2024 Thanksgiving!

Always fun to visit family in Bonita Springs! 

Easter ‘24

A curious Easter Bunny

A wonderful family tradition

Harold The Bunny...and other Tales...

Jack is at an age where he loves hearing stories - especially ones involving his family. He'll often ask for them and when we tell him a new one he wants to hear it several times in a row.

Steph added illustration to her story involving Harold the Rabbit - which Jack, of course, loved.

I was actually pretty impressed with the Harold drawing!

Other stories Jack loves include:

The Story of Turtle Creek featuring Dad and Uncle Bill
The Story of Kodak and the Cat Food
The Story of Kodak, Ranger and Mom's Blueberry Pie
The Story of the 1973 Tornado featuring Dad

Other story suggestions? Jack is all ears and loves them.

Long Week-ends

It's official - tax season is upon us which means focals/reviews at work too so a double crunch. However, we had a nice family outing yesterday. Steph helped throw a shower for a friend, then we gathered for BBQ and fixins'. Jack discovered "angry bird" stuffed animals which he liked and posed with in this somewhat poor "blackberry" photo.




Happy President's Day

Spider Man Scooter

Jack received a hand me down scooter from his friend Brandon and really enjoys taking it for a spin. It is actually pretty hard to ride - that 2nd wheel in the back doesn't really allow for any tipping.


Must concentrate! The chicken helmet certainly helps though.


A scooter today...a Honda 50 tomorrow!

Jack's First Haircut

Now that he's a bit over two Jack was overdue for his first haircuit. We took him to the nearby Great Clips, handed over our $11 and crossed our fingers. How would the little Flapjack do sitting in the chair? We talked to him about it so he knew what was going to happen. He scowled a bit and turned to watch me get a haircut quite a bit but did great all in all.

Here's a nice mirror shot Steph took.

The 2009 California State Fair - with the bear!

We took Jack to the state fair this morning... The theme of the fair this year is Weird, Wild & Wacky - though this special flag puts wonderful in the mix as well.

One of the feature performers at this year's fair is MC Hammer. Sadly for MC - more folks seemed to be turning up looking to name the baby mule than to hear him perform.



Our highlights included the animal exhibits including the petting zoo which featured a Kangaroo! (or at least a marsupial of sorts). Jack also had got into an arguement with a llama!


And here's a snap of his new kangaroo friend.

The food at the fair is probably worthy of a whole different blog post but the summary would go something like this: expensive and fried. We had one of the famous cinnamon rolls and a big pickle!

All in all it was a fun morning at the fair with the bear...

Three Ts and a Lolly

Jack with Uncle Bill and Dad on Bill and Erin's recent trip.



He also enjoyed his first lollipop ever the same evening and seemed to enjoy it.