cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: Summertime and the Livin' is Easy

Summertime and our time in Brentwood is coming to a close. I realized that a lot of our activities have been documented with Britton's phone instead of our usual camera and I always forget about the pictures on Britton's phone. So here's some catching up.
Britton got the, cue angelic music, iPhone 4... He was so excited when it finally arrived in the store that he walked there instead of waiting for me to pick him up after work. It's a wonderful upgrade since his first generation iPhone was on the verge of death. He passed that phone on to Kelsey:)
The new phone takes pretty good pictures and videos. Here's will playing with his favorite girls at a park. This summer we spent a lot of time visiting the many, many different parks in Brentwood.

We also spent a lot of time taking Moto the dog on walks. Almost every day we would walk Moto and stop at a park. Somewhere along the way Will confused himself with a dog and now stops at every tree and pole to go pee pees.

It's hot here so we also spent a lot of time swimming! We went swimming at the gym, and in Nana and Papa's pool. Will has gotten SO much more comfortable in the water. He used to be so cautious, and make little pansy jumps into our arms. Now...you'll just have to check out the video below.

Living in Britton's home town we've gotten to see a lot of Britton's friends from the ol' days. We got to see a lot of people at the Warren's reception. Here's a picture of Britton, Matt, and Scott and some token children.

For Aileen's birthday we took a great family trip to Angel Island. Will is still talking about it. It's an island in the bay that was used for military and housed an immigration station. We took a tram tour of the island, learned a lot about the history of the island, and heard some pretty bad jokes from our tour guide. It has a great view of San Francisco. I would love to go back for Fleet Week to see the planes fly around from that view. It would also make a really great family bike ride some day.

I just thought this picture was cute. Will tried using chop sticks without any prompting at Oodles of Noodles, a new restaurant in Brentwood.

Labor Day weekend was memorable. Mostly not in a good way. Britton's parents left us in charge of their youngest, Alex. While cleaning out the garage on Saturday Alex was tempted by the old dirt bike, and then the ol' dirt bike owned him. Alex left all kinds of skin on the road outside the Olson house and spent the next four hours at the hospital mending his broken wrist. He's a trooper. His friend Evan shown below was there for the whole hospital experience and most of the weekend. We still made Alex go hiking with us on Monday.