04-18 Funderland

these pictures are actually from back in april, but i thought they were cute, and that people could see something besides disneyland pics! lol. this place is called funderland. it is a teeny tiny little park for kids in sacramento. they had such a blast! we bought the unlimited wristbands for each kid and stayed for about 5 hours. it was a great way to get out for the day.

i think these kids are a little too giddy about driving - i think i will be scared when they become teenagers! lol

hey how rude!

just in case you are wondering, kevin taught them to put their hands up on the rides at a very young age, so it is apparently a requirement no matter how slow the ride!

isn't he sweet?

peek-a-boo! i see you!

09-26 Water Play

ok, so we have found the best way to stay cool when you live in southern california and it's still over 100 degrees at the end of september! (what is that all about anyway? lol)

i just love any picture that tells a story without any words, where you can see the interaction going on - which is why i love this one so much even though it's a little fuzzy. these boys were just SO into chasing the water shoots and so excited about it!

ok, there are good photographers (i like to think of myself as a somewhat decent one). but then there are those times when you just get so lucky and snap at exactly the right second! no way i could have ever timed this picture to turn out like this if i was trying - i had no way of knowing when the water would shoot up! i LOVE it!

09-05 Kyle's 5th Birthday

well, another milestone has occurred (seems like there's always one happening when you have 3 kids!) kyle's 5th birthday was on september 5th.


first he had to "help make" the cake!

kevin did a nice job on the finished product - a train. kyle asked for a train last year, too. guess he really likes them!





kyle has been begging for a scooter for months now, so he was very happy to open this present! (and test it out!)

this kid made out like a bandit! he got thomas the train movies, a butterfly habitat (i'm excited to get that going!), a remote control truck, clothes, a spinning monster truck arena (should i keep going?!)

yay more crayons! kyle yelled out: there's 64 - that's so many! (he loves coloring)

but the big hit of the party was the remote control race track - something about those little cars going round and round amuses children for lengthy periods of time.

09-02 Zachary's Project

this is zachary's first big school project! he had to read a book, do a book report, and then a project to go along with it. the book was about a tornado (or a "willy willy" as they are called in australia, which is where this book is from), and mingor the ant (the brown thing is the ant hill, and you can't see from this angle, but zachary actually cut a doorway in the ant hill). kevin helped guide zachary with what to do, but zachary actually did the work himself, so i am very impressed with the turnout!

08-26-08 Disneyland Again

ok, so i know i already posted a disneyland blog, but since we go as often as we can, i already have new & exciting disneyland pics!


of course, these two always seem to like each other at disneyland, why can't they do that at home? ha ha.

what in the world?!

what a cutie pie!

and these two don't look too bad either! lol

hey, who gave this girl a license already?!

we by chance discovered that zachary is growing like a weed (i guess that's what we get for feeding him). just 3 months ago he was only about 46 inches tall but he is officially 48 inches now, and that's tall enough for california screamin - a really real roller coaster! he loved it! he went on it twice.

this was the first time i decided to use the firework setting on my camera. i take no credit for any of these pictures if they look good - i was only standing and clicking because i didn't know how to work out the timing on the delay or anything since it was the first time trying to use this setting. but i got lucky on some of the pictures (you may disagree, but i think some of these look pretty cool). these are just a few of the ones i managed to capture.

Disneyland

we went to disneyland for a day (common family outing - gotta put those season passes to good use!) the kids got to play with some disney characters dale was a little hat thief! ha ha

proof that these two do have some brotherly love!

a little father son moment! aww!

it was great to spend the trip with grandpa and "chrismas" (nickname courtesy of zachary when he was young - to the adult world it's chris) lol.

our kids are definite roller coaster kids - no fear! just look at the grins!

kyle is now officially tall enough for the "big" rides he was previously too small for. (40 inches exactly - his head barely touches the bottom of the sign!) so this was his first time on big thunder mtn. he loved it! he also rode soaring over california, but he wimped out on the tower of terror before he ever got all the way in. oh well, maybe another time. we didn't wait in line for space mtn., so he still needs to ride it - our mission for the next trip!