Lanea and I enjoy photography and also enhancing them on the computer. So here are a few pictures that we've taken over the last year that we would like to share.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Beginning of school & family time
Keala's first day of kindergarten at Creekside Oaks in Lincoln, CA
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As a family we like to pull out the legos and create all sorts of things. For Kellan, it's airplanes, for Kristine it's cars, the girls create all sorts of things, but then we have Darren. He amazes me with what he comes up with! It is truly amazing to me how intricate and detailed his creations are even though he shows me how "easy" it is. There is a price unfortunately for this detail! This night in particular, he started on a project and couldn't put it down even after I got the kids in bed and was ready for bed myself. Finally at 5am I get a kiss on my cheek which is our routine of him saying goodbye to me when he leaves in the morning for work. I shot up and said as I realized, "You never went to bed!" He sheepishly told me he couldn't put it down until he got it just right and that wasn't until 4:30am and by then he figured he ought to just get ready and go to work!! Is this an obsession where I should get rid of all legos in the house or is he a genius needing an outlet?
Now you know what you can get him for Christmas!!! :)
. As a family we like to pull out the legos and create all sorts of things. For Kellan, it's airplanes, for Kristine it's cars, the girls create all sorts of things, but then we have Darren. He amazes me with what he comes up with! It is truly amazing to me how intricate and detailed his creations are even though he shows me how "easy" it is. There is a price unfortunately for this detail! This night in particular, he started on a project and couldn't put it down even after I got the kids in bed and was ready for bed myself. Finally at 5am I get a kiss on my cheek which is our routine of him saying goodbye to me when he leaves in the morning for work. I shot up and said as I realized, "You never went to bed!" He sheepishly told me he couldn't put it down until he got it just right and that wasn't until 4:30am and by then he figured he ought to just get ready and go to work!! Is this an obsession where I should get rid of all legos in the house or is he a genius needing an outlet?
Now you know what you can get him for Christmas!!! :)
Family Field Trip to Donner Nat. Park
I had never been to the site where the Donner/Reed party were stuck during the winter in the Sierra Nevadas so we went on a family field trip. Keala was actually on a field trip with her class, so the rest of us took off into the mountains. It was an adventure just getting there, but we won't get into that. It was a beautiful day with a little wind going through the trees and a few white clouds overhead while we walked in the woods and saw the sites of long ago cabin sites and the exact places that the members of those wagon trains walked and lived. It hit me hard that there were families with babies and young children the same ages as my children and the hardship and sorrow they went through, all to find a new beginning in a new land. It was very touching for me. I think the kids enjoyed walking across the log over the river and throwing berries to the fish and hoping they would come up and eat them. The boys fell asleep the minute their heads touched a soft surface so our ride home was VERY pleasant!
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