We celebrated our first holiday in our new home by having our friends, the Khans, come down to hang out. They arrived late Thursday night and so on Friday we played at the house and took naps. Later that afternoon we had our new friends (and back door neighbors), the Ramages and the Kitsteiners (our across the street neighbors) come over for a cookout. After dinner we bathed the boys, who were filthy from playing in the dirt all day, and loaded up wagons and strollers to go down to the water to watch the fireworks across the bay. On Saturday morning we got ready to head to the beach. We loaded up the kids and all of the stuff we'd need to stay through lunch. Unfortunately the power had gone out the day before at the base beach area and so the water wasn't working and when it was time to go home we had to rinse off in the ocean and carry the kids up to the covered area. Wasn't very effective, but you do what you have to. That night we had the Ramages over again to help eat up our leftovers from the day before. It was great having all the kids playing together! On Sunday we went to the splash pad on base to let the boys run around in the water and at the playground. The dads had a blast taking tons of photos and I'm going to do my best to put as many on here as I can. (You can always check Burt and Melissa's blog for more photos.)

The crazy and exciting things with our kids that happened this weekend are that Sophie has started sitting up. She still wobbles a little, but she has been working on it all week and finally was able to balance herself for extended periods of time. She has grown so much lately and eating like crazy that we decided to weigh her and found out she weighs 19 pounds!!!! That is what I weighed at one year! But I think we all realize that she's not your typical petite little girl. We love our chubs though! As for Christopher he decided he wanted to shave his head like Uncle Burt. Brandon pulled the clippers out and asked him which number he wanted and Christopher told him. What surprised me even more was that Brandon was ok with it, he's the one who would never let me cut it before. The boys had a great time cutting each other's hair and getting all cleaned up. It was really cute! Christopher actually cut about half of Brandon's hair for him. He might be taking over for me soon!

A day at the beach with the kids.