Brandon & Cousin Noah

This is a huge collage of all the pictures I took of Brandon and his cousin Noah, he was here for 2 weeks. Brandon misses his playmate and has now taken a liking to the mirror, perhaps he think Noah is his reflection??? Noah is 18 days older than Brandon. If you can't figure out who is who just look for Brandon's cleft chin =)

Justin's "noculars" and brushed hair

This was too funny to pass up. This is Justin with his "noculars." He bought them with money from his piggy bank and he carries them just about everywhere we go. Instead of whining because he has to leave them in the car he now tells me "I can't take these in because people will think that I am looking at them." He cracks me up, this is him with his 'noculars and his hair brushed (I told him to go brush his hair and when I saw him I had to hold back the laughter). Some days I think Justin was sent here just to make me laugh =)

Justin the Photographer

Justin really wants to be a photographer, well okay a "people that take pictures." Here's his work in about a minute

Daddy hitting a golf ball


Uncle Ben waving at the camera with his golf club

What my feet would look like through my eyeball, good old fingers over the camera trick!

A golf ball

Brandon laughing

This is classic......Brandon is laughing so mom get's out the camera to attempt to capture it for the 20th time, once again Justin yells something that has to do with going to the bathroom, perhaps it's his way of getting his attention or his minute of fame on the camera. I finally gave up on trying to get the perfect video so I will just settle for this one because it's reality. If you do not like hearing a little child say, "I have to go poop" then perhaps you just shouldn't watch this video =) Oh and did you see he's only wearing one sock, Justin did that too, they must have learned it from their dad because he does the same thing as well! Like father like son..

Brandon's Blessing

This is the only picture we took before Brandon's blessing so I couldn't go through 20 and pick the one where we were all looking at the camera or look somewhat decent! Deena, Austen, and Jesse came up, Ben and Ashley came up, Grandma and Grandpa came, and Mom, Dad, Dani, and Cassi came as well. Thank you all for coming and making it a more memorable experience.

AMGEN Tour de California

My sister, Jeni, is into Cycling because her husband Jonathan cycled his whole life and actually rode with Zabriskie....so we packed up the car full of carseats and headed to Solvang to watch them roll through Solvang for a time trial. When we drove down the main road there where people were walking up a long hill that had parked far away, so we decided to turn on a street once we got to the top of the hill, we then turned again on another street and found a parking spot in front of a house. Thinking we were going to have to walk a mile to get close we pulled out the strollers and started to walk, we then realized that we just had to walk to the corner (about 100 steps) and we could see them as they finished a slight incline and started another one. We saw many cyclists including Leipheimer (who ended up taking 1st place in the tour), Rogers, Voight, Zabriske, Vende Walle, Vande Velde, , Schleck, Nebali, and not to mention, Lance Armstrong (he ended up taking 7th place). It was a fun atmosphere, including the Texas Longhorn guy! Thanks to Jeni for teaching me a bit about each of these riders, before I went to the time trial the only one I knew about was Lance Armstrong and Daivd Zabriske.

The kids in the back seat

The kids in the front seat

The kids watching cyclists go by (one came by every minute)This is the Texas Longhorn biker, apparently Lance Armstrong went to Texas so this was his way of showing support for Lance.....weirdo!

And the picture I was waiting for....LANCE ARMSTRONG!

JUSTIN + RAIN = FUN

Justin jumping in puddles at Grandma & Grandpa's house!

Justin running away from the "mud slide"Justin's not happy about something; it wasn't because Cassi dumped a bucket of muddy water on him because whenever it was his turn he would dump it on his own head, perhaps he wanted another turn with the bucket......

Justin's Pictures

Justin took the camera and this is what I found!

~JANUARY IN A NUTSHELL~

Justin's adventures at the Coronado Butterfly Preserve, just 250 steps from the end of our driveway.....this was the first time we have been there (I am ashamed, it is so beautiful)!

Justin's adventure to the Carpinteria Seal Rookery. We had to cross the train tracks to get there and he was so excited that he lost his sandal twice while crossing! About 1 minute after we crossed a train came racing by!