the gareys: Gus and Nicole come to visit

My friends from Chicago came to visit with their son Ronin who will be 6 in September. Gus and I used to work together at a bar in Chicago where I worked during grad school. It was a great group of people that I worked with and there are about 7-8 of us that still keep in distant contact! My memories at Tavern on the Pier were all really great memories!

Ronin likes babies and he took to Olivia right away!

Here we are at Seaworld for the day and this pic was taken right before Abbys ride in the new sesame street area

during the ride

after the ride

Brads turn next to ride the fish ride--look at how uncomfortable he is, he is just to big of a human being to be on a kiddie ride!

druing the ride! can you tell how bored Ronin and Bella are?

elmos flying fish ride!

Nicole and Ronin

it is soooo scary-can you tell!!!

Shamu x 2! great pic Gus

Ok there is a sequence of these pictures because they are truly amazing to me. This is the Atlantis ride at Sea World, and it is a straight drop down. This was bellas first time on it (she is just 4 years old and maybe a couple of weeks old). Look closely at who is in the front seat! Yep Isabella and Ronin and they are by themselves!!!

here they are going over the big drop!

I can see fear in bellas eyes but she toughed it out!

they got soaked at the bottom!

and the reaction I was necessarily expecting--laughter!!!

Ava missing her nap and we are trying to get her to sleep unsuccessfully in the stroller!

sleepy bella

daredevil kids!

daddy and olivia at seaworld

Olivia loves this carrier and just kicks her legs like a wildwoman and coos the whole time!

the blue tongue kids after eating cotton candy. My girls have never had it before and just the other day I had cotton balls out and Ava heard the word cotton and started trying to eat them. She thought they were cotton candy!

I love this pic, Ronin was pouting about something with his arms crossed so Ava assumed the same position. She started out behind him but kept inching closer to him to be right next to him.