Grandma and Grandpa Wiens

We've really enjoyed having Melissa's parents here for the last month. They graciously (although they won't ever do it again!) babysat all 3 kids for a week while we went on vacation. Plus, my dad has put in a lot of work helping us build our 3-season room. Since they don't get to see us that often, living on the other side of the country, we enjoyed having all this time together, and the kids were spoiled having grandma and grandpa around so much.

Race weekend

Steve raced again this weekend. He just keeps getting better. Finished in 3rd place both days - YEAH! On Sat he was gridded 4th and on Sun made it as high as 2nd - starting on the front row of the pack. We're so proud of how well he did (even though his race on Sun ended up in a torrential downpour that got all of us soaked to the bone - babies included!)

Starting on Sunday, his first time on the front row, right behind the pace car.

Surgery at the track... Steve smashed his finger while working on the car. Luckily, one of our friends was there, who just happens to be a surgeon. So she relieved the pressure by, get this, drilling a whole in the fingernail with Steve's dremmel! No lie! I can't believe he let her do it - but I guess it hurt so much, he figured it couldn't get worse.


Zach can't wait to jump out of the stroller and get into daddy's racecar.

Grandma and Grandpa Introne bought the kids their own racecar. Goes 5mph, 2 gears, etc. Mommy had to try it out, sort of.

Izzy's getting her first taste of racing!

Swimming

The weather has been hot and HUMID lately, so we've been cooling off in the pool. Grandma and Grandpa Wiens bought the twins these boats that they love - except Emily is already crawling out of hers - while in the middle of the pool! The girl has NO FEAR! Did I mention in the last 2 weeks she's climbed the entire flight of stairs AND managed to climb out of her crib in the middle of the night. =)

Trouble-makers

Look who found mommy's mascara this morning and decided to try it on!

"Aren't I beautiful?"

Just being her crazy self.


Daddy brought home cotton-candy and Emily decided she LOVED it!

Blackmail

Some day... we can use this for blackmail!

4th of July

We spent the 4th of July at the Beach House with a whole boat load of Intrones, friends and family. Here are 4 generations of Intrones together.

Melissa's parents joined in the party as well.

Grandpa Wiens and Zach.

Grandma Introne with Zach.

Grandpa Introne with Izzy. (She doesn't like the loud noises of the fireworks.)

Emily posing for the camera.

Mommy and Emily.

Daddy with his cheesy smile! =)

Isabelle sitting in the neighbor's garden.

Izzy playing catch with her 2nd cousins (I believe).

Watching for cars with her purse.

Watching the fireworks.

Uncle Douglas doing his best to scare the babies. (But Emily just laughs.)

Cabo San Lucas - 2nd Honeymoon

Steve and I just got back from a week in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico - ALONE! My parents kept all 3 kids for the 7 nights, so we had a sort of 2nd honeymoon (Cabo was where we went on our actual honeymoon 8 years ago!) We decided we loved it so much, we bought a timeshare there, so we'll be back every year.

One thing we wanted to try this time was deep-sea fishing. We set out at 6:30am with the goal to catch marlin. What a gorgeous sunrise!


No marlin that day, but we did end up with 2 small yellow-fin tuna. We were out 5 hours, almost 30 miles from shore before we got our first bites. Both fish were hooked at the same time and reeled in in under 10 minutes. These were our only catches for the day, but it was still fun.

This was Steve's fish that he caught.

And this was mine!

Our captain let me drive the boat back to the marina when we finally called it a day.

While we were out, we saw TONS of dolphins. They were EVERYWHERE.

This is the Cabo San Lucas marina.

Our resort at sunset.