May birthdays - 2016

Three of the four of us in our little family have our birthdays within just over a month (and then our new little one will me within days of Rua's so we won't have spread out birthdays at all!), so it makes for a fun, busy few weeks.

Kiersten's birthday;
Eric took the day off (yay!) so we were able to go for a family hike up Cowle's Mountain in the morning. Such a great start to the day!

After some brief last minute babysitting in the afternoon, we headed out to Ocean Beach where we had some pizza and then walked out on the pier. We realized that it's been years since we've been to that pier so it was great to go again, so pretty.

Then some cake, of course! This recipe, yummy!

Eric's birthday!

Eric loves shells and looking for shells so we went to his favorite spot, Bird Rock, which is a large rocky tide pool area. We've had some good times there and found some great stuff in the past. I stayed up with Rua since I didn't want to risk a slippery fall on the rocks being pregnant and Rua just wanted to run across the rocks and wouldn't let us hold her, accident waiting to happen too. So we strolled in the beautiful neighborhood above the beach to a little park that Abby and Eric would end up at. Turns out Eric and Abby were the ones who tool a slippery fall, but thankfully came out with only a gash on Eric's leg and some sore spots. Definitely a bit scary though for them!

Then of course, cake, or in this case - pie! This blueberry pie.

Abby, who was soo excited for pie, when it came time for it had a huge melt-down. I think it was that her pie was kind of breaking apart as she tried to break a piece off with a fork. 

We'd been telling Abby for months as she asks repeatedly how soon her birthday is that Mom's comes first, and then Dad's, and then Abby's. After we got those first two out of the way, Abby was ready to start her count-down.

Next up, Abby's birthday!!