Photo Tour #4: Bro Time

After several days in Orange County

we headed down INTO THE SMOKE

to visit my recently returned brother, Caleb,

and his beautiful girls, Nancy and Sophie!

This was our view while drivin' down the 5 freeway

Unbelievably,

we hadn't seen Caleb since his wedding!

That's almost three years ago!

I was a few months pregnant with Robbie,

and of course there was no Jacob or Sophie at that point!

I think Robbie "fell in love" with his Uncle Caleb immediately!

And Jacob and Sophie really hit it off this time!

When I was there with the kids and my parents back in February,

they were both such lil' infants,

that I don't think they were very aware of the others' existence!

This time was so fun to see them interact,

watch and observe,

even learn from one another!

I love how the next two pictures

show each of their profiles.

Jacob was JUST GETTING READY to begin crawling and scooting

during the weekend we were there

and he was up on his toes a lot, watching Angel and her tongue!

Look at this beauty!!

It was such a gift to get to experience some of Sophie's lil' personality!

She's such a sweetie!

Jacob and Sophie ended up in competition a little too!

They played tug-o-war with the plastic water bottle...

And then we had a "hamster" race,

to see who could scoot (or learn to crawl)

to get to the water bottle first!

I love her little tiny cirl on her left side!

A Daddy with his girls!

It was also really fun to just get to experience

seeing Caleb as a dad, and see how much Angel cares for him too.

We went down and walked the boardwalk a little,

thinking we would walk the pier,

but ended up running into a fair-type thing

where the kids were able to ride little fair rides.

Oceanside's beach is a beautiful view!

We got there in a bit of a heat wave,

and it was so smokey outside due to the several fires,

that we dressed in clothes as cool as possible

and sometimes took multiple cold showers a day =).

But even hot weather could'nt damper our joy about bein' together.

Last February Taylor LOVED getting to walk Angel,

so we were sure to fit in a walk when the smoke cleared a bit!

Cousins!

So glad we got to be together!

Love you guys Gowanitos!