The Circus seemed an appropriate theme!

So this past weekend Mitch's older brother Matt, his wife Kindra and their son Ezra came to visit. We have not seen them since Mike's wedding over a year ago. They don't visit often and live all the way out in Illinois. Ezra is 7 months younger than Olivia. Actually born on the same day as Liam. Anyways they came out to Grandma Anita's house in Millbrae (South Bay) to visit for a few days. Since Ezra will be turning 2 on the 3rd of October and since nobody was there for his first birthday or see him that often Grandma Sue threw him a birthday party! Olivia and Ezra were the only kids there but that didn't stop everyone from having an awesome time at the circus themed soiree. The house was decorated so cute with circus stripes and flags...circus tents set up in the backyard, a clown beanbag toss, a child sized picnic table covered with plastic circus animal figurines, a tub with floating rubber duckies and of course lots and lots of snacks.

Olivia and Ezra at the Animal table

Mitchy and his big brothers...Matt (left is middle Brother) Mike (right is the oldest)All the Circus-y Treats

Most of the party goers

The next day we all headed out to the Academy of Sciences to visit the aquarium, planetarium, rainforest, natural history museum and even got to visit the sculpture garden at the DeYoung Art Museum.

It was quite the adventure to get everyone coordinated and moving and parked. Like "herding cats" is what Tony calls it...and I would say that is an accurate description. Trying to get 12 people out the door without some real complaining about how long everyone is taking by someone who shall remain nameless ahem "Mitchell". Probably close to an hour and half after arriving at the place we actually went inside. By that time everyone was already tired, lol. We made the mistake of visiting the "rainforest" first. It was so hot and humid in there and you start at the bottom and just move further and further up to towards the roof...and well you know how heat rises. I felt like I was gonna die! This is what Olivia looked like upon arrival at the top waiting for the elevator to take us back down
Once everyone made it outta that rainforest of death everyone's mood seemed to improve dramatically...and how could it not that aquarium is pretty awesome!!!!


Olivia and Ezra didn't really seem to be too impressed with one another...these are like the only photos I got of the two of them together.

This is what Olivia looked like when Ezra refused to hold her hand...she was quite offended and cried hysterically for a good 2 minutes proclaiming "I never hold hand with that baby again". Olivia is used to more submissive cousins like Liam who follows her around like a puppy and holds hands gladly and willingly. Or Abe who just kinda goes with the flow. Ezra is just as spoiled as Olivia so it was more of a power struggle and battle of wills. It seemed whenever one of them was starting to warm up the other one was in a bad mood. AHHHHH oh well. All's well that ends well...everyone had a good time!