Brooke had a 1st grade field trip to Jackson Bottom Wetlands. We got to observe and learn about all different kinds of wildlife.
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Brooke with her red coat tied around her waist.
A beautiful, perfect day for a field trip! |
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| Brooke and Ana. |
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| Brooke and her good friend, Elliana. They live only a couple houses away from us born a couple days apart. |
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| Beautiful wetlands! |
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| This is the proportionate size of Brooke's eyeballs if she were a bird. |
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| Cheese! |
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| A stuffed coyote. Brooke and Isabel. The sign says the coyote was found dead and was not shot. |
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This is the largest preserved, fully intact, bald eagle's nest in the United States. It is 7-by-11 foot and 1,500 pounds.
This picture hardly does it justice. That nest was huge! |
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Our first pick of strawberries of the season from our yard!
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Zach turns 10 years old:
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| His friends singing an obnoxious version of Happy Birthday. He wanted chocolate cheesecake bars instead of cake. |
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| Blake, Doug, Beau, Nicholas, Zach, Deion, Peng, Riley |
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| Zach got this cool "candy bouquet" from Riley. |
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| All Zach wanted to do for his party was play Pokémon, so everyone brought their cards and they had a tournament. |
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| Zach versus Peng, Blake versus Doug |
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| The right song came on the radio and so they called an "intermission" to dance! |
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| Gabey the cutie. |
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Pokémon is the big hit lately, even David and Brooke have their own deck of Pokémon cards.
They can't even stop for lunch! |
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| To continue with the birthday celebration, Mike and I took Zach to 5 Guys Burger and Fries for a manly burger. |
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| YUM! |
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| And to celebrate with the family, he chose ice cream pie and wanted to light it himself. |
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And blowing them out
Happy Birthday, Zach! |
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Mike and his friend, Don, volunteered at the school twice a month for a group called Math Counts. During lunch time, they would focus on math games for some of the students that wanted an extra challenge.
Zach and Nicholas were both in Math Counts. The group even went to a competition.
To say thanks, Don and Mike each received a pie that said, "Math is easy as pi." |
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| Gabey turns ONE! He got our traditional candle in the banana instead of cake. Do you see Brooke holding Gabe's hand so he won't touch the candle? |
Brooke's dance recital:
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| Brooke took her first year of tap dance and her class performed to the song "Happy Days." |
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| Brooke is front left. |
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| Front left |
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| Brooke is center left. |
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Brooke is in the front, 2nd from left.
The video is really cute, but I'm having trouble posting it. I'll keep working on it. |
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| Brooke's good friend, Paige, was in her class too. |
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| Paige and Brooke |
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| Brooke's tap class. She is sitting on a chair, on the left. Paige is on one foot next to her. |
Off to Murrieta, CA!
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Zach, Brooke, David and I flew to southern California to visit my sister, Ginger, and her family. We started off playing in Ginger's little pool in their backyard.
Michael, Emily, Brooke, Sam |
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Boys will be boys - loving the electronics
David, Zach, Sam, Robert |
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| Brooke and Emily found some sand at a park. |
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| Emily and Brooke ready for church. |
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| Zach and Robert building Legos |
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6 little monkeys lined up on a bunk bed!
David, Robert, Emily, Brooke, Michael, Sam
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| Zach doing a flip into the foam pit at the trampoline place. |
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| Brooke and Emily jumping into the foam pit. |
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| David into the foam pit! |
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| Emily and Brooke trying to jump together |
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| After all that jumping we were ready for some In-N-Out Burgers. YUM! |
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| And a little ipad time |
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| Pool crashing! It's great to have so many of Ginger's friends with pools. |
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| David and Kate |
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| Kate and Zach |
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| Brooke relaxing on a swing. |
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| Zach and Robert |
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| David almost making a basket as he jumps in the pool. |
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| Sunday afternoon playing Disney Headbanz guessing game with James |
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Brooke, Emily, Robert, Zach, David, James, and Sam
Get ready to jump... |
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Feeding the ducks at a park.
Little fish came up and went after the bread faster than the ducks! |
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| Posing under a tree |
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Mormon Battalion
Trying out the covered wagon. |
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| Zach dressed up like a Mormon Battalion member |
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| Panning for gold |
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| Then a stop at the San Diego temple |
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| Home from the San Diego trip and David and Nicholas missed each other, so they slept a couple nights in their "fort." |
