Knott's Berry Farm

We recently took Bennett on his first trip to Knott's Berry Farm along with all of Dan's family. Bennett and cousin Sam had a blast in Camp Snoopy there. Bennett really had fun on the rides and had a great time despite the fact that it was nearly 100 degrees outside that day!

Bennett's first ride on a roller coaster...he already knew to put his hands in the air for maximum fun. :o)

Snoopy's Red Baron Airplane ride. Bennett and Sam had fun flying up and down in their airplane.

Video of Bennett and Sam flying Red Baron style.

One of Bennett's favorite rides was the semi trucks. Dan got to ride along too. The funniest thing about these trucks is that they have little clown horns for the kids to honk, and the kids like that better than the ride. Just sounds funny with a bunch of "Mack" trucks and little clown horns!

Video of the Mack Truck ride and the little clown horns. :o)

Grandpa helping Bennett get a drink of water on this very hot day!

Anniversaries

This past weekend Dan and I celebrated both our dating and our wedding anniversaries. They happen to be one day apart, so it is easy to do both. We have been married for 6 years, but together a total of 12 years. We got the wonderful opportunity to just get away for an overnight trip to the Lodge at Torrey Pines which is down near San Diego. It was so nice to just get away. My mom took Bennett for the weekend so we could have a little time alone. The Lodge was beautiful and very relaxing. Just happens that next week they are hosting the US Open there, so the golf course was being reformed with bleachers and tents, etc. Still the scenery was gorgeous! We had a room overlooking the golf course and the ocean and all of the Torrey Pine trees. We laughed because when we got into the elevator at the lodge they had a pine scent pumped into the elevator. Smelled good though! The grounds also had alot of Sage and Rosemary planted around, so the air was very aromatic. We had such a nice time, but I forgot to ask someone to take any pictures of us together and consequently got only scenery pics this time. Oh well. My mom made the weekend great by not only taking Bennett for us, but she had champagne and fruit delivered to our room as a surprise! We enjoyed it as we watched the sunset over the ocean.

Looking back at the lodge from the grounds behind. Our room is the top floor balcony between the two peaked roofs. Great room location!

View from the balcony of our room overlooking the golf course and the Pacific Ocean. All of the bleachers and tents were being set up for the US Open.

A lone seagull decided to visit us before we left.

The sunset from our balcony.

Champagne that mom sent us via room service. We felt like VIPs!

On the way down to the Lodge, we stopped off at Legoland and went in for 45 minutes on a shopper's pass for free. Took some cool pictures of some of the miniland there. They had neat replicas of most of Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, etc. Thought I'd include a few here for those of you who have never been. We can't wait to take Bennett when he is a little older.

Mini Las Vegas sign made out of Legos.

Mini version of the Excalibur Hotel in Vegas .

Mini version of the Treasure Island Hotel in Vegas.

Mini version of a street in San Fransisco complete with moving cable cars.

Mini version of the Griffith Observatory in Hollywood.

Trash Talk

So...I don't know about everyone else's 2 year olds, but my 2 year old happens to be infatuated with all things regarding trash. He LOVES the trash trucks when they come to collect the trash. Friday (which is trash collection day in my neighborhood) is definitely the best day of the week for Bennett. Every Friday morning when we hear a trash truck Bennett says "Truck!" very excitedly and runs for the front door so he can go out and watch the truck picking up the trash. Most of the truck drivers know Bennett now and they always wait for him to come out so they can honk their horn for him. He just loves it! He also loves to throw stuff away (even things that aren't supposed to be thrown away!) So we have to watch that he doesn't throw away our car keys and things like that. :o) Cheryl was over one day and took this video of him asking if he can throw these balls into the trash can behind him. Pretty funny. Maybe I won't have a hard time getting him to clean his room when he gets older eh? One can only hope!!!