Eleven

Karson celebrated his 11th birthday yesterday.

He got a birthday ride to school instead of the usual bus.

His new obession is computers, and I found this cute idea online for a cake. We used our usual local bakery and of course it turned out awesome!

As usual he wanted nothing and wanted to do nothing. But we managed to convince him to at least pick a place to go eat.

Ryan and I surprised him with presents that only Karson would love and appreciate.
A book for kids/beginners on Computer Programming. Just reading the first sentence made me promptly close the book and never look at it again....but he thought it was fantastic!

A new bigger monitor for his computer upstairs.

And his favorite Golden Oreos. The hideous scorpion on top of oreos was because he is all about them right now...hoping that goes away.

And finally...mostly for his parents benefit...Celtics and Red Sox t-shirts.

Happy Birthday to a smart, handsome, unique, and loving son! We love you!

The Best Worst Vacation Ever!

Ahhh, San Diego.

Lovely.

Except for the weekend we picked to go!

Granted, we were aware it was suppose to rain, but it was our last weekend before Ryan goes back to work, so we decided to take our chances.
We stopped in Baker for Alien Jerkey first...

We left early Friday and got in some beach time before it got too cold.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Trip to the Wild Animal Park. No rain and not to cold for the first 2 hours.....then the downpour!

Because the Park is so huge it took us forever to get out and we were all soaked! Since our visit was cut short, we found the Birch Aquarium near our hotel and stopped there. It was really nice and dry!

When we got back to our hotel room, we discovered the hotel had lost it's power to do a "giant fire ball exploding the transformer" per the hotel staff. No clue if there would be any power. So instead of sitting in the cold and dark we opted to drive home. But it was already 7 pm and we were all tired so we stayed in lovely Victoville, about 2 1/2 hrs north of San Diego.
We got home before noon on Sunday and are all exhausted!
But not too exhausted to take some more cute St. Patrick's pictures of Emma.

Sooooooo Close!

Little miss is days away from getting into everything!

Almost crawling!

She can move all around the house backwards right now, but we are confident parents that she will get the forward motion down too! :)

February

Last week was Nevada Reading Week at the kids' school. Each day they got to do something fun, like wearing pj's, wearing clothes from a decade, etc. Aubree had the 80's which was good cause her mom is an expert at that decade. :)

She commented while I was ratting her side ponytail, how ugly her hair was. All I could think of was a hideous family picture from when I was in 8th grade and had the biggest, ugliest 80's hair ever and thought I looked beautiful!!

The next day was dress as your favorite book character.
Aubree is Fancy Nancy and Karson is Greg from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

And of course, always cute pictures of Emma! :)
She loves the bath and her brother!

Emma loves to blow raspberries! She's a perpetual motion machine, so it's hard not to have a blurry picture!