Friday, November 30, 2007

A couple of funny videos...



Caleb shake


Caleb falls.

Christmas preparation photos. Here are a few photos of us picking out the tree, making gingerbread houses and playing with toys from the pirate party. I'm uploading videos to Utube and posted them here to watch. Our digital camera just broke so a lot of pictures are from the video camera and not very good quality. Hopefully the videos will help. (Like Loren's mustache?-Don't worry he shaved it off, just seeing how he'd look as an officer of the peace). And yes, I did dye my hair red, but it's only temporary. It's already faded quite a bit. Also a photo of two two chickens Betty and Sheila, Nolan's new bathroom reading material and the addition after the trailer was removed and before we added a wall. More to come!
























Avast matey! Pirate party fun!! Argh!



Blowing out the candles on the Jolly Roger cake.


Checking out the booty at the pirate party.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Water sports and summer fun. Here are a few beach shots.


Nolan, Caleb and cousin Kailey playing in the surf.

Dad and boys before the second heat (1st place in that one!).

In second heat, riding it to shore.

Practicing for the finals at Ocean World.

Kailey and Nolan go tandem.



At the beach with the Martinez family in Santa Cruz.

Scurfing the boogy boards.

Getting out of the water in the first heat (placed second)

Making sand castles in the afternoon.

Jumping in the water and having fun.



Monday, October 29, 2007

Summer shots. Here are a few shots from this summer that were on the camcorder I finally found the download tool and was able to get (10GB!) the vids and pics off of it. Some of Nolan and dad at the skatepark, our trip to Bozeman in July and some stuff around the house.






Nolan and Caleb got to sit in the pilots seat of the plane. Very cool! They even got to push buttons.


Grandma's 95th birthday and my second cousins.

Dinosaurs at the museum of the rockies.


We also got a special treat and saw the display of the tomb of king tut. The boys were pretty into the pharoah hats.







Went hiking with Grandpa and got to see some later summer snowpack and a pretty waterfall.






Bozeman has lots of cool stuff now like a community garden and rockwall near Grandma's house.
Caleb and Nolan loved hanging out with their cousins. Chelsea took good care of Caleb and Natalie played with Nolan.




Loren had to spray two paper-wasp nests in the eaves.

Nolan with our baby chicks. Sadly we don't have any of that batch anymore. The pullets got eaten by dogs and cats and the roosters were too loud to keep. Here is Caleb under the laundry basket. Too bad he won't fit in their much longer.




Sunday, October 28, 2007

Happy Halloween!!

We've been to a few parties already and the boys have had plenty of candy. Nolan is Optimus Prime (the transformer) and Caleb is Thomas the Train of course. We've done lots of fall things this October. We've made our apple cider, made a scarecrow, visited the pumpkin patch and worked in the yard. We got lucky and had visits from both Loren's brother and family and his mom and dad. The boys really enjoyed both visits and can't wait to go down south to see them. We finally got rid of the trailer and we've gotten some rock and plants for the yard so we're finally landscaping a little, which is my favorite thing to do. I've been having technical difficulties and haven't been able to post for awhile or download off of the digital camera, but we're up and running now so we'll have quite a few things getting posted for awhile. Lots more photos to share!