Happy Birthday Toady!

Three years ago, and almost three weeks early, came our sweet daughter Sophia.  Today we celebrate all the joy you're brought into our lives.  Happy Birthday lovebug!

The Bettie Boop of baby pictures...

The total opposite of her big brother, Sophia loved baths from day one.

I'm ONE!!

Next.....  The Many Faces of Sophia a.k.a.  Toady

Silly.

Sweet.

Making a point.

Surpise!

We love you Sophia!  Best wishes for a great 3rd year of life.  xoxoxo Mom and Dad

Bees Game

We always have to go to at least one minor league baseball game a year, and we waited all summer this year.  It was a beautiful night, nice and comfortable.  Play ball!

The cheap seats.

Some cute couple near us took this picture.  

Cotton candy time!!!

Notice our pink cotton-candy lips and teeth.  :)

Sweet Sophie.  

Getting restless...baseball games are kinda long.  

                                   They ended the night with a truly amazing fireworks show!

Mr. Kindergarten

What happened to my little guy?  Where did five and 1/2 years go?  Here we are the first day of kindergarten for Mason.  He was so super, duper excited.  

We started the day with Mason's all time favorite breakfast: Chocolate chip pancakes with syrup on the side in a little cup.  Yum!

A kiss for mom before dad takes me to school.

Proud daddy.

Here we are!  Class of 2022.

A hug from Sophia.

Mason's super awesome teacher Mrs. Horstman.  

                                                Good luck buddy- you've made us so proud!

Last Zoo visit of the Summer

We ended our summer on a high note by heading out for one last trip to the zoo.  Mason and Sophia both really enjoyed the visit.  We had super weather, and it wasn't very crowded.  A+++

Heading out in the little red wagon.

Check out these cuties at the train station.

Zoo-fari express!

Playground fun.

Mason and Sophie turned into a two-headed turtle!

My attempt to catch the golden eagle in flight right above my head.  Kinda blurry but wow!

Lunchtime.

Sophia on the carousel, she chose the elephant to ride.  

Mason chose the cheetah.

Posing by the lion statue.

Elephant trunk picture.

They had these cool slurpee cups, the kids loved 'em.  Cheers!

Back at the zoo park for one more play session.

Thanks for a fun day guys!

Tie-dying fun! Warning: psychedelic content

Summer of love '09!  We wanted to create something and I haven't tie dyed anything since girl scout camp when I was ten.  Mason picked purple, I picked orange and Sophia wanted pink.  I should have gotten blue for Matt but we didn't have any other containers.  Check out the fun we had.  

Stirring up the dye vats.

There were bubbles in Sophia's pink dye.

Putting rubber bands on with Mason.

Here's their shirts before the dying.

Sophia being very gentle with hers.  

Mason's awesome orange tie dye.

Sophia's pink one.

Here's Matt's creation, I think he's the only one that knew what he was doing.

Our peace garden of tie dyed delights.

C'mon people now, smile on your brother.  Peace.

Spins

Some cool captures from the 4th of July weekend.  Mason and Sophia wanted to ride this spinny ride over and over again at the park.