tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12011466138694429842024-03-12T16:20:12.611-07:00The Williams FamilyJimmy, Jenny, Caleb, and Landonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06511664053549643222noreply@blogger.comBlogger209125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1201146613869442984.post-41303713711876668132018-01-23T21:41:00.000-08:002018-01-23T21:41:04.115-08:00We're back!A new year has begun, and I am going to make a new attempt at keeping up with our blog again! :)<br />
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Here is a recap of 2017...<br />
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- Jimmy began a new job - not just any new job, but one that put an end to the 5.25 years commuting to Lafayette every day, and he is now working <i>from</i> <i>home!</i> What a difference this has made in all of our lives, and in his energy level not having to be on the road an additional fifteen hours a week! It has been such a blessing. His new job is working for a Chilean company called Oxyion, which also has offices in Colombia, Mexico, and Spain, and he and one coworker are trying to get the North American business going. He is no longer working on the fresh side of produce - Oxyion sells a technology similar to Ozone, but better - it treats the oxygen molecules in such a way that they latch on to dangerous bacteria such as listeria, salmonella, and e-coli, and renders them ineffective. Pretty awesome technology, and it has applications for all sorts of things - fruit and veg, meat, floral, and much more. We are excited to see him help grow this company as things get rolling.<br />
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- I am now an Independent Sales Consultant with Norwex, a Norwegian-based company that makes <i>ah-mazing </i>microfiber cleaning cloths, among many other things, that clean using just water. I was loving these products so much, and found myself getting really excited when I shared about how well they work (yes, I was very excited about cleaning products - you really have to see them in action to understand!) This opportunity came just as Jimmy was starting his new job, so in addition to some extra money for our family, this has been a fun chance to get out and meet lots of new people, and share about something that can help people save money and live healthier lives! Here are a few short videos in case you're wondering what all the hype is about:<br />
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Raw Chicken Demo: https://youtu.be/9o_ngPZmUpg<br />
Disinfecting wipes vs Norwex Envirocloth: https://youtu.be/Adk9LRdneRE<br />
What's so special about this microfiber?: https://youtu.be/2FdxJwbTQu8<br />
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- Caleb and Landon went to the snow for their first time last January. It was a beautiful sunny day with fresh powder. They loved it!<br />
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- Caleb lost his first tooth (middle of 1st grade!)<br />
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- Jimmy came and took my class at Jazzercise! It was hilarious how it all worked out - he was home from work that day for some reason, and Landon kept saying, Daddy are you coming to mommy's class today? I had not suggested it or put him up to it at all, but he asked two or three times, and so Jimmy did. I was excited, and proud of him for giving it a try!<br />
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- Papa Jack was honored for all his work to Save the Grape Bowl with a lovely dinner at Hutchins Street Square<br />
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- Caleb and his 1st Grade class performed songs and dances after learning all about Penguins<br />
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- During Spring Break we took a road trip and hit Monterey, Santa Cruz and the Mystery Spot, and Arroyo Grande, where the boys got their first chance at learning to swing their golf clubs<br />
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Homemade hovercraft adventures at the WOW Science Museum<br />
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- Landon played t-ball with Jimmy coaching and me as 'team mom' (a role that also morphed into assistant coach and dugout manager keeping all the four and five year olds from climbing the fence and playing with the bats and helmets. Caleb played his first year of Minor B, which is machine pitch. Both boys did great, and we are looking forward to them both playing on the same Minor B team together this year in Morada.<br />
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- After baseball season, we signed the boys up for a summer golf session with the First Tee of San Joaquin. It was great for teaching them some golf basics on Saturday mornings, and I think although they probably enjoyed it more than they'll admit, they aren't exactly jumping to do it again. Still a good way to introduce them to a new sport and learn some useful life skills along the way.<br />
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- We learned all about recycling at the Recycling Center where my Uncle Jack works in Galt. It was a very interesting tour!<br />
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- Captain Underpants is all the rage this summer, and Landon is all about it<br />
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- Caleb turned 7! He wanted to go somewhere nice where he could 'dress up' - we took him to Pietros. His original plan was to wear his dress shirt and tie but he took it down a notch when it came time. He still very much loves dressing nice and having his hair combed perfectly most days. He likes riding his bike on the ramps at skate parks, and he is demonstrating to us more every day how much like his daddy he is.<br />
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- We spent a week at a beach house in Newport with my mom and dad and hanging out with David and Joey and their families. Boys learned to boogie board, we did a day at Disneyland, and had lots of fun playtime on the beach with cousins, and did a Soul Cycle spin class together (Jenny's first!)<br />
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- At the end of July the boys started Kindergarten and 2nd Grade. </div>
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- Landon lost his first tooth at a 49ers game. It may still be somewhere inside of Levi Stadium.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">- Jimmy and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary! We went to Palm Dessert for the weekend and even met the resort falcon.</span></div>
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Guinea Pig sitting for Pancake during Fall Break, a wedding, and boy fun with old tires </div>
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- The boys got to ride an ATV for the first time at the ranch of some of Jimmy's AGO friends. They went exploring and found a cow skull and bones. Caleb ran the little Jack Russells around the dirt yard, and Landon caught and played with frogs, one of which he named 'Jumpy'.<br />
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- Landon turned 6! He is in Kindergarten now, and reading like a champ. He likes to read some of the Captain Underpants books, is amazing at sounding out long dinosaur names, and loves playing with his friends at school.</div>
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- We had fun spending time with all the Fiori cousins this month, between their separate visits. The boys had so much fun making memories with them.<br />
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- Christmas Party fun and Vinewood's Pancakes with Santa<br />
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- The boys left an array of artwork for Santa this year, which Santa loved! </div>
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- These are the ONLY Legos they got for Christmas, thank goodness! It was a cool Batman Penguin car that I knew they would actually play with and keep built. Our Lego collection is huge, and the boys finally GOT IT when we re-configured their bedroom toy storage to accommodate our Lego collection - Caleb said "Wow mom you're right, we really don't need to buy more Legos for at least like a year!!" THANK YOU CALEB!! Lol</div>
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- The boys are both currently without front teeth which is super cute! Caleb lost his second front tooth just a couple of days after Christmas, along with Tess who lost both earlier in December.<br />
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-New Year's Eve! Super fun evening, until I had to go home at 11:30 to treat Caleb's raging ear infection, poor guy! :(</div>
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This was a rough day. Caleb and Landon have never been the kids who have drawn on walls or other surfaces around the house, not even as toddlers, so when I found this piece of work on the boys' dresser, I was shocked. Sharpie. Landon's traced hand. And a trail of extra fingers (?) all the way across the drawer. Whoa. I was of course super upset with him, and Landon is our sensitive one who gets upset easily if we yell at him. I said what I felt I needed to say, and then just stopped talking to him because I was so mad. He was upset, and just laid in his bed watching me scrub away at it for thirty minutes, trying every trick to remove Sharpie from furniture that I could find on the internet. I It did fade quite a bit, but when I finally gave up and turned to look at Landon, he had passed out on his bed, still in his Spiderman costume from earlier. Poor guy. Was this a result of exhaustion and a bad decision in the moment? Was he still in that growth spurt that shot him up an inch and a half since July?? Who knows what caused him to do something so out of character, but looking at him sleeping on his bed made it hard for me to stay mad at my little Spiderman.</div>
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Las Vegas trip! Me and my beau, 'Pitbull' (as everyone called him with these shades on), had a great weekend. This was my second time to Vegas, and we told the group we were determined to see the Strip this time. Last trip was during summer so we did little more than lounge at the pool. This time we got some walking and exploring in. </div>
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In front of the Bellagio. Fountain wasn't on :-(</div>
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Inside our hotel at the Venetian</div>
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Meanwhile the boys had a fun weekend in Lodi with Papa and Nonni - they bought and packed several 'shoeboxes' with small gifts, toiletries, and toys for children of various ages, which get shipped around the world. This program, called Operation Christmas Child, is coordinated by Samaritan's Purse, and several churches and preschools in town participate. Hundreds of shoe boxes (or more sturdy and reuseable plastic bins) are sent off from our town alone every year. Imagine the impact combined with cities nationwide!</div>
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Went to see Trolls at the movie theater. Papa wasn't so excited about this choice, but even he came out saying it was a cute movie at the end.</div>
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Every year I LOVE looking at these trees every time I drive by them. I keep trying to capture a picture to show how they look in my eyes... The Gingko Trees in the Shady Acres center divide turn bright yellow, and the trees that fill our backyard with the most amazing red leaves, I just can't get enough!</div>
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This year Jimmy took on a new work territory, passing on Hong Kong business to a fellow employee in exchange for Dubai and Saudi Arabia. His first trip out to visit those places and the well-establish business contacts there happened to overlap with the day we had Landon's birthday party, so we did a family birthday dinner night to Rick's Pizza, on Landon's actual birthday, so daddy could still be a part of some birthday celebrations. </div>
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Daddy gone = hands-off birthday party. Landon celebrated with friends at SkyZone Stockton and had a blast jumped until they were drenched in sweat.</div>
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And of course some silly kids with party favors at the end... Baker and Caleb</div>
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Landon and Silas</div>
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Caleb's school had a celebration to honor Vets for Veteran's Day, and he asked if we could invite Papa Jim. Jim was so proud to be there, and Caleb just as excited to have him. He had a chance to say what division of the military, his rank and a few other details, and the students sang several songs to honor the Vets. I wasn't able to attend, but the videos showed it to be a really nice performance that he enjoyed greatly as well. </div>
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Jimmy was fortunate to have three contacts to meet up with during his trip to the Middle East. The first was Tameem's cousin, Jameel, whom Jimmy has known for many years. Jameel lived in Lodi for a time, but he now lives outside Dubai in a suburb called Sharjah, and owns a delicious burger joint called, get this - Jimmy's Shack Burgers. Couldn't pass up a visit there! </div>
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Earlier this year (April?) you may have seen my post about Jimmy's Patagonian Lamb that they built a whole contraption to cook on, and were able to recreate something he has been wanting to do for a long time. This month he was excited to do another (smaller) feast, prompted by a group of visiting Argentinians here working the wine grape harvest. This was an Asado Argentino, with everything being cooked over coals, served up as it is ready - a day of eating all afternoon and enjoying each other's company. Good food, good and new friends, happy kids, and happy bellies!</div>
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This idea came after discovering that there were six Argentinians here working and living in Lodi for some friends of ours who grown and harvest wine grapes. Some of them were winemakers in Argentina, and others just gaining experience in how the process works in other parts of the world. Jimmy thought it would be so fun, for us and for them, to prepare them a meal like they have back home, since they have been here without certain comfort foods for a few months already. They thought it was amazing, and were so impressed with how similar everything was to how they do it. It was great fun to see their excitement and enjoyment! Here is part of the group:</div>
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Here's the grill. This grill was built by our friend Chris, and Jimmy, back when they build the double cross for the Patagonian Lamb. Perfect surface to cook up short ribs, mollejas (sweet breads - the thymus glands from a cow), ribeye roast, chorizo, morcilla, Provoleta (melted provolone cheese with herbs that you scoop up with bread - yummmmmm), whole yellow onions, and veggies. </div>
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The cooking of the onions was interesting to me - they left them skin on and whole, and put them right into the burning fire. They quickly charred on the outside, but after being in the fire for maybe a half hour, they were taken out, the charred outer layers cut off, the onion sliced up, and a sprinkle of course ground salt on top, and we ate them along with the sliced and grilled veggies. Simple, rustic, delicious. </div>
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Meanwhile, as all the adults are feasting on this delicious food, the kids were having another day of 'school' with Miss Ava Cataldo as their teacher. This was a far lengthier and more involved session of school than they had in our backyard in September with her. Here they are all set up with their desks, reading books quietly to themselves...</div>
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(At Target) "Whoa! Mom, take a picture of us!!" Like being next to the real thing, I guess.</div>
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At the beginning of our two week Fall Break, Caleb asked where we were going, since he had several friends at school talking about trips they were going on with their families. We had none planned, so I tried to find some fun things for us to do, and it turned out to be a great week. (We really only needed a week off, not two. By week two it felt like too long. Hoping some day they'll change our schedule a bit and start us a week later in August!!)</div>
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First stop was Dell Osso Family Farms. I was a bit hesitant at first, remembering friends telling me how expensive and crowded it could be, but we went on a weekday, right when they opened (Early Bird discount!) and practically had the place to ourselves. Our neighbors Jacob and Haydon, along with their moms, all joined us. The boys had so much fun together, had a picnic lunch, shot hoops side-by-side, went down the super slide about twenty times, rode the train, and of course, walked through one of the corn mazes. </div>
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The boys each has a sponsor child that is the same age as they are, and one of them had a birthday coming up, so Caleb made a card. I had to help Caleb with the Feliz Cumpleaños part (happy birthday), but notice how he spelled his own name... He said "that's how you spell it in Spanish." :)</div>
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The other side of Caleb's card to Deybi.</div>
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Another one of our Fall Break outings was two-parted. Part 1: Visit daddy's office in Lafayette (which none of us had been inside of) and have lunch with him at his Friday favorite, Patxi's Pizza. Everyone in the office <i>loved</i> seeing the boys and how excited they were to be in daddy's office. </div>
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Day trip Part 2: The Jelly Belly Factory. <br />
Its one of those places you've driven by a hundred times (especially me since I passed it each time I drove to or from college at Sonoma State), and always say you'll stop at some time. Today was the perfect day. It only took about a half hour to cut up from Lafayette to Fairfield, and the tour was delicious and pretty cool to see, too. </div>
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Daddy makes a mean inmitation of the boys' fav foods from the sushi restaurant. They love it, and love using their kiddie chopsticks to eat it. </div>
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Columbus Day. Jimmy told Caleb that morning that he wanted him to learn something about Columbus Day and report back to him in the evening. So we did a little research together and I explained to Caleb the following. He decided he wanted to write it down so he wouldn't forget. Daddy was pleased with the report :)</div>
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Learning to get over being grossed out by touching eggs...</div>
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Milestone accomplishment for Caleb this month: He learned to tie his shoes! </div>
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Fun dollar-bin find from Nana Dee! </div>
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Even Candace got in on the fun!</div>
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My college roommate, Taylor, came to spend the night while Jimmy was out of town. She came to Jazzercise with me, we enjoyed some delicious soup, and she even brought the boys some little games and played with them. So fun just hanging out and having plenty of time to talk and catch up on life.</div>
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The WOW Science Museum had a Pumpkin Chuckin' event. Bring your own little pumpkin, clean out the inside, and then choose a machine to launch it from. It was quite fun to see people's different size pumpkin fly various distances with different catapults. </div>
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Second Annual Cabrillo Circle Halloween Party! This year it fell on the same weekend as the crazy rain storm, and being early in October there were plenty of leaves around the city to plug up storm drains, making for a flooded neighborhood and excited kids wanting to drench themselves in the enormous puddles!</div>
