Before I share any new photos of our newly expanded family, I want to go back a few weeks to our "pre-Jackson" days and post some pictures from our last outing as a family of four. According to my camera, the following shots were taken on May 2, so 11 days before Jackson's arrival (I have to rely on technology, because my sleep-deprived, pregnancy-dulled brain can't remember squat anymore). Keith, the girls, and I spent the day up on Mount Diablo with Keith's friend and rock-climbing buddy, John. While the guys climbed up and then rappelled off the mountain (they like to try to scare me and rappel "Aussie" style...i.e. run down sheer cliffs face-first while screaming like Tarzan), I had a picnic with the girls and watched them scramble around on some of the large boulders at the base of the rock-climbing area. Our family then drove to the top of the mountain to the observation area and enjoyed gorgeous views of the greater San Francisco Bay area. We got a good laugh after overhearing a woman proclaim that Mt. Diablo is the tallest mountain in the U.S. Or wait, maybe just in California...not hardly, at only 3800ft.
