Spring Break to Redding

Seth: One time we went to a hotel. And there was an alarm clock there. And we liked to look out the windows to see our car. When we were there we started to unpack. We swimmed in the pool. And it was pretty cold but we got used to it. And me and Evan were swimming all the way to the 5 feet part. And mom holded Cam when he was swimming. And the first day we got there, for dinner we got pizza so mom got out and went all the way to Domino's to get pizza. From Redding ALL the way to Domino's. And we drank hot chocolate. We watched basketball every day. And the second [morning] we watched Saturday cartoons and so we watched Power Rangers. We got some breakfast in the morning. I liked that we got to pick our breakfast. The part I liked was they had some Danishes. First I had a cheese Danish and second I had an apple Danish. On the first day (Friday) we went to go hiking and after we played fishing. We catched just one fish. It was like a black bass.  (The people in the boat near us caught it.) We did swimming again and had nachos for dinner. And when we were going home we went to a store with lots of fun games (the arcade at Oasis Fun Center). I liked air hockey and I won.

Evan: On the first day we unpacked in Redding. And then we went to our hotel room and we took the stuff out. There was a bed, a TV...there were curtains. We went swimming. I took some swimming lessons without my floaties. We went under water...well, I did. We got hot chocolate and then we had pizza for dinner. We watched some basketball games. I thought I would sleep better in my bedroom, but I actually slept better in the hotel. In the morning we got breakfast. There were Danishes. That was my favorite part. We ate breakfast in our hotel room. We went fishing and saw some people catching some bass, some black bass. Dad put a new reel on my fishing pole. It worked pretty good. We went swimming. This time when we went swimming we saw coins. We watched some more basketball games. We had nachos for one of the days. Then we got ready for bed and went to bed. The next morning is when we packed. We went to the arcade. We got to do skee-ball and a racing game. [My favorite was] the basketball game where we got the most points and the most tickets. And when we finished we had 101 tickets! We got to pick some prizes. Then we drove all the way home and had In-N-Out. Then we drove the rest of the way home.

Evan learned how to whistle on this trip

2019 Photo Dump

 I've missed posting some pictures here...

Our annual trip to Redding this year (2019) involved taking family pictures for the first time in 3 years and having the Esparto Hudson/Sefos join us.

I made a Very Hungry Caterpillar cake for Cameron's 1st birthday because he is a very hungry boy. He loves food. Clara Cobb was the only one to join us for dinner and cake since we would be seeing family for Seth's birthday/Thanksgiving the next day.

Birthday Bucks

After having Cameron steal his birthday thunder last year--remember, I had just had Cameron so we ate cake in the hospital--this year Seth had to deal with his birthday being ON Thanksgiving. He really didn't seem to mind. I let him pick what pie he wanted, and then told him his birthday party would be on Saturday, and he was cool not doing much on his actual birthday.

We invited preschool and ward friends for Seth's dinosaur birthday party. He got approximately 9,723 dinosaur toys, and loved it. They broke frozen dino eggs (Seth was the only casualty of little kids playing with hammers), played Pin the Horn on the Triceratops, and had a dinosaur soundtrack in the background while eating Seth's favorite foods: mac & cheese, fruit, rolls, and Dinosaur cake, of course.

Apple Hill

Always the mechanic

This is probably about when both boys became voracious independent readers.

Breakfast with Santa & Mrs. Claus

Kids & Cocoa at Evan's school