Conrad turned 3 on Aug 19th. We enjoyed a fun birthday lunch together at Moe's. I don't really like the food there, but I love the chips and queso and so does Conrad. The queso isn't as good as some places in Austin, obviously, but I am just impressed I can get it anywhere here. We also went to Chuck e Cheese one day as a family. Conrad has been begging to go back. I wish it wasn't 45 minutes away, but that may be a blessing in disguise ;) It was also nice to actually have John there with us, so he can enjoy the special fun/torment that is Chuck e Cheese.
Conrad is hooked on the show "Octonauts" so we decided to recreate one of the characters for his cake. He requested Kwazii and I got the Swedish fish cupcake idea from Pinterest. I'm not gonna lie, I am pretty proud of how this one turned out.
Conrad is such a fun kid and he loves to be the center of attention. He is going to give Netta a run for her money. He likes to give us standing orations during dinner and if he feels like we are paying too much attention to the TV he will stand in front of it and say "Look at me!" We watched a lot of America's Got Talent this summer and he likes to do his own auditions. His talent seems to be doing a lot of downward dog poses. Not sure where he got that.
Conrad's birthday is the day before our anniversary and we had hoped to go to Chicago for the weekend to see John's brother-in-law play volleyball, but he had an international tournament that he had to go to that weekend. Luckily, kind of last minute we found a good deal on flights to his tournament in Long Beach and John got to fly free on my companion pass, so it was too good to pass up. Our awesome friends the Reeves watched the kids for us and we loved getting to see some of John's family, including his nephew Ethan who is serving a mission there, and watching amazing volleyball players from around the world.
Of course one of the best parts about leaving town is getting to eat amazing food and you know California did not disappoint. I got hooked on acai bowls, which I are kind of healthy, but we also had some not so healthy, but oh so delicious, chicken and waffles from the original Roscoe's.
Between some of the matches they called people out from the audience to compete in a competition. John and I were chosen and I had to sit in a chair, while he served volleyballs to me and I tried to catch them. They had us going against some high school girls and while it might have been the nice thing to let them win, I wasn't going to mess up on purpose and so we beat them soundly and got some awesome swag ;) While we were walking back up to our seats, the girls parents walked by and jokingly said "Thanks for breaking our girls' hearts." Oops, but I promise they were joking.
Unfortunately, Casey and Jake did not have their best performance this tournament, but we loved seeing them play and we went back even after they were out to watch some of the other Olympic contenders. We are really hoping that Jake and Casey make it to the Olympics. They have a really good chance and in fact, we already have had to commit and buy tickets for some of the volleyball events in Rio. Supposedly, they will be really easy to sell if they don't make it, but we are hoping it doesn't come to that.
We also got to shop till we dropped, see "The Man from UNCLE," which was awesome, and hit up this humongous flee market. We scored some awesome deals, which unfortunately were negated when our car got towed. That was such a hot mess and just ridiculous, but we just let it go and didn't let it ruin our trip. That is not something that always comes easy to me, but I am getting better! Oh and I even survived the last minute somewhat scary motel we had to stay in the first night we got there. I refused to touch the floor with my bare feet, but we made it through the night without anything stolen ;)
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