Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Happy Birthday, Brian!

So this is our last 8th birthday party forever.  And when it's the last 8th birthday party forever, what do you do?  You party 'til you can party NO MORE!!!! 
And this is his story.
It was a wintery, blustery, snowy day. 
But beautiful in every way.

At 12:30 sharp that cold afternoon,
the 'peruvian possee' gathered in the kitchen saloon.

They filled their bellies with junk food galore
because eating anything healthy would be a bore!

The party clown was funny and clever
and the birthday boy soon began to realize that this would be the best day ever!

"Yes!" he exclaimed, with vigor and vim,
as I caught this picture with his greatest grin.

Then off to the pool, we zipped in a hurry.
Over the hills and through a snow flurry.

to sit on a bench....

while mom took some pictures...

and more pictures...
("Come on!  Hurry up!  We want to swim!")

Now finally the fun can begin!
And they played and they played...

'til they could play no more...

because daddy's arms became too sore.

And so this little boy, ends his best 8th birthday ever story
with smiles and happiness and a treasured memory.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Happy Halloween

Okay, so some of us were scarier than others for Halloween. Brian and Bradley didn't think that their costumes were 'Halloweeney' enough because they already play 'army men' almost every other day of the year anyway.  Brandon really didn't need a mask to be scary (hee, hee) so the cape gave his cotume away and as for the rest of us, well, we did our best...






King Tut had another engagement that night so I had to make do with Dave...but Dave, where's your costume? (Ha!)


Beauty and the Beast...which one is witch? (Okay, that was funny, admit it!)


The birds and the bees for Halloween?

Gumbi and his sidekick...the two are inseperable! (That would make for a funny movie, don't you think?)
Hope everyone had a great night! 

Friday, October 23, 2009

Hillcrest Highschool Tennis

Morgan played varsity tennis at Hillcrest High. This was her second season. She played singles #2 and had a great year.


Clockwise: Jen (captain), Kelsey (singles #1), Jenny (alternate) and Morgan (singles #2)
Cute girls!


Monday, October 12, 2009

Bradley finally got up on two skiis this summer. Whew! I was beginning to wonder if he was a Baker.
video
This summer, we went to San Diego, as always, and we went to the Wave House on Mission Beach to do some surfin'. We had too much fun! Of course, the real surfin' was just across the boardwalk, and we did plenty of that too, but we just had to try this!
video