Phone picture randomness

I love having the capability to take pictures with my phone to catch those spur-of-the-moment photo opportunities, as well as those that are not so spur-of-the-moment where I just forgot to bring a camera.  The problem is that I let them build up in my phone before blogging them.  Many have been posted on facebook, but since my blog is my way of documenting life, I need to get caught up with all of the pictures from my phone.

Whenever Ayden comes with my to my school, he looks for Victor, our custodian.  Victor let Ayden push the garbage cans around on this day.

Random picture from February - Ayden built a castle!

February - writing his name on his valentines.

His very first slurpee!!!  He now asks for them every time we are at the gas station.

Home sick from school in March

March 17th to be exact.  One of the perks was that he wasn't too sick to enjoy a special St. Patrick's Day breakfast!

Ayden has figured out how to take pictures with my phone.  This is his view from the back seat of my car.

Ayden and I at the Mother's Day Tea at his preschool

Our first fire in the fire pit this spring...and yummy smores!!!

May - At the silent auction for Ayden's preschool, we bought "principal for the day."  He loved spending the day with Ms. Chris and got to help give tours and pass out snacks.

We attended Ken's cousin's vow renewal over a rainy Memorial Day weekend.  Ayden was so excited to use his umbrella!

So handsome!

Ayden's attempt at a self portrait

USS Hornet & Chabot Science/Space Center

Ayden has been asking for a couple of months to see a real aircraft carrier.  He has a huge toy one that he plays with all the time, so Ken looked online and found the USS Hornet.  It is a decomissioned aircraft carrier in Alameda, CA that has been turned into a museum.  Since it's only about 2 hours away, we decided to go and also visit the nearby Chabot Science & Space Center.  We were joined by Grandpa & Grandma Jill, had a great day and could not have had better Bay Area weather!!!

 Ayden was pretty excited the whole time.  He listened to the directions very carefully and kept reminding my dad not to touch things. He was very interested in the planes that were in the hangar.

Grandpa, Grandma Jill, and Ayden waiting for the flight simulator

Running off some energy on the flight deck with Daddy

The beautiful view of San Francisco from the deck of the ship

After a break for lunch, we headed to the science center. Our entrance included a planetarium show and an IMAX show, which were both pretty cool.  We ran out of time to see the whole place before they closed, we will definitely have to go back another time to see the rest. Ayden enjoyed the space artifacts and replicas!

Our tired boy!!

Hard work

In the small amount of good weather we had this spring, Ken re-did an area of our backyard to make a small patio for our bar-b-que.  Ayden loved helping him and asked every day, "When are we working in the yard?" Ken called him his slave driver!  It's so cute that he's such a hard worker (when he wants to be!)