Our summer

 Ephram's favorite thing to do with Zachariah.

 The cutest cake I've ever made.  Cassandra loved it.

 Ephram, the stinkbug.  He started crawling like this just before he walked.

 Always a happy kid.

 Monica's birthday with her friend Eliza. 

 Captain Baird.

 Monica loves playing the piano and is really good--if only she'd play what her piano teacher assigns her.  Oh well--I never did.

 What a cute picture!

 Cassandra on her first day of dance.

 Zachariah the mountain man (at our friend's house in Liberty, UT).

 Cassandra feeding the horse in Liberty.  She was very proud.

 Cassandra and Uncle John.

 Monica in the waves--she's like a fish!

 Ephram eating sand because that's pretty much all he does at the beach.  Just shovels it into his mouth.  Weird.

 Ahh...brothers. :)

 Zachariah's creation for his lion to fly.  He builds everything out of these things.

 Cassandra and Ephram in the backyard.

 Monica and Cassandra at our pool.

 The first day of school.  (Notice our backyard that has grass!)

 Monica's and her friend Joel's lemonade stand.  They made $20 EACH!

Zachariah and Cassandra, the rappers.  Zachariah dresses like this every Sunday after church.  Don't know what kind of statement that is...

 Ephram eating more sand on another trip to the beach.

 All the kids with Cassandra's friend Gi-gi in their little "rooms" they made.

 Zachariah's sand monster--it was really creative.

 Powertool Debora.

 Monica's ballet recital.

 Monica's tap recital.

 Ephram walking!!

 Isn't that the cutest hat you've ever seen?

 Ephram on his 1st birthday.

 He got a ball and loves it.

 He loved the cake too.

 Rock on!

 Ephram's caterpillar cake.

New pictures!! (about time, eh?)

 Proof that fall does occur in SoCal--for about a week in December.

 Thanksgiving jammies--a new tradition.  And a good one since then they can wear them all Christmas season.  (Poor Ephram is still bald in this pic, scroll down to see him grow hair).

 The coolest pirate ship birthday cake ever.

 For about 2 hours.  Zachariah was a good sport though and said some other pirates had blown it up with cannons and it lit on fire.

 Monica and Ephram.  Very cute.

 Zachariah the firefighter.  Who'd've thought my boy would be the one that loves to dress up?

 Ephram wasn't too interested in Christmas.  That's why he only got 2 presents.

 What a cutie.  Recognize the swing, Diana? 

 Zachariah made this cow on his own out of paper.  It was on display in an art show in Redlands (but didn't win--clearly the judges didn't see the artisticness of it).  He's really into art.

 Cutie Ephram.

 Blue eyes, blond hair--quite surprising, given the other 3.  He's almost crawling now.  He gets on all 4s and rocks back and forth and then launches onto his face.

 A trip to the tide pools at Dana Point.  Very fun.  Monica loved touching the sea urchins.

 Zachariah kept sitting on this rock as the tide came in and engulfed him.  He tucked his feet up and waited for the waves to go out, then put his feet back down.

 Cassandra got caught in a wave as soon as we got there and was soaked the rest of the time.  But she's a trooper and didn't complain.  She keeps wanting to go back to the tide pools but wear a swimsuit so the waves won't get her clothes wet.

 When mom and dad came out, we went to a Jewish museum in LA that had a big Noah's ark with fun stuff in it.  Dad got a kick out of moving the giraffe around.

Here is a picture off my cell phone from when we went to the aquarium in Long Beach and they had an aviary and Eric bought the nectar to feed the birds.  Well, they loved him and a bunch flew down and landed on him.  One was on his head and he started yelling "Ow, ow, ow!" as it dug its claws into his skull.  The lady came and got it off his head and I missed that pic, but it was really funny.