Global Warming?

Or is it "climate change"? The pictures below were taken yesterday, April 18th. Yes, April. We have had more days with snow over this winter season than I can ever remember. Yesterday, I saw the largest snowflakes I have ever seen falling near the I5/I405 interchange. Some areas around here were hit hard and others only got a trace. I spent yesterday evening in Mukilteo where the snow accumulated at least 6 inches, in mid-April, in Seattle.

Catching snowflakes

Drew and Oscar in our front yard

Easter Weekend

We took the boys to an Easter egg hunt at a local grocery store Saturday morning. It was a beautiful day. In the evening, the boys colored eggs. Sunday, the boys had fun looking for all the eggs the Easter bunny hid around the house. I think they found them all before they went to bed that night.

A successful hunt

Dyeing eggs

Basketball Season

Garrett played basketball through the local Boys and Girls Club again this winter. He had lots of fun. What a difference a year makes.

He shoots...

Looking to pass

Driving down the court

Christmas 2007

We had a good Christmas holiday or should I say three Christmas celebrations. We celebrated with the Kraxberger family on Saturday, the Smith family on Christmas Eve, and Kelly's family on Christmas Day . We even had snow fall on Christmas Day. Christmas morning the boys found that Santa had left them Star Wars toys. Later they unwrapped a "family" gift of a Nintendo Wii and Super Mario Galaxy game. Below is a picture of the boys modeling the football pajamas they got. Hope everyone else had a wonderful holiday too.

NFL Pajamas!!!

Drew's 4th Birthday

Yesterday, after going to Garrett's first basketball game of the season, we came home to celebrate Drew's 4th birthday. Several friends came and celebrated with us. The kids played outside with their Star Wars masks on a cold, clear December day. Kelly put a lot of effort into making a R2-D2 cake for Drew and it turned out great. Drew easily blew out the candles. He opened up his presents with great delight and had a blast. He was so exhausted from all the fun, that he fell asleep on the couch next to his brother around 6pm. We had to wake him up when some friends came to visit him in the evening. To see some pictures, click on the picture below.

Drew's 4th Birthday

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Happy Halloween

The boys had fun on Halloween. They are very into Star Wars right now. Garrett was Jango Fett and Drew was a Clone Trooper. They walked around the neighborhood together in a "mob" with 6 other neighbor kids. Their pumpkin buckets were pretty full when they returned to the house. Then they convinced Kelly to take them to a Harvest Festival at a local church and came back from there with even more candy. Drew had so much fun that on Thursday night he asked when it was going to be Halloween again. Since the kids are so into Star Wars, I carved the pumpkins with two Star Wars characters they chose. One was Jango Fett and the other was Darth Maul. This year, the boys were not afraid to touch the inside of the pumpkins and actually helped get the seeds out of both of them. You can click on the picture below for more photos from Halloween.

Halloween 2007

Preschool

Drew started preschool on September 12th. He goes in the mornings Monday through Thursday. He loves going to school. His favorite part is snack time and singing songs. Kelly enjoys being able to run errands in the mornings with no kids in tow. Below are a couple of pictures from Drew's first day of preschool.