Photo Explosion!

Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 4:23 PM
OK, the technology in the house is cooperating now. I hope it stays that way.

I have not had a computer for almost a week, and we had no TV or internet for a big chunk of the week, too.

I had one of those days where nothing worked the way it was supposed to, and it carried over into the rest of the week.

And now I have PMS. So I will just give you pictures and videos.

Apparently it's been forever since I unloaded my big camera. This is from Korben's Kindergarten graduation:





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A boy and his dog taking a nap.

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Korben and his teacher.

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Korben and Sophie at his graduation.

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Paper Quilt seen in the hallway at Korben's elementary school. *spock eyebrow*

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At the beach yesterday...

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"Waaaaah! I got water in my MOUTH!"

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Ahoy, there, Mate!

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Korben made a friend. Haha, actually, this was PERFECT timing, because not even a half second after I snapped this, Korben noticed he was moving and screamed like a girl and dropped it. He wanted to bring it home, but I explained that it was an ocean hermit crab, not a land crab, and we don't have a salt water tank here.

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I've never seen the trawlers working so close to shore before. I took this driving down the seawall. We left the beach when I started hearing thunder. It had briefly sprinkled while we were there, but I made a good call getting out when we did. Not 10 minutes after we got in the car, the heavens opened up and poured down for a good 35 minutes. It was heavy enough rain that the kids thought it was another hurricane, and the traffic on the freeway was going 35-40 instead of the normal 70-80. But we had a great time.

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LOL. Sophie napped most of the way home.

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We went to a classmate's birthday at McDonald's this weekend, too.

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Sophie's best friend in the whole world, Frankie, and Frankie's sister. I wish I could get them together for playdates, but without cooperation from Frankie's mom, there's not much I can do except hope that Frankie and Sophie will be in separate classes next year so she can make a new best friend who's more available.





Here's the other video from Korben's graduation. Enjoy!

Dinner at Skipper's with the Belly Dancer!

Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Last night we went to dinner with Ryan's Dad, Linda (SMIL), and his step sister and her fiancee. We almost always eat at this little greek place down by their house called Skippers, and have for years. Friday nights, they have a belly dancer! Sophie was enthralled.



Sophie and Grandpa


I had been trying to figure out where this goofy grin Sophie's been making comes from, since it doesn't look like anyone in my family, and not that I'd noticed in Ryan's family either... well, now I know after last night: It's grandpa's grin! LOL


Korben and his cousin, Alec, who he just idolizes.