A Change Has Come.....

Oh door...You have lived such a long life, 26+ years in fact!...You have protected us from the wind, rain, and heat. You have welcomed strangers, family, and friends. You have been a wonderful sight to see after a long trip. Although you are now off your hinges you won't be thrown away. You are going to replace our Garage Door to the backyard. You are going to have new scenery to look at such as our goats and the new deck...

Although you are not leaving us, we had to get a new Entry door. Yes a new, younger door is replacing you but we still love you!

This is our new door...seems strange to see it there as I have looked at our old door for 26+ years. It was starting to fail us as an entry door and so my mom bit the bullet and got a new one! I do have to say it looks great!!!

Family Pictures

For my birthday I wanted to get some pictures taken. I didn't want to do the studio pictures anymore because i felt that taking outside pictures was more to our family's nature. I asked Herbie's cousin Michelle Q. if she would take them for us (she does it professionally on the side). She was definitely up for it! I was so excited when the day came (this past Sunday). Logan unfortunately was teething badly so there weren't many of him smiling but I love what we got! We decided to take the pictures out at the old barn on Herbie's Aunt and Uncle's place. It used to be where his Grandparents lived and he used to play there when he was Logan's age (and older) and so it had more sentimental value. We also took some at the park in Gridley so that Logan could play. I love all the pictures that she took and now it's my decision on what pictures I am wanting! The pictures below are just a sampling of the ones she took.

Thank you again Michelle (and Amy) for taking the time to do these you are wonderful! www.imagesbyq.net

I swear this one looks like he's about to throw it at us!

This one is one of my favorites!

He can't go a day without playing Golf!

This Sunday we were lucky enough to go to Beale AFB which is only about 20 to 30 min away from our house and enjoy their Air Show. The last time i was at their Air Show was with my dad. It was so much fun I told Herbie that we HAD to this time! Especially since it was free!! We decided to go early in the morning since it was going to be in the 90s by the end of the day. The reason we went is because Logan has a fascination with planes. Everytime he sees one he yells out "ANE! ANE!!!!" It helps him that both his parents have a fascination with planes too. We were able to walk through planes, get up close and see the acrobatics in the air. We left about noon because Logan was getting hot, tired and we were ready to go too...but he still by the end loved seeing the planes in the air.

The "Patriots" were the last act of the day. Unfortunately we weren't able to see them but that was ok since it was hot even when we left!

walking into his first Cargo plane...

he loved being able to pull up the cargo tie holds and make them bang!

Hi mommy!

This plane was HUGE! Thats Logan and Herbie at the bottom of the nose of the plane!

There was music playing and he had to start dancing!

Look at those planes!!

Although we got ALOT of sun (yeah Herbie wearing the tank top in retrospect wasn't a good idea), we had a blast and can't wait to take him next year!!

Easter 2009

Dye-ing the Eggs

The night before Easter we were doing stuff in town and still needed to Dye the eggs. We didn't know what Logan would do at 9:30 (an hour after bedtime) with the eggs. He had a blast! It was like he had done it before even though it was his first time!

whoa! this is what happens when i put the egg in there?

another please!

all done!

So proud of what he's done!

hand dye-d!

Easter Morning

He woke up the next morning and went RIGHT to his Easter basket. He had a wonderful time trying to open the eggs and then he got to eat ONE peep before breakfast....as you can see he enjoyed it!

can you tell he just woke up?

Easter Egg Hunting
I swear this kid is smart...i mean every mom thinks this but when we walked out to start finding eggs he knew just what to do! Although after about the 10th egg decided he would rather Golf than find the rest...

his loot :D

yup golfing...can't go a day without golfing!

Easter Pictures

My family tradition was to take pictures near our birch trees...unforunately we took them out years ago so we decided to go next door to Mimi and Pap-paps house to take pictures near their birch trees. it was great since they were there to watch him get his eggs.