Tornado boy

It is amazing the stuff Dawson gets into when we turn our heads for
just a minute. I'm still not exactly sure how he got up there.

got the scooter back

So, back in March my scooter was stolen for the second time. I had no plans to replace it this time. I just gave up the scooter dream. Well, a couple weeks ago Janis was driving and saw what looked like my scooter. She just happened to be next to a police woman who was nice enough to stop the guy and check. Sure enough it was my old scooter. The bad-guys had beaten it up pretty bad so I've spent some time getting it road-ready again. The kids were pretty excited. they want to help re-paint it. I think it might actually look better now than before. Now its kind of a Mad Max/Transformer combo.

Virginia Beach day

Daddy had a meeting in Virginia Beach. The meeting was in the afternoon so we had time to do some fun stuff first. We stayed in a Hotel the night before so we didn't have to waste time driving. Janis picked the hotel based on price... Good thing we were on the 12th floor because the hotel was in the projects and there was a huge block party going on.
In the morning we went to the beach. It was nice. The kids loved it. Zoe has been asking to go back to the beach ever since our trip in March. Jackson played and played in the waves. Zach joined him but he liked playing in the sand too. Zoe spent most of the time attached to daddy's leg. These are my first pictures on the new iphone. I couldn't see because the sun was so bright and I didn't know where the camera lens was so a few pictures have part of my finger in them.
We stayed at the beach until our parking meter was up, then we went to an aquarium. Jackson and Zach wanted to see Sharks and snakes, mommy wanted to see and octopus and I wanted to see a gorilla. It was fun but they didn't have an octopus or any gorillas. Zoe actually touched a real snake! The kids did great in the car. It isn't easy to spend 8 of 24 hrs driving but they did it.
Dawson had a super blowout requiring us to pull over and change him on the side of the free way. Sometimes it might not be good to have a camera so handy... Well, here's some pictures.

June 2009

Just a few pictures of the past few weeks. At Jackson's end of year school party he wanted us to get a picture of him and his "favorite girl". One night when Janis and I were out Jackson helped the babysitter get Dawson to sleep, so sweet. Zoe is all girl, she wears curlers to bed sometimes. Zach and Dawson love to play together! Daddy had a day off so we played with squirt guns, uh, I mean washed the car. I'm not sure how Janis got them all to pose for that square.

Zach's B-Day

We just had Zach's #5 b-day!
He had a great time. it was a Kung-fu Panda party. He was so excited. I had to work but when I got home we went to Toy-r-us and got some Star Wars Legos and a Star Wars game for his Leapster. He is still my little Star Wars buddy. Sunday Jackson and Zoe wanted to keep the party going so they got the cake back out and mommy put some candles on it and they sang happy birthday all over again. It was so sweet. Jackson collected some of his toys (even ones he really likes) and gave them to Zach for his birthday. You could tell Zach felt very special, it was wonderful.
We sure have a great little family.

2 posts in one day!?

We had Jackson's birthday party. It was a Harry Potter Party. We had a sorting hat, every-flavor jelly beans, and we played Quiditch. I put a few pictures of the party and a few from the Great Wolf Lodge and a couple from Zach's singing show.