Tahoe!

Jack and I went hiking at Lake Tahoe since he had a day off - note the big water fall (Eagle Falls) behind us flowing into Lake Tahoe.   More pics and videos later!

Jack scores perfect attendance!

Folsom Lake is Nearly Full!

She's slowly begun to drop as they need to release more water to keep the downstream temperature and to prevent ocean salt water from coming too far upstream.

Learning About Maps

Jack researched maps at school and had to make his own!

Elle's Dance Show

The opener!  Whip Your Tail...




The song Elle refers to as "Miles"






Gitchey, Gitchey, Goo

 

Weed Eating Frenzy

Look closely and you can see a startled turkey running away!

Jack Practices his Warren Buffett Oral Report

Here's an early practice session of Jack presenting his oral report on Warren Buffett.  He improved substantially with more practice and did it today at school.  He volunteered to go first.

File Under Things Rick Says...

If you haven't got a dog, hunt with a cat.

Pepsi's 1893 Reviewed!

Our take?   A pretty sweet as in candy sweet soda.  Pretty good all in all.   Likely not worth the $1.50 per can I paid but I'd have it again.   I didn't try the ginger version yet...

The Snow Goose

Jack researched snow geese at school and wrote a 3 page report on them!

Ready for Mother's Day Yoga!

Elle and Mom did Mom's day Yoga at the Spotted  Dog this morning.  Then Jack and I met them and swapped so Jack could take Mom to lunch...where?   at Jack's Urban Eats.

Jack and His Teacher

 

Here's a snap of Jack and his teacher Mrs. Crawley from the open house this week.

The San Francisco Bay

I caught this picture from a recent flight from San Jose to Sacramento...  You can see San Francisco in the upper left portion of the pic...

The "double bow"

It was a "rainbowy" week-end this past week-end.  First we saw these on Friday and then on Sunday we had a little thunderstorm blow through that featured real thunder, lightening and even some pea size hail.  It ended with a full beautiful rainbow.

Ice Cream Freeze!

The kids earned an ice cream at Costco today by helping me in the yard this morning after church.  They insisted on their own even though the things are huge.  It was my job to help each of them with the eating!  

Nordstrom Rack Opening Soon!

Excitement building for some in Folsom with the long anticipated opening of Nordstrom Rack just around the corner.

Kitchen

Here's a good shot of some updates made recently to our kitchen.   The white backsplash subway tile and the new pendent lamp shades.

Scooter!

Jack goes for a quick scoot in the park!

Cakes!

Elle helps Mom make a birthday cake!

The Magic Seed

The Magic Seed
A short story by Jack Tangeman

I found a magic seed.  I planted it.  The next day it was 3 feet wide and 20 feet tall!  The next day, instead of flowers it had money growing on it!

The first day it started dropping pennies, then nickels, then dimes, then quarters, then half dollars and so on.  One day it dropped a seed.  I planted the seed.

Now I had two money trees.  They kept dropping seeds until I had 100 trees.  One tree didn't drop money.  It started dropping this bright crystals.  I was picking up money when I started to get hungry.  I said, "I wish I had some food."  Food appeared immediately.  The tree that wasn't making money was making wishes!

The End