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After fighting Landon for a while on getting in the 'gutter', I decided to let him go for it, and then splash and run all the way home in the flooded gutters to take a warm bath! He was in heaven! Caleb, on the other hand, who hates cold water like his daddy, opted to stay dry and ride home in the car with me instead.</div>
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Field trip to the Sandhill Crane Reserve west of Lodi. This was pretty interesting, and I came home with a plethora of new facts I had learned about Sandhill Cranes (including that the tall white ones we see around town are <i>not</i> cranes at all....they are actually called Snowy Egrets). In the picture below the kids were pretending to be a flock of Cranes migrating.</div>
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Landon and his TK buddy, Silas, just sittin' around tossing someone's rocks after school one day.</div>
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Jimmy was excited to take the boys to their first 49ers game this year! He had low expectations for their performance based on the trend of the season, but nonetheless it was exciting to take the boys to the new Levi's Stadium, and show them all around and where our season ticket seats are. They got to choose their own new hat at the store there, and they ate non-stop until we refused to buy them more food. At that point they were tired, over the game, and wanting to go home. They were definitely on the young end to sit through a game, but Caleb had attention and interest in what was going on on the field. Perhaps in another year or two Landon can enjoy it more as well. </div>
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Pumpkin Carving fun... We were invited last minute to join our neighbors' annual pumpkin carving party and potluck, and the boys gladly dove right in to carving their pumpkins. Landon was the only brave one to touch the pumpkin guts though. The last picture is later that night, doing some quickie carving drilling holes into an already hollowed out pumpkin. It ended up looking pretty cool and the boys loved getting to use daddy's drill.</div>
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Halloween! Last year having a family theme for our costumes was so much fun we decided to do it again, this time with Karate Kid characters since the boys had recently watched it for the first time and loved it. Caleb, who always likes the villains, wanted to be Johnny, Landon was Mr. Miyagi, Jimmy was Daniel and I was his girlfriend, Aly - dressed as the shower and angel (?) from the scene of their high school Halloween dance. A lot of people liked our costumes but didn't recognize that they were from Karate Kid, but those who knew really loved them! Wonder what we'll do next year...</div>
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September is here! I think its my favorite month. Fall is arriving, school routines are settled in, and Jimmy and I celebrate our anniversary. I find myself always looking forward to it. </div>
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Landon has had two occasions now to meet up with their reading buddies at school - a boy whose name I still don't know because Landon hasn't asked him. Landon just began reading around the end of August, and is very eager and unintimidated by new words, and is progressing very quickly, so this practice time will be even more fun for him now. </div>
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Labor Day brought another Field and Fair Day at Hutchins Street Square. Jazzercise was invited to perform again, which is always lots of fun, and the boys have a great time with the face paint and different activities there.</div>
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Video of the cheerleaders dancing along with Jazzercise to Meaghan Trainor's <i>Me Too</i>. Click <a href="https://youtu.be/e9OhvZATjN0" target="_blank">here</a> or below:</div>
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A new business is open in town called Gingerbugs, and it is owned by the mom of one of Caleb's friend's, Cooper. It is an indoor play space for younger ones, as well as a place to hold birthday parties, and Cooper's was the first one! He turned seven and they had a Hip Hop Dance Party, complete with DJ, party lights (like at a dance), and gold chains and cool glasses for the kids to wear. This group of 5-7 year old played SO hard and our boys were drenched in sweat. They looked like they had just gotten out of the pool. Good indicator of a fun party! </div>
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Uncle Ben and Auntie April came home for a quick visit and the kids had so much fun together.</div>
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Eli enjoyed his first popsicle, a pineapple one - well, actually he enjoyed Wren's popsicle...</div>
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...and liked it so much he went in for more, taking her last bite. She didn't even get upset!</div>
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It's coming up on a year that we've known that Caleb has color blindness. We did a few online tests and one of them specifies his type as a Deutan (see below). Its an interesting thing to watch as he tried to distinguish certain shades of reds, greens, browns, and other colors. So far Landon seems mostly in the clear for the color blindness, although there have been a few occasions where he mixes up blue and purple. We'll keep an eye to see if that works itself out or not.</div>
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A quick hello in passing as Jimmy was arriving back to Sacramento and Auntie April and Eli were catching a flight to head home to San Diego. </div>
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The first field trip of First Grade was a fun one to In-N-Out Burger in Lodi. We were given a tour around the kitchen and storage areas of the restaurant, including seeing how the potato peeling machine works. The tumble around in a stainless steel drum with blades on the insides, and it gets off most of the skins. Two employees then finish peeling them and getting out bruised spots by hand. The kids got to each take a turn 'making' french fries as they put a potato into the manual cutting machine, pulled down the handle, and watched the potato cut into the shape of fries - everyone's favorite part. They then got to order their own food at the counter, and enjoyed an early lunch at 10am! </div>
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If you're not familiar with one of Lodi's newest restaurants called Fenix, you should definitely check it out. This is the gorgeous and delicious meal I had from there on our Anniversary dinner date. Yum!</div>
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Uncle Joey, Aunt Lindsey, Jackson, and Kenton came home for a weekend visit in September. Caleb was so excited for them to pick him up from school.</div>
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Suuuuuper delicious Gunther's ice cream at Double Dip Gallery.</div>
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The pool party made for a great way for J&L to see lots of friends at once time - I think we counted 19 kids, all of them 6 and under except for one child who was 9. Ava Cataldo played school and basically watched all the kids for us, keeping them walking around in straight lines, sitting and listening to her, saying "Yes Ms. Ava" in response to her, and doing everything she told them! </div>
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Playing school with Ms. Ava</div>
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Caleb still LOVES babies. He has so much fun getting down on their level, touching, and being silly with them. <3</div>
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At Landon's school they take turns drawing what they call 'Mat Man.' I haven't gathered too many details from Landon, but it is on a poster size paper and this is the one he drew.</div>
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My little pirate mateys</div>
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First time checking out the new Sky Zone Trampoline Park in Stockton with our neighbor, Haydon. Awesome. </div>
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Lefty Landon learning to do word puzzles like daddy. Starting him out with the word searches.</div>
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Landon's best TK friend Silas's 5th Birthday - a Nerf party!</div>
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These two LOVE to get dirty!</div>
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...and a little random fun to finish off the month. You can imagine how fun this was for them, wheeling each other up and down the cul-de-sac and belly laughing all the way.</div>
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Its August and the start to Lodi Unified's school year, oh-so-crazy-early. Caleb just started First Grade and Landon is doing Transitional Kindergarten, or 'TK'. For those unfamiliar, they explain it as year one of a two year kindergarten program, designed for the kids with birthdays between September 1 and December 1 who don't make the cut off to start Kindergarten yet. We've heard nothing but good things from friends whose kids who have done it, and for Landon it felt like a natural progression and great fit. He is watching Caleb do school work, read to us, practice sight words, etc., and is wanting to do those things, too. So we are excited about his year of learning and fun - not to mention it's FIVE days a week and free! :)</div>
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Caleb is at Vinewood Elementary</div>
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Landon is going to Lakewood Elementary, right in Papa Jack and Nana Dee's backyard. Only three schools in Lodi currently offer this program, and this was the one whose start times coordinated to allow me enough time to drop both boys off in the mornings. </div>
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Caleb's class lining up on the first day, with their teacher, Mrs. Quesada (who happens to be our neighbor!). </div>
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According to his hat, Caleb is "O-Fish-ally a First Grader" (with his side-kick Landon making his best fish face)</div>
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Box conversion into imaginary play :)</div>
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At the beginning of the summer, with Caleb now able to read, he was asking us about signing up for Upwards Soccer. First grade is the minimum age to play with them, so we thought we would give it a try. He seems to enjoy it, though he likes games a lot more than practicing, and it has been good to introduce him to a new sport.</div>
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Take a close look at Landon's apple... this is what happens when you have no front teeth and bite in. (Smiley face)</div>
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I just had to include some pictures of this adorable baby girl - this is Jude, Tameem and Deanna's daughter. This is her new thing, the scrunched up nose with the big gummy grin. So stinkin' cute.</div>
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Landon's TK teacher, Mrs. DeValle, began using ClassDojo this year. It is an app for teachers and parents to communicate with one another. She will sometimes send a picture of Landon at school, which is so nice to receive and see what they're up to! This little girl with him is Leilani. </div>
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Our puzzle man. He took a break for a few months and wasn't too into them, but now he's back at it. He has a really good eye for knowing if a piece will fit or not, and picking the right ones out of the pile</div>
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This has pretty much become a given when we go to the shoppe now - Landon has to make his "lemon water" (aka. lemonade to most people) with Candace. He surprised me one day at home over the summer when he told me he needed to 'level' the scoop of sugar. Didn't even know he knew that word.</div>
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August 16th marked my one-year Jazzerversary, as it is called - one year that I have been teaching Jazzercise. It has definitely flown by. I am still loving it, and look forward to teaching my three classes each week. It has gotten significantly easier as the year has gone by, learning routines more quickly all the time (the stack of notes from what I've learned in a year is pretty impressive), and more comfortable with my classes each time I teach. Never imagined that I would be 'teaching' in this way!</div>
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Happy to have my Amy in class with me that day! </div>
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I ended up teaching back-to-back classes on my Jazzerversary. This was my 3:15 crew!</div>
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As part of the common core math techniques being taught now, Caleb is learning about number 'partners' - all sorts of ways to make 10. He came home with this upside-down rainbow to help them practice and I thought it was pretty cool because I had never looked at the number relationship this way - the 'rainbow' lines connect the numbers together as partners to make ten with each set. </div>
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Landon won't begin homework until second quarter this year, but he is bringing home letter and writing classwork practice, they work on identifying upper and lower case letters, identifying their name among other names that start with the same letter, and they have also learned about patterns, which is fun to hear him explain to me. He has also brought home some drawings, too...</div>
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This is supposed to be a self-portrait, but he told me he decided to draw daddy - with really big early, seven hearts, and ladder legs so he can climb on him. </div>
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Here is one of himself. with four eyes. </div>
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During the Olympics we thought it would be fun to teach the boys what a javelin throw was, using two pool noodle light sabers taped together. They very quickly turned it into who could get them stuck up in the trees game</div>
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It's been a long time since we've done any painting. Love to see what they come up with.</div>
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Lunch with a Loved One at Vinewood - lucky for Caleb, Jimmy happened to be in Lodi that day so we all four got to have lunch together</div>
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Later the same night, we got to attend the One-Eighty Teen Center's annual dinner fundraiser. This year it was held at Wine and Roses. Care Lodi, which many of you know I am involved in, falls under the umbrella of activities and organizations that make up the Teen Center</div>
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Had to snap a picture of our sunflower. Lots of planted seeds or beans come home from preschool, church, and other grades of school, but not many live long enough to see them grow to maturity. This was the sunflower that Caleb started inside a ziploc with a wet paper towel last Spring in Mr. Drouin's class! </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Neither of the boys are into sleeping with their stuffed animals at the moment - Landon still loves having a big soft blanket to wrap up in, and Caleb still sleeps with no pjs on top of the covers most nights.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">LANDON IS STARTING TO READ! Mr.Brown Can Moo. Can You? We have this book checked out from the library right now, and he picked it up one night toward the end of the month, and started sounding out the words. I was blown away. He is 4 1/2 and I didn't expect reading to happen any time soon, but he is totally into it, and in the two weeks from then until writing this, he is eager to read new books that are his level from our neighbor, Mrs. Walton, who is the reading specialist at Vinewood. We are so fortunate to have her for a neighbor!</span></div>
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This July looked quite different for us from our usual plans during the Fourth and Caleb's birthday. My family planned a week down at a beach house on the Balboa Peninsula of Newport Beach, just a few minutes away from where my brothers live, and only two blocks from the beach. Mom, Dad, Papa Jack, Nana Dee, and our family of four stayed in the house together. It was beautiful, recently gutted and completely re-done, so it was essentially a new house. Professional pictures of the kids and family on the beach and around the house, plenty of playtime on the sand, lots of time with the cousins and aunts and uncles, and some fun little outings throughout the week were the highlights. Food poisoning (dad), ER visits (dad), and other doctor's visits for mom's torn shoulder rotator cuff were definitely not. </div>
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We started off on Day Two with a combo birthday celebration for Caleb and Delanie, whose birthdays are one day apart. We went to Pump It Up, and giant wearhouse facility with a whole bunch of inflatable jump houses, slides, and obstacle courses. The whole family was there, including Christa, who lives not far away, and a few friends joined us as well. The kids had a blast and were soaking wet with sweat by the time they were done. </div>
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Crazy wrecking ball was fun to knock each other over, although there were a few (unintentional) really good hits that didn't feel so good.</div>
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Papa and Nana had so much fun watching all the great-grandkids </div>
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The employees of Pump It Up did a really great job combining the two party themes, Star Wars and Snow White - they came up with things like "Now its time to use our light sabers to try to catch the bad witch and steal away her poisonous apple" that made it more intriguing, like they were on a hunt. The details they came up with were super creative. And then of course the foam building pieces that were over to one side in bins got turned into light sabers for all the boys!</div>
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Caleb's hand out using The Force against Deacon</div>
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Fourth of July! This was the first year since we've been married that we didn't spend the Fourth in Lodi going to the Pancake Breakfast at the Lake. We were a bit bummed about that, but decided to try to recreate it a bit and we brought some of the same delicious breakfast sausages from Lakewood Meats in Lodi. Mmmm!</div>
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Lovin' me some baby time with little Kenton!<br />
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Check out these cuties... All matching, having so much fun together. <br />
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Some Fourth artwork - the kids made fireworks using cut up toilet paper rolls. <br />
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The closest the kids came to seeing fireworks this year were the extra long sparklers that we brought with us (still left over from our wedding!) They had fun with them, and no one even had to stay up late to do it! </div>
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The low point of our trip - for about two-thirds of our trip, dad was fighting or recovering from what we later found out to likely have been a serious case of food poisoning. His immune system seems to have a pattern of being easily attacked just after beginning many of the trips he has taken, both inside and outside of the United States, so after two E.R. visits and an MRI during this trip, and a visit to a G.I. back home afterward, we have some tricks to try out in the future to help protect and prepare his body to fight off whatever it may encounter as he travels. Praying that it does the trick!<br />
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And a definitely plus: Papa Jack seemed to be enjoying his time with family so much that it seems to have inspired some life and energy that we haven't seen him have in quite some time. He sat outside each morning, relaxing and people watching (one of his favorite things to do), and this particular morning he got up and grabbed a broom and spent about twenty minutes sweeping the sand on the whole front patio. It put a smile on our faces :)</div>
