Wednesday, March 7, 2012

the past few months...

We headed over to San Francisco a couple Saturday's ago. The kids really enjoyed watching the sea lions.
Megan is my picky eater and so I always have to cut the crust off her sandwich at lunch. I felt like I was wasting so much bread, until Joel suggested I put the crust in a freezer bag each day and when we fill the bag we will go feed the ducks.
One Sunday afternoon we headed up to a cute little park in Auburn where there is a nice big pond and a lot of ducks. Megan and Austin loved feeding them... Ethan loved watching from a distance. The ducks were a little aggressive.
One morning while Joel was working on his laptop, Austin got the idea he wanted to work with daddy. He dragged the little table out of Megan's room and a folding chair into my room and set up his "Leap top" (a Christmas gift from the Cosentino's- big thanks). It was so cute. He thought he was such a big boy.
Oh yeah, and I had a birthday... but we don't need to talk about that. Austin has really got the hang of blowing out birthday candles though. It's hard to hold him back until the end of the song.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Back to School

Ethan started 2nd grade and Megan started preschool recently. They are both very excited to be in school, meeting new friends and having all kinds of new experiences. I can't believe how fast they are growing up!





Welcome Home Devan

Joel's youngest brother Devan returned home from his mission last month and we were able to get the entire family together for a reunion. It was great! We spent the weekend up at a cabin at Shaver lake. That Sunday we were able to attend church together where Devan gave a wonderful talk... has it really been 2 years! Pictured above is all 10 grandkids at the cabin. Of course this picture will be out of date in a few weeks when Ashley delivers baby #11.











Ethan just thinks the world of Devan. It was a great experience writing and receiving letters from Guatemala for the last couple of years. He is so excited to serve a mission of his own someday. Of course, he still wants to go to Texas like his dad though.