Ricardo & Kylie

Our local ward (church congregation) has been focusing lately on family history. We are using the website familysearch.org to help find our ancestors, etc. This month they asked us to upload a picture and story about our family and share it with someone. We thought it would be easy to share it on our blog. Here's mine about my Grandpa:  Grandpa Martin Here's Ricardo's about his dad: Twins We are grateful to have some great men in our lives. Happy Father's Day! (first beach trip, about a year ago now)

A few weeks ago my mom came to visit for about 10 days. It was a lot of fun to have her here! We were very spoiled by having a live-in babysitter when I went to work and Russell had lots of fun reading books and going for walks with grandma. He wasn't that thrilled about books before she came but now he is obsessed. He could be happy flipping through his books all day long. I've been taking him to the library about once a week and he has a blast.  On my days off we took my mom for a little sightseeing. We did the tour of independence hall, went to the portrait museum, and also went to check up on the construction of the Philadelphia LDS temple , which is always exciting. Russell did great, as always, on our outings. Though he was very chatty during the tour of independence hall which did not thrill our tour guide. Oh well.  My sister and her family came down for a few days from DC during my mom's time at our house. We went to Franklin Square and Smith playground with...