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These boys were worn out from all the sun and fun they gave us a couple of good naps this week.<br />
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We took Caleb to a Lego Store to use a gift card he got for his birthday, and Landon chose this little creature, a pirate Mixel called Skulzy. </div>
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Walking on the beach and we found a big crab making his way sideways across the beach. They are so funny to watch move. It would be interesting to know why God chose to create an animal that walks sideways...<br />
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Ferry ride to Balboa Island! The plan was to take this (super quick) ride across to the island, get some ice cream, and then come back across. Well the plan was a loose one, not knowing exactly how far the ice cream places were from the ferry dock, or if there were taxi's in case it were too far for Papa Jack and Nana Dee to walk. It turns out the ice cream shop was seven blocks away (definitely too far for them to walk), and the island has no taxis, sooooo... I asked where the next closest ice cream shop was, and was pointed back across the water to where we had just come from. Ooops. So much for that plan. We hopped right back on the ferry and took it back across and got some italian ice on the boardwalk area. <br />
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At Caleb's request, after ice cream we went on the big ferris wheel next to the ferry. It claims to be the longest ferris wheel ride time ever. When its not busy they just keep letting you ride. I think we were on it for almost fifteen minutes!<br />
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On a walk we discovered this beautiful back bay area with gorgeous home and private boats and docks. Lovely for a stroll in a neighborhood with views like this!<br />
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The day we saw the crab walking on the beach, we also walked out on some jetties, and it made me think of tidepools. I asked my sister-in-law if she knew of any near where we were staying, and so one of the days we went to check it out. Nothing like what they took us to at Science Camp in Sixth Grade (star fish, sea anemones, etc...), but it was still pretty cool and something new for the boys to see - there were an abundance of crabs and hermit crabs of all sizes. <br />
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For some reason it didn't occur to me to put our boys in swim trunks, even though tidepools are often times next to beaches. So we had no official swim gear, but that didn't slow down three little boys from having fun. One started to get a little wet, then the next, then the next, and a little wetter, and a little wetter... You get the picture. Monkey see, monkey do = car full of sand that was still in their carseats a month after our trip, eek! <br />
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Yes, that's water he is dipping his head into upside down!<br />
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These boys.... Nonni brought all sorts of gear and fun things for the Fourth, but since dad was feeling under the weather it all got forgotten about until later in the week. The boys enjoyed the props just the same.<br />
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I totally see his daddy in this picture of Caleb - not the eyes so much, but the little side smile and the pose, totally Jimmy!<br />
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Learning to make his own toast<br />
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Caleb's actual birthday was on Friday at the end of the week we spent at the beach house. We hadn't really planned much of anything for that day - Jimmy was still in NorCal working until Friday evening, and we just let the day happen as it happened, with a few small treats and surprises along the way. I realized late Thursday night that I didn't have a card for Caleb, so I grabbed his new Star Wars puzzle box and copied the picture. I think he liked it :)<br />
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Park playtime with a lighthouse slide and right next to the ocean. <br />
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Papa feeling better toward the end of the week and getting in some more beach time with the fam.<br />
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On Saturday our time at the beach came to an end, and the trek to the next destination began. We were headed up to Hume Lake Christian Camps, 50 miles east of Fresno, but with several stops along the way. First, to meet up with Jimmy's mom, who caught a ride southward with some Lodi friends who were on their way to San Diego. We ended up meeting them in the Grapevine to pick her up. Stop #1, check. Then, we drove up to Visalia and stopped at Bravo Farms - an uncharacteristic suggestion from Jimmy, to just get out, let the kids take a shot at the shooting gallery, and then be on our way. The place was pretty cool, and chock full of memorabilia and signage of all sorts. <br />
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We made one more stop before arriving to Hume - at a packing shed Jimmy does business with to buy a whole lot of fruit - like two 25lb boxes of plums and nectarines. Finally arrived to the Lake to meet Ben, April, and Eli in the late afternoon, and were so shocked to see the state of the forest, which we estimated to be close to half of the trees completely brown. Such a crazy sight to see, between the drought and the bark beetle there is an unbelievably drastic difference in the landscape.<br />
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The first morning, the boys wanted test out their new fishing poles (Caleb's was a birthday gift from us, as he has been asking frequently all summer to go fishing). They didn't catch anything. <br />
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Later that day Joey, Aly, and the kids joined us at the cabin<br />
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Look at these two cuties - Wren saying 'cheese', and Eli caught in a rare photo with a smile!<br />
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Brothers. Ready to celebrate Caleb's birthday, yet again. Lucky kid... I think we celebrated on three separate days!<br />
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Carrot Cake, at Caleb's request! He's so funny.<br />
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Playing ball with Nana Gigi - she braved the chilly Lake water!<br />
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We took a morning boat ride on the Lake, but somehow it was decided that two row boats would be enough room for thirteen of us... Um, no. On top of not having enough room for the boys to row, Regina had to sit on the wet bottom of our boat, Wren's finger got pinched between the two boats and turned black, and then the icing on the cake was the paddle part of one of Joey's oars fell off into the lake! Ben acted quickly and dove into the cold water to grab it before it could sink, and after an unsuccessful attempt at towing them back in with our boat, Joey ended up diving in and pushing their boat himself. Our outing was definitely an 'adventure'!<br />
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First was TFC's annual family picnic, which we always look forward to. The location has changed a few times in the four years Jimmy has worked there, and our favorite was the "Funny Farm", with Rusty the horse and other farm animals, but every year they have great food and fun activities planned for the kiddos, and its nice now that I'm starting to get to know some of them better and enjoy catching up each time. This year it was at a park picnic area, and they hired a facepaint and ballon artist, but not just any face painter - this guy was really good. I guess he goes to clubs and paints people up too. The kids got back in line several times, adding in the hand paint, then the arm paint. We finally had to cut them off so some of the adults (myself included) could get some painting done too. Caleb would do his whole body if we let him. He LOVES getting his face painted!<br />
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Landon makes a pretty cute tiger, especially with his teeth gone - makes it look like little fangs.<br />
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This is Haydon, our neighbor. We wanted to be sure a get a picture of he and Landon together with nice big smiles to show off their matching missing teeth. <br />
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Some last minute plans for friends to come visit from SoCal and the bay area made for a busy fun weekend at the end of the month. Mike and Kristy came with their boys, Michael and Thomas, and Luke and Shana with their daughter Ariel came from Mountainview, also. Connection: Jimmy, Tameem, Mike and Luke were all roommates in college, and between them there are a lot of boys now, as you can see below! <br />
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Decorating the lids of their new bins - something to call their own, when they have very little they can do that with in small, shared living spaces.<br />
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Caleb and Landon were here with me for this distribution day, and during a lot of the 'down time' as people tried on their clothes, C & L had a blast running around and being boys with the older boys from this group. (Swoop!). <br />
Every month when our Care Lodi "Dream Team" gets together, Liz prepares photos of three Care Lodi kids, with a sticker on the back telling us a little about each one. Since some of us don't have the direct interaction with them like Liz does, it is helpful for us to get to know the kids more and to be able to pray for each one. The morning after our monthly meetings Caleb and Landon always get to 'meet' and learn about these kids too, and they ask lots of questions and like seeing the pictures Liz has printed. We keep them in a small photo album, and yesterday when I was sharing the newest additions with the boys, Caleb asked when he would get to do something with the Care Lodi kids again. Even though their time hanging out together at our WEARhouse distribution was just a few hours, it was memorable for Caleb and Landon, and I hoping to have more opportunities in the future for our boys to see us 'loving on' the kids where they can interact and make memories together.<br />
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We discovered a very cool new place to stay cool in Elk Grove and had fun there with Jake, Claire, and Jen. Its called Wackford Community and Aquatic Center. In the mornings it is a pool for swim lessons, and from noon on they open the water park - three water play areas, for toddlers up to older kids, plus a one meter and a three meter diving board. Guess who LOVED the THREE METER diving board???!? NOT me, I flopped so hard the lifeguard had to ask if I was ok, hahahaha! Yikes. CALEB. He went on it probably ten times, with zero hesitation. So proud of him! Lodi needs an aquatic center like this!!<br />
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<br />Jimmy, Jenny, Caleb, and Landonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06511664053549643222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1201146613869442984.post-83991797937796314752016-07-30T14:39:00.001-07:002016-09-02T14:57:23.366-07:00June 2016, Kinder Graduation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
In addition to being my birthday month, June was special because Caleb finished Kindergarten (ON my birthday actually). The three K classes had a 'program', not called graduation or promotion due to some kids not moving on apparently, but they sang us some songs that they practiced a long time to learn, and then we went to our child's classroom for individual awards from their teacher. Of course everyone gets an award, hi-lighting something unique, memorable, quirky, or special about them. </div>
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Caleb's class, post award distribution. Caleb was given the 'Big Brother Award', because Mr.Drouin said that any time he learned something cool, or did or received something new, he would always say he wanted to tell Landon about it. <3 What a sweet big brother he is!</div>
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Caleb and his good buddy, Cooper, and of course we couldn't leave Landon out of the picture!</div>
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It's amazing to see how big these boys are getting. And Caleb still with a full mouth of baby teeth, while most of his friends (and brother) have gaps in their smiles. </div>
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Best hug yet!! Love this sweet boy!</div>
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The kids sang several songs for the parents and grandparents, but this was my favorite, and Caleb's too. It's called The Ball and the Jack. (Sorry for the sideways filming... thought that the iPhone's had that figured out by now...) Click <a href="https://youtu.be/mD24WXbLoQA" target="_blank">here</a> on on image below...</div>
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Summer fun has begun! Papa got them each a google and fins set and they love them, and each other.</div>
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Jimmy and I rarely get away by ourselves for overnight trips, so we wanted to just go anywhere for my birthday. We headed up to Murphy's for a night, stopping for lunch in Sonora on the way. Wine tasting, eating, relaxing. Lovely. :)</div>
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Week one of summer break brought a week of basketball camp for Caleb, and two days of Tot camp for Landon, Eli Elson, and Eli Shular at Impact Sports, which they loved. </div>
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VBS at Faith Community Church! The church did an amazing job turning the inside of the building into the feeling of being under the sea. The kids had so much fun, and were even tired enough that they gave me two naps that week! Water games, relays, bouncey things, skits, music, bible verses, and friends. </div>
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This was the first of a series of Avengers character workshops with Lowe's Build and Grow. Not sure what we're going to do with all these characters when they're done, but they enjoy building them in the meantime...</div>
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Fun fort set up on old fashioned clothes hanging lines in our neighbor's backyard birthday party.</div>
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Dress up fun at my cousin Chantel's house. Zach ( in white) is the same age as Caleb. Can you tell Landon is excited about his costume? Look at that grin...</div>
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It's always fun to see my old roomie, Cat, and the kids have fun playing together too on their stops through Lodi. </div>
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Hangin' out in the Japanese Gardens, just the three of us. We walked across the rocks in the ponds at least five times.</div>
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We did our third annual Father's Day River Cats game, but this time we opted for the Saturday night game instead of the Sunday at 2pm blazing hot game. It was still plenty warm, but it was so nice to not be roasting in the sun, and the fire works show at the end of the game was a really one! They had the fireworks synchronized to the music, and for the song Ex's and Oh's, they shot up X and O fireworks. Very fun. (Below: Christa and the boys)</div>
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This summer Caleb decided he really wanted to learn to fish. He first got to try it off the dock at the Walters' house, and then we got him a pole of his own for his birthday. He has asked me to take him, but I don't know the first thing about fishing to even help him! This one will have to be a boy time activity. :)</div>
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This is a picture from the Stockton Ports game we DIDN'T stay to watch. It was like 103 that day, and the seats were literally so hot you could have cooked food on them. We stayed for two innings with the group from our church, and then called it quits and threw together a bbq/swim party at one of their houses. Turned out to be a fun afternoon once we got out of that crazy heat. Probably can't say the same for the poor person inside this suit. I think I would have passed out!</div>
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The boys still love <i>pomelo</i> (grapefruit), and their favorite part is always squeezing the juice onto their spoon after eating all the fruit wedges. </div>
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Caleb, live in concert! He's totally into it, just like his daddy.</div>
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Swim dates, swimming, and more swimming all summer... This was a set of triplets who Caleb made friends with during VBS. So fun for Luke to have some boys to play with!</div>
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Jimmy's long-time friend Suzanne was in town with her hubby and boys, Roman and Cash. </div>
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Lovely scene for the neighbors to watch out their windows... boys chasing each other in pj's and undies at breakfast time. Oh Landon, the boy who rarely has pants on... Saw a friend's son recently wearing a shirt that says "Sin Pantalones" (without pants) - think I need to track one down for Landon!</div>
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School is wrapping up and this May was no less busy than any other year. </div>
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After many months of prayer and searching out various options, our church body has moved to a new location! We are now meeting at the Church of God Seventh Day near Chipotle in Lodi, which works out perfectly since their church gathers on Saturdays. We understand that a church is not about the physical building, but this move gave our children, more than anything, a much more clean and safe place to meet! The transition has been going well and we are so thankful for the new location that the Lord guided our church to. There are already several new families attending, many of whom have young children, too!</div>
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Teacher Appreciation Week: Caleb was excited to make a card for Mr.Drouin for Teacher Appreciation Week. Check out the drawing on the zoomed in version, I love them - He drew himself and Mr. Drouin, with details down to the colors and accessories that are usually worn. </div>
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Greek Easter at 'Uncle Nick's' - this is the second time we have attended Greek Easter, which is a mix of many generations, ethnicities, and languages being spoken. We don't know very many people other than our immediate family, but it is still a really cool experience to be around and more importantly to expose our boys to, with the prayer done in Greek, and some of the different traditions and foods they have there. They do still do an Easter egg hunt for the kids, and then shower them with a dozen or so other little gifts, oh my gosh - needless to say the boys were thrilled by all that.</div>
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We have been making frequent trips to the Lodi Public Library this Spring, checking out lots of new books to keep our reading time fresh, especially since Caleb can read many of them to us now. I use the Scholastic book fliers that come home to get ideas, or any popular book or character that I can think of, then I see if the library has them. Put a hold on the books, wait for the email to say they are ready, then just walk in and check them out. SO MUCH EASIER, and we can get good books as opposed to the random and sometimes awful ones we just pull of the shelves when the kids grab books! </div>
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Nana Gigi brought the boys a container full of hundreds of ladybugs so they could release them into our yard. They didn't know she was bringing them over, so they we're a bit overwhelmed at all the moving creatures at first, but warmed up to the idea and eventually let them crawl on their hands. And now we have some extra help eating the bugs in our garden, too! :)</div>
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"The Boys of La Setta Drive" </div>
