Camp CIMI

Brian had his 6th Grade trip to Camp Cimi from March 29 - 31, 2010. He had a great time snorkeling, dissecting squid and throwing rocks at the bison poop. Boys will be boys. This is just a sampling of the photos. You can see them all in the family photo album.

New Year's Eve - 2010

Our annual New Year's Eve in the driveway. We had carne asada, pollo asada and all the fixin's. Then headed outside for s'mores and some not so legal fireworks courtesy of a friend (I'm not naming names, given we live in a high fire area). Good times with friends (who for some reason are in no photos) and neighbors.

Osprey

These photos are completely out of order, but when you thought Drew was hard at work watching inmates, he was really bird watching. This is an Osprey he was able to capture some photos of.



These are photos Drew took appreciating our desert. I, for one, do not care for Joshua trees!



This is a hawk. I'm arguing that the hawk is so much prettier than the osprey. Drew disagrees.


And this is one of the osprey in flight.

La Brea Tar Pits

On Presidents' Day, we decided to venture out and ended up at the La Brea Tar Pits. The weather was great and we found a paleontologist out at Pit 61 working on a camel. I had no idea we had camels in Cali back then. Interestingly, there are no dinosaurs fossilized in the tar pits because dinosaurs became extinct before the tar pits formed.

Brian will do anything you ask him. Here, I asked him to go into the bamboo and act like a panda bear. He did.




Brandon's bling. Now that's a rock!



So Zed is a Columbian Mammoth (not wooly) and can you believe that he and Drew share the same disease?! I almost fell over when I read the sign.

Pumpkin Patch

On Saturday, Nicholas and Samantha spent the entire day with us. Their dad dropped them off at Brian's football game around 9:00 in the morning, where they got to play with some of the other little ones. Then we had lunch at Mickey D's, headed home so Brian could clean up, then headed to Lombardi Ranch to pick pumpkins. Then we came home, took a nap, made dinner, and headed to the park to run it all off. It was a long day and I think I was more tired at the end of it than they were.


I guess I could have at least put the vacuum away.


We read signs well, don't we?