Pumpkin Patch

Friday night we had a fun evening at a pumpkin patch with friends. It was more about the little rides and petting zoo than the pumpkins.

Take Down

This made me laugh so I thought I'd share.
Lucas was recounting stories of a birthday party he went to today. This one was told without any embarrassment or ill-will toward Noah..
"I heard Noah say, "I'm strong and he is weak." and he was pointing at me so I said, "Oh yeah! Come out on the field and we'll see about that." So we went on the field and Man! he took me down so fast. I was like shoot!"

Good to see he's learning the ropes.

A Tuesday Evening

Our video camera called it quits several months ago and we finally got a replacement about a month ago. I am so glad to have a video camera again but alas this also means we have video, which means it must be organized and stored, which means more shtuff to do on the computer. We also got Adobe Premiere to edit the video which means new software to learn, which means much frustration and vexation of spirit. But enough complaining. Here is a video of a Tuesday evening in September. There is no editing and some issues with focusing and for some reason the quality is really poor BUT I did add some jazzy Caribbean music to distract you. PS.. the water has turned cold for the winter so we will be giving beach post a break for awhile. Your welcome.

Six Years

Turns out, if you do the math, this little peanut turned 6 last week.

I've never did like math.

Let's take a walk down memory lane...

2004
2005
2006
2007
2008



We had friends down a few days before Lucas's actual birthday so we did a quick impromptu party at the beach. It turned out to be the first non-sunny and 70 day since the beginning of July. It actually rained...or spit twice which is good enough to be called rain around here. All of this might have dampen the spirits (and perhaps did dampen some adult female spirits) but then a rainbow appeared. A beautiful, bright, full rainbow that eventually turned into a double rainbow. The children danced, shouted, pointed, laughed and screamed (and perhaps the adults did a bit too). Who knew a drizzled out party at the beach could be so wonderful. Thank you, Lord for the rainbow and our little big boy.

On his actual birthday we thought we would do something different and fun as a family. Turns out, if you do the math, everything fun in San Diego costs massive money. I tell ya, math stinks! So, we did what this family does best, we went to the beach again. For dinner Lucas got to pick which restaurant we went to. He picked Chuck E. Cheese. Good thing his birthday comes but once a year. The Pascoe's joined us so at least the fellowship was yummy.