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(Jacob (6), Landon (4), Caleb (5), and Haydon (7))</div>
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Landon's preschool 'field trip' to the park at the end of the school year.</div>
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"Uncle Eli" was here visiting from Virginia for a few weeks this month, so we had lots of time and fun with him, including he and "Uncle Tameem" coming to one of Caleb's t-ball games. Caleb was very excited about that.</div>
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Morada Little League Family Fun Day - the dunk tank was a hit, literally, for the boys. </div>
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The boys <i>love </i>having their faces painted</div>
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Lucky Landon - another fun invite, to take a paddle boat from a friend's house over to Mason's beach. The little boy is Billy, a friend of Landon's from preschool, and his sister Blair. They had a ton of fun running up and down the beach, in and out of the very cold water (this was only mid-May!) Hope we get the chance to go again some time.</div>
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This month has several minimum days, which means several dress up days. This was Hawaiian Day, and Caleb said he wanted a <i>blue </i>lei. Thank you Nolan for loaning us your authentic hawaiian shirt!</div>
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BIG DEAL celebration this month!! After three extremely grueling years, Jimmy's brother Joey finished and graduated with his Doctorate in Education (EdD). Way to go Joey, and Aly too for being strong at his side. </div>
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Caleb's bean plant from school. Not to sure what kind of bean, or where it would prefer to live in our garden, but after almost killing it in the ziploc it came home in, I got it in the ground and it is still alive (writing this mid-June)... There are actually even some bean pods growing on it! </div>
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Caleb's last t-ball game, and here is his team, the Rattlers. Coaches Jimmy, Wade, and Brad.</div>
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Caleb is usually pretty into the dress-up days at school, and for his general unwillingness to wear things I choose or buy for him, it makes me happy that he wants to dress up for the spirit days. This was 80's day, so he has the super neon orange shirt, sleeves rolled, jean jacket (Mr. Drouin helped us out by popping Caleb's collar), and pegged pants. I think he felt pretty coooool. :)</div>
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Caleb's drawing of BB-8</div>
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End of the year field trip to the Stockton Children's Museum. Caleb and his classmate, Ashton...</div>
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Caleb, Sebastian, Cooper, and Jared</div>
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Landon had his last day of preschool at Vinewood Preschool this month! It was very bittersweet, because we love the preschool and everyone there so much and we will definitely miss them! Next year Landon will be attending Transitional Kindergarten (TK) at Lakewood School, which is basically a (free) year of pre-kindergarten (same curriculum, but simplified) for the kids whose birthdays fall between September 1 and December 1 - it other words, the ones who don't make the cutoff date to start Kindergarten this year. Landon is very excited, and we know of at least one preschool friend who will be in TK with him as well. </div>
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(Left) Some of Landon's classmates and friends, Olivia and Otto. (Right) Landon and Teacher Debi, or "Teacher Devi", as he calls her!</div>
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Memorial Day swim time with the cousins!</div>
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Baseball, and more baseball this month... They started doing coach-pitch for the second half of the season. Some of the kids struggled at first, but over the course of the month they progressed noticeably, in all of the skills. Began teaching the preschoolers class at church this month, which is the class Landon is in. And we went to a big 1st Birthday Party done in the Korean tradition, and ate huge amounts of amazingly delicious homemade Korean food, mmmmmmmmmmmmm. That was a first for me, and I loved it!<br />
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If you know Jimmy, you know he <i>loves</i> to cook and try new things with food. Well one of the ideas he has had in his head to try for quite some time is cooking a baby lamb in a style that is common in Patagonia (Southern Chile and Argentina), called Cordero al asador. The meat slow-cooks over an open fire for about six hours and ends up tender with a delicious smoked flavor. He was thrilled to be able to make it happen this month, with the help from his friend and former co-worker, Chris Carloni, who basically built (welded) this contraption together from scratch, with moving parts and all (the cross can be raised or lowered to adjust the cooking temperature). And of course Jimmy had to get into character, so he cooked with his Chilean Huaso hat on. :)<br />
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During one of my days helping out in Caleb's classroom, they had a surprise visit from Clifford, who was there to tell them about the book fair and encourage them to read more. The kids thought he was <i>so </i>cool. </div>
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We discovered this month that papers were not making it home from Caleb's cubby, including the one that would have informed me about Caleb being Star of the Week! On the Thursday of his 'special week', he told me while we were getting him ready for school that he was Star of the Week that week. News to me! Thank goodness for 1-hour photo - I threw together a poster with pictures for him to take and show the next day.</div>
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Lunch with a Loved One at Caleb's school - Landon and I took lunch for Caleb and ate with him, then the family and siblings got to play together on the Kindergarten playground. These two boys love each other so much, and I love how they give such sweet hugs for pictures!</div>
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Landon doing what Landon loves to do - EAT, and hang out in the shoppe kitchen with Candace.</div>
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Twin Day - Caleb dressed as a twin with his buddy Cooper Powell. They did the faux-hawk hairdos, Batman hoodie, jeans, and custom-made shirts drawing attention to something they have in common... They say "My name starts with a C and my dad's name is Jimmy", since Cooper's dad's name is Jimmy also. Random, cute, fun. </div>
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Headed out to a Saturday morning game in Morada. This wagon has been the best purchase to haul all our baseball stuff and chairs, and the boys love pulling it around!</div>
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Caleb is giving Landon a new do, and as you can see he is focused very intently on what he is doing. </div>
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Landon just recently had his first x-rays at the dentist, which revealed three cavities, eeek! His sweet little face looked so funny trying to pucker up while he was still numb from the appointment!</div>
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The second discovery regarding Caleb's school papers not all making it home from the cubby was with our Spelling lists. Before Christmas we were getting a new list of words every week, and his spelling tests were coming home, too. But starting in January no spelling lists were coming home, so since the kids work at their own pace in learning each list of words, I assumed that maybe it was getting too backed up and they were taking a break from giving out new lists. Fast forward to April, and we were having dinner at a classmate's house, and I see a spelling list hanging on their fridge. The mom said they have been getting them every week, and we had not! Caleb... </div>
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Lessons learned: Don't assume anything, and remind your Kindergartener <i>often</i> to be sure to get <i>all </i>the cubby papers out <i>every time</i>!</div>
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Once we figure out that there were still spelling lists happening, we found a fun way to fit in practicing them, using our MagnaDoodle in the car as we drive around town. I call out the word, Caleb writes it and shows to me. (Way to multi-task, mama! Haha)</div>
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AWANA's awards night, hanging out with Caleb's friend Max, and a proud Landon showing off his new AWANA Cubbies (green) ribbon (which you can hardly see in this picture actually...)</div>
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Landon had his end of the year Preschool program this month, which is always incredibly cute and incredibly short. We're talking like 5 minutes of singing, and then maybe 5 minute of slide show pictures from the year (tears!) - they're only three and four year olds so I guess you can't expect much longer from their attention span! </div>
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Landon, our child who is so particular for so many things, including wearing collared and dress shirts of different kinds, willingly grabbed this one at Target with me one day to wear specifically for his program. If I hadn't had him pose next to a downspout, this looks like it could be a little model shot! Haha bragging mama :)</div>
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Landon stood kind of off to one side from the rest of his class because of lack of space, so they had their own little trio with Levi and Otto. They were funny to watch, with Levi eating his shirt, and Landon and Otto having mostly serious faces while they sang and did their hand motions. Its a bummer that with our good camera, the two cuter pictures were blurry, and the clearest one I got was when Landon was sort of picking his nose! (Which we specifically talking about before the show... Me: "Landon, make sure you don't pick your nose while you're up on the stage." Landon: "Ok mo, I'll just do it afterward.") </div>
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Caleb had his first Jog-a-Thon at school. Mr. Drouin, his teacher, dressed up, as usual in a ghostbusters hoodie that was hiding his cape and superman shirt. Landon was right there with Caleb, as usual, as they walked out to the field to run. The kids ran their hearts out, and Caleb ended up with something like thirteen laps.</div>
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One of my favorite things about Kindergarten has been watching Caleb's brain work as he learns how to read. It is so fun to listen to him read to us, and he does an awesome job sounding out new words. This was the longest book to date that he read start-to-finish with almost no help! </div>
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<br />Jimmy, Jenny, Caleb, and Landonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06511664053549643222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1201146613869442984.post-3328410798474518142016-05-19T15:09:00.004-07:002016-05-19T15:09:45.346-07:00March 2016, Spring Break SoCal Trip, and LegolandCaleb has finally started coming around to want to say prayers, at an audible volume (he used to only be willing if he said it so quietly that no one could hear him), and some of them are pretty cute. Tonight he started in with his usuals, like "Thank you for dying on the cross for us (wow, Caleb), thank you for houses, thank you for everything...", and tonight he had a new addition (3/25/16): Thank you for the solar system, thank you for Pluto, Goofy (oops, he stopped himself and corrected that one), Earth, Saturn, and Mars..." Boy that kid sure listens to things we say (when he wants to)!<br />
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I was sharing with my grandma how crazy busy I had been the days leading up to having lunch with them, and she told me to write it down, because some day I will look back at it and be shocked that I was able to keep the pace I sometimes keep, so here are my busy four days: <br />
Saturday: Special team-taught Jazzercise class at 9:30, Jazz meeting at 10:45, work at the shoppe at noon, go home to shower and then pizza with friends at 5pm. Sunday: First time teaching Sunday School, come home finish getting house and food ready to host family at 12:30 for Easter. Sunday night final prep for Spanish classes starting next day. Monday: First Spanish class of Spring session, Teach jazzercise at 4:30, meeting at Debi's that night (cancelled, thankfully). Tuesday: Teach Spanish at noon, Jazz at 3:15, and Caleb's game at 5:00. Boy am I glad its now Wednesday!!<br />
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More fun dress up times with the Amazing Mr. Drouin (Caleb's Kindergarten teacher). This was crazy sock day, which fell during Dr. Seuss Week, so Mr. Drouin of course made himself a Lorax costume.<br />
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I've been enjoying the days I have Landon home since next year he starts Transitional Kindergarten (TK) and will be at school every day. He is such a silly kid and has fun exploring and doing new things, like taking your umbrella for a walk in the wagon in between rainstorms, and picking worms up out of the puddles using the stem of a leaf... <br />
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Our annual SoCal trip fell in March this year, now needing to coincide with Lodi Unified's Spring Break since Caleb is in Kindergarden and we can't skip school for trips like we could in preschool! The timing also worked out perfectly with getting to meet our new nephew, Kenton (Joey and Lindsey's second boy). <br />
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The boys have begun to look forward to these drives, for three reasons: 1. They know they will be getting to have lots of play time with cousins at the end of the long drive. 2. They get to watch like four movies back to back in the car. 3. They get to get up sometimes before the sun rises to leave early, which they think is SO cool. :)<br />
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Day 1 stop in Newport for a night to break up the drive. Immediately out of the car and the boys were already driving in Deacon and Lanie's vehicle. Afterwards on to Uncle Joey and Aunt Lindsey's house and they went straight for Jackson's motorized car too. Ridin' in style in the Range Rover. Lol<br />
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We were so excited to meet Baby Kenton, who was surprisingly alert and awake for this picture, at only three weeks old! Such a sweet little thing with his little grunts and noises, but never heard a cry!<br />
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Day 2 we headed further south and met Uncle Ben, Aunt April, and cousin Eli at Ballast Point Brewery in Miramar. Huge brewery, very cool inside, and SO MANY delicious beers (some very unusual flavors) to try! <br />
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Day 3: I didn't realize I was quite this excited, but maybe the picture shows how I really felt... April and I went to a Jazzercise class in Alpine, not far from her house and practically next door to the school where April teaches. It was my first time taking a class in another city, and I was excited about it. Have to say dancing on carpet was interesting, but so glad she came with me and we got to check out somewhere new!</div>
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Later that day we took the ferry across to Coronado. Eli's first boat ride maybe? Kids did great and loved seeing the three aircraft carriers parked in the bay and Coast Guard boats running drills around us.<br />
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I LOVE THIS PICTURE. I told the boys to stand together for a picture and this was the pose they gave. Love how it shows how much they love each other. Brothers :)<br />
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Day 4: First day of Legoland! The boys talked about this for months leading up to our visit. We had taken them two years ago, but Landon was too young to remember or do much, and this time it was perfect because they are both tall enough to ride everything, so it was a ton of fun. AND we no longer have to deal with diapers, strollers, potty training, and pretty much can skip naps, which made for much less stress for Jimmy and I. I actually said to him at one point as we walked behind the kids to the next ride, "Wow, I feel so not-stressed-out right now, this is actually enjoyable!" <br />
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Another hi light of this Legoland trip was that it was the boys' first experience with rollercoasters. They LOVED them. Granted, the ones at Legoland are age appropriate and nothing too crazy, but it was a great introduction to them and nice to know we can seek out more thrilling options to try out in the future as well.<br />
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It's no surprise that the Star Wars Miniland was a huge hit with the boys as well. <br />
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The boys both went to 'driving school' and received their Licenses at Legoland. Lookout! Caleb actually did a really good job on the older kids' car track - I explained to him that when you drive you have to stay on the right side of the road, we practiced which side is Left and Right, and then he controlled his car perfectly and staying on the right side the whole time. Hoping this good and cautious driving continues once he gets behind the wheel of a real car someday!<br />
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This was one of Caleb's favorites - you get to be on a second level shooting balls down to those below. As you can see it was aimed right at the cameraman (me!). He is a pretty good shot.<br />
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Day 5: Legoland part two! Our tickets gave us a second day free in the park, so we went on all their favorite rides a few more times that morning, until noon when the water park opened and there we spent the remainder of our second day. No pictures from the waterpark, but it was very fun - they also loved the waterslides (also a first), and of course the shallow wading pool, wave pool, and floating river as well. Mommy loved the big huge open-air waterslide with the round floatation raft thing that we all got to ride in together. :) Enclosed waterslides are not my thing! <br />
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Below are shots from the very beginning and very end of day 2 in the park...<br />
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Something special that I wanted to do during our time in SoCal was go to a class in Carlsbad or Oceanside, the two centers where all the Jazzercise Corporate instructors teach classes regularly. Its a bit silly maybe, but they have a bit of celeb status to instructors since we see them on all of our training DVDs, and they're great instructors, so getting to take a class from one of them is a cool deal. I planned it out to go one morning while we were staying in Carlsbad for the Legoland days, and although Young was sick that day, Ashley (another instructor from some of our DVDs) was teaching instead. I love getting to take classes in different cities and see people's different teaching styles, and even though we instructors get excited to meet 'the big deal people', when you are in their class and they share stories about their everyday lives, it reminds you that they, too, are just regular people... moms who had to rush to get their kids ready for school before they came to teach that morning, or whatever. Fun experience, but a good reminder of reality too. :)<br />
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The second half of the trip we spent back in Orange County with my brothers and their families. The boys have so much fun getting to play with all their cousins and talk about it constantly. <br />
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Train ride on the campus of the boys' church, Mariners. So fun! They also spread probably a hundred different balls all over a giant lawn for people to hang around and play with, they have super cool pirate ship and whale play structures, and the children's ministry building looks like you stepped into Disneyland, its SO COOL. Needless to say the boys had a blast, and Jimmy and I really enjoyed their worship and the pastor's teachings that day too. Very cool church. <br />
