Life has been busy lately and I have not been good at documenting our adventures. We have been having the best weekends lately, making it a priority to get out of the house and do something fun.
Last weekend we went to Berkeley and checked out their farmer's market, the flea market (it was a little scary but I bought an awesome basket from Ghana so it was worth it), downtown, and Tilden Park (we hoped to take the kids on the carousel but sadly it is closed until February).
This weekend we headed over to Santa Cruz where it was a beautiful 70 degrees. Rick surfed and the waves were pretty big. He had some close calls but thankfully made it out alive. I had the best time hanging with Mav and Adelaide while Rick surfed... we built a sand castle (more like I built many sand castles while they enjoyed destroying them), Maverick ate a ridiculous amount of sand, and we sang lots of happy songs. Maverick didn't really take notice of the ocean for the first half hour, but once he did he went crazy for it. He kept running as fast as he could straight for the ocean. I held his hands while the huge waves broke on shore and he got soaked. It was cold but he LOVED it. Whenever I tried to bring him back towards our towels he cried with the saddest little face. I think he will be a surfer like his Daddy. It's a good thing Adelaide is currently afraid of the waves because if they both loved the water like Maverick I could never stand a chance watching them on my own!
