Basketball Practice with Aidan

Aidan started basketball practice this week.  His first game is tomorrow.  Luckily, at this age the games are considered "instructional".  They are all so cute out there.  Can't wait to see how he progresses over the season.

The Beginnings of a Book Lover

A boy after my own heart.  He sat down for his 15 minutes of required reading and kept going.  It is one of the first chapter books he has read to himself.  He usually reads out loud to me.  He finished the whole book and was quite proud.

Rainy Days

 We've had more than a few rainy days of late.  Thunder, lightning & hail.  I little rain doesn't stop our kids from playing outside.  They let out a little steam over the weekend playing with the mud and water in our swampy yard.  They got so wet I wondered why I didn't send them out in no clothes.  As a matter of fact after they stripped down in the garage, they did make one lap around the backyard in their birthday suits!

Poor Charlie

How Euan  likes to torture the cats.

Jedi Nights

Two fabulous Jedi Knights! Thanks Auntie N!

The never ending birthday

Today was the boys joint birthday party.  Needless to say they were very excited.  It was held at a Gymnastics place and included 25 kids (including the boys.) Everything ran surprisingly smoothly.  I think this is the last year for a big party.  From here on out I think it will be individual parties with a small group of friends.

An Endor cake and some Obi-Wan Kebobis...(Did I say it was a Star Wars Party?)

Conner, cousin A and cousin Jedi J...

Aidan flipping out...

Neighbor N, Cousin Ben, Aidan and Conner climbing the wall...

Aidan taking a ride on the hurricane swing...

Let them eat cake...

Jumping Jacks

The kids thought some pictures of them jumping would be really cool.  So, here they are. (Don't tell daddy, he doesn't let them to stand on the furniture.)

Paleontologists in Training

Here are some shots of Aidan and Conner exploring a new gift from Christmas...


They had loads of fun but sand went flying everywhere. All over the floors, in the cat dishes, on the counters across the kitchen! Good thing they had that eye protective gear on!

A day by the seashore

Our two week vacation time has been pretty lazy aside from the Christmas/Birthday hubbub. We did manage to make it to Muir Beach one day with Auntie Kim and Ben. We had lunch first at the Pelican Inn. Where we coincidentally ran into my stepsister J, her husband and kids.

Little D looking cute at lunch. I don't know what he was doing. Conducting a Symphony perhaps?

We then headed to the beach where we climbed a very big hill. We'll the kids climbed (very quickly I might add) I sort of trudged behind. Then Euan came up to relieve me and stop the kids before they headed all the way over the mountain...

A view from the top...

Heading back down...

Aidan very sweetly pointed to Euan and me then wrote "Love" in the sand...

Back to the car...

We headed to the car with the intention of going to Muir Woods. But It seemed like everyone in the Bay Area had that intention. So, home we went.