a weekend in san francisco!

woodfire pizza + music

every wednesday night during the summer we have the opportunity to go get a homemade woodfire pizza and enjoy a music concert.

so why not?!

 ^^ my handsome dates. everyone can bring their own chairs and blankets and beverages, side dishes, yard games etc. its like one big community picnic!

yardwork + downtown dining

since nash has been born our poor yard has not gotten any attention

we asked our in-laws if they would be able to come help us.

my mother in law spent they day inside with N and my brother in law helped outside

i was between both. . . it felt so good to get outside, get on my gardening gloves and work up a sweat under the hot summer sun. but when nash would get hungry, i was usually always ready for a break from the heat and to kick my feet up for 20 minutes... the perks of being a mama!

we went out to dinner downtown at a new restaurant.

i order bruschetta all the time; this one takes the cake for being the best i've ever had!

nick and i love eating outside on the patio's; nash snoozed right through dinner. if you look close enough you can see nick caught a group picture in the reflection behind me and N.

we are so blessed to have such a helpful family. i think our yard (and our neighbors) really appreciate it too ;)

the dog park

"finally my humans took me to my favorite place! the dog park!

all my friends had been missing me, but i told them i have a new brother to look after at home so it is hard to get out as much.

 ^^ i yelled at mom to get an action shot of me, but she didn't get my best angle

 ^ my humans

^ i had to have her take a photo of me in this luscious green "grass", i thought it really made my eyes stand out

i would have taken a selfie but my paws don't bend that way... and mom&dad refuse to get me a selfie stick :(

i see while typing this that mom still hasn't figured out the image quality issue. . .  blurry pictures don't do me justice!! i'll post again soon so you can really see how handsome i have been looking this summer.

well got to go, i hear my pool getting filled up in the backyard, time to play"

-mac

baby friend

N has a new baby friend!

neil!

congratulations to my good friend cindy on such a handsome baby boy. We swapped baby's for the photo. . . i can hardly remember Nash being that small.

i'm not sure if the light in the hospital room was too bright, but poor N wouldn't open his eyes very far haha

we are so excited to have some play dates :)

Celebrating the 4th!

happy fourth of july! we had a great day celebrating with family.  we went up to spend the day with nick's grandma as it is her birthday. we grilled brauts and snacked on yummy side dishes and desserts during the afternoon.

^^ how cute are my boys :)

we always have to dress mac for the occasion of course, you can barely see his american flag bow tie peaking out from his collar.

something about a sunflower just makes ya happy! and trips to see family these days have become quite the task with all we pack. a diaper bag (and making sure its stocked), a bag for mac (toys, food, water dish, leash, meds) and a bag for me! and we usually get sent back home with leftovers. . . i'm not complaining about those ;)

trying to get out the door on time has become quite the game, and we aren't winning. we usually start preparing 2 hours ahead of time so we can time it right with feeding N as to limit the amount of stops we have to make on the drive.

once we got home we had a picnic in our backyard, the weather was so perfect, as was the company.

i can not figure out why the picture quality on these photos is so terrible, hopefully i can figure it out soon!

and for fireworks we went to our secret parking spot and watched them in our pajama's.

and we ended the night with cuddling. it was a wonderful fourth of july!

thank you to all the brave men and women who sacrifice so much to allow us to have such freedom. i am truly blessed to live in such a wonderful country. here are the posts from our previous fourth of july's in case you want to take a trip down memory lane 2011 . 2012 . 2013 . 2014

Lauren & Jordan's Wedding

my good friend from college got married this weekend and we of course had to help them celebrate.... 3 week old and all :)

it was such a wonderful evening, every wedding is so unique and so special. i never get sick of them!

here are a few pictures from the day