and Talmage both loved the duck pond in their own way. Tyson thought the whole thing was hilarious and would laugh hysterically each time a duck would eat the bread he threw. Possibly the cutest thing I've ever seen! It never got old and he couldn't stop laughing. He had us all smiling. Talmage, on the other hand, decided to have intellectual conversations with the ducks. "Hi ducks," he said. "How are you doing today? Do you like to eat bread ducks?" He is so cute and it was so funny.

Speaking of cute and funny...We interrupt this post with a random picture of Ev that I think is, well, cute and funny. Now back to the Tidwell's visit!

After visiting the duck pond we went out to the bay and visited our very own Stonehenge! At least it looked kind of like it...kind of. We also saw people wind-surfing, Talmage learned how to spit off the dock and Tyson picked up multiple pieces of duck poop thinking they were rocks. It was eventful for sure!

This photo-chain could have easily been titled, "Taking a decent picture of two two-year-olds is nearly impossible." I really wanted a picture with them together, and this is as good as it got! Talmage loved playing with Tyson, and I think Tyson liked it too...until they were playing football and Ivan taught Talmage how to tackle. It was all over from there!

Thanks for the visit you guys. Come back soon!