The Three Amigos

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Debs Park

We met some friends at Debs Park for some exploring. It was a beautiful sunny morning and we had a wonderful time. Here are some pics:

We saw lots of these little lizards on the Butterfly Loop Trail.

The boys slowed down just long enough for a photo.

After a few photos I realized that he was "hiding" and not playing peek-a-boo.

They have this cute Children's Woodland play area, including a little cabin, climbing tree, stream and pond with minnows, a cave, and lots of dirt.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

February

We had some fun times this month. First off, the weather has been beautiful. My camelias are blooming and the jasmine are getting ready to explode. I can't wait to smell them.

We visited the park this morning before heading over to the Rosebowl for a Marine Corps Marching Band performance.

Thanks to cousin Austin for the awesome Army Jeep. We love taking it outside and using it as a bucket, a bull-dozer or whatever.

We weren't able to stay long enough to see the Marine Corps Band, which was a bit disappointing, but we made some great memories, including when our son exclaimed, "terrible" repeatedly during the warm-up band performance. He was referring to the dinosaurs on his cap, but the people around us didn't know that.

All tired out and ready to go home! It is hard work being cute. He was asleep half way to our house and took a nice long nap.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Getty Museum

Our friends April and Adam invited us along for a visit to the Getty Museum. It was a beautiful day and I tried to snap as many pictures as I could. It wasn't easy considering that I am the uptight mother of a toddler who likes to extend his boundaries and explore (climbing up walls, standing in streams, crawling through rock gardens, rearranging flower beds, etc).

Here are a few that I thought were worth sharing.

This is right before he started crawling up the rocky slope.

I tried to snap shots while he was looking at me. He was really on the move.

In the "Family Room" area of the Getty Museum we discovered some fun activities. The boys made masks and enjoyed parading around with them for a little while.

The photo below is of him taking a turn at illuminating some midieval text. The text is from a 15th century Book of Hours manuscript.

Finally, I couldn't pass up a view of Downtown LA and Westwood skyline.

Trains

I can't decide what caption to put on this picture. Maybe it says enough without a caption.

I love the new camera!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

The Pink Panther Tribute

In honor of the upcoming release of Pink Panther 2, (or maybe just good timing) here is an English lesson:

Friday, January 2, 2009

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

To celebrate the New Year, we watched the Rose Parade.
In order to get good seats we staked out our position New Years Eve at 10:30 am. We took turns during the day and night with some friends and kept ourselves busy playing games, snacking and reading.

Thanks to some friends (Gunns) watching our son over night, I was able to stay out and ring in the New Year with a Martinelli in a paper cup by the fire with my DH.

Finally morning came and we all anticipated the parade starting.

Pure joy!

The adults took turns holding our position for about 24 hours so that there would be room for our big group.

Here we are with Adam and Sam waiting for the parade to start.

Look Grandma!