Evie is 1 year, 6 months and 2 weeks old; Eric is 3 years old!

Photos taken this week: 56

Eric has started humming to himself as he plays. Usually the tune sounds like “twinkle twinkle little star” (also daddy’s fav).

The boys signed up for the Yosemite Dual Sport Motorcycle Adventure! It's a two-day AMA Sanctioned dual sport event held at the gateway to Yosemite National Park, Buck Meadows California. And is all about getting into the back-country and enjoying the trails. It's two days of adventure including scenic & historic destinations in and around Yosemite National Park and the Stanislaus National Forest with approximately 100 miles of riding each day! All routes are approximately 85% dirt and they had to sign up early because only 100 tickets were available! There was also a BBQ and raffle (the BBQ funds benefit the Sports Club of San Joaquin County which helps those with special needs enjoy the outdoors, and the raffle funds are donated to Blue Ribbon Coalition).


I took a few pictures through the window but they didn't turn out well, here's one of David's motorcycle as he leaves our house Monday morning. It sounds like a busy weekend, and they didn't really have time to take pictures, but they had lots of fun! And lots of 'adventure' lol, here's a direct quote from David, "It was an all GO event. We never really slowed down from the time we left your house, to the time the motorcycles fell off the trailer and we had to navigate a road that even the locals hate."


They got some really cool shirts too!


We wanted to get Eric a computer for Christmas, and Gramma Linda & Grampa Bill indulged us early!!! :) :) :)


There's nothing more relaxing than your favorite magazine and a cup of green tea


Ahhhh...


My GORGEOUS boy! (this is my new fav pic of him)


with flowers for his Mama!


This girl LOVES shoes, and look at those curls!!!


Grandpa Jim's lap just isn't quite big enough, lol!


Climbing the rock wall...


...deep in thought. (love love love this pic)


Evie, its time to leave the park. What do you mean 'bye'? Please come home with us, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?


Hey, where are you going? That's the wrong way!


My favorite shirt (and several others) are destroyed when Scott threw his running shoes into a load of my light colored clothes. :(  You know its bad when it comes out of the completed wash cycle looking like this.


Uh oh, she just couldn't wait for nap time! (yes, she has THREE blankies, the blue one is Eric's from when he was a baby, but he discarded it and Evie happily acquired it, lol! she really loves the satin feel of these double-sided blankets.)


McDonald's play land -- Evie's driving!


Tunnel time!


Sliding down the slide!


Eric jumping down ALL the stairs at once! WOW!


Eric helping me make a dinosaur scrapbook all about him and his dinos. He colored several dinosaur pix and helped me to glue down the embellishments!  :)

Evie is 1 year, 6 months and 1 week old; Eric is 3 years old!

Photos taken this week: 65


Evie likes dinos too! I ADORE this outfit -- so super cute!


Eric writes his name in sand, without any help!!! GREAT WORK!


Eric's latest masterpiece! It's hanging on the door to his room.


Eric got down all the puzzles at school and took each one apart and put them all back together without any help!


Evie makes an 'M' with macaroni and LOTS of glue, lol!


It's almost time for Halloween! Pretty purple hats for good little witches...


and scary black spider hats for good little warlocks!


Eric, what's your favorite food?


Playing the 'drums' in the garage, while Evie helps Daddy with the motorcycle.


Is it bedtime? Nah, let's have a tickle war!!!

Evie is 1 year, 5 months and 4 weeks old; Eric is 3 years old!

Photos taken this week: 36

Today Eric said to me, “I love peanut butter, Mama.” This is the first time I have heard him refer to himself in the first person instead of the third person!!!


Live Oak has a festival which includes a little bit of everything from cars to craft booths to food to circus rides. This car was Daddy's favorite!


This one was pretty cool too!


There was a playground with dinosaurs! But the dinos were too hot to sit on (that's why he is making that face)


There was a jeep for Evie to drive, I tried to take her picture several times, but the sun was in her eyes and she couldn't look up at me.


Eric made fast friends on the playground.  :)


There was this cool metal sculpture of a dragon that breathed actual fire -- amazing! This is up-cycling at its best!


"I will show you how to do it, Grandpa. First, you hold these, then..."


Evie is such a girl, look how happy she is to have a new purse, lol!


Eric had a lot of fun with these!


But nothing beats a horsey-back ride!


Evie is daddy's little girl, she looks like him, acts like him, and loves on him a ton!


Eric is an amazing upside down attention grabber!!!

Evie is 1 year, 5 months and 3 weeks old; Eric is 3 years old!

Photos taken this week: 94

When I put Evie in her crib for nap time or bed time, I blow her a kiss and tell her I love her, and she waves goodbye to me and says something in her cute little baby gibberish. Ooo, I just love that girl so much! :)


I fell in love with this perfect shot of Evie, so I extracted her from the background and made the following layout from my digital scrapbooking kit "Mystical Journey."



This was our neighbor's daughter's baptism celebration. This is a horrible picture, but they were too busy having fun to have their pictures taken, lol!


Oftentimes, our neighbor goes to pick up the eldest daughter from school, so I watch the two younger children. Eric and Evie love Joseph and Viviana!


Evie follows Vivi around and watches everything she does very carefully so she can learn how to do it too.


It's dino bathtime!


Now that's a look of determination!


Evie wants to help too, lol!


Every night, only certain dinos make the cut to sleep in bed with Eric, this week the fossils are in it to win it, lol!

Evie is 1 year, 5 months and 2 weeks old; Eric is 3 years old!

Photos taken this week: 21

Evie knows where I keep my camera, she likes to go into that drawer and get it, all the while exclaiming over and over again, “CHEESE! CHEESE! CHEESE!”

Have I mentioned the boy likes dinosaurs? LOL!


Bailey lounging on Mook's bed with his stuffed raccoon.


Eric using Evie's car to run over dinosaurs, who then take revenge on the car, lol! Where do kids learn this stuff?


Getting ready to go to my new monthly Scrapbook Crop Party - woo hoo!


Ashley came all the way from Sacramento to come to the crop party - she is a rock star!!! (and a great picture taker, lol!)