November 22, 2012

dinner was at immer and greg's friends house (heidi & mike)

they just got a new pool in the backyard this summer, and it was heated to 88 degrees!

(it was 82 out)

the boys had fun -- but they didn't play too long since there really weren't any other kids around to play with

 heidi got some play-doh for them to play with, and immer made some sea animals (which they guessed correctly!) and the boys made some interesting things such as: a baby dinosaur, an alien, a ribbon, a medal...

 guess what dashiell made here??

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[the green is the headlight; but he couldn't make the trunk.]

November 21, 2012

saw this car while driving on our way to LV...

he was stuck between some cars for a while, but then quickly zipped around them

we're in vegas!

brenny plays with the ipad again ;-)

 yikes!  if brenny gained 100 lbs...

November 20, 2012

day 2

snow days wasn't here yet!  =(

last year it began before thanksgiving, since we came on the same two days...this year it's not going to start until the day after thanksgiving.  BOO.

not sure if we'll make it back in december to play in the snow.

let's hope for real snow in MT!

 first time we visited the 'lego factory' to see how legos are made and where they come from

 stamping a face onto the lego head

 brickology 101 ;-)

 racing the boats!
brenny did pretty well all by himself.  he did NOT want me to help steer at all.
watch out grandpa!

 after lunch, we spent over an hour here watching the kids just play with the duplo blocks.
good thing there was a (hard) wood bench for me and mom to sit on ;-)

 matthew and dashiell (and brenny sometimes) worked really hard to build this thing.
dashiell said it's something from his ps3 game valkyrie??

 bernny is very serious about his map and planning where we go next.
he decided he wanted to go to the hideaways last, after we go to build the test race cars.

 ..almost done...

 finally DONE!

 building his car

 dashiell's car that won 1st place in the first race he tried!  yay~

[too pooped after this to take any more pictures.  haha!]

November 19, 2012

headed out to legoland again!

 they barely look like their together, huh?  =p

 matthew and i went to ride project x, while the little ones went to the playground area

then they rode the airplanes

 and suckered me into letting them play a game (that you couldn't lose)
dashiell later said, "i'm going to call him 'him'!"

 brenny called his 'snakey'

 waiting for the boys outside dune sliders (or is it raiders?)

getting ready to go on the dragon! we even sat in the very front!

 bren's favorite ride.
had to even wait almost 40 minutes.  oh my.

 ready to go in to watch lego racers-4d
they had a newer style set of glasses this time.  much better -- stays on the little ones' heads more easily!

 matthew is too cool for this picture ;-)

 let's be silly and hang them out of our ears (emulating big brother, of course)

 after dinner i even let the boys go into the heated pool for a while

 but they wanted to go into the hot tub instead...with a big warning that if they started to feel too hot, they had to step out for a little bit

 playing mexican train until bedtime...

nighty-night!

November 18, 2012

xmas has come early for me!

mom got me a freezer for all my extra food-stuffs!  woo-hoo!

we decided to get an upright one (it's not as big as a regular fridge -- it's narrower) as opposed to a chest-style freezer.  but this will keep things more organized!

now we have breakfast/dessert/boxed dinners in the regular freezer and everything else here.

i am going to like this set-up.

thanks mommy!

matthew's team plated their last game for the season...
which also means his last game as a cypress centurion...
we had SEVEN great, memorable years with this league (and 1 with cerritos)
i will miss this.
next year: high school ball.
omg.

 dashing off to get his stuff because it's raining!

 work hard, o-line!

 game is almost over...and the rain starts coming down...

 :16 to go!

 talking to jake (our qb) at the end...