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Friday night was our bonfire night! Pizza and S'mores on the beach. The boys could fully enjoy being boys on the beach, tackling each other, wrestling, and running around - even Jackson, who is just 2, would run up and throw himself on top of the pile of boys, and never got upset if he got toppled or knocked off. </div>
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The return drive through the Grapevine was the prettiest I've ever seen it - with all the rain we had this year the mountains were covered in green, and in the week since we had driven southbound through these mountain, millions of flowers came into bloom, painting the hillsides orange and purple, it was amazing!! My pictures don't fully capture it, but to give you an idea...</div>
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Haircuts, BOTH boys at the hair salon this time. YAY Landon!</div>
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T-ball has begun! Caleb is playing for the first time, and we chose to put him in Morada Little League. Jimmy played Morada LL as a boy, and he is so excited to have Caleb starting it now too. Caleb was of course excited about all the new gear he got to play in. </div>
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Standing just like Jimmy...</div>
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Eyes on the ball, right where they should be! Nice job Caleb!!</div>
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Watching a movie in their 'race cars' - custom designs by Caleb and Landon themselves. They thought it was pretty cool. </div>
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Caleb has been into mouthing words to us instead of saying them with an audible voice. He also sometimes says just the first letter of words as an answer, like "I want M for naps (movie)" or "Can we have a T?(treat)" </div>
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Landon still interacts with kids shows and calls out answers, like on Ruff Ruff, Tweet and Dave, a show he loves</div>
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In December and January, Landon, who had mostly stopped napping, went back to consistently napping every other day. I was thankful for the predictable pattern and that he was still sleeping a few days a week again, but then toward the end of January that stopped. I wondered if it had been a growth spurt, so I measured him, and sure enough, he had grown AN INCH AND A QUARTER since November! For those of you who have noticed him looking taller, he absolutely is!</div>
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I am really loving the age the boys are at, Preschool and Kindergarten, and the innocence they still have. It makes me happy that the worst things they can think of to call each other are things like "You're a Toe!" Can it always stay that way please???</div>
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<b>His Little Feet International Children's Choir:</b></div>
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Last year was our first time hosting children from the His Little Feet International Children's choir. We couldn't wait for them to pass through Lodi again with a new group of children this year, and with last minute changes to their scheduling, we had the opportunity to host again, which we were so looking forward to. It happened again on a very busy weekend. Thank you Jimmy for your willingness to serve and keep these guys (and our little guys) fed, safe, and entertained for half the weekend while mommy was at a women's conference (on the books prior to knowing when the choir would be in town)! </div>
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The boys we hosted this year are from Ethiopia and Mizoram, India (where our child from last year lives - in fact they are friends, and live in the same orphanage in India). Biruk (Ethiopia), and David (India) are both eleven years old. </div>
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Biruk is such a sweet boy. I could tell at a few points during the weekend that he is at an age where he is trying to figure himself out, concerned about looking cool and grown up. He wanted me to take his picture with this hat on... this is pose one, then pose two - I think he likes the second option best! Doesn't he look like a little model kid? Handsome guy!</div>
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Sports Day at school... and then there is the Red Sox fan... :)</div>
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Landon and his preschool buddy Billy had a fun play date at the park being goofy together, followed by a movie date to see Kung Fu Panda 3 the following week</div>
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Caleb is such a lover, and although this picture on the left looks a little bit like he is trying to choke Landon with big smiles, these are versions of Caleb's current pose of choice when he and Landon take a picture together - Caleb standing behind with his arms around Landon. L-O-V-E it!</div>
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Family fun at the bowling alley after daddy returned home from a work trip. Landon was ahead nearly the whole time and almost beat all of us, but Daddy pulled through at the end!</div>
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Excited to have a chance to use his new umbrella, and the pose he gave me for this picture cracks me up. I feel like its a little preview of how he will look in high school, minus the arms out holding the umbrella, but how he is standing with his weight back on one foot. I don't know, something about it makes me smile. </div>
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Tokay High School hosted a big science fair type event, and they had different hands on activities set up in the classrooms and gymnasium. We had fun trying to make homemade speakers out of styrofoam cups and wire, among other things.</div>
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As we've started purchasing some of the gear Caleb needs to play t-ball this Spring, he of course can't wait to wear all of it. So this was before his first practice (right after eating or drinking something red I think) and he insisted on wearing his new baseball pants with his 'baseball shirt' (aka Giants jersey). Then the helmet, socks, belt, cup, bat, cleats, and glove all had to go on too. He wanted to practice in the front yard wearing his helmet and cleats any chance he could get. Like I've said to a few people, he seems to be enjoying baseball, but not sure if its the game or the gear that he likes more!</div>
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Our chocolate lover, Landon, has also recently discovered that he really likes mommy's chocolate protein shakes. Get this: When asking me for a piece of his Easter candy for a treat, he looked through his bag of goodies, checked out several options, then put the bag back up in the cupboard and said, "No, I don't want any candy. I want a chocolate shake!" Um, YES! How can I say no to a healthy shake being requested INSTEAD OF CANDY?! </div>
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Grandma Stanford has finally agreed to move into an assisted living facility, which is very much what she needs with all of her 94 years of age, and the boys got to have a bit of fun riding back and forth on the dolly the day we moved her out of her apartment. Grandma is doing great and has put on a healthy amount of weight now that someone is preparing regular meals for her!</div>
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Nana Gigi, Aunt Aly, Tess, Beau, Wren, Caleb, Landon, and I all rode the train to Sacramento, while Uncle Joey and Jimmy drove up separate cars to meet us. Gigi and our family went ice skating at a little outdoor rink in Downtown Sac - first time for the boys and they had such a great time. <br />
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There was a little mini lesson before the skate session began in which they taught the kids some basics of ice skating, which were really simple but helpful tips. They taught them how to catch their balance if they felt themselves starting to fall, how to push off the ice to make themselves go, and even how to make yourself spin. The boys wanted to hold our hands while they skated a lot of the time, but they actually skated far better when they let go of us, simply because it didn't pull their balance to one side holding our hands. Caleb did especially well for his first time!</div>
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Wink is back! Our Elf, Wink, returned to spend the Christmas season with us this year, and the boys were thrilled to find him outside on the porch at the beginning of the month.</div>
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The trip to get our Christmas tree turned into an extra-fun outing when we discovered patches of snow on top of the freshly delivered, still bundled packs of Christmas trees. The boys haven't yet been to the snow, so getting to pack snowballs and smash them into the ground was a blast!</div>
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Landon and I have had many visits to the WOW science museum this month on days when Caleb is at school. I would say it is currently his favorite thing to do outside of the house. They had some cool hands-on activities going on during the two week break, with additional student volunteers working with the kids to show them cool science stuff. </div>
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New interactive screen has math, games, science, drawing, and probably more, and several kids can play it at once. It's like a giant iPad. Very cool.</div>
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These were cool glasses... They are made of a heavy acrylic cut diagonally, which tricks your brain and body from correctly identifying where things and people are in front of you... and making walking on a wiggly line of tape very difficult.</div>
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Experimenting with mommy and daddy's new camera, as the boys helped us decorate our Christmas tree</div>
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The joy of huge leaf piles... and more camera experimentation... No way my cell phone could have captured this!<br />
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Obvious personality differences! Caleb is proud, posed seriously. Landon makes the goofy faces. The pictures of Landon following this one were of some very silly faces and poses for the camera. :)</div>
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Learning to frost a gingerbread man - Landon watched Candace frost hers, and then he did his own without assistance, and its a pretty darn good job (check out the details)! Maybe this one does have a future in food...</div>
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We had so much fun with Uncle Ben, Auntie April, and cousin Eli during the days they were in Lodi. Eli has begun army crawling, and soon enough he will excitedly keep up with Caleb and Landon. They had so much fun loving on him and making him 'talk' (currently a high-pitched little scream). Caleb always loves playing with the babies, and he does such a good job! </div>
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During their time in town, we got to take Auntie A and Eli to the science museum, and lots of police/SWAT dress-up, hunting for bad guys in our neighborhood with Uncle Ben, and setting up pretend boobie traps after having watched, loved, and quoting constantly from Home Alone. Thankfully no bad guys were actually found. </div>
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Our church, Remedy, had a children's Christmas program the week before Christmas. The kids worked hard practicing after church each week, and were all so cute on the stage, for the most part behaving well... and by that I mean no one lifting their dress, crying or melting down, or being silly with other kids around them. Landon had his glazed stage look, as in his preschool performance, but mouthed the words to each song with little to no facial expression. Caleb had a sleepy look on his face throughout, did all the hand motions, but sang very few of the words. </div>
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We have never made it a point to take either of the boys to see a Santa, but this year Caleb asked midway into the month, so based on a recommendation, we went one weekend to check out the setup they have at Lincoln Center. It was perfect - no line at all to see Santa, and there was a little train ride that zig-zags all around the Center's parking lot (with several 'close calls' in my opinion as he looped very close to parked cars winding the train cars all around). We finished our visit with a cake pop and coffee for mom and dad and the boys were thrilled. </div>
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The boys wanted to bring their recently received Nutcrackers with them to show Santa. Its cute to just see all the joy in their expressions as they talk to the big guy. </div>
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Christmas this year was quieter with less family in town, but nice just the same. We enjoyed the time spent as our own little family, as well as with the grandparents and extended fam. The boys were very excited to have these new Star Wars wall decals, and so far are really liking their new ZipIt bedding! I'm loving that they can 'make' their beds so easily, and it is great for bunks where there is no room to tuck in a big long comforter. Win-Win.</div>
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The day after Christmas we continued with more fun - the long awaited release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out, which the boys talked about for about six months prior. We took the boys to see it, along with Papa and Nonni and Nana Gigi. It was really good, had some new twists to let us in on, and left just enough unfinished that they could carry it into another episode (or two?)... Jimmy's guess is that they will eventually finish out another trilogy. <br />
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And one sad note to end on: Mom and Dad had to have Bella put down shortly after Christmas. It turned out her liver and spleen were covered in cancerous nodules - apparently quite common with Goldens. We are sad and will miss her, and it seems to make it a little easier to swallow for the boys knowing she is in heaven with her brother, Gio. I was going back through pictures on my phone and found this, probably the last pictures of her, taken by either Caleb and Landon. Its good to see her face looking happy when she likely wasn't feeling that way inside.<br />
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Let's start off with this lovely (and LARGE) assortment of toys... What's so interesting about these, you might wonder? Well, I was reaching down into a vent duct to get a small toy that one of the boys dropped through the air slots, and saw there was a car down there, too. As I reached for it, my hand touched several more cars, and I kept reaching further and further into the vent until I got them all - ELEVEN cars down in the vent! This is the second such discovery of toys found in places they definitely should not be... you may remember a year or two ago I opened the back of a speaker and found a ton of toys that had been dropped in by little hands through the sound opening on the front of the speaker. Small and unusual places are sure appealing for little hands and eyes.</div>
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Landon turned 4 this month, which he is of course very excited about. He got to be Star of the Week at preschool during the week leading up to his birthday. It turned out he was starting to catch a flu bug, which we discovered the next morning, so he looks far less than enthusiastic to be celebrating at school. </div>
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The birthday balloons in the doorway have become a fun tradition for the boys. It always starts the day of with fun, and keeps them entertained for at least an hour afterward. </div>
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Here is one of those moments when we get to enjoy seeing the closeness these two have with one another... They are buddies, and love each other so much!</div>
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We kept things very simple for Landon's birthday party this year - family and one friend of his choice, and we celebrated with dinner together at Rick's Pizza and some homemade Paw Patrol cupcakes. The kids had fun being together, and it was amazing to not be stressed or rushing around an hour before the party because there was no house to be cleaned or decorations to be hung. Now I get why people pay the big bucks to have parties outside of their houses!! We'll have to find more ways to do that in the future!</div>
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Oh Beau... This is SO Beau! :)</div>
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With Caleb being in school five days a week this year, and most of Landon's friends going to MWF preschool schedule, he and I spend our MWFs together alone. On those days he often requests going to the science museum. We have a membership which makes it easy to drop in for short, frequent visits, and I do mean frequent - we are usually there one or two times each week. </div>
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Bella the lover... she came and put herself right in the middle of the action to get some attention, right on top of the floor puzzle Landon was building. </div>
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The start of our backyard turning red... one of my favorite times of the year!</div>
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The boys enjoyed putting together Landon's new puzzles one Saturday morning. </div>
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Landon's preschool had their Thanksgiving Feast, for which the kids help prepare the food that they will eat. Landon always loves eating tons of black olives, and this year he actually ate some of the turkey as well as trying Pumpkin Pie for the first time. <br />
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For Kindergarten, Caleb got to have a whole day dedicated to Thanksgiving, and they moved from one activity to the next amongst the three Kinder classrooms. Activities included making butter in a mason jar, crushing cranberries, mashing corn with rocks, and making these indian costumes out of paper bags and the pilgrim hat that Landon borrowed for the picture. </div>
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All was well at Landon's 4 year checkup, with the exception of an ear infection from a cold he had recently (that he hadn't complained about one bit). He currently weighs 43lbs (92nd percentile) and is 3' 6'' tall (84th percentile)</div>
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Landon is into all sorts of puzzles, coloring, writing letters and words that he tries to sound out himself, playing soccer and baseball, riding his bike, building Legos, talking in a high-pitched version of his raspy little voice, and general silliness and goofy facial expressions. He wants to 'do his homework' like big brother does, and he loves to help cook in the kitchen, both at home and at the shoppe. He seems to pick up quickly on song lyrics, and recently told me if he could play any instrument he would want to play the guitar and violin. </div>
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This Thanksgiving we did something different - everyone headed down to Newport to spend the holiday with my brothers and their families. Mom and Dad had enough air miles for themselves and Caleb and Landon, so the boys got to fly down and back from Orange County (which they were very excited about), and also very excited about getting to go with Papa and Nonni and Papa Jack and Nana Dee all by themselves, because Jimmy and I drove down in our car ALL BY OURSELVES. We had seven and a half hours in the car, with uninterrupted conversations, it was great! </div>
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The boys had SO much fun playing with their cousins. Caleb is 5, Deacon 4, Landon 4, Delanie 2, and Jackson almost 2, so they all had a blast running around, playing super heroes, Legos, and any other thing they could find to do together. </div>
