Blaise's 4th Birthday Celebrations

October 25, 26 & 28th were very fun days at our house. We celebrated Blaise's Fourth Birthday! On His Birthday we went to the Zoo and visited all of our animal friends and had a picknick by the meercats, Blaise's favorites! After the Zoo we went for a ride on the Flying Horses. At night we had cake with Daddy. The next day we had another celebration with Amalia and all the kids. Amalia set up all the decorations and had cake and treats for the kids. On Oct 28th we decorated gingerbread men with our neighbor friends Paris and Elle. We had lots of fun! We also had a pinata which Blaise and the girls Loved!!!

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Blaise's 4th Birthday Celebrations

Gatorman 3 Mile Swim La Jolla 9-10-07

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La Jolla Gatorman commentary by Aida Beeee 9-10-07

Roping at Uncle Scotty's

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Roping at Uncle Scotty's Blaise is getting the hand of it!

Light snowfall in Mammoth 9-20-2007

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Light snowfall in Mammoth

October 19, 2007 The Pumpkin Patch

Blaise was in his glory when he got to sit up with the tractor driver at the pumpkin patch.

I was able to go with Blaise's school when they had their field trip.



Blaise and Kyle had a blast together! We went on a hayride out to the patch and then each child got to pick out their own pumpkin.

October 6, 2007 Our Sixth Anniversary

Six Years ... Wow! Philip, Blaise and I celebrated our Anniversay by going out to dinner at "Our Restaurant" where we went out to dinner for the first time together and it is where we like to go for special occasions. Philip and Blaise surprised me with a yummy cake and here we are with it!

Preschool Day Two

This is how Blaise looked at the start of his second day of Montessori. It did help that his good buddy Kyle is in the same school.

Blaise's First Day of Preschool

October 1st was Blaise's first day of preschool at Montessori. When we got to school you can see from the pictures below that he didn't want to go. After seeing that he could have lots of fun he was smiling when I picked him up in the afternoon. It was an adjustment for him and also a big change for Me !

Mammoth Video slideshow 9-2007

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Here is a collection of pictures that we took on our Mammoth trip. We had all kinds of weather and it made for an exciting time!

Snow at Mammoth 9-20-2007

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Lots of snow Mammoth Sept 20, 2007

Tour of the Buoys Swim

On August 5th I went down to La Jolla to do an ocean swim with Erin. It was at La Jolla Shores Beach. Philip and Blaise were our cheerleaders as well as our photographers. It was the first swim that I had done in a Long, long, long time!!! Erin said that she would stay with me and assured me that I would be fine. It did work out great. We swam side by side for the mile and a half swim and then ran out of the water together. It was Awesome!!! First time I was able to swim with my "little sister"! After the race we thought we would check out the results and much to our surprise, we each won our age groups so we got these cool medals!

Gatorman 3 Mile Swim La Jolla 9-10-07

On September 10th Erin and I did a 3 mile ocean swim in La Jolla called the "Gatorman".
It was really fun! A beautiful day. The race started at 1:30 so there was a bit of chop on the water. We swam together the whole way. There were lots of swimmers in the race. Erin shows the course in the video below.

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La Jolla Gatorman commentary by Aida Beeee 9-10-07

Ten Mile Ocean Swim Relay

On September 23rd my sister Erin or "Aida" as I call her, swam with a relay team a ten mile ocean swim in La Jolla to raise money for diabetes. Here I am with Aida and this is our team. We each swam one mile lengths and tagged off to the next swimmer as they ran out of the water so we each swam two miles, except for Aida who swam three times or six miles because one of our team members was a bit tired. He did give it the team try!

Roping at Uncle Scotty's August 2007

Blaise had a blast at Uncle Scotty's! He loved everything ... riding the horses, collecting the chicken eggs, practicing roping the cows, even cleaning the horse stalls!! A Great time for all of us. Blaise's favorite words ... "Giddy Up Horsey"!

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Blaise goes down the Firepole

Blaise and his new friend Engineer Tom.

Funny face Blaise on the back of the fire engine.

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What a day for Mr. Blaise. I had an errand to do and this station has a firepole. Engineer Tom asked Blaise if he wanted to go down the pole. Of course Blaise was thrilled! I'm sure you can tell by his expression!!

"Blaise in the Box"

Saturday is Farmer's Market Day at our house. Usually Philip and Blaise go together. The other day when I opened the door when I heard them coming up the driveway, this is what I saw. Philip said that it worked out great! A way to keep Blaise under control And to get all of the shopping done ... and Blaise Loved it too! Always using his head, that husband of mine!

Curious Blaise

Here we see Mr. Blaise looking somewhat like his favorite friend "Curious George". Blaise is a worker that's for sure. He is also concerned with safety which is great. He always wears hearing protection when I vacuum and when he is on a building project he wears his goggles.

Sunset on The Pier

A fun family trip down to check out the sunset, Zack included. It is really fun to venture out in your own hometown...makes you feel as though you are on vacation. A Great place to live and play!

Blaise Loves his Uncle Bergie!

Ok, Ok yes it has been Quite some time since I have posted ... no excuse! Here you go Uncle Bergie! I love these pics of Mr. Blaise. He has so much fun at the ranch. The stories go on for months, just enough to tie him over until the next visit. I remember when Blaise was scared to feed the horses by himself and now he can't get enough of it.

Hopefully we will see you soon Uncle Bergie ... up there or down here. WE miss you!!

Fourth of July in Ventura

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We had so much fun on this day. First there was the "Push and Pull Parade" downtown. Basically it is a parade of kids with wagons, bikes, trykes moving down Main St. and throwing candy to all of the people watching. It was like "trick or treating" without going door to door. Blaise said that maybe next year he would walk with me in the parade with Zack. After the parade we went to the street fair downtown to check out all of the artwork and snacks. Blaise was so excited to see the ponies and ran over to get a ride. We were able to see the fireworks from our house. It was really cool!!!