Happy Bday Daddy

Zander SLEPT through Daddy's birthday dinner at the Original Garcias! And Paw was here visiting, too.

We tried waking him up.


and then we just let him sleep across two chairs.

Ocean Beach trip!

Beach boy:





Eating at Hodad's:



Sunset (Zander was sleepy after playing on the beach):




We stayed at the awesome Ocean Beach Hotel:




We got up really early to go to the beach the next day:

Zander and the Monster


I can't decide which picture I like the most. The first was overexposed and highly photoshopped, ;)


Checking out the tide pools - we could see fish and crabs!



Back to the beach:


The view from our room:



Out on the Ocean Beach Pier:


We loved Hodad's so much we went back the next day:




And this is hard to read, but it cracked me up!

STOP! HAMMER TIME!

We had the BEST time, we can't wait to go back to Ocean Beach!
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Happy Birthday Melissa!

Happy Birthday to Zander's Auntie Sis!

Poppa with Zander & Jacey

Jacey, Melissa & Mickey

Uncle Marty holding Zander & Jacey!

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Grasshopper Bridge 5k!

Zander and I did the Grasshopper Bridge 5k on 9/29. I did pretty good! I finished in 40:22, that was about half walking/half running. Afterwards we played at the playground and Zander ran the rest of the course, he loves to race!





The Grasshopper Bridge

hanging around

Zander's enjoying some of his birthday presents:




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Birthday gifts from Maw & Paw

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