Wednesday, July 8, 2009

bread


Today I made my 3rd loaf of bread, it looks so nice to me. Two loaves of Hearth Bread earlier this week and today a loaf of Heart of Wheat bread. Even the names sound good don't they? I love freshly baked bread, I used to make it a lot but got out of the habit. Since summer is here and I have some free time on my hands (Jack and Caleb are at VBS this week) I decided to break out the Bread Bible and start baking. Next I think I'll try the cinnamon raisin bread.


Friday, July 3, 2009

Photos














*Jacks birthday
*Jack up to bat
*Jack pitching
*Team photo right after winning the championship
*Weston and Caleb on the play structure

Friday, June 5, 2009

Train trip


This past Tuesday me and the boys went down to Santa Barbara on the Amtrak train with our homeschool group.  The train was fun but a little shaky. 
We decided to go to the Sea Center on Stearns Wharf.  We went with two other families, our beloved Delmores and our newer friends the Pechmanns.

The Sea Center was really cool.  They have a lot of interesting animals to look at and touch.

Here is Caleb touching a Sea Cucumber.  

After the Sea Center we walked down to a big playground, had our lunch and played the rest of the afternoon.
Weston is so in love with going down the slide right now.  

It was a long day, but a fun one.  One more baseball game tomorrow, the championship game! More on that later....



Wednesday, June 3, 2009

History Class






So last weekend Jack finished his first section of his History class.  A mom from our homeschooling group is teaching a once a week class at her home on history.  This first section was Indian history.  So as you can see from the pictures they made teepee's, painted vests and made bow and arrows.  This last weekend she had a bonfire/potluck and then we left Jack to campout in the teepees.   Jack has been having a great time at the classes, he's there from noon until about 4pm.  The next section which starts today is on Medieval times.  I'm sure there will be jousting and castle making going on.  West and Caleb had a lot of fun at the potluck too, Weston was completely filthy from all the sand, dirt and watermelon.  I hardly saw Caleb who was running from trampoline to woods etc.  with his little friend Lilly. 

Friday, May 15, 2009

May

Seems like we've been pretty busy lately. Baseball games, field trips, school... the days are flying by.  Its been fun but its nice to have a go nowhere day like today.   Here's some pics from the last couple of weeks.
West looking at the baby goats on our field trip to a ranch in Nipomo.
Caleb just fed this horse a carrot in this picture, it scared him.
Jack and his friend and baseball team mate Scott on the ranch field trip.
Here's one shot of about 20 pictures on Mothers Day, they were so funny that morning sitting on the counter making crazy faces.   
You can see West's black eye a little in this one from hitting his face on Calebs head.  I love this picture because of the fluffy hair.   It reminds me of a baby duck.  He loves sitting on that mini couch, he always looks so proud of himself.  He is pointing and talking all sorts of baby talk, he is such a joy.  In other news, Jack's baseball team is still undefeated! He is doing really well and no one can believe that this is his first year of baseball.  So tomorrow is his last regular season game then we're on to tournaments.  And Caleb, my Caleb, such a sweetheart.  The other day he called me his princess.  Either he knows how to work me or he's just adorable...I'm hoping its the latter. He's starting to spend lots of time drawing and coloring so we've started a special scrapbook that he can cut and paste all his drawings into.  We also put in all the photographs of him with various animals in it.   We're calling it 'the Great Big book of Caleb'.  
Thats all for now, abrupt I know but to the point! :)       

Thursday, April 30, 2009

lovely afternoon






Today is a beautiful day in my backyard.  So we decided to have a picnic.   I love the color of the green leaves against the blue sky,  I can't seem to get over that one,  it just amazes me.  Anyway, we had a lovely picnic filled with laughter and followed by a short baseball game.  Caleb decided he needed to take his shirt off to get 'nice and cold'.  Oh yeah in that top picture is the new snake Matt found at work and brought home for us to look at.  I think its a baby California King snake, which is harmless to humans by the way, although the name just sounds like it should be poisonous! 





Thursday, April 2, 2009

ok

My goodness its been soooo long since I've written.  Here are some pics from the last month or so.  Matt brought home this ring necked snake from work one day.  Caleb of course became its 'best friend' if you define best friend as someone who twirls you around and drops you a lot.  I kept telling him to not put him on the ground to play with him but alas on day 2, the snake escaped the clutches of Caleb. 
Jack started Baseball! His team is the Padres.  His team tied the first game and on Wednesday night they won 8-5.  He had 3 base hits on Wednesday night.  He is doing really well at it.
Ian and Jocelyn were here for a week.  We had a great time hanging out with them and getting to know Jocelyn better.  We miss you guys!!
Aunt 'JaJa' was a great hit with all the boys, especially Caleb.  She knows the way to a 4 yr olds heart thats for sure!  After we dropped them off at the airport he quietly cried in the back seat, he's such a tender heart. 
While Ian and Jocelyn were here we had Weston dedicated to the Lord at church. It was so nice to have Ian and Jocelyn come up and stand with us as we prayed for little West.  We love Billy and Donna, our pastors, and we're glad to have them dedicate another of our sons to the Lord.  West is so special to us.  He had just had a febrial seizure the weekend before so we were so thankful that he was well.  Although that night he did break out in a rash all over his body from the antibiotic he was on.