the santoro life

Michigan was our only summer vacation this year and it was awesome! We went for a week, over the weekend of my cousin Allison's wedding. The cousins were all in town, we were just missing the 36-week prego Aunt Amy/Uncle Aaron combo.  We took this float out on Crystal Lake. Noah spun the kids til they were about to puke.  We celebrated the big 1-0 for Finnster with family a couple weeks early. He got a couple awesome Lego Architecture sets (which he's already built) and some stars and a constellation book.  Finn had a couple of firsts during vacay - paddle boarding on his own and catching his first fish! Emmett's first - mowing the lawn!  We got perfect weather the whole week. Lake Michigan and Crystal were both really warm so we swam and Soph and Finn both did the slide at Crystal.  Sad to be going home :( We had a 2 hour delay in Houston on our way out. Good thing Dylan's Candy Bar was right across from our gate. These t...

I got away to Minnesota in late July for my bi-annual girls weekend with my college besties. It was of course an amazing weekend and we all picked up right where we left off last time we did it in Denver. We stayed at a cute lakeside hotel, spent an afternoon on the water, shopped, ate, laughed and cried and then shut down a lakeside bar with our #almostforty dance moves. I love these girls so much. The kids have spent many weeks at Y camp and it's been great. Some of the highlights for Finn were Commotion in the Ocean and Architecture; Sophia loved Musical Mash up and really anything involving all of her buddies.  They came home with an award every Friday and Finn always surprised me. Camp Comedian, Coolest Cat in Camp. I love it.  Emmett and Dean having a playdate.  We celebrated Ryan's birthday at La Jolla Shores a few weekends ago. So fun!  Sophia trying out her flower girl outfit for the Michigan wedding. She was so excited ...

Summer is flying by and we are trying to soak up every minute. I'm halfway through my five weeks of straight travel. Next up is a girls weekend with my college besties and I can not WAIT. Shout out to my superstar hubby who has been holding down the fort.  Bowling with my team in lovely Orlando, Florida in July.  25th St Beach with the Mashhouns a couple weekends ago. We all had a blast until a rogue wave got us good. And all of our stuff. Good times.  This was Emmett about 3 minutes after getting back from the beach last weekend. Lights out.  It's been hot for SD so we have been spending lots of time at the pool.  Noah worked hard making homemade ice cream so the kids could have an ice cream stand with Lola and Elsie. They set up shop at Windansea. It was not quite as busy as we hoped but they had fun. I think we are a good hundred bucks in the hole given all of the organic milk and vanilla we bought :)  Emmett supervising t...