Another busy day...

So I started the day thinking ok good day to do laundry(giggles), clean up the kitchen, get a mop bucket and clean house. Well it started that way until I got a call from Bess. Apparently my neice is in town from Germany and they are going to the Wildlife World Zoo today and wanted to know if I could come. I said sure when are they going to be there. Basiclly I finally got the call from her at noon saying that her son, Randy, was on the way to get her. So finished our quick lunch and left. We got to meet Chelsie,who is Randy's daughter in law, and her daughter, my neice, Miranda. She is so cute. We had fun at the zoo and came home after almost 4 hours and had a nice dinner. Posted this and calling it a night.

David(Donna R's boyfriend), Miranda and Donna R looking at penguins.

Here are some upsidedown jellyfish... they don't float they attach themselves to the floor bottom to feed

B-Days

Call me strange but this is mainly just me. It has kind of come to the point that for me it least birthdays are just another day. I have usually had to work or this or that. So for me I actually had a nice birthday this year. I took the kids to the zoo and had a nice quiet enjoyable day. Sam commented later that afternoon. Happy B-day Dad. I forgot it was yours today. I know my kids like going to other kids b-day parties and they like theirs. I am all for that but I guess for me now a days..and no it is not a age thing..ie oh you are that old.. it is more I would just like a nice quiet day of relaxing.

New Year recap from the last couple of months

Ok it's been a while. Some pics of what we have been doing lately.
Sam's 1st grade teacher's daughter's birthday party happed on 11/22 at Castle's and Coasters. I really didn't get any pics of Sam on the rides as she was with someone else. She did go on almost every ride but the one that drops you from about 80 feet up including the big adult rollercoaster there. I was amazed. Here is a pic of Tim on the go cart course with the son of the lady of the group I was with. They were in first execpt for the last lap.

Well as you know we don't have snow here so we had to have it imported. Here are the kids in the snow at the Goodyear Jolly Holly city festival with 40 tons of snow. Tim lost his gloves and his hands got quite cold while they were in there but they had fun.

We went to a boat parade at the begining of December out at where Grandma Bess Jonason lives. Her neighbor is right on the lake had had a big party that we briefly took the kids to. They only stayed long enough to see the boat parade but they had fun. The second shot is one of the better ones that I got where the people took the frame work for a hot air balloon burner and mounted it on the front of the boat and would ignite it. It was amazing to see.



Here is a shot on the day after Christmas where I setup Tim's Hot Wheels stunt sets. Each one basicly kicks off the other one. It pretty much took up the entire space between the kitchen table and the piano in the dining room area.

Of course Dad has been giggling gleefully since he got these installed and his coworkers are grateful he kept bugging them. Christmas present to myself finally. I love them. Not the best shot. The stand are also drawers to hold stuff as well as cabinates above. Way to much storage in certain parts of this house.


Ok let me explain this one. I took the kids out to one of the local parks and Sam was sliding down. For some reason this slide would build up a lot of static electricity. You can see her as she was sliding down. Then after she got up. Her hair would literally stand on end. I was laughing pretty hard and she thought it was great as well. click on the pic for a larger shot.