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Joey and Lindsey hosted Thanksgiving at their house for the first time this year. Everything was delicious and beautiful, and the kids were excited to have a table all for themselves. They played and played and played some more, while the adults ate and ate and ate some more. The post-feast walk was much needed, and got out more energy from the kids as they raced each other around the block. Jackson was so cute trying to keep up with the older kids... he was going as fast as his little legs could take him! </div>
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Our friend and firefighter Mike was working while we were in Orange County so all the dads took the boys and Lanie for a visit around the station, as well as a trip down the fire pole.</div>
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One of Landon's birthday requests was to have a piñata, but since we celebrated his birthday at Rick's Pizza, it wasn't really possible. I had bought him one thinking we could maybe do it at home before going to Rick's, but since we ran out of time, we took it to SoCal instead and let the kids have fun with it instead.</div>
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Caleb's creation - the start of a unit on Gingerbread man that he made for school. </div>
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At the beginning of the month we took a trip up to Fog Willow Farms pumpkin patch to meet our friends, Luke and Shana, from the bay area. It was the first of three trips to Fog Willow that would happen this month - one for each of the boys' school field trips. Of course they didn't mind. :)</div>
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Our second trip to Camp Faithful in a month's time, so lucky! And lots more pictures this trip as well :) This time the whole William's side was there - Joey, Aly, and kids, April, Ben and little Eli, Nana Gigi (Regina), and our family. </div>
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(Left) Uncle Ben is so good about getting down and playing games with the kids. This time I think it was Go Fish. (Right) Wren (8 months) and Eli (6 months) happily hanging out in the stroller.</div>
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Water fun with Uncle Joey.... He was launching them each up into the air (which the LOVED), and then everyone hooked up for a train ride, with Beau trying to catch up to them!</div>
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Nana Gigi brought lots of fun crafts for the kids to do... masks, spinning pinwheels, cookies to frost... The pinwheels were the biggest hit I think - they ran back and forth across the backyard a hundred times making them spin in the breeze.</div>
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One of the activities that is currently occupying one afternoon a week is Soccer! This is the first time we signed the boys up for any sports or team activity, and they are loving it. Its called Soccer Shots, and they basically just play lots of fun games to teach them the basics of soccer, and for the last few minutes of each thirty-minute practice, they scrimmage against each other to 'practice their skills'. Coach Emmanuel is great with the kids, and the one time we ran into him at the shoppe, Caleb was so excited he talked about it for a few days afterward. </div>
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This is 'control' position. They always start here before going into something new.</div>
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It has been fun watching the boys' different personalities come out while learning to play soccer. Caleb wants to be right up front charging toward the ball rather aggressively, similar to Jimmy. Landon on the other hand is slow and steady when dribbling, more consistent with my personality. Perhaps part of Landon's behavior could also be due to the fact that he mostly stopped napping a few months ago, so at 4pm he is sometimes pretty tired (see picture below of Landon near the goal net). I think its a mix of both.</div>
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...And their (very unofficial, parents taking with cell phones) team picture :)</div>
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In the process of cleaning out their garage this Fall, my mom came across the box with all my old Barbies and clothing. There are tons of dolls (including several Ken dolls), and Caleb LOVED playing with them and changing their clothes. Some people might think its weird to let our boys play with Barbies, but in my mind, its just like playing people and dressing them like we get ourselves dressed, and a very different kind of play from all their other toys...trucks, Legos, Ninja Turtles, and puzzles. Barbie's unrealistically perfect image aside, it has made for some fun and different imaginary play.</div>
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We took a visit to Weber's Cabinets with my parents one Monday morning to discuss some cabinets they are having made. 'Miss Melissa' as we call her, who is one of the lead teachers for Cubbies (AWANAS), also works at Weber's Cabinets. She gave the boys a tour around their workshop, and showed them some of the beautiful cutting boards they make, explaining and demonstrating how they put all the pieces of wood together. Later that week, Caleb gathered these pieces of wood kindling we had left over from their backyard campout with Jimmy, and he lined them all up and used one stick to tap them together perfectly, pretending to build the way they do at Webers. Fun to watch him try to recreate it himself. </div>
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.....Meanwhile Jimmy, Joey, Jim, and Jim's friend were having a great time at the 9ers game :)</div>
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During Lodi Unified's two week fall break, Caleb got to participate in Junior Jazzercise, which he loved. The kids, ages 4-10, got to dance, play tons of games, learn about nutrition, exercise, and healthy living. I stayed to help out one of the days and loved seeing all of the kids having tons of fun.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This was super cute - the kids used stuffed animals as their 'weights' for the strength songs...</span><br />
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Baker and Caleb Elson also participated in the Junior Jazzercise camp. Meanwhile, since Landon and Eli were too young and on one of the days I stayed to help April, Amy took L and E to Micke Grove and out for a treat. </div>
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In the past year or so, several young families have started moving into our neighborhood, which is so much fun. One of the neighbors has started hosting get-togethers for the families with young kids so we can get to know each other. The last one was during the summer, and this was the second annual Halloween party, hence the kids all in costumes. Nearly all of the new neighbors have little boys, ages infant to six years - about a dozen boys and maybe two or three girls. This time a lot of them were old enough to really play together and have fun together. Landon's R2D2 costume wasn't ready yet, so we pieced together this Yoda costume from dress-up items we already had, which was perfect, and Caleb was Darth Vader. :)</div>
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Trip #2 to Fog Willow Farms - this time for Landon's preschool field trip. He got to brush the sheep, and learned that Alpaca's have the warmest fur out of any other animal! </div>
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Stands just like his daddy :)</div>
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This is the first time we went into the mining area at Fog Willow. I bought a bag of sand and gemstones and Landon got to sift through all of it to find some pretty cool and colorful stones. </div>
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The third weekend of October I was one of ten moms blessed to go out of town, child-free, for a girls weekend to celebrate Aly's 30th Birthday! We went up to Camp Faithful (the Truckee cabin). It was so much fun talking, hanging out, going for walks, doing a Jazzercise class together, and getting to know some of them better - without any kind of agenda, or kids to bathe, feed, and put to bed! We had an amazing weekend!</div>
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The clubhouse at the cabin has an awesome gym and fully loaded workout room, so we took advantage of our big group and I got to teach a Jazzercise class to them! Aside from the added challenge of being at a high altitude (at one point I thought I was going puke!), and not having a mic to cue into (ie voice nearly gone after an hour)!, we had the room's sound system to connect to and it was a ton of fun! </div>
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While I was in Truckee with all the girls, Jimmy was in Atlanta at an annual produce conference, and the boys spent the weekend with my mom and dad. They went to Caleb's school's Halloween/Fall Festival, dressed in costumes, and danced, played and had a ton of fun with his classmates.</div>
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These are funny... I feel like I can see a lot of my dad in both boys in these pictures! The glasses and mustache do the trick. </div>
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During the same week as Landon's school got to wear their pajamas (in place of a Halloween party), Caleb had his turn for a class field trip to Fog Willow. It fell on a day I was teaching Spanish so I wasn't able to go with him, but Caleb was very excited about their class t-shirts (each of them drew a self-portrait that was put onto the shirts), about his friend Sebastián, and especially about riding a big yellow school bus for the first time! As a parent, it felt weird to just send him off and assume he would be fine riding on the school bus without me there. Small, but big, parenting moment letting him go with his teacher and me not being there! </div>
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In September I picked up a Darth Vader costume for Caleb to wear for Halloween, but didn't find anything that day in Landon's size. A few days later, Jimmy told me he was going to <i>make</i> an R2-D2 costume for Landon to go along with Caleb's Vader. It seemed a bit crazy to me, but it was his thing, and I wasn't going to try to stop him. It took quite a lot of time....we estimated maybe 12-14 hours over a course of a few weeks. Jimmy was very proud of the finished product, and Landon was thrilled at the idea of it. Wearing it was another thing...</div>
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At the last minute (ie Friday morning the day before Halloween) Jimmy decided that he and I should dress up with the boys' Star Wars theme. I scrambled around Friday morning to find components for our costumes and was able to pull off my Princess Leia and his Jedi. It turned out to be really fun to have the whole family dressed with one theme. :) </div>
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We went for the annual Halloween get-together at Tameem and Deanna's house, ate some chili, did some very brief trick-or-treating, during which Landon insisted on taking his costume off after every house, and then handed out candy at their house. Several familiar faces came knocking on the door, but it was a fun surprise to see the Mettler family, dressed all as Star Wars characters as well!<br />
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Landon was very proud of this Crayon hat he made at preschool and wanted to wear it to all our errands the next day.</div>
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We were excited to go to the cabin (aka, Camp Faithful) in Truckee for the first time over Labor Day weekend! My S-I-L Aly's family has a beautiful home there, and we took off an hour after Jimmy arrived back home from his work trip to Hong Kong to head up the mountain and join them. Despite his extreme jet lag, we had a lot of fun. I guess I didn't take many pictures, but since it was a holiday weekend there were special activities, food, and live music at the main clubhouse and pool area. The pool is amazing - its huge, has a wade-in beach area, and a water slide on the other side. This particular weekend they also had pony rides, which both boys loved.</div>
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Field and Fair Day is back in Lodi, and this year I was excited to participate with some of the Lodi Jazzercise Team. Our performance was early in the morning and sparsely populated as many people headed to eat pancakes after the hot air balloon lifted off. Luckily, they found another spot in the schedule for us to perform again, that time with a great crowd and all the Lodi High cheerleaders dancing along with us. It was so much fun to show people 'the New Jazzercise'. :)</div>
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The boys had fun participating in a three-legged race with kids they didn't know, and getting into the new SWAT vehicle and trying on their gear was also very cool!</div>
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A proud boy writing his own name and drawing a self portrait on the whiteboard at the dentist's office. This was also a big day because, after talking for a good month about what to expect when we took him to have his teeth cleaned, he FINALLY stayed calm, let the dentist look, work, and clean in his mouth without freaking out at all. Big deal for Landon! In the past he would even let her look in his mouth. Maybe next time we will be able to also do x-rays!</div>
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Birthday party fun for Caleb's friend, Cooper - huge, life-sized storm trooper balloons, and a Jedi who did his own training academy with the kids which was a huge hit!</div>
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If you live in or near Lodi, you know that our school calendar begins in the middle of summer. It usually starts in the last few days of July, but this year we actually made it into August by a tiny bit. In my opinion, its just nice to know it starts in August instead of July, even if its a difference of just three or four days! </div>
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Its a big year (isn't every year a big deal though?!) for Caleb, starting KINDERGARTEN! We have entered a whole new world, and it is awesome, exciting, and so cool to watch as the parents. Caleb was looking forward to starting school and going to Vinewood Elementary, and we were excited for his teacher, Mr. Drouin, whom we had heard great things about. </div>
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Landon started preschool the following day, at Vinewood Preschool - the same school he attended last year just one day a week. We were surprised for this to be the response we got from him on the first day of drop-off...</div>
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Each day got slightly easier, with slightly less clinginess, and always a happy boy at pickup, but after two years of dropping Caleb off each day, and one year of him attending and knowing all the staff already, the last thing I expected was a child needing to be pried out of my arms at the beginning of school! It took about two weeks, and he is as happy as a clam and looks forward to school every week. The picture below was taken a few days into Preschool, still with apprehension as I dropped him off after snapping the picture.<br />
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The first day of school signs are always very fun for the boys, and they usually hang around for about a week as the boys want to play with them. Landon is definitely in a phase of constantly wanting his picture taken, and every now and then Caleb does too. The signs excited both of them to want their pictures together holding them.</div>
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Team effort completion of a challenging puzzle that I brought the boys back from Spain. It is the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in the North of Spain. They loved the challenge and the time together as a family working on the puzzle. I love that they love puzzles so much!</div>
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Our handsome Kindergartener! </div>
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This month was the second annual company picnic for Jimmy's work at 'the Funny Farm' in Napa. </div>
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This picture just kind of makes me laugh... We stopped at a champagne cellar that is around the corner from the place we went for Jimmy's company picnic. They had a non-alcoholic carbonated grape juice, which Caleb the juice-lover inhaled like he hadn't drank anything in a week. Landon, who isn't a juice man, is drinking water from a wine glass with the look of a wine snob on his face. He is our 'nose', smelling everything, kind of like a wine-o would do. Picture fits their personalities. </div>
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We all had a great time last year, and this year was a ton of fun, too. Amazing food, beautiful surroundings, and a hired entertainer to play with our kids! </div>
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This is Caleb's little buddy, Evan. It is only the second time they have hung out, but Caleb remembered very clearly playing with him at last year's picnic, and looked forward to it again leading up to this year's picnic. In this picture they are playing a game with sour Warhead candies in their mouth trying to see who can go the longest without making a sour face. Caleb's strategy was smiling really big. It worked!<br />
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For me, this summer was filled with many hours of Jazzercise instructor training - It was a lot of work, but also very fun, and the hard work paid off! Ten routines (songs) to learn in 8 weeks, and two of those would be randomly chosen for each trainee to 'teach' at our audition in Pleasanton on August 14. In addition to learning how to teach the routines, including practicing cueing with a microphone on, we had to also be capable of 'flipping' to do the movements as a student facing the stage. Its a lot, but it all comes together toward the end of the training window.<br />
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Five out of the six in my audition group passed and were deemed ready to be instructors. There were two audition groups, and here are all of the girls that passed. The girls were from all over Northern California.<br />
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Me, Angie, and Leslie - Sherry's three trainees from Lodi who all passed workshop together!</div>
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Here is the response from our boys when I shared the news with Jimmy... :)</div>
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After passing audition they want you to jump in and teach ASAP to get over your initial apprehension. Friday night I passed, and the following Monday August 17th was my first class! It was great to be on stage teaching, although there were of course nerves in the beginning, but it gets just a little bit easier each time I do it! I'm loving all the music and am learning new routines as quickly as I can!</div>
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This July, I was blessed and excited to have the opportunity to go back to Spain - the first time in almost eight years since we moved back home! The occasion was the wedding of a friend and former roommate, and the timing happened to work out just right. </div>
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I spent the first two days in Madrid, walking the city all day long, just enjoying walking by all the places we used to live, work, eat, hang out, and shop. Everything was so familiar, which was a really great feeling, yet at the same time the memories are now a ways back in my mind, so it was a very odd sensation. I found myself just smiling as I wandered the neighborhoods we used to spend time in.</div>
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First stop: Jimmy's old apartment, and our church, which was still right across the street.</div>
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Next, I went three blocks south, to one of our favorite restaurants, <i>Tanino </i>(a wine and pizza bar), which was on the same block at my old apartment where I lived with Noelia (the bride-to-be). We still try to recreate our meals from there, which we call 'Tanino Nights', with yummy homemade pizza. This day though, I sat outside to enjoy the weather, and had an amazing bowl of Spanish Gazpacho. We have yet to have a Gazpacho in the United States that even comes close to resembling those they make in Spain, so it was a delicious and refreshing treat. </div>
