Summer seems to have arrived early this year with lots of hot days and water play.  Brody's light skin turned brown as a berry on his first day with their new "Hip 'n Hide" (slip and slide.) 
I love the shot of Caleb totally airborn.  We have also been enjoying lots of painting and even took Asher for his first trip to the BEACH!  
Check out Brody's favorite way to play in the sand!  Gross!
Mouth open wide he purposefully face-plants!  Sand in his mouth, up his nose, in his eyes.  I guess one of the results of having an incredibly high pain thresh-hold is you get to play games that involves getting sand in your eyes.

ASHER at 11 Weeks

ASHER IS HAPPY!  Asher is the Hebrew word for Happy... and that he is!  And now that he plays in his vibrating seat and his floor gym, he is TRULY a happy little Tiger!  He is no longer our newborn.  At 11 weeks he is our fun loving, happy go lucky, BIG baby!

The chalice has been passed!  Sir Caleb of Cali and his young Squire Brody are undergoing Knight Training with their seasoned, Castle playing Daddy.

Here they are together with Matt's childhood set.

Caleb and Matt went on their first "BIG BOY (two night) CAMPING TRIP!"  with about 10 other families from our Sunday School class.  When asked what his favorite parts were he answered, "Playing with my new friends and hunting for wild turkeys* with my dad."  (*no wild turkeys were actually harmed in the making of these memories!)

The other shot is of Matt's (finally finished and ready to sell) 1960 Lincoln.  Caleb and Brody, Asher and I were taken on a fun family drive to La Jolla to see the Seals a few weeks ago.  And last week we went to a car show with friends the Rogers.  No slowing down just because we've had a baby!  Asher's a great baby and keeps up just fine!

We just got back from a weekend in Texas. Here is Matt after finding some of his childhood toys in his mom's garage.  In her attic he found many more!  Tonight we are having a "CASTLE PARTY" where Matt will bequeath his playmobile castle and knights to the next generation of Brunner Squires!  

Here are a couple of pics of the big guys!  Oh, how they love one another.  Caleb is a dynamite big Brother.  We actually just pulled him out of preschool last week because he wants so badly to be home with Brody and Asher.  Goodness, he'll have plenty of years of school... let the brothers play!  

Asher, Matt and I just got home from our Aspen vacation, just the three of us.  Matt skied and the Babe and I rested.  That said, I don't want to sound like the typical, sleep-deprived mama sine I'm about to boast that ASHER SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST NIGHT!  From 10pm - 6:30am!  He didn't do this on the vacation, but he was a wonderful travel companion for me.  He smiles often and even started to make a laughing little coo sound when he's happy.

I missed the big boys terribly, I confess, but was so blessed to have our friend Amy here with them for the first three days, and my mom with them for the following two.  When we arrived home the boys were happy to see us, then went immediately back to Grandma for some more play!   

Now were home and ready for some good family time.  The top picture is one of our first family shots taken on April 5th (my birthday) when we went to Sea World!  (Thank you for the tickets, Patrick!)  The next big event Caleb is looking forward to is his big boy camping trip with Dad in two weeks!  I am reminded that we are not raising little boys, we are raising little boys to become men!  I love watching our first born grow into a little man these days and camping with Dad will help, I've no doubt.