Preston Michael!

Ok, wow, it's been a loooooong time since I've posted!  I do have some good excuses though, I had a baby and we moved back to America!  It's has been an incredibly hectic few months.  So, I'll just start catching up slowly but surely.  Here's the first catch up post.

Preston Michael was born December 1, 2014 at 12:16 pm.  He weighed in at a whopping 9 lbs 6 oz and was 20 inches long.  I was in labor for approximately 4 hours!  I drove JJ to school, then went over to my regularly scheduled ob apt around 9:30 am.  I was having contractions, so the doctor checked me and I was already dilated to 4 cm, so he walked me straight up to labor and delivery!  My parents were in town, so they took Owen home and Brian came to the hospital.  

By the time he got there I was in active labor and Preston was moving fast.  By noon, I was fully dilated and ready to push!  The ob was great and I was able to have my third unmedicated childbirth!  Since Brian came to the hospital directly from work, we didn't even have our camera.  Here's a picture my friend took. 

San Marino.

Brian surprised us with a trip for my birthday up to the little country of San Marino.  It's a beautiful mountaintop country within Italy and we all had an amazing weekend.  Brian doesn't normally do surprises, so this was lots of fun : )

Birthday Boys.

So about 2 months ago, Owen turned 2-years-old!  Where did the time go?!?  He was very excited about it and had a fun day : )

Then we had a joint birthday party for the boys at the park.  It was a very nice day and the boys had a great time.

Then JJ turned 5-years-old!!  Seriously, where has the time gone?!?!?!?

More Barcelona.

We went to the zoo in Barcelona and had a great time.  It made me really excited to be able to go to the zoo all the time once we're back in San Diego : )

This was one of my favorite animals of the day, an albino kangaroo!

Our last full day there, we went to the beach and it was beautiful.  The boys had a great time playing in the sand and the water was very nice.  Overall, it was a great vacation.

Barcelona.

Last month we took our last big trip during our time here in Italy and it was definitely bittersweet.  We went to Barcelona and had a great long weekend.  It was pretty hot and crowded, but we still had a good time. 

Here's JJ waiting for the metro.  Both boys loved that we rode the train around so much while we were there.

This was an amazing fresh food market.  There was tons of seafood and most of it wasn't even dead yet!

We spent a few hours at La Sagrada Familia and it was gorgeous.  We were feeling a little spoiled though because this cathedral felt so young since it is less than 200 years old.  It was probably the newest cathedral we've seen since moving here!

Here's the view from the top of one of the towers.  They wouldn't let the kids go up, so only Brian got to go to the very top.  I got to stay at the bottom with crying JJ because he really wanted to go : (