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We spent the Fourth of July week with family in San Jose. Man, I wish we lived closer! Benjamin enjoyed his visit with Aunt Emily's family - especially Lux. He liked her so much, he started crawling just like her:

   

Fireworks!

        

Benjamin was bamboozled by Russell's beard:

      

Random pictures of the kids:

   

Off to a big family picnic at a beautiful park with a little stream, a train, and geese. Cool stuff that we just don't see in Vegas...

      

Coolest part of the trip - We took a train through a redwood forest to Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk - Wow!

  

views from the train:

    

Russell's doing his best Shia Labeouf impression:

 

Beautiful Aunt Emily and Lux

  

           

Leighton took the kids for a ride on the ultra-scary spinning ride:

      

     

A visit to Great-Grandma! The kids loved her backyard. They picked apples and lemons.

     

Then, we took our wild animals to the zoo:

                  

The zoo had a train, so we, of course, had to take a ride. That's three trains so far:

 

Garlic fries:

 

Love these babies:

                   

Benjamin's favorite spot on the plane:

Allison got a little makeup kit. She did her own makeup. I kept telling her that she is sooo beautiful without it, but she insisted: