Yesterday, a friend of mine and I took Ben to the “spray ground”. It is a park that has a water feature. Now, we’ve been to this park before and had seen the water toys but I had kind of forgotten about it and I wasn’t sure when they were going to start running the water. Apparently they have started. So, we took Ben and had a great time.
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Ugh. It’s really hot right now. The kind of hot that makes you sweat just walking to your car. The kind that makes you not want to go outside.
When it gets this hot, I don’t cook. I serve the three S’s for dinner- smoothies, sandwiches, and salads. Just boiling Ben’s neb makes me sweat. I bought a roasted chicken to cut up and put in sandwiches and salads. Of course, Ben is loving what’s on the menu lately. Who wouldn’t?
Tomorrow I’m taking him to a water park in El Dorado Hills. Hopefully, it’ll cool down just a bit. You’d think I’d know all this by now, I’ve lived in Sac for 10 years. Yet somehow I always act surprised and dramatic in this kind of heat.
Water park pics will be headed your way tomorrow :)
Ryan had to go to LA this weekend for a tradeshow so it was just Ben and I. The Sacramento heat has returned in full force but I decided that we needed to get out.
My cousin Darcy called us to say that she was going to Pops in the Park in downtown Sacramento. There was a band playing along with different foods and beverages being served. So after treatments and some dinner, Ben and I headed downtown. It was really hot but Ben needed to get out and I needed to get out of my we-just-lost-Conner funk.
Once we got there, I parked at her house, loaded up the wagon and hiked to the park. I was glad we made the decision to go. Ben ran straight for the crowd of people…
and began to dance.
But there were tears when I wouldn’t let him push the wagon into a crowd of people.
And then there were more tears when I wouldn’t let him follow the bear into the bathroom (poor person in there must have been sweating). Once again, mean Mommy.
The day ended when a tantrum was thrown over an empty Otter Pop wrapper. Event though it would have been nice to stay longer, I am glad for the one-on-one time I have with Ben. I seemed to hold him a little bit tighter this weekend :)
If you’d like to read about Conner’s final day Click here. It is beautiful and tragic all at the same time.
If you’d like to help us honor and remember Conner, you can wear red on Wednesday.
I truly hoped I’d never have to post this. Last night, sweet little Conner Jones, lost his battle to CF at 7-years-old.
He is now able to breathe easy.
Please keep the Jones Family in your prayers. We will continue to fight for a cure in Conner’s honor and for everyone else living with this nasty disease.
Rest in Peace, sweet Conner.
Finally! I have my camera back, thanks dad!!
“The accident”
Day 1
Yep, it was as painful as it looks. My tooth went through my lip and I had a cut/bruise on my chin. I still have evidence of my black eye so you will see it through our whole vacation.
Now on to the fun pics!
Our view
(click on pictures to make them bigger, otherwise this would be a super long post!)
Okay, there’s a story behind the pink floatie. My parent’s were nice enough to buy one for us before hand but they didn’t notice that it was pink instead of red. I didn’t want to waste my time returning it since we were going to leave it behind anyway. So Ben rocked the pink floatie!!
Beach pics
FYI: The extremely tan man is my father.
The ditch in the grass that Ben had the best time running up and down in.
Our sunset cruise (day 2 of “the accident”)
With my mom and grandma. We couldn’t get a good shot of us, it was so windy!
These are just some of our family pictures. We had lots of good family times!
Okay, I’m exhausted! I’ll post up more, this is all my post could hold.
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