How time flies

It’s no secret that I love to take pictures.  Today as I was cleaning up the playroom with Noelle, I started looking through a couple of the albums that were laying on the floor that the kids had gotten down. I love looking through the albums and seeing the kids transformations and looking back at all of the fun times that we have had together (and there have been a lot).  I have 25 albums that 500 pictures in all of them for a grand total of 13,000 pictures.  That doesn’t include the stack that I have that I don’t have albums for yet or the ones that haven’t been developed yet.  I started the albums when Thomas was born and he’s only 4 1/2.  That’s a whole lot memories.  It’s amazing to me how fast time flies and how big that the kids get and how quickly the kids change in just a short amount of time.  

As, I said in my last post, Kelly and I took the kids to the Sacramento Zoo and Fairytale Town a couple of weeks ago. While we were walking through Fairytale Town we were talking about our last trip there in March 2006 and how small Thomas was when we went.  I tried to take some of the same pictures that I remember taking when we were there before to do some comparisons. So, here we go.

 

 

Noelle’s transformation has also been huge in just the  past year alone.  To think that at this time last year she wasn’t even walking to seeing her dancing and jumping to Barney today is amazing! 

Since she has started playing with her babies, she has always been such a good Mommy (other than always wanting them to be naked).  She is constantly changing their diapers, feeding them, rocking them,  reading to them, singing to them and even putting them in timeout when they are misbehaving!

    1/2009

2/2009

The next ones were taken today.

Getting ready to give the baby a bath

Teaching the baby to use the potty and even teaching the baby how to flush the toilet.

 

Taking the baby to the zoo

Changing the baby’s diaper.

and reading to the baby before her nap. 

She is such a good Mommy.

Lastly, even though I don’t get to see Tyler nearly as often as I would like. I’ve been pretty lucky to see him as often as I have this year.  I spent a week with him in San Diego, then he came for the weekend for Kelly’s wedding, we saw him for a short time a week ago, and then he is coming again in September for my Mom’s wedding.  Each time he has changed so much and is always doing something new.  His transformation is just as amazing as Thomas’ and Noelle’s. 

4/2008

11/2008

12/2008 2/2009

3/2009

6/2009

8/2009

8/2009

I love these kids and I love to look back and see how much they have grown, how their personalities show through in the pictures, their happiness in all of their experiences, and especially how totally cute they are!!!

How time flies…

Sacramento Zoo

Kelly and I took the kids to the Sacramento Zoo Fairytale Town last weekend with Terri, Rob and their kids.  After that we headed over to Old Sacramento and had an early dinner at Joe’s Crab Shack.  We had an hour wait to be seated but the kids did fantastic waiting patiently.  During our wait we headed to the corner candy shop for a little treat. 

   

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Happy Birthday Indy and Bentho

Wednesday was Indy’s 5th birthday and today is Bentho’s 7th birthday so we had a little birthday party for them last night.

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K-9 Trials

Rob and Terri were nice enough to invite us to join them for the K-9 trials and dinner today. Kelly and Dave were able to join Noelle and I at the dinner.  We all had a fabulous time!  Kelly and Dave walked away with a huge dog crate (I guess they’ll be adding to the family soon) and I won a huge box of General Mills food.  I’ll be doing some baking. 

On July 23rd Niko, a San Joaquin County Sheriff’s K-9, was shot and killed while working in Lathrop.

The trials today were dedicated to Niko and his handler Ryan Biedermann.  Kelly has more details about the incident and how you can make donations to K-9 pack in Niko’s name. 

http://daveandkellysfam.blogspot.com/2009/07/for-niko.html

Bentho jumping out of the car

Rob and Bentho

Getting ready to go after another bad guy!!!

Good job Rob and Bentho!!!  We had a blast.  Thanks for the invite.

The camera that I have grown to love

I decided to buy myself a new camera after Noelle dropped my camera while we were camping.  It still worked but not as well as it did. After spending a lot time thinking about it and looking at reviews and magazines I decided on a Cannon.  Rob helped me find a store on EBay, where he bought his, and we looked and looked.  Finally we found a great camera that came with all kinds of gadgets (that I had no idea how to use) at a perfect price. I immediately paid for the camera on paypal and anxiously awaited an email saying that it had been shipped.  Instead I received an email saying that they couldn’t fulfill my order and were issuing me a refund.  Funny that they put up the same exact add for the same camera later that day with the price $450.00 more than what I had paid.

I was furious!!  I got back on EBay found another store with the same exact camera and all the goodies for $40.00 less than I had originally paid. Words cannot express how excited I was for the camera to come.  Most of you know how much I love gadgets and taking pictures. 

Last Friday I waited anxiously all afternoon for the FedEx truck to drive up to my house.  Finally at 4:30 it arrived.  The HOTTEST FedEx man I have ever seen got out of his truck with a huge box of goodness!!!!! I immediately fell in love.  I know that I had a huge smile on my face when he rang the doorbell and I don’t think I even said a word to him.  I’m sure I looked totally ridiculous.  I tore the box open looked at the camera and thought how do use this thing….  

There it is…. now I need to figure out how to use it!!!!