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This is the main post office in Madrid, and since the day that Cat and I first came up out of the mouth of the Metro to find it by accident, has always been one of my favorite buildings.</div>
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For those familiar with Madrid, you've probably seen the Tio Pepe sign (a brand of Spanish Sherry) that is iconic in the city center, the Puerta del Sol. I, along with many displeased Spaniards, was very surprised to see that it had been moved atop a different building from where it had been since 1936. El Oso y el Madroño statue, another iconic landmark and meeting spot, had also been moved to a different location in the Puerta del Sol. Strange to see these things in different locations.</div>
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After living nearly four years in Spain, I tried to think of anything I <i>hadn't</i> done while living there that I could do during this trip. The only thing I came up with was visiting the <i>Palacio Real</i> (Royal Palace). I had been outside of it on several occasions, but had never entered to tour the inside. It was beautiful, and interesting to read the history of what each of the rooms was used for. And on top of it, entrance was free that day! </div>
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One of my first roommates in Spain, from back when I was studying abroad and living in a flat (apartment) with about 8 other people, was Cristina. I stayed with her and her husband and baby girl, and even though I only had the evenings with her after she got off work, it was so fun to see each other and just catch up on life. </div>
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Traditional spanish food for dinner on night one... jamón, tortilla española, crunchy breadsticks, croquetas, and more jamón. Mmmmmm...</div>
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The next day we met for lunch at a restaurant where Cristina, Cat, and I, and later Jimmy, Cristina and I used to eat called <i>Lateral. </i></div>
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On day three, I took a train up to the city of León, about three hours north of Madrid. (I love traveling by train, its comfortable and relaxing to not be in a cramped car). Noelia is Spanish, and she is from León, and her fiancé, Nico, is from an area near Bordeaux in France. Noelia and I lived together for close to three years during the time I was working in Madrid. </div>
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Noelia and her father picked me up at the train station, and after meeting Nico, I got to spend the rest of the day with them running wedding errands around town. It was so great to hang out with them and be a part of the last-minute wedding prep. </div>
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Lunches and dinners with Noelia's family... parents, sister, nieces and nephews, grandmother, and me - all in Spanish, and all so Spanish, which made my heart happy to be back in a place I love. </div>
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6pm: The wedding ceremony was at a small church near Noelia's parents' house in the center of León. The ceremony was done in both French and Spanish, and afterward we threw rice! I don't think I've ever been to wedding where they do that, since it no longer happens in the U.S.! What a mess though... Rice in the bride's hair, rice powder on the groom's black suit...</div>
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8:45-10:00ish: Cocktail hour in an enclosed patio with amazing gastronomical treats, all of which had beautiful presentation...And of course plenty of jamón for everyone.</div>
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These girls were so much fun to hang out with at the wedding! </div>
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Noelia's cousin, and Noelia's niece Valentina, who was very excited to take a picture with us. Such a sweetheart.</div>
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Around 1am after everyone finished eating, the dancing began. It was so much fun to see the Spanish/French fusion throughout their wedding, with Spanish, French, and a bit of English being spoken around the room, people giving toasts in both Spanish and French, and then the music, which was a mix of both Spanish and French songs so there was something for everyone. I wish I could figure out how to get the videos off of the phone I used while in Spain, because there was a great one of a large table of Noelia's parents and family friends, all in their fifties and sixties, singing old folk songs from that region of Spain. No one was shy, no one minded, and those who knew it joined in the fun. Later during the dancing time there were some friends and family who sang songs in French to the bride and groom, and also a lot of dancing in a big circle with our arms around each other and kicking our feet. It was so much fun, and I just went along with whatever dancing was happening, whether I knew how to do it or not (usually not). And somehow, amazingly, I made it until the end (almost three hours of dancing) with my stiletto's still on!</div>
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Don't look at the picture of Jimmy and I below, but instead notice the time and date. The wedding began on August 31st at 6pm, and I captured a screen shot of when we were loading back into the busses to return to our hotels. Believe it or not (I hardly could), the kids, ages 3 to 10, lasted until about 3am!!! Only in Spain!</div>
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I wish I had more pictures to share from the wedding and the time before and after that I spent with the family in León that conveyed the <i>experience,</i> but it was one of those times when it was just enjoying it in the moment, and just having fun with new people. The families were super welcoming, very inclusive of me in everything that was going on, and they went out of their way to invite me to meals, and make sure I was enjoying myself at the wedding since I didn't know many people. The day after the wedding I was also invited to have lunch with the bride and groom and all of his family that was in town for the wedding. Only one of them spoke English, and none of them knew Spanish, so the conversation was all in French, with the exception of Nico speaking Spanish with me from time to time to include me. It was nevertheless a cool experience just to sit and listen to everyone speaking French, trying as I could to understand, but picking up almost nothing! </div>
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On Saturday I afternoon I took the train back to Madrid. I didn't have anything planned for my last night, so I did some more wandering around the tourist center of town without an agenda. On my flight over I was sitting next to an Argentine girl who has been to Madrid a handful of times in the past five years, and she was telling me about the <i>mercados,</i> or markets, that have begun to pop up around the city. Posh, modern, and with amazing food. <br />
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This one was called Mercado de San Miguel, and it is located right off of the Plaza Mayor in a building that has been vacant and closed as long as I have known, at least as far back as 2001 when I was studying abroad. Click here for better pictures, as the ones I took with my phone don't do the place justice: <a href="http://www.mercadodesanmiguel.es/">http://www.mercadodesanmiguel.es/</a>. <br />
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In recent years, it has been reopened as a market with a number of individual food vendors, each specializing in something different. You go from vendor to vendor choosing the food you want, and either stand and eat it there, or find a table in the center of the market to sit and relax. It was a bit awkward hanging out there by myself since it was such a group setting, but I tried to just enjoy the moment and take in all the surroundings and people watch. </div>
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Part of my dinner... Gazpacho, a bocadillo (baguette with thin slices of dried salami), and a <i>caña</i> as they refer to small glasses of beer. </div>
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I stuffed myself silly, stopped to buy a few souvenirs for the boys, and then headed to pay a surprise visit to our friends Frank and Luke, who own a bar called Public House. Frank is from NY, and Luke from New Zealand. They didn't know I was in Spain, and it was fun to catch up and let them talk with Jimmy via WhatsApp.</div>
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P.S. A huge thank you to Jimmy for letting me go back to Spain, and without him. I know how badly he wants to return, and I hope that we can both travel back there together, soon....</div>
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Fourth of July Traditions for our family... Pancake breakfast, which I guess we didn't get any pictures of this year, and this was the second year that we had a front yard barbeque with our neighbors, complete with plenty of legal fireworks ;)</div>
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These three boys had tons of fun running around and being silly. Behind them are the long party sparklers that we used as a grand finale for our own pyrotechnics fun. </div>
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The boys have found more things to build with these building pieces than I could ever list. This day they made Star Wars ships to fly around the house. I love the creativity!</div>
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Caleb is five! He opted for pancakes on his birthday, and got a special addition of whipped cream which he was totally into. </div>
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On his birthday he also wanted to go to the Science Museum. They happened to have the bearded dragon out for feeding and observation through these green kaleidoscopes. It was really cool to look at! Take a look below...</div>
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I didn't really expect these pictures to turn out, but I put my phone camera up to the eye piece of the kaleidoscope and you could see the lizard's head and green from edges of the table in cool designs!</div>
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I think I've mentioned in previous posts how into puzzles the boys are right now. These wooden brain puzzles at the museum are a favorite, especially this one. They literally spent a half and hour working on them and I had to drag them away to go have lunch at the shoppe - usually something that motivates them immediately!</div>
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Crystal, who works at the shoppe, LOVES the boys and was super excited that we let her take them on a date to go see the Minion movie. They loved it too, and mommy and daddy got an impromptu date and picnic lunch to Oak Farm Vineyards. A win-win!</div>
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During one of my out-of-town Jazzercise trainings, the boys and Jimmy went to a Rivercats game on a Star Wars theme night. This was part of Caleb's birthday gift, and they LOVED seeing all the people dressed in Stormtrooper costumes. Super cool experience for them.<br />
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Lego building skills continue improving... Though he didn't do every step correctly, Caleb was able to put this birthday set together all by himself following the instructions. </div>
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In mid-July we spend a day in San Francisco with the boys. We haven't really done much in the City with them yet, so we were excited for it, and especially since we had a special tour planned, too. My dad's cousin, Mike Phipps, has lived his whole life in San Francisco, is a huge history buff, and is also on the board for the Cable Car Museum. We planned to meet up with him at the museum for a personalized tour of the facility that powers all of the cable cars in the City. It was really cool to see how it all works, see the oldest surviving cable car (the only one post-1906 quake), learn how frequently they have to change out all the cable running under the streets because the grooves that give it grip wear down very quickly (something like every few days...), and see the upstairs area, normally closed to the public, where all the maintenance work and storage happens for the cars. We learned a lot from Mike's tour and it was a really cool experience for all four of us!<br />
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Part of the personalized tour ended up being an offer for us to ride right out of the Cable Car Museum, all the way down to Powell and Market streets, and then back the other direction to the opposite end of the line down by the wharf. VIPs :)</div>
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This little room was one of my favorites. It had a yellow or orange light illuminating it, and the walls had pictures from around San Francisco neighborhoods, along with a bench, this gumball machine, and a few other things. Everything appeared monotone with the single color light, but when you shone a flashlight on things in the room, the white light allowed all the diverse colors to show... the colored gumballs, brightly colored houses, and different cars. </div>
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This is the strangest looking picture the way it turned out, but it is about symmetry, and the machine would take a picture of your face, and replace the right half with a reverse image of the actual left half of your face, and vice versa for the left half. So in these two goofy images, my right and left sides of my face are exactly the same - mirror images of each other. What appears to be a widows peak and really bad parted bangs are the way my hair appeared when it mirrored the one side of my face that my hair was parted to. </div>
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Backyard camp out! Jimmy has attempted on two or three occasions to set up the tent, both indoors and outdoors at home, and try to sleep inside it with the boys. It has always ended up with the boys wanting to go sleep in their own beds, even after Jimmy has carried their mattresses, pillows, and blankets out into the tent. It has been awhile since the last (frustrating) attempt, so Jimmy promised the boys they would do it this summer. Here it is, complete with a bonfire and S'mores (in a hole dug into the dirt). They actually went to sleep in the tent for the first time, only to have Caleb wake around 2am crying with stomach pains. Baby steps I guess... Maybe next time they will actually make it an entire night in the tent! <br />
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Back around Christmas, I began going to Jazzercise and loving it. It is so <i>not</i> the same as it was when our moms all did it thirty+ years ago (the assumption I had, like many others, before trying it!) - all current music, and awesome full body workout! </div>
As many of you know, at the beginning of June I began training to become an instructor! This picture was just from a regular day, but Aly surprised me with balloons and flowers to keep up in the front of the room for all to see! 35years old and starting something new to keep my body and mind active and healthy. :)<br />
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We went out to dinner with my family on my birthday. It was great, and when we got home Jimmy pointed out how <i>enjoyable </i>the dinner was. That is something we haven't said in quite some time about meals out with kids! Seems like we are rounding a corner in that department- its so nice! Here is a picture that Caleb took of Jimmy and I:</div>
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Our neighbor and friend, Jacob, turned six this month. We were invited over for some cake and birthday playtime with the boys' light sabers (which they are all three super into right now), and with Jacob's new basketball hoop. After playing basketball and light saber fights, the boys quietly disappeared into another area of the yard. When we went to check on them we found them covered in very fine, very dry, very dusty dirt from the mound, digging it up and throwing at each other, then rubbing their eyes with their filthy hands. These pictures don't really show how covered they were, but it gives you an idea. </div>
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We decided to rinse them off with a few runs through the sprinklers...which turned the fine dirt into mud, and wasn't nearly enough water to actually rinse them off. Boy did they have fun running through the sprinklers in their underwear!</div>
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We love getting pizza dough from Woodbridge Pizzeria and making pizza at home. This night we decided to change it up a bit and make Calzones. They were huge and delicious!</div>
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Cowboy Caleb working in the garden with daddy, wearing daddy's hat. Rain boots work great for work shoes in the dirt!</div>
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Our traditional baby shower with the girls and our moms, this time honoring Caprice's daughter Avery, and Lindsay's first baby, Dylan. </div>
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Buddies :) Landon and Eli are so cute together!</div>
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Loving their light sabers these days!</div>
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Cool cat Landon heading over to Jacob's house to play light sabers with him. </div>
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We repeated last years Father's Day plans of going with the fam to see a Rivercats Baseball game in Sacramento and it was a great time! As usual, the boys did more eating than watching the game, but that will come with time!</div>
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Uncle Ben, Auntie April, and little Elijah came home for a surprise (to Regina) visit this month! He is so much bigger than when we met him in April and what a good baby!</div>
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Birthday celebration for Nana Gigi! All her grandkids together: Caleb (almost 5), Beau (2.5), Wren (5 months), Elijah (3 months, and about to lose his cool in this shot), Landon (3.5), and Tessa (4). Love you Gigi!!</div>
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Jimmy, Jenny, Caleb, and Landonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06511664053549643222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1201146613869442984.post-33766210926409157012015-07-14T21:59:00.000-07:002015-07-14T21:59:37.506-07:00May 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
May always seems to be a busy month, with Spring birthday parties, and end of the year programs and events. This was the boys' first year participating in AWANA Cubbies (<b>A</b> <b>W</b>orkman <b>A</b>nd <b>N</b>ot <b>A</b>shamed), which is a church youth program where they learn Bible verses, play games, sing, and do all sorts of fun things. They loved it! They had special vests they wore each week, and earned patches for their vests for learning their verses. </div>
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Watching new shelves be welded for the shoppe, and the welder let Caleb try on his masks (?)</div>
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End-of-the-year preschool program. Caleb is standing tall and proud to pose for pictures!</div>
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At the beginning of the month, I incorporated some Cinco de Mayo fun into my preschool Spanish classes. Caleb and Landon had a blast wearing my authentic sombrero after class. </div>
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The boys were due for some shaving cream fun!</div>
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Going to Jazzercise with mommy has gotten a lot more fun in recent months since Miss Sonia began working in the childcare room. She is so sweet, brings fun crafts for the kids to do, and even brings her own boys' books and toys for our kids to use from time to time! Here they are showing off Mother's Day cards they made for us. </div>
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Since Caleb has a summer birthday, we celebrated it at preschool this month. He seemed very excited to have his classmates and teachers sing to him, happy that I was there to see it, and wanted his picture taken with his friend, Cameron.</div>
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This is Blake, one of Landon's good buddies from both preschool and Awana Cubbies. They get SO excited when they see each other, usually giving lots of hugs and yelling with glee.</div>
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We decided on a whim to go to a Stockton Ports baseball game one Sunday afternoon. Landon wanted to talk to this guy, calling him 'Elmo', which an employee standing nearby is apparently a common misconception by many kids!</div>
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Enjoying watching Caleb's confidence grow as he rides his bike over the ramps and corners at the skate park. </div>
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Caleb's last day of preschool! This is picture take #3 - the first two were taken with his shirt untucked, and he stopped me and wanted me to take another once he was all tucked in. :) Just a few short months until big boy starts Kindergarten!</div>
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At the end of March and into first part of April Jimmy had a big work trip to South America - Brazil (first time), Colombia, and Peru. Below are a few of his pictures from a plaza in Medellín, Colombia. The statues may be something you've seen similar versions of... They are by Fernando Botero, who is from Medellin. I liked the contrasts of old and new all together in the plaza. </div>
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Jimmy ate so much amazing seafood on his trip and plenty of really yummy ceviches in Peru that he wanted to try to replicate it when he got home. We don't have all the same ingredients that they do, but he worked with the closest he could find, and it was yummy, even for me who doesn't do much fish :)<br />
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Easter! We started with our church's outdoor service in the amphitheater at Hutchins Street Square, which was great, but a bit cool with the cloud cover. We didn't think to bring jackets, but thankfully I always have this blanket in the car which came in handy. Love that the boys love loving on each other so much! <br />
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We took advantage of Lisa's spring break schedule and met her at an indoor trampoline place up near the Roseville area. It was a blast, and even better that the adults got to jump along with the kids. Can't wait to go back and use our non-stick socks again! Finished up with lunch at In-N-Out. I think this was the boys' first milkshake. Yum!<br />
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Our annual SoCal trip fell in April this year, due to the fact that Jimmy's sister April was due with her first bambino this month! Elijah Benjamin was born at the end of March so we got to meet our newest nephew when he was barely two weeks old! Such a quiet little guy, he hardly made a peep while we were there for three days! Caleb always loves babies and enjoyed talking to him and touching his little toes.<br />
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We hit a Padres/Giants baseball game at Petco park, which was super fun for the kids - Sundays are family fun days, complete with multiple bounce houses and slides, face painting, and kids baseball games happening on a mini field. There was even a 'beach' sand area at the base of the bleacher seats we had - genius idea! Daddy and Uncle Ben got seats where they could actually watch the game, and we had fun moving around the bleachers and play areas with the boys.<br />
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There were two pools just inside the entrance - one had tiny little fish that kind of suck all the dead skin off of your hand when you put it in the water (weird sensation...wasn't a fan), and the other had these small sharks that you could touch as they swam past. Caleb was funny - he would put his hand down in the tank like he was waiting to touch them and then when they got close he would move his hand just over enough to not actually touch them. I think he wasn't so sure about it, but glad he was willing to at least put his hand in.</div>
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Rookie Mistake #1: If Pirates of the Caribbean is going to be the first ride they experience, be sure to explain, especially to the 3-yr-old, that its going to be dark inside, and that all of the super-realistic-looking pirates inside who are shooting at each other are <i>not real</i>. </div>
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We got inside the park the first day and were excited to see that there was no line for Pirates (Jimmy's favorite ride). Didn't occur to us to prep Landon on what to expect, and he cried the whole time. From then on, any ride where you sat in a car or cart of some kind, that was indoors, he refused to go on. Oops.</div>
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Our first character encounter: Huge hugs from Tigger, which I think caught them off guard, but they loved it! </div>
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We had heard before getting to Disneyland that the Jedi Training Academy was really cool, and it just so happened that there was a show about to begin as we were sitting down to eat lunch next to the stage where they do the 'show'. A group of kids are selected from the audience, given Jedi robes to wear and a light saber, then taught basic Jedi movements. Then out come the storm troopers and Darth Vader, followed by Darth Maul (who is super scary looking if you ask me!! I don't know how he doesn't make the kids cry!). Each 'jedi' gets a turn 'fighting' Darth Vader on the stage. Its a pretty cool little show. Caleb wasn't interested in volunteering at first, but once he saw what they got to do I think he would totally be into it if he has a chance again. </div>
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The boys found out a few months before our trip that there is a Lego store in Downtown Disney, so since they didn't know much about what to expect at Disneyland itself, they mostly told people about how excited they were to go to the Lego Store when they went to Disneyland. Then the week leading up to our trip, our neighbor Greg, who himself is a huge Lego fan and collector, told the boys about the giant Hulk made of Lego at the Lego Store. They loved it!</div>
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Disney Day #2: California Adventure. This ride was one of Caleb and Landon's favorites. I think we went on it three times that day. Thankfully it was spread out over a few hours because even the swinging motion of the ride made this mama's tummy feel just a little bit off...</div>
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I think Jimmy and I enjoyed seeing the life-size Cars characters just as much as the boys did. Well, as Landon did, I should say. Caleb was feeling tired and might have been pouting so he didn't want his picture taken with any of the characters. I thought it was pretty darn cool. They did such an amazing job of recreating Radiator Springs that you really felt like you had stepped into the movie, even though we all know its just animated make-believe. Guess its the kid in us that enjoys those things still. :)</div>
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This day Landon was really tired, and even more freaked out about riding anything indoors or in a car of any kind, so he and I hung out quite a bit, while Caleb and Jimmy were ride buddies. Caleb was excited to try just about any ride Jimmy suggested, and he seems to enjoy that stomach dropping sensation you get from the curves and dips of some of the rides. I think he is going to be a roller-coaster rider as he gets older. </div>
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Jimmy, Caleb, and I all LOVED the Cars ride! We were with friends who had a special pass that allowed us to skip to the front of any lines, so I got to ride it once, and I think Caleb and Jimmy went on it two or three times. It was awesome. Another cool experience when you ride through the different 'businesses' in Radiator Springs, seeing life-size versions of all the main characters. </div>
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After our Disney adventures, we spent a few days with my brothers. We took Deacon, Delanie, Caleb and Landon all to a Build-a-Bear Workshop to choose a new stuffed animal together. The cutest part was watching them do the heart ceremony before they put them inside their babies. </div>
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We attempted to let the three boys have a sleepover in Deacon's room one night. Epic fail. Within minutes they were wrestling with each other (mainly Deacon and Landon, the two younger ones), while Caleb was laying there tired and frustrated because he just wanted to go to sleep. Fun to say we tried... Maybe again next year!</div>
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More cousin time hanging out at Jackson's house :)</div>
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On one of the few rainy days this winter, the boys got to use their cool rain boots and play in the gutter for a while. They were thrilled! </div>
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We tackled a painting project and covered our patio furniture with a nice fresh coat of black paint. It was a family affair and a learning experience, with the boys helping with the little rollers, and us doing both rolling on the flat surfaces and spray paint for other parts. We were glad when it was done and our legs and feet no longer looked filthy from the fine black mist of the spray paint.<br />
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Caleb had a blast doing some bowling and hanging out at his buddy Caleb Elson's 5th birthday. Some of the five-yr-olds are better at bowling than I am! Lots of fun having all these kids together!<br />
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Family outing on a whim - we just started driving toward Sacremento and ended up taking the boys to Fairytale Land, which they haven't been to before. We were thru the whole thing pretty quickly, but they were excited to keep going around and into some of their favorite areas... the Crooked Mile, the big blue Tortoise from the Tortoise and the Hare, the Pirate Ship, and Cinderella's Coach. Other than the allergies that came from the constant downpouring of tree blossoms, we had a fun time.<br />
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During the kids' Spring Break from preschool, Jen Walters and I took the kids up to Murphy's for the day. They played at a park next to the river, threw some stones into the water, and peered into the old one cell jail (drunk tank?). We then headed to Ironstone for some walking thru the 'forest' (walking paths with lots of trees and vegetation), let the kids run around on the huge lawns, and had a picnic lunch. It was a first for me, both visiting Murphy's, and visiting Ironstone, and it was a lot of fun. Plus Ironstone had every sort of tulip you could possibly imagine, as there was a flower festival planned there for the following day. We got to enjoy seeing all the gorgeous flowers. <br />
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This is currently our favorite exhibit at the WOW Science Museum - you push a button, run and pose against the wall, and the bright light flashes, temporarily leaving your shadow on the wall even after you move away, its so cool! We have fun making silly poses together.<br />
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Caleb and Landon helped mommy take apart some pieces of wood from an old fence. They loved getting to put on their gardening "work" gloves and use real hammers to break apart the boards and hammer out the nails. Caleb is a pro with a hammer - he really hits it with some force!<br />
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While Jimmy was in South America the boys and I got to join Amy Elson and kids for a fun overnight trip to Tahoe. Despite Landon taking a huge crash on his bike, it was fun to be with friends and get out of town together while our hubbies were gone. </div>
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So the evening we got to the cabin, we were letting the kids ride their scooters (and Landon his balance bike since we only have one scooter) on the (mostly flat) road in front of the house. Amy left for a few minutes to go pick up the pizza for dinner around the corner, and of course that was when it happened... Landon and the other boys started riding up and down a curved driveway, and it was one of those moments when you can see that something bad is about to happen but you can stop it before it does... Landon got going to fast and went over his handle bars, pretty much landing on his face.<br />
He scraped his upper lip really well, and we later realized that he actually tore that little tissue that connects your gums to your top lip. I'll spare you the inner mouth shots, but you can see below the good scrape he got on his upper lip. Poor Landon - he has had a lot of trauma to his little mouth in his 3 1/2 years! He did great though, and once we got some tylenol into his system he was ravenous and ready to eat a late dinner, so we knew he was just fine :)<br />
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Eli was being so sweet to his buddy and laying with him after he got hurt, and Baker made an awesome card for Landon, complete with a drawing of the kids eating popcorn on the couch, as they had been doing just before that.<br />
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The next day was a lot of fun - we packed up some snacks, badminton rackets and birdies, and plastic cups and went down to the boathouse to let the kids play on the beach. Yes it was actually warm enough to play on the beach in Tahoe in March. Seems kinda crazy, but the kids loved it. <br />
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Shortly after we had to wrap up the fun and head back down the hill so Landon could be seen by his doctor before the weekend began (it was a Friday). We were just glad we hadn't needed to go to an ER (none of which are anywhere nearby!) Great getaway with our buddies and fun to break things up while our husbands were gone.<br />
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Officer Landon, complete with ninja turtle knee pads, Elefante and the scrape still very visible on his upper lip...<br />
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One of their first times 'swimming' this year... although I think they stayed in the warm spa this time..<br />
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We had a fun conversation recently with the boys about what they remember from our time in Chile. Landon was only fourteen months old so he doesn't remember anything, but Caleb was two-and-a half years old at the time, and he told us he remembered three things:</div>
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- Swimming in our apartment pool with floaties</div>
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-Laura's moto</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We called this <i>el río chocolate</i>, or the 'chocolate river' - a canal that ran through town, which we walked across often to get to the grocery store. It reminded me of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.</td></tr>
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Our newest niece, sweet Baby Wren, fast asleep on daddy Joey's chest as he watches the SuperBowl...</div>
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We went bowling with our neighbor, Jacob, and his mom, Mary. The boys had fun, but were done after one round. LOTS of balls came to a complete stop in the middle of the runway, requiring assistance from an employee to retrieve them. Here the boys are watching someone's ball head toward the pins...</div>
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A brief stretch of rain and some beautiful single and double rainbows came along with it</div>
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Origami Valentines for the boys' preschool classes. They don't care so much, but I enjoyed making them :) I used to do origami when I was young, so it was fun to make these.</div>
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A fun surprise - we ran into Papa Jack and Nana Dee at the grocery store, and the boys got to each take a ride through the produce section with Papa Jack. They loved it!</div>
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We met up with Pablo and Shannon, our former boss and his wife from when Jimmy and I worked in Spain. They live in the East Bay now, and their three boys all play year-round soccer. We went to see their middle son, Mateo's game, and our boys had so much fun running around with the other two kids. Below is the youngest, Pedro, taking pictures of his brother in the green.</div>
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After the game, Pablo and Shannon told us they would like to pass down this cool car to our boys. All three of their boys used it (the oldest of which is 13yrs old now), and Caleb and Landon were of course so excited, and even though it moves at a crawling speed even with a full battery charge, they have so much fun driving it.</div>
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This was the boys' first trip to the beach since we were in Chile two years ago. We rolled up the boys' pant legs and let them get their toes wet, which for Landon became complete head-to-toe soaking, then the wet clothes covered in sand. They loved it, and Landon cried when we had to leave. <br />
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The next morning we got up and headed out to the Forest of Nisene Marks for a walk. It was beautiful, and even though the boys were cranky, we had some fun moments mixed in.<br />
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My Christmas present from Jimmy this year was an overnight trip to San Francisco to see a Cirque Du Soleil show called Kurios - Cabinet of Curiosities. It was our first Cirque du Soleil show, and we both absolutely LOVED it. Wow was it amazing. Each act is so incredibly perfected, with no mistakes, no quivering muscles, nothing but impecably fluid movements and impressive feats. We didn't get any pictures during the show, but below gives you an idea of the characters, set in the 1910's.<br />
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Hosting Haua, the boy in the picture below, was another highlight of our month. If you haven't already read the post about him and his visit, click <a href="http://dubflower.blogspot.com/2015/01/his-little-feet-childrens-choir.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The boys are continuing to play well together and love on each other lots. We often find them holding hands while they sit and watch cartoons together (below). </div>
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Caleb napping in his SWAT costume</div>
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One of the biggest changes that happened this month at our house is that the boys began sharing a room. We had already planned on them sharing eventually, and didn't feel ready to do it when Landon turned three, as we originally thought we would do. Well then we hosted Haua and David, from the His Little Feet Children's Choir, during which time Caleb and Landon shared a room for three nights. The night our guests left we asked the boys if they wanted to stay together, and of course for Landon the idea of his own big boy bed in a new room was a little more exciting than it was for Caleb to share, but it turned out to be a natural lead-in to having Haua stay with us. </div>
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Landon is our master puzzle constructor! He LOVES puzzles, and that's probably how he spends about eighty percent of his playtime at home this past month. </div>
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Last weekend we went for a drive to the foothills to find some sun, and it was a gorgeous day there! The boys enjoyed playing on a vintage tractor, and cracking walnuts open with a rock while we tasted a little wine.</div>
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We celebrated Papa Jack's 84th birthday with a dinner at mom and dad's house. Love you Papa!</div>
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As the adults finished our dinner the boys stayed entertained wrapping themselves up in a tablecloth